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McCarthy: Red Card Affected Us More Than Them
Saturday, 10th Dec 2016 18:42

Town boss Mick McCarthy felt Sol Bamba’s second-half red card affected his side more than Cardiff after the Blues’ 1-1 home draw with the Bluebirds.

The visitors went ahead through Aron Gunnarsson in the 38th minute after Bartosz Bialkowski dropped a Peter Whittingham corner, before Luke Varney equalised for the Blues on 52.

“The game was going nowhere and arguably our most consistent and best player drops a corner,” McCarthy reflected.

“And he has been brilliant so I’ll have no recriminations with him at all because he made some good saves today as well.

“Fair play to the lads, they had a good response to that in the second half and got back in it and the sending off probably affected us more than it affected them, strangely enough.

“They sat in, made it difficult to play around them and through them. We were doing alright against 11 men, so I think it had a worse effect on us.”

Why does that happen sometimes? “I don’t know, maybe the thought of not winning against 10 men, the thought of maybe even losing against 10 men gets in players’ heads.


“And they’re no mugs, they put Anthony Pilkington and Craig Noone on as two subs and they aren’t too bad either. By no stretch of the imagination are they mugs.”

McCarthy was pleased with Varney, who scored for the second home game in a row: “He’s great, Reg. He’s an infectious character, he’s done great for me. And he just causes problems because he competes constantly, it was great to see him get his goal.”

Regarding the red card, McCarthy said: “I’ve seen a lot of players lose it, I’ve lost it myself, but never with the fourth official.

“He was trying to get at Dougie. Pits was going on and Didz was trying to stop him and he said, ‘Let him go’ because he could see what was coming. He couldn’t get at Dougie so he came and had a go at the fourth official.

“It probably was a foul but you can’t condone that whatever’s happened. He thoroughly deserved to be sent off, the way he approached the fourth official.

“It was a reaction to Dougie’s challenge because he went to go and get Dougie. He got stopped from doing that.

“You just can’t do it, you can’t behave like that. You’ve seen when anybody runs and throws their arms up they get booked.

“A lot had gone off. It took a long time before he went across. As I said, it was a foul on him, but the game went on, he gave them an advantage. It’s a red card.”

The Town boss was disappointed that his side were unable to create many chances against the 10 men.

“Of course I am,” he continued. “We got Bish on the ball once and he worked his magic, we got a freekick and we put the freekick over the bar. We’ve got to work the goalie, hit the wall, it might have skidded in. That deflates us.

“We got in behind them a number of times and didn’t put a decent cross in. I was banging on about that last week and I still am this week. And I will be.”

He added: “But as long as they keep getting in them and keep doing it, if they stop doing it that’s going to be a real problem. Keep doing it, keep getting on the overlap, keep getting crosses in and we’ll keep working on them.”

Having made the mistake that led to the goal, Bialkowski went some way towards redeeming himself with a late save from Craig Noone.

“Our game management was ridiculous there,” the Town boss reflected. “Whatever we do, if we’re one-all we just take the point, but we certainly don’t do what we did at the end by giving them a chance, giving them a freekick.

“Whittingham hit the wall, strangely enough, he got a corner. They had a chance from the corner, they had a chance from the other corner. They just kept sustained pressure on and Noone right at the very death could have nicked it. Thankfully, he didn’t.”


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blue75 added 19:47 - Dec 10
There's lots I could point out moan about but there'll be plenty of people doing that!!! We were crap and we know it!! If he's still here Boxing Day it's time we let him know it's time to go!!! The only chant for Boxing Day is MICK OUT!!!!!
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billlm added 19:58 - Dec 10
Headline says it all cant be bothered to read your tripe f off you anker
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pablo123 added 20:04 - Dec 10
Haha hahaha mccarthy. You are not even funny any more
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pablo123 added 20:10 - Dec 10
You are a tw@t mccarthy...............just p#ss off pleeeeeaaaaaasseee !!!!!!!!!!
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runaround added 20:18 - Dec 10
Same rubbish every time. A team lacking in confidence, belief, pace & positivity. A manager who is too stubborn to see what is obvious. Nothing will change & we will get worse & worse. People say we are too good to go down & there are worse teams than us but we aren't beating the so called worse teams when we play them! The club is in a rot & Mick has shown that he won't change his tactics. His tactics are losing us fans & not winning us many points. Sleep walking towards relegation. Increasingly I can only see a change of manager as being the solution to this problem. I understand all the "be careful what you wish for " stuff but how long do we stick with something no longer working just because of a fear of change?
If Mick was able to fix it he'd have done so by now. Time to go before his reputation with us is tarnished further, go whilst we can still remember the positive
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H1960 added 20:39 - Dec 10
No mugs in the championship Mick ....................Yawn same old sh1t spurted out every week for gods sake go before we all completely lose interest and the club disappears into distant memory
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corkblue added 20:47 - Dec 10
We're moving to the drop zone with each appearance!

