Balham_Canary

This. like it With the ball, vrancic pushes on. Tettey protects the centre backs without the ball, Duda drops back, vrancic hunts the ball and tettey protects the centre backs

Watching Cardiff battling for it, throwing themselves in to challenges, chasing down 50:50s.... rams home just how little our players gave on Friday.

Completely agree. Need to focus on defence next year, and not just look to out score opponents every game. I’m happier with a 2-0 than a 4-2 and think most managers would be. Is it coincidence that we have a terrible defensive record and constantly have defenders getting injured? Are they being trained wrong from both tactical AND physical perspectives?

Imagine if Carrow Road was full of supporters after that performance on Friday night. Imagine the boos and feeling of frustration. You’d hear the criticism and sense the disappointment The players and staff won’t have felt any of that and it concerns me. Yes, they will be disappointed as they are professionals. But they won’t have felt the passion from the fans. Clearly there will be no mechanism for the club to hear the fans views on the performance like there would be with packed stadiums. I wonder if the home advantage was ever about familiarity, lack of travel time... or maybe it was only ever an aversion to getting berated by your own fans?

Hi all- long shot but if anyone has a spare ticket for the West Ham game I''d gladly take off their hands! Failing that- see you all for the Leicester game! Cheers, Rob

I thought I''d be tempted to have my tuppenth here! I''ve been storing my first post for ages now, and thought there was no better post to lose it on! I have no doubt that both Jesus and Mohammed lived on the Earth. I believe bother were humble men who longed to do better for others. I also believe that relegion was a good way to control large volumes of people. As population of villages and tribes rose, order would become more and more important. We can see this in our society today- a lack of order breeds contempt for all others in the populus. Religions do lay down a framework for a civilised society. In terms of defining morals they provide a reference. But many are common sense. "Do unto others..." is a simple logic that doesn''t need a higher power to exlplain it or translate it. That brings us to the contractions that are in the bible: "Turn the other cheek" versus "Eye for an eye". It''s more about interpretation than absolute truth. We also mustn''t foget that we are talking about times that are 2000 years apart. When Jesus walked the earth and the ground shook, the sky filled with dense black smoke and the sky threw down rock, debris and ash, there was no explanation for this. A third party, unknown by man, could always be used to explain this. Nowadays, we''d know full well it was a volcano erupting. The other point on this is that in "those days", it would no doubt have been seen as a "punishment" from above. This is why I believe relegions are always aiming to "please" the relevant entity. Someone noted earlier that Christianity does not aim to please- but it does have that culture already. Think of the "reward" system that it has in "Heaven". "Go to church, live well, get rewarded in Heaven" is the moral. Someone commented earlier that science raises more questions than it answers. But I believe no more so than religion. The "what caused the big bang" question is the same as "who created God". My apologies for rambling on!