Match Day Thread: Cardiff (A) 17th Mar 2026

[Clashcityrocker]

@kim_il_swan

Not as good as mine

Not as good as your what?

[Malone]

@petef1

Interesting about Vidigal on about 4.30 in…

The sort of snippet you don’t usually hear about at our level. Slight disciplinary issue keeping him out - then the team picked up form.

Wonder why Duff is throwing it in? To explain why we have a potentially brilliant winger sat on the bench so long?

[williwycombe]

@Malone

The sort of snippet you don’t usually hear about at our level. Slight disciplinary issue keeping him out - then the team picked up form.

Wonder why Duff is throwing it in? To explain why we have a potentially brilliant winger sat on the bench so long?

Maybe to send a message, maybe because he thinks the issue has been dealt with and Vidigal can take it going public. Accounts from Stoke fans suggest he had/has a playboy reputation and was known for being a maverick. Hopefully he can be our mercurial maestro in the run-in.

Great post-match questions and answers I thought. Duff consistently gets to the heart of the matter with no double speak or coaching waffle. And despite having one prominent detractor of his man management, he seems to know how to handle those who need a kick (Vidi) and those who need an arm round them (C. Taylor).

[Wycombe85]

@Right_in_the_Middle

Described by the Cardiff BBC online reporter as a long ball by centre half Morley. The bitterness of the whole piece is lovely.

Fairly sure the Sky commentator described it along the lines of “just a long ball over the top”

[Borgoff]

Corporal Duff was raised in a military family, so no doubt poor punctuality and proffesionalism is a red line in our leaders books.

And so it should be, never understood those so called mavericks, who think because they have flair, should have special dispensation towards basic standards.

Duff is like a breath of fresh air with his interviews, speaking the hard truth and not corporate coaching gobbledegook favoured by so many these days.

[Ryan_W_Kirkby]

Just got back home now.

What a trip, and as much as i enjoy taking Ellis or the girls, this was a special one without them.

Brilliant performance, great away end, and a night out i can hardly remember getting back the hotel from!

Met old and new friends and really enjoyed it.

8 games to go, anything can happen. Going to miss the next 2 then hopefully do 5 out of last 6. Starting with Stockport away with Ellis.

[Blue_since_1990]

@Borgoff

…y family, so no doubt poor punctuality and proffesionalism is a red line in our leaders books.And so it should be, never understood those so called mavericks, who think because they have flair, should have special dispensation towards basic standards.Duff is like a breath of fresh air with his interviews, speaking the hard truth and not corporate coaching gobbledegook favoured by so many these days.

Spot on @Borgoff

[Blue_since_1990]

Let’s get Vidigal, Vidigal, we wanna get Vidigal, let’s get into Vidigal etc etc. I’ll get my coat.

[perfidious_albion]

I wonder if the ‘late to a meeting’ lack of professionalism reference might be followed up, behind closed doors, with a ‘the shirt off =‘s booking’ is also unprofessional/ don’t get too big for your boots son warning? He may be one of those players that responds to stick rather than carrot?

[James]

@Commoner

…tremely pleased for Connor Taylor, what a game he had, hopefully we will see some consistency now. I also think Norris has been much improved and maybe he is just the current person to pick on, as every set of fans at any club always seem to have one player to pick on. He’s got weaknesses but that is why he plays in L1.Glad I made the trip, Orient tickets booked in the car on the journey home, COYB!

I don’t think it really works like this in reality .There are only 6 players in their entire squad who were in the relegated team of last season. Like B’ham they have gone out and bought a championship team this season . Like B’ham they will probably end up mid table with a fair amount of this team.

As a result that was not a bottom three Championship team we played last night. It was a new team on a role and bursting with confidence . A team on the up rather than on the slide.

That said I honestly believe that if you want to go up and stay up you have to become a championship quality team in whilst still in this division and go up automatically . We ain’t that for sure.

[Midlander]

@perfidious_albion

I wonder if the ‘late to a meeting’ lack of professionalism reference might be followed up, behind closed doors, with a ‘the shirt off =‘s booking’ is also unprofessional/ don’t get too big for your boots son warning? He may be one of those players that responds to stick rather than carrot?

I took it more of a “well done son but remember it’s about the team rather then you, don’t get too big for your boots, remember when you got omitted for failing to think about the team, keep thinking about the team and you’ll start.”

[chris]

@Midlander

I took it more of a “well done son but remember it’s about the team rather then you, don’t get too big for your boots, remember when you got omitted for failing to think about the team, keep thinking about the team and you’ll start.”

Makes me think he won’t be signing another contract beyond this season

[Quarterman]

Not as good a performance as against Bolton, but what a win! And a great way to keep us in the hunt for a play off place.

Saturday I think is absolutely key now. If we can get a win at Orient (a really tough ask), our rivals are guaranteed to drop points so we need to take advantage (11th vs 5th; 10th vs 7th; 8th vs 6th on Saturday)

[kim_il_swan]

@perfidious_albion

I wonder if the ‘late to a meeting’ lack of professionalism reference might be followed up, behind closed doors, with a ‘the shirt off =‘s booking’ is also unprofessional/ don’t get too big for your boots son warning? He may be one of those players that responds to stick rather than carrot?

Buying a flair player and then telling him to be responsible seems wrong. The whole point of a flair player is that the magic on the football pitch is matched by the chaos off it.

Asprilla is the role model here, being able to turn up late and score a hat trick as well as buying a horse and losing it.

[MindlessDrugHoover]

Balotelli was surely the acme of brilliant on the pitch, bonkers off it.

[Bayo]

The Luton manager is a fine example to his players!

[Barneysmith]

@MindlessDrugHoover

Balotelli was surely the acme of brilliant on the pitch, bonkers off it.

Or Stan Bowles, for the older campers here. Brian Clough buying him for Nottingham Forest is probably the strangest transfer of all time.

[perfidious_albion]

‘The Ding’ would of course cite Robin Friday (although v few of them would have seen him play).

[wwfcblue]

@perfidious_albion

‘The Ding’ would of course cite Robin Friday (although v few of them would have seen him play).

A wonderful gift as a footballer but it would seem every other aspect of his character/life was in the gutter.

From what I’ve read he treated everyone who loved him or tried to help him like shit on his shoe, though defecating on people’s things seem to be a party trick of his.

[micra]

@Right_in_the_Middle

Described by the Cardiff BBC online reporter as a long ball by centre half Morley. The bitterness of the whole piece is lovely.

He’d obviously not heard of Zinédine Zidane. The most famous midfielder to wear the 5 shirt.