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geminimustang added 20:50 - Dec 10
6pts off the play-off's after selling the top goal scorer and not replacing him isn't too bad.I've been stating the same thing for months,give MM,TC & ME until the end of January to see if investment is forthcoming.Then,assuming it is,give them until the end of the season before judging whether a change of management is needed.This could well be a decent season if a couple of players are bought.No loans,no freebies,money spent.6 pts is nothing in this league.
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grumpyoldman added 20:52 - Dec 10
Geminimustang I had admire your optimism but the present state of the club does not seem to augur well for your hopes and dreams
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bobble added 20:52 - Dec 10
"Our game management was ridiculous there".......says the manager?
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Edmundo added 21:08 - Dec 10
Good idea @mickmills-tache the Cup game at ten pounds a pop should do: time to get some banners up. No entertainment, no respect for our Club, no ambition. MM and ME out. I really would prefer to be back in 2006: in debt but just about servicing it, an ambitious manager and entertaining football.
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GGblocker added 21:19 - Dec 10
Lincoln for the cup !!!!! This would put more pressure on Mick hopefully .

another game he will defend
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prebsa added 21:20 - Dec 10
What a load of cr@p

Mick out
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dirtydingusmagee added 21:41 - Dec 10
Warnock you b''''''d when you went down to 10 men you made it hard for Micks warriors to ''go round or through'' , Mick was thinking and hoping they would form a guard of honour for a Town player to stroll through and score, you bl##dy spoilsport. MICK,spare us ,move on PLEASE.
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dirtydingusmagee added 21:45 - Dec 10
Its got to the point now where i almost shed tears listening to after match comments from this manager, its a good job i use a safety razor to shave.
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Lightningboy added 21:46 - Dec 10
I get the feeling that Mick won't use Johnny Williams simply because that's what the fans are crying out for and he does not want to give us what we want.

Never known a town manager in my time as a fan who seems to have so much contempt for the supporters..it really is turning into a depressing state of affairs.

So many words sum McCarthy up at the moment - awkward,stubborn,egotistical,inept,neanderthal to name but a few But the one that's coming accross in big bold letters is CHILDISH.
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Capelallstars added 22:04 - Dec 10
McCarthy please leave our club and take Douglas skuse chambers and mcgoldrick with you plus take Evans aswell this club is a joke no ambitions nothing I've never been so bored watching my team than I am at the moment I actually want us to lose games just so we can get him sacked
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groundhog added 22:06 - Dec 10
Bamba was only showing the frustrations that douglas was on the pitch, same as most of us where when team sheet was read out. And I guess MM now has the excuse to bring his other favorite back into the team for Bart.
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VulpineBlue added 22:41 - Dec 10
So, if 10 players are harder to beat than 11, doesn't it follow we should always start with 10? This appears to be MM logic- is this why he plays Jonathan Douglas? Is it actually a cunning dupe? It's the death of a thousand cuts be it a dour win, dour draw or embarrassing loss.
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TractorBeezer added 22:47 - Dec 10
Perhaps I have missed it, but has MM explained anywhere why he is ignoring Jonny Williams?
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norfolkbluey added 23:21 - Dec 10
Patience is a virtue they say but how long can it be before it becomes so apparent to even the likes of ME that the fans deserve more for their money. Week after week of mediocrity. Our club used to have quedos and respect. Now it has disappeared into obscurity. Reports about our games are hard to find in national newspapers and in some they have disappeared completely. I find that REALLY sad. MMC must be asked to leave before we get ourselves so low in the league that it could become a fight to stay in this division. Fifty six years of following ITFC and I can honestly say it now equates with the Duncan era. Nothing will change unless our bovine supporters demonstrate their feelings!
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MicksZzzTactics added 23:44 - Dec 10
Hmmmm tell me how is this for a viable "Football For Dummies 101" crash course:

1) 70 minute: BANG! Cardiff's big Ivorian Sol Bamba needlessly pushes his self-destruct button after a stoppage in play... and voila they go down to ten men!
(And this thanx to a gift-wrapped and truly bizarre off-the-field STUPID red card and even more mind-blowing subsequent scuffle with his own newly appointed manager, thank you very much!. And ohhhh these from our and the beleaguered Dino's pov quite FORTUITOUS circumstances leading to us now suddenly having one more player on the field for about 24 loooong minutes against these until THEN unequivocally rather tame-looking Welsh bottom crawlers, came in addition to the already cashed-in good FORTUNE of having Gunnarson 'getting in the way' (whether intentionally/unintentionally) and thus decisively deflecting Varney's 52 min hard shot on taget.... cause had he not their subsequent now side-footed keeper would more than likely have just punched it aside imho!).

