Cardiff 1 - 1 Sheffield Wednesday : OMDT

[Lord Snooty]

Been a strange week here at Snooty Towers. My man, Stubbs, has gone away for a fortnights break. In London of all places.  Not the sort of place you'd really expect a chap to take a rest.  Though I gather he hails from those parts originally.  I heard him on the phone earlier in the week whispering  to someone in his  low growl about 'taking care of business'. He also said he was going to 'put a few more holes in the fackin doughnut'. Why anyone would want more than one hole in a doughnut is beyond me. 

 

 

 I've since discovered one of the guns is missing out of the rack. I don't know why he's taken that with him. Sure I'll have to grill the beggar when he gets back.

 

I've been on to the agency to get  in a replacement valet for a fortnight. They sent me a little chap, Jemson. Surly faced scout if ever I saw one.  Takes his time getting about the place too. I rang the bell last night as I fancied some crumpets and a pot of tea as I was getting to rather an exciting place in my book. Well, it fair took him an age to arrive.  I went to find him myself and saw him admiring himself in the mirror in the hallway. Thought he was too good for the job. Wouldn't do and so I have got on the phone and asked them to send me someone else at once.     He slunk his way out with a face like a miserable teenager.  Imagine my horror when later in the evening my scullery maid  came up to the study and informed me that the meat store had been emptied. Completely ransacked.   No cast-iron evidence it was him of course. But hard to not jump to conclusions.

 

Anyway. They've sent me another replacement , Tillman. We'll see how we go on with him.  He seems a decent sort of Johnny. His first test will be in the morning , we'll see how he does at breakfast. I'll need a good one . I have the builders coming around. The battlements on the South side have been in disrepair since the war. O'Reilly is coming to do it. Recommended by the B&B owner in the village. Anyway the upshot of all this is I won't be going tomorrow.

My first away game miss in some time so I'll be needing regular updates from you chumps...

 

Cardiff City - V- Wednesday

Quite a week too for the Wednesday. Six points from the last two.  Forest those damnable thieves who stole 'Hood' from us were sent packing after comfortable win for us. Then Brentford an-uncomfortable win.  Quite how they are propping up the table with Bolton I have no idea.  But it does prove the old adage a win is a win.

 

I was slightly surprised to see the Warhorse Fletcher start against Brentford. Especially with this game on the horizon.  I know, I know. Every game as it comes. One match at a time and all that.  But the big Scot (I know he's from Shrewsbury, stop nit-picking, it doesn't help the Scottish Warrior narrative I'm trying to paint here. For Gods sake)  

As I was saying. The big Scot is an absolute warrior at the top end of the park. Throwing himself into aerial duals , getting clattered from arsèhole to breakfast.  He's just the sort of  chap a team needs on the road. Especially down there in the land of Dragons. OR bluebirds. Or is that all still a bit of a sore subject? Either way.  This is a Warnock side. Two units at the back who'll be only too ready to dish it out.  This will be a battle. Always his with him. They'll be lobbing the ball in our box like grenades.

 

There's two ways to beat a Warnock side in my book.  You've got to match them up and have a battering ram up there to give you an outball, someone to hold it up and let your team get out as their kitchen sink is thrown at our back line or you hit them with pace.

We haven't actually got any pace. So that's why Fletcher is so vital.  Unless Joao comes in from the cold.  

Warnock has hardly changed his team at all this year.  Nearly the same side every week unless someone has a knock. 

 

CARDIFF - MOST USED SIDE 

 

The one to watch for them is the lad Medez-Laing who has got 5 goals in 6 starts from the wing. Impressive in anyones book. Reach will have to be at his best. But one has to wonder if this is one of the changes that Carlos was talking about in his press conference. To let this lad expose space is to ask for trouble. Might the experienced Pudil come in to face him and Reach be used on the left of midfield to give us the legs?

