Cardiff City FC - A Touch of Wales

[HibernianBoy]

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Cardiff City Part Ways with Jones.​

The Cardiff boss was today told to pack his bag's today after failing to reach the Premiership when Cardiff where beaten by shock play-off winners Blackpool. The Cardiff board are yet to release a statement but the comments given by Jones made the board-statement almost a formality.​

The ex-Cardiff boss had this to say to a news reporter while leaving Cardiff City Stadium for the last time:​

Apparently the play-off finals arent good enough for these ungratefull *******

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Speculation is already mounting as to who will take over at Cardiff with the likes of Tony Mowbray and Ian Holloway both names that are currently being flung around by media. A surprise candidate could be ex-Cardiff youth/reserve player Rhys Nelson. ​

The scotsman is an untested manager but did play for Cardiff at the age of 17 until he was 19. He began at his local side Livingston before being signed by Cardiff but just days before his 20th birthday he suffered an injury playing for the Cardiff reserves that would end his proffesional career for good. He did continue playing sunday-league football but the potential he had was ruined on the day he sustained the injury, but could he be back at Cardiff once more. Stay tuned to find out.


(Appointment & Pre-Season in next update)​

 

[Daniel Carter]

As a Swansea City fan, I like the look of the OP. I will be following dude! ​

 

[swfc1234]

goodluck mate you got Bellamy??

 

[HibernianBoy]

And the Person is.... Nelson!​

Thats right folks, and you heard it here first Rhys Nelson, former Cardiff youth & reserves player has been appointed Manager, he was expected to join as a coach but following managerial changes Nelson has been given the Job as the big man and will be expected to guide Cardiff to promotion. Is he the man for the Job. The board seem to think so.​

The Transfers...​

Budget - £0​

Corry Evans - Manchester Utd - Loan
Quinton Fortune - Free Transfer
Bebe - Manchester Utd - Loan
Sander van Gessel - Free Transfer​

Gavin Rae - Norwich - 150k
Tony Capaldi - 160k​

The Pre-Season Warm Up...​

Cardiff Cup Semi-Final​

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Cardiff City 3 - 1 AS Nancy Lorraine​

Danny Drinkwater (17)
Michael Sellier OG (27)
Peter Whittingham (49)
Roger Hirigoyen PEN (53)​

Cardiff Cup Final​

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Cardiff City 0 - 3 West Brom​

Simon *** (34)
Chris Wood (71)
Gabriel Tamas PEN (74)​

The Germany Tour​

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Cardiff City 1 - 1 FC St Pauli​

Jay Bothroyd (87)
Torsten Schmidt(90+3)​

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Cardiff City 2 - 3 Hoffenheim​

Chinedu Obasi (2)
Prince Tagoe (45+2)
Adam Matthews PEN (68)
Demba Ba (74)
Paul Quinn (83)​

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Cardiff City 0 - 1 Marseille​

Loic Remy (28)​

Cardiff City 4 - 0 GH Academy​

Jay Bothroyd (15, 21)
Sander van Gessel (26)
Lee Naylor (90)​

Cardiff City 4 - 1 Chasetown​

Simon Ashton (5)
Craig Bellamy (35, 47)
Anthony Gerrard (65)
Bebe (77)​

Managers thoughts:​

Overall a positive pre-season except the heavy loss to WBA we only lost to better opposition, the FC St Pauli game taught us not to conceed late on and im glad Craig opened his scoring in the last Pre-Season game, hopefully he will continue the form into the new season including our opener at Watford. The starting line-up will probably look like this:​

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(Season games will have thoughts for each game etc, just wanted to get this done because I gotta head to bed soon and it is only pre-season)​

 

[ccfcjonesy]

yes a cardiff story ;D