| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end 16:42 - Sep 26 with 4495 views | unstableblue |
Away fans turned on him yesterday at Blackburn, disappeared down tunnel and didn’t address it, players went and faced music
Poll on message boards has 75% want him gone
To be fair to Mick they’ve not had funds… but as many of their fans state Mark Robbins has less at Coventry and is playing lovely football and being successful
They should have used Mick as a stop gap to solidify as we should have done - and not feck up his replacement
Shame because Mick is a nice guy, but his style of football does not and can not garner comprehensive fan support, simples
See below exchange, sound familiar
Thought this news would interest as he’s our former manager, hopefully those who repeatedly post misty eyed calls for his return might think again
Escott1927↓
Re: Mick McCarthy: 'Maybe teams have worked us out'
Sun Sep 26, 2021 6:58 am
Do something different then you numpty. We are the most predictable and one dimensional team in the EFL.
nojac↓
Re: Mick McCarthy: 'Maybe teams have worked us out'
Sun Sep 26, 2021 7:08 am
Long ball to KM , if that doesnt work . Next time try a long ball to KM , and if that doesnt work, try a long ball to KM !!!
Blueberry Jam↓
Re: Mick McCarthy: 'Maybe teams have worked us out'
Sun Sep 26, 2021 7:28 am
nojac wrote:
Long ball to KM , if that doesnt work . Next time try a long ball to KM , and if that doesnt work, try a long ball to KM !!!
Totally agree. A 5 year old could work out our game plan. Lump it, Lump it, lump it.
MM if you cant get a team to play football then give up and piss off.
Crayfish↓
Re: Mick McCarthy: 'Maybe teams have worked us out'
Sun Sep 26, 2021 8:35 am
Blueberry Jam wrote:
nojac wrote:
Long ball to KM , if that doesnt work . Next time try a long ball to KM , and if that doesnt work, try a long ball to KM !!!
Totally agree. A 5 year old could work out our game plan. Lump it, Lump it, lump it.
MM if you cant get a team to play football then give up and piss off.
Not hard to work out our defence either. Instruct your team not to bother with any high crosses into the box which our big lumbering defenders will head out all day but get some pacy players to go past hem and behind them and it's job done. |  |
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| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 18:42 - Sep 26 with 771 views | TractorWood |
| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 16:58 - Sep 26 by chrismakin |
I prefer 20k attendances over 9k tho. Regardless of league. Makes it more enjoyable.
You mention obsession. But there's an unhealthy obsession that everything was great under mick when it clearly wasn't. |
Agree. I get the sunlight uplands/be careful what you wish for etc but 2016/17 was (iirc) basically unwatchable apart from Newcastle at home. Think we finished about 16th.
Football fans will always want more. It's built into Darwinism.
There were some nasty scenes when MM was close to leaving but he really needed moving along well before it got to that. Not absolving those who acted irresponsibly but I think of myself as pretty balanced and lucidly recall wanting a change long before he was chucked.
His job for a very significant time was only slightly tenable due to MEs total lack of any actual strategy and imo, actual or perceived disinterest.
Never posting about MM again. It's been 5 years. |  |
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| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 18:50 - Sep 26 with 753 views | cbower |
| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 16:47 - Sep 26 by Steve_M |
This is like one of DK's digs at Starmer, and about as interesting. |
IQuite right Steve. f only Mick had been more "technical"!!!!. Someone appears to me to be trying too hard to cover his obvious glee at Mick's current travails with the "Mick is a nice guy but...." approach methinks.