 

 

Old Warnocks a rum old cove and no mistake. But put aside the groucho nose and the Pantomime villain act and he’s got an incredible record in the football league. Seven (7) promotions.  You don’t pull that off by fluke. He’s often , with the exception of QPR , done it without the best squad in the division too. 

 

Course, I’m not saying the fiend will do it again but they have had a superb start. Interestingly their two defeats this season have been against teams which have been described on here as being terrible.  Burton in the Cup and Preston in their last outing in the League.

 

 

 

Carlos says we will play differently against Cardiff. And it has to be said my old chums, that that isn’t too hard to imagine. Not least since this season Wednesday seem to be able to play differently in the second half to how they did the first!  

 

One minute we’re sitting back inviting trouble like an Eriksson era England side, defending a lead which we haven’t got.  The next we’re closing down and pushing on and thundering down the slope (even though it’s gone) like a Wilkinson team in its pomp for eight minute spells.  God knows what we'll do tomorrow from one minute to the next.

 

We all know old Neils style. Get it in the mixer. And why not? Works for him.  Up front they have Albin Kenneth Dahrup Zohore, the archetypal Warnock striker. Big, powerful , bustling and bruising.  Lees will know what is in store but it might be the first time that our new centre half Eddie Van Halen gets a taste of some old fashioned British football. Pinging the passes from the back is one thing.  Having Warnocks lot wrestling and grappling while they slap their balls in your box is quite another.

 

 

Perhaps old Carlos will throw a curve ball in. Truth is though. I don’t think he can with the current injuries; so many options have been taken from us.

4-2-3-1?  - We only have one fit defensive midfield player and it’s an outrageous waste of Bannan or Lee to stick them in front of the back four with Jones-eh. I mean, Jones. 

 

3-5-2?   -  We could of course go 3 at the back. But that’s a gamble with not much preparation time. And with Medez-Laing on fire would it really be wise to play a lone wingback against him? We struggled enough defending the flank on Tuesday when Reach in theory should have had help from first Lee and then Bannan.  

 

4-1-4-1?  The one that could make a difference as it would give us compactness out wide AND  strength in the middle.

 The only problem is….

…………unless Fletcher is fit who plays up top? 

The lone role.... It’s one that doesn’t really suit Hooper and it certainly doesn’t suit Rhodes.  

Joao or Nuhiu in from the cold?  Highly unlikely I'd have thought. 

If Fletcher or Hooper are anywhere near fit they’ll play , surely?

 

I think, injuries permitting, it’ll be the standard away 4-4-1-1 despite what the gaffer says  changing things up. Only changes I can see are in personnel.  

 

 

 

Crikey. I'm really not a fan of the bruised banana away kit.  Still. It's going to be a bruising encounter so maybe it's the right gear for the day.

Anyway. Must dash.  

 

COME ON WEDNESDAY

 

[darklord]

Tricky game,  reckon we can win but wouldn't be too upset with a draw going into the Derby match. 

 

 

[Spencerowl]

Cracking OMDT well done - COME ON YOU WEDNESDAY WIZZARDS 

[S36 OWL]

Brilliant OMDT  Mi`lord 

[BRADDO]

Excellent again Snoots

 

[Guest Maxine]

5 minutes ago, darklord said:

Tricky game,  reckon we can win but wouldn't be too upset with a draw going into the Derby match. 

 

 

Exactly how I feel. 

[Ronio]

Morning all,

 

Nice one Snoots.

 

Reckon we can win this one.  Cardiff already have shown they can be beat.  Heart says we can win, head says a score draw. 

 

So I'm going for a 2-1 Wednesday win.  Hooper and Baz with the goals. 

 

TO VICTORY!!

 

COME ON WEDNESDAY!!!

 

 

[robowl4life]

Cracking OMDT again.

 

Can see us battling it out for a 1-0 win but it won't be pretty, but who cares, a win is a win. 

 

Love that pic of warnock 

[steveger]

I like the Welsh leek eaters, they have pride, they have passion, but we will beat them...

 

Apparently they have been out training in Rorke's Drift in Natal Province, South Africa..

