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Hard to get excited for this one. By the end of the evening we could only be one solitary point ahead of Wimbledon.
Or be back in the playoffs positions with winnable games against Orient, Port Vale and a stalling Stockport.
It’s the hope. It’s killing me.
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Fink starts in Cardiff
Two own goals and a red card
Just needs some more time.
I turned my post into a haiku.
I very much doubt that.
105 minutes of football ago I was very much looking forward tonight. Football can turn very quickly indeed as we know from 105 minutes ago so could this be one of those famous Wycombe nights?
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I very much doubt that.
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Harumph to you naysayers! My daughter and I set off straight after school and are really looking forward to it.
It’s another away day together, a ground to tick off the list, a big crowd and a chance to get our season back on track.
Yes we’ll probably lose, but this is what football is all about!
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Totally with that. My son and I leave at 2.30pm and although I have been to Ninian Park many times before, this is our first visit to the new ground.
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Cardiff City have an exceptional team full of young. talented players. Brian Barry-Murphy has done a fantastic job in giving so many of them their opportunity this season and reaped the rewards. The only reason they won’t win the title is because of the naiveté of youth and the inconsistency it brings. Oh and the sensational form of Lincoln City of course.
Centre-back Dylan Lawlor (#48) and attacking midfielder Rubin Colwill (#10) are the players to watch out for tonight.
Michael Duff has several selection dilemmas this evening. Does he persist with Connor Taylor in the hopes he plays himself into some sort of form? Does Ewan Henderson come back into the midfield? Nathan Lowe is almost certain to drop to the bench, and Will Norris really should be dropped but throwing Mikki van Sas into an away game at Cardiff City is the definition of footballing suicide.
It’s definitely an evening for the pie-eyed and moon-faced optimists, as well as the Tommy Tick-offs of course.
Don’t think defeat tonight would end our play off chances, defeat at Orient on Saturday would do that!
To be honest, they only time this season I’ve thought the play offs were on was the final whistle at Barnsley up until Casey went off at Bolton a few days later. I’m just hoping for some decent performances and entertainment from now until the end of the season. At the moment, I’m quite optimistic for next season.
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I would assume Lowe will start with Woodrow in the 10. Would also like to see Henderson start but harsh on CBM or Morley.
Lowe struggled on Saturday and still has fitness issues. The last time he completed a full 90 minutes was on the 29th November 2025.
At some point our three best midfielders (Aaron Morley, Caolan Boyd-Munce and Ewan Henderson) need to play together and see if it works.
I’d go with the 4-1-2-3 formation used so effectively under Matt Bloomfield.
With Cauley Woodrow, Fred Onyedinma and Armando Junior Quitirna as the front three, and the three aforementioned midfielders, we can try and stop them playing out, deny them possession and play in their half.
Eek, looks like I’m in real danger of suffering with the pie-eyed, moon-faced disease too.
I didn’t go on Saturday but some said it looked like we’d given up hope of the play-offs, or weren’t up for it, which seems mad given that 5th/6th spots seem on offer to pretty much any team in the top-half.
As fans I think we’ve given up many times this season, only for a single result to claw back hope and optimism. Bring on the latter tonight!
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If we went this, id probably go huggins over Grimmer, as if we play inverted wingers, which we would need to, tge width will need to come wide. And Highins is a bit more attacking.
I ve always been wary how to get all 3 in and still give support up front.
Woodrow is going to bring some stability and experience to tonight’s proceedings. I couldn’t agree more with what some posters said on Saturday, we really missed him more than we realise. I hope he is rewarded with a contract next season if Luton don’t want him.
If we write off the Luton games as ‘one of those games’ our form has been excellent and I now see the Bolton game as a false positive I.e. our complete demolition of Bolton until those dying minutes. I guess that is why the Luton loss was so ‘odd’. It didn’t make any sense after the Bolton game.
I’m fully hoping we see a Bolton performance tonight and take the game to them. Whilst obviously an argument could be made that a point would be ‘OK’, we’re really starting to run out of games now.
But I would obviously be more confident with Dan and Anders at the back, but it is, what it is.
Fred is due a big game today, even if he ends up on the left to accommodate Junior.
Poor performance, but that’s very different to saying we weren’t up for it, I’d disagree with that. We actually started well against Luton, but completely lost our way after they took the lead and it was only towards the end of the game that we started to threaten again. Bad day at the office, probably not helped by the changes at the back, but no issue with attitude of the team.
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I really noticed on Saturday, and others mentioned it, that Fred seems knackered. Not surprising really - he’s put in a 90-minute shift every game since whenever and maybe needs a break. I’d love to know how much ground he covers each game compared to the rest of the team.
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Him and Dan Harvie. Would love to know the mileage those two have put in.