His time was up but there were few complaints when he kept us up, then went 9th, 6th and 7th in THE CHAMPIONSIP. In his final season (all but 3 or 4 games) we finished above Leeds and Norwich too. Terrible manager that McCarthy fella ,just terrible. |  |
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| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 18:57 - Sep 26 with 735 views | cbower |
| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 17:50 - Sep 26 by unstableblue |
Good post, agree wit most of that
Although any manager would look good compared to Jewel, Hurst and Lambert
Just one of order, Mick was offered fund to strengthen from Marcus, I believe in the play off January, but felt he didn’t want to upset the squad
Let’s hope Cook proves to be the real deal, and a win Tuesday creates a run, plating attractive football
You have to agree though that in this day and age, no fans would accept micks brand of football for more than a season. We should have solidified with mick, then gone and got Mark Robbins. Period |
All of a sudden Mark Robi s is flavour of the month and we should have got him several seasons ago. We got Hurst when he was flavour of the month. How did that one go? | |
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| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 18:57 - Sep 26 with 738 views | Hipsterectomy |
I don't understand why he's decided to deflect all the abuse from the chairman onto himself like he did here. Sounds like their fans were supportive of Mick in general but very critical of their owner, yet over the summer Mick was constantly thanking the owner, stating he was delighted with the squad, couldn't ask for better backing etc.
I get that the owner employs you and you want to motivate players that you do have, but you don't excatly need to call the owner a crook and your squad sht to make a point. |  |
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| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 19:07 - Sep 26 with 716 views | unstableblue |
| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 18:57 - Sep 26 by Hipsterectomy |
I don't understand why he's decided to deflect all the abuse from the chairman onto himself like he did here. Sounds like their fans were supportive of Mick in general but very critical of their owner, yet over the summer Mick was constantly thanking the owner, stating he was delighted with the squad, couldn't ask for better backing etc.
I get that the owner employs you and you want to motivate players that you do have, but you don't excatly need to call the owner a crook and your squad sht to make a point. |
To be fair to the Cardiff fans they are typically blaming the owners and/or Mick
Whereas I think Marcus did not get the same level of negativity as Mick, we should have been calling out Marcus as incompetent, sighting the appointment of Clegg and Milne, and you know Marcus chose Mick | |
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| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 19:22 - Sep 26 with 697 views | dominiciawful |
Hooftastic. |  |
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| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 19:30 - Sep 26 with 692 views | Keaneish |
| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 18:57 - Sep 26 by Hipsterectomy |
I don't understand why he's decided to deflect all the abuse from the chairman onto himself like he did here. Sounds like their fans were supportive of Mick in general but very critical of their owner, yet over the summer Mick was constantly thanking the owner, stating he was delighted with the squad, couldn't ask for better backing etc.
I get that the owner employs you and you want to motivate players that you do have, but you don't excatly need to call the owner a crook and your squad sht to make a point. |
It’s Mick’s model. He takes big contracts and agrees to work within certain constraints and harbours that responsibility. It’s a good tactic. Mick gets paid, the owner gets shielded and keeps a few quid comparatively to forking out on expensive transfer fees and Mick’s pragmatism gets results.
Then, it comes crumbling down when the egotistical one-man vanity trip doesn’t have a plan beyond the same one he first employed in 1992. The older generation will back him as he resonates with a period they grew up in and the rest are left perplexed that a very competent and successful manager is still so inexplicably and unapologetically one-dimensional, which ends up being detrimental to his own ambitions. At least that’s my opinion.
Remember, Mick holidays in his back-garden, his favourite colour is beige and his favourite meal is water. |  |
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| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 19:38 - Sep 26 with 670 views | jayessess |
| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 18:16 - Sep 26 by Marshalls_Mullet |
I'm not sure anyone was ever calling for Micks team to play it out from the back. |
The way Lee was saying it was very much "playing out from the back etc." as a shorthand for football that was more ambitious than Mick's. |  |
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| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 22:45 - Sep 26 with 584 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 19:38 - Sep 26 by jayessess |
The way Lee was saying it was very much "playing out from the back etc." as a shorthand for football that was more ambitious than Mick's. |
It's nonsense to suggest that there was no other way whatsoever. |  |
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| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 23:05 - Sep 26 with 580 views | positivity |
| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 19:30 - Sep 26 by Keaneish |
It’s Mick’s model. He takes big contracts and agrees to work within certain constraints and harbours that responsibility. It’s a good tactic. Mick gets paid, the owner gets shielded and keeps a few quid comparatively to forking out on expensive transfer fees and Mick’s pragmatism gets results.