 

 

[pazowl55]

Good stuff.

 

I can see a curve ball from Carlos as I definitely see him not wanting Reach to play at left back for this one. However he actually maybe our only left back capable of stopping Mendez Laing. Yes that's how good he has become there.

He most certainly plays somewhere else if not there though. Maybe in Wallace's place as there has to be a reason he don't fancy him away from home.

 

Could also see a midfield four of this.

 

      Lee Jones Bannan Reach.

Edited September 15, 2017 by pazowl55

[pauli]

Top work yet again from the be bopping, rock and rolling Snootmeister.

 

Heroic.

 

We will beat them at theirs by two goals to nil.

 

 

 

Due to an amazing hither and thither of magnetic fields and that, every planet in the solar system aligns at three o'clock on Satdi and a Wednesday victory is inevitable. This magnetic field is known as the "Fortune of the Hooties'. Below is a constellation of Hooties as they might appear in the night sky so that you know what it looks like.

 

Edited September 16, 2017 by pauli

[Kalamunda]

I reckon a surprise goal fest 1 - 4 to the Wednesday. It will happen eventually and today it would be a surprise. 

[offalyowl]

Brilliant again snoots, really didn't think I'd enjoy these since Pauli stopped but you proved me wrong, think we will win 3-1 for some reason and hopefully overtake the pigs, wouldn't that be a good weeks work 

 

come on Wednesday, let's do this

[Gresh]

It's going to be a tough game but we've broken some hoodoo's in recent times so I'm going for us to win 0 v 1 with Rhodes coming on to score a late winner.

[jellybean]

I'd take a nil nil now

[themaskedowl]

1 hour ago, Ronio said:

Morning all,

 

Nice one Snoots.

 

Reckon we can win this one.  Cardiff already have shown they can be beat.  Heart says we can win, head says a score draw. 

 

So I'm going for a 2-1 Wednesday win.  Hooper and Baz with the goals. 

 

TO VICTORY!!

 

COME ON WEDNESDAY!!!

 

 

So you and I both think we can win. There's a shock. 

Morning all, hope you're keeping well. We will win, that is all. 

 

Cheers m'lud for a spiffing start to the weekend. Also, I'll just leave this here. 

 

 

I'm off for three holes with lashings of ginger beer. 

[new zealand owl]

Afternoon from an overcast Auckland. Great OMDT and I feel you are reaching peak form Lord S just like the mighty owls.

 

really not sure about this game. I'm really worried about their winger versus Reach who is still learning how to be a proper left back or if it's pudil who is slow and seems to have lost it at this level (certainly at left back)

 

if we can keep them quiet down the wings then I am confident of a result. they have two proper old school centre backs who will head it and kick it all day meaning the inclusion of Fletcher is a must if even 80% fit. He will relish that battle.

 

going for a 1-1 draw with us equalising late for once

[The Coorong Owl]

Afternoon. Cardiff 1 Wednesday 3 Rhodes, bannan and hooper. 

 

Must win today ! 

[full fathom five]

COME ON WEDNESDAY

[33]

What a post...!

 

Flipping tradesmen, what a task it is getting the blighters to one's property and getting things sorted.

 

It all resonates with me Mi' Lud as I am having a right old time of it getting my moat repaired. Has a leak you see and I have to repeatedly keep it topped-up. Still it gives me an opportunity to take young Becky for walk to the summerhouse and turn the tap on.

 

Don't even get me started on cast iron guttering repairs though old chap. One just cannot get the skills these days. Wonder whether I can take Becky up the roof...?

 

Anyway it has all got a bit fraught so have decided to pop over to a charming Palace in the Emirates to recharge the old batteries for a week so will be giving the dragons a miss myself.

 

Feeling rather chipper after a day in the sun and doing some exploring with Lady 33 so am going to suggest a very positive result for the boys today.

 

0-2 win and a very frustrated Colin to boot.

 

Enjoy your day everyone.

 

 

 

 

 

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Edited September 16, 2017 by 33
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