Cardiff City 1 Charlton Athletic 2 > What is The Plan Please?

After a fairly positive run of results, including a 1-3 away win midweek, the dread we’ve been carrying to the ground of late wasn’t as potent as normal. City cruised into a 1-0 lead playing very slow and predictable football but on the 75 minute mark were on the cusp of back-to-back wins for the first time in light years (since November).

Enter Russell Slade…  

What an incompetent clueless dinosaur of a Manager this man is.

Firstly, our ray of hope in the game Conor McAleny (on loan from Everton) is subbed – the one player on the pitch clever enough to move between the lines and look to slide a pass of note instead of a safe sideways pass.  

Then Peter Whittingham gets a smack in the mush and blood on his shirt, requiring stiches in his lip off the pitch. 

Slade had a decision to make, whether to replace him or wait ten minutes for him to be stitched up.

Slade waited but Charlton didn’t, making two subs that changed the game while we were dawdling over a sub and down a man. Charlton pressured Cardiff high up and the defence wobbled and conceded.

Whttingham finally returned to the game with a new shirt and bloody mouth, but it was too late. Charlton’s momentum continued in his absence and a soft penalty was forced for the win.

Once again, my blame for the defeat lies with the Manager for his dilly-dallying and poor decision making. You’re not a PE teacher now Russell and it’s 2015, so you need to be able to react to situations in the game and preferably have a few plans in place. 

There was a lot of talk around the stadium on the weekend that the Bluebirds actually played a lot better despite the defeat. 

Personally I can’t see it. For me, there has been a slight improvement in the last three or four games, but nothing dramatic at all and certainly nothing to suggest a corner had been turned or that a corner is anywhere near being turned at all. We have not reached the corner yet. 

If City are better than they were before it's only because previously they were so downright poor that they could only get better. There was nowhere else to go really.

There's 10 games to go this season now and what a waste of a season it has been. There's been no progress at all, the club has gone backwards and no wonder supporters are feeling distant, weary and alienated. 

#SladeOut