Does Warnock expressing his love for Cardiff...

viv_andersons_nana

viv_andersons_nana

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... get on anyone else's t*ts? Or is it just me. People hated it when Woodgate talked about Leeds didn't they.

I think he even went as far as saying "I wish I had that group of players" when the reporter asked him about Cardiff and Mick McCarthy this morning. He seems to mention Cardiff every press conference, sometimes even multiple times, even when the question had nothing to do with it. I'm not a fan of it to be honest with you. But maybe I'm just bitter.
 
It is a bit much at times. I prefer his post match conferences to his pre match ones if I’m honest as they all seem to be of a similar theme but to be honest the reporters always ask the same questions. Maybe he’s just like that, I doubt he will get another job after us as he may call it a day at his age but if he did you could sort of imagine him saying ‘when I was at Middlesbrough you had everything you needed there’ Steve was fantastic etc so maybe we read to much into it but you are right it can be quite annoying.
 
Block21 said:
It is a bit much at times. I prefer his post match conferences to his pre match ones if I’m honest as they all seem to be of a similar theme but to be honest the reporters always ask the same questions. Maybe he’s just like that, I doubt he will get another job after us as he may call it a day at his age but if he did you could sort of imagine him saying ‘when I was at Middlesbrough you had everything you needed there’ Steve was fantastic etc so maybe we read to much into it but you are right it can be quite annoying.
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Fair point about when he's left Boro. I suspect he will speak well of us. Maybe it is because Cardiff was his last job before us but he doesn't speak of any other former clubs so much, not even Sheffield United. But then how relevant is the experience he had there I suppose, in the current time.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
... get on anyone else's t*ts? Or is it just me. People hated it when Woodgate talked about Leeds didn't they.

I think he even went as far as saying "I wish I had that group of players" when the reporter asked him about Cardiff and Mick McCarthy this morning. He seems to mention Cardiff every press conference, sometimes even multiple times, even when the question had nothing to do with it. I'm not a fan of it to be honest with you. But maybe I'm just bitter.
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If you listen again you could also reinterpret it - as in Mick McCarthy is playing Warnock's players (7 at the last game) and succeeding playing the same style of football that the Cardiff fan base started to barrack him for. And McCarthy at Ipswich for that matter.
He loved his time at Cardiff BUT he ultimately left because of the fans being so critical towards him there. He could be saying "I told you so."
 
Was he barracked because the football was crap or because Cardiff weren't winning games? He says himself that Cardiff supporters won't care what McCarthy has them doing if they're in the Premier League next season and he is correct. A few might dislike it but in the main supporters will settle for almost anything that brings victories and success. But when Warnock left Cardiff the team had won 5 of 15 matches, drawn 6 and lost the rest. They went out of the League Cup in the first round. They'd spent, or re-invested, heavily in the summer after coming back down from the Premier League. Warnock will have had them playing the same type of football the season they left as he did the season they went up, so why would they suddenly start agitating for him to be moved on? Because they weren't winning. And when you play attritional, basic, binary, direct - whatever you want to call it - football but don't win games then what's the point? What have you got left to get behind? We had it with Pulis.

When McCarthy left, sorry, was "forced out" of Ipswich they'd won 10 or 11 games by April. Four of those wins were the first four games of the season. They went out of the League Cup in August and the FA Cup at the first hurdle. Was the football any different to the football he was playing when they got to the play-offs? I suspect it wasn't. The difference was they'd stopped winning games. And, like Warnock, Pulis or anyone else who plays the more basic, percentage-style football, when their teams aren't winning there isn't a great deal left to defend.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
... get on anyone else's t*ts? Or is it just me. People hated it when Woodgate talked about Leeds didn't they.

I think he even went as far as saying "I wish I had that group of players" when the reporter asked him about Cardiff and Mick McCarthy this morning. He seems to mention Cardiff every press conference, sometimes even multiple times, even when the question had nothing to do with it. I'm not a fan of it to be honest with you. But maybe I'm just bitter.
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Yes me and my lad both said as the same time "well why don't you f*** back to Cardiff then". Not that we want him to its just as the original poster he did so much he was getting on our nerves.
 
He spoke of his ambition to manage Boro for years prior to getting the job. You can't praise him for being super honest about everything then be annoyed when he says he loved his time at Cardiff....... With the achievement he had there I would also expect him to say he loved his time there.
 
No it's not just you. Sick of hearing about Cardiff, how wonderful the players are and how wonderful the owners are.
 
Doesn't bother me in the slightest, as long as he's not waxing lyrical about them aftewards if they beat us.

That was the thing that upset people with Woodgate and Leeds, they'd just demolished us 4-0 and he seemed happy that they'd done so and couldn't stop praising them.
Made worse by the general distaste Middlesbrough fans have for Leeds.
 
So what but we've heard about it so many time now. The poster is correct, people didn't like Woodgate going on about Leeds. If that's right that he said "i wish I had that group of players" then that's a bit much and disrespectful.
 
haha I thought it was only me.

It is annoying, I didn't mind too much last season but think its time to move on now. I don't see karanka banging on about the job he done with us at every birmingham presser... could be wrong mind but it does feel pretty regular with NW.
 
Didn’t bother me when Woodgate did it and it doesn’t bother me when Warnock says it, he’s probably trying to wind our players up to get a result, it’s a big match.

I get sick of people on here bleating about nothing as somebody posted above, far more to get bothered about just now.
 
He had a great time at Cardiff. He pretty much achieved the impossible taking them from 18th to promotion on 18 months.

They spent nothing (in the season we spent millions). I think he's just proud of his achievement. I think it's also clear they were very much a 'Warnock' side and very much what he would love at Boro.

He loves Morrison who's contract is up on the summer. I imagine he's definitely on the list.
 
I understand why people find it annoying, I do too. However, It will be all part of his man management style talking Cardiff up how good a club they are, a team he built in the main. He has a meeting with Gibson next week to discuss plans for next season for the club and no doubt his own position. He is doing two things, giving Mr Gibson a birds eye view of what he can build with the right financial support and saying to his players show me I am wrong when i say they have the best squad in the league. Hopefully the players were equally pished off with his comments and come out determined to show him how wrong he was
 
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