Then, it comes crumbling down when the egotistical one-man vanity trip doesn’t have a plan beyond the same one he first employed in 1992. The older generation will back him as he resonates with a period they grew up in and the rest are left perplexed that a very competent and successful manager is still so inexplicably and unapologetically one-dimensional, which ends up being detrimental to his own ambitions. At least that’s my opinion.
Remember, Mick holidays in his back-garden, his favourite colour is beige and his favourite meal is water. |
"Remember, Mick holidays in his back-garden, his favourite colour is beige and his favourite meal is water."
and his favourite word is bast**d |  |
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| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 01:49 - Sep 27 with 524 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 19:30 - Sep 26 by Keaneish |
It’s Mick’s model. He takes big contracts and agrees to work within certain constraints and harbours that responsibility. It’s a good tactic. Mick gets paid, the owner gets shielded and keeps a few quid comparatively to forking out on expensive transfer fees and Mick’s pragmatism gets results.
Then, it comes crumbling down when the egotistical one-man vanity trip doesn’t have a plan beyond the same one he first employed in 1992. The older generation will back him as he resonates with a period they grew up in and the rest are left perplexed that a very competent and successful manager is still so inexplicably and unapologetically one-dimensional, which ends up being detrimental to his own ambitions. At least that’s my opinion.
Remember, Mick holidays in his back-garden, his favourite colour is beige and his favourite meal is water. |
That’s Mick’s model…if you completely ignore the jobs he took at Wolves, Sunderland, ROI (twice) and APOEL which don’t fit that profile at all. Arguably Millwall too given half of what you’ve stated there doesn’t apply either
And imagine being perplexed that someone who is ‘very competent and successful’ continues to stick to methods that have led them to be very competent and successful |  |
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| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 06:14 - Sep 27 with 474 views | braveblue |
| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 16:53 - Sep 26 by Nthsuffolkblue |
I believe we now have more threads on MM and the pressure he is under in the past 2 days than there are about Cook.
That is MM of Cardiff comfortably mid-table in the Championship. As opposed to Paul Cook of Ipswich in the relegation zone of League 1.
Your and at least 2 others' obsession with Mick is remarkable. I do hope we soon get back to the same level of success as he brought us so that it might begin to ease. |
Just out of interest how do you define success. He led us to our worst league position in 50 years. And I agree there should be much less discussion of him on here. | | | |
| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 06:26 - Sep 27 with 472 views | Keaneish |
| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 01:49 - Sep 27 by C_HealyIsAPleasure |
That’s Mick’s model…if you completely ignore the jobs he took at Wolves, Sunderland, ROI (twice) and APOEL which don’t fit that profile at all. Arguably Millwall too given half of what you’ve stated there doesn’t apply either
And imagine being perplexed that someone who is ‘very competent and successful’ continues to stick to methods that have led them to be very competent and successful |
Another Mick stalwart rushing to his defence, how droll. Enjoying the Cook regime? I don’t see you post much about the new era. | |
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| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 07:18 - Sep 27 with 438 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| Micks time at Cardiff coming to an end on 06:26 - Sep 27 by Keaneish |
Another Mick stalwart rushing to his defence, how droll. Enjoying the Cook regime? I don’t see you post much about the new era. |
Rushing? This thread is on page 2 fella, I just replied to yours as it was complete nonsense as usual (and weirdly obsessive but that’s another story)
No I’m not enjoying the Cook regime, we’re in the relegation zone in the third division. Hopefully things will click but I’m starting to have doubts, which is a shame as I thought he was the right man for the job - in fact I wasn’t convinced he was even a realistic option. At least Cambridge should be a good day out next month I suppose
Care to elaborate on how all of those jobs fit Mick’s ‘model’? Yeah, thought not [Post edited 27 Sep 2021 7:19]
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