Cardiff City is currently engaged in a relegation battle in the Championship, with the club’s board acknowledging the need for greater stability and continuity.
The club’s immediate objective is to maintain their Championship status, while also aiming for long-term stability.
The club’s immediate objective is to maintain their Championship status, while also aiming for long-term stability.
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00:00Cardiff City had a good mid-week. They of course beat promotion contenders Sheffield
00:07United, albeit it wasn't a championship fixture, it was in the FA Cup third round. Still though,
00:12a good scalp for them this season given how poor their season's been in the championship
00:17to get a good win in the FA Cup just shows that they can do it and they can compete.
00:23Of course, it's not been easy for them this season, as I say, so things do need to improve
00:27going on in the championship. And so how do they go about it? How do they avoid relegation
00:32this season? Because a return to League One after so many years away from it would be
00:37disastrous for them as a club. And obviously, no supporter wants that, the board won't want
00:43that, no one wants that, the players won't want that. It'll be tough to come back from.
00:47So they need to improve drastically in the second half of the season and they've shown
00:51in that game, albeit, yes, both sides rotate players and change the teams, but they've
00:57got enough quality to stay within the league, but they're just not showing up on a consistent
01:01enough basis. Is it just a case of being more consistent?
01:04Yeah, I think 100% it is. I mean, Ethan Horvath, the goalkeeper away at Sheffield United, got
01:12man of the match, a rare clean sheet for Cardiff City as well. I mean, they will be probably
01:19more frustrated that it wasn't a championship game and three points were up for grabs. I
01:24mean, an amazing performance from him and Cardiff as a whole were fantastic, resolute.
01:29They went there and they really did well to progress in the FA Cup. But unfortunately,
01:35for a side that struggled so hard, the FA Cup doesn't become a priority. I mean, they've
01:39drawn Stoke City in the next round, which is obviously another winnable tie. So they
01:43could actually find themselves in the fifth round of the FA Cup, just like that. And then,
01:49who knows from there? But they are going to certainly, Omar Issa is going to certainly
01:53express to his players and the fans and the hierarchy of the club who have got things
01:57wrong over the last few years. They are sort of digging themselves out of this mess. He's
02:03going to express to them that, yes, the FA Cup is fantastic for the club in terms of
02:06revenue and in terms of the FA Cup journey for the fans is brilliant. But the onus and
02:13the priority has to be on the league. And how they do that, I think, is more clean sheets,
02:17more fantastic defensive displays. They have got goals throughout the side. They've got
02:22young talent. They've got young Welsh international talent as well. So it's been pleasing to see
02:28them progress. But I think the way they have to really attack it now is clean sheets, putting
02:36more defensive displays where people at the back, goalkeepers, centre-backs, defenders
02:42get man-of-the-match displays. And they need to make sure they're doing that. They've got
02:45real tough games coming up in the Championship and they get thick and fast Saturday, Tuesday,
02:51Saturday, Tuesday. And it is sort of relentless. So they've got to make sure they are keeping
02:56these clean sheets before it's too late for them.