2) Next we immediately make three substitutions ... ehhh sadly with one of them coming about 70 minuts tool late i.e. for in-a-different-class Dougie The Snooze :-), and as customary with Mick The Wimp keeping the rest our very own extraordinary & ultra creative 'Ballon D'or' candidates = ExSkuse and Captain Calamity on the field?! ..... but ohhhh lo and behold instead of us then "nicking it late" exactly just like the as good as never taking-the-field-going-for-the-win-nor-the-jugular wimpy Dino prefers it to get his sadly very infrequent 3-pointers, we almost lose the game???!!! , as Cardiff had no less than 3 real GOOD chances inside the 4 minutes of injury time! and this we are now told afterwards by the chronically delude Dino (who when pressed often acts [or simply likes to present himself as] a holder of several PHDs in Psychology, Football Psychology ones and otherwise!) because .... drum-roll please.... because:

"Our 11 players who finished the game [APPARENTLY] were more worried about losing -- to their ten men!!! -- than winning the game???????????!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF!! Is this an early April's Fools Joke or what???
What a true genius and 'confidence-bestowing' managerial & training tandem him an his prehistoric sidekick TC once AGAIN reveal themselves as being .... if there is even the slightest truth to this is how our players actually felt and ... and thus failed! ... in these here last 24 minutes!!!

Dear oh Dear, both Freud, Einstein and Sir Bobby must be rolling over in their graves after hearing about this one I gather! :-) :-) :-) :-)

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PS: Oh one more thing specifically "irritates" me slightly among this here Dino's weekly post-game DRIVEL and that one concerns today's goalscorer the positively surprisingly clinical "appearing" Mr. Varney. Mr. Varney whom I will stress that I personally have nothing really against as I'm pretty sure he is not only potentially the most 'proper' of blokes particularly off the field including very likely a ton of phun over say 10 rounds of lager at the nearest "trough" :-).... but what nags me to some lesser degree is how he TOO all of a sudden now also is being praised in stratospherical terms --- as in deemed a real "GREAT" player -- by our ever soooo perceptive prehistoric manager, vastly thanx to his now 2 unequivocally fairly FORTUITOUS goals within the last 3 games (hmmmmm if he keeps this good ratio up he will probably real soon be called a "IN A DIFFERENT CLASS" striker just like Dougie The Snooze is in midfield! lol). The always endeavor showing Mr. Varney hasn't of course played excruciatingly "bad" since getting his starting chance -- and 2 goals is 2 goals no matter how they came about! -- but imho he isn't in general exactly setting neither individual opponents nor the league as a whole 'On Fire' Alert ... or in need of tranquilizers! :-) either!!!
And there definitely exist a couple of reasons as to why he was not only released this spring but also seemingly unable to find work with somewhat regular playing time anywhere outside the very lowest region of the 1st division, or below! However as I said surely a real nice guy just no longer quite worthy of being starting XI materiale in any ambitious championship club imho, but obviously he has shown he definitely haven't forgotten where the opponent's goal is and in that department it's always very welcome and handy to be on good terms with the Madame Fortuna btw! Alas he can thus still be a decent (as in "average-like") 2nd half attacking substitute at this level for maybe 1-2 years .... but ehhh "A GREAT PLAYER" dear ultra messed-up Dino he simply is not. Period!
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Dissboyitfc added 08:29 - Dec 11
So thats why he plays Douglas,we are down to 10 men.

Just Go!
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Bradleyblue89 added 09:06 - Dec 11
I took a mate of mine to the Bristol City game to try to get him to become a blue stupidly thinking we could use our momentum from the QPR game. He complained of neck ache for the rest of the evening, accredited to the hoof ball tactics. We travelled down from London and the worldy goal was a relief, from such a boring game. He messaged me before todays game saying 'unchanged line up? Sorry mate, don't invite me again'
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prebbs007 added 09:09 - Dec 11
ANOTHER Sunday morning after ANOTHER shockingly bad performance and result and yet ANOTHER weekend without a sacking of or a resignation from this deluded dinosaur.
ANOTHER game of dreadful negativity
ANOTHER poor selection of the same dross who were disgustingly bad last week.
ANOTHER week of dreadful hoofball
ANOTHER step closer to league one
ANOTHER attendance to reflect the unentertaining fare on offer
ANOTHER pi$$ take out of the fans by a stubborn manager who is miles past his time and an tax dodging owner who buries his head in the sand and hope all will be ok.

Without change RIGHT NOW we will be relegated. Something needs to be done. Banners ? Protests ? Oh my god what has happened to my club??? Lowest ever ebb !!!
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