Remember that deja vu?

The report on the BBC site was as follows:-

" The visitors dominated the match with Aaron Ramsey hitting the post, Gavin Rae heading just over and Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink keeping Lee Grant busy.
But Tudgay's eight-yard strike against the run of play four minutes from the break was enough for the three points.
Cardiff have now gone four games without a win in the Championship."

Sounds familiar to me - rather like the Stoke and coventry games last August. To think that Sheff Wed were so poor at Cardiff a few weeks ago but we have contrived to lose against them.

Lets hope the season doesn't peter out like the last two years. Apart from anything else we need at least another 4 points to be safe from relegation. Still, four of our next five league games are at home so lets be positve - 12 or 13 points from those games will shoot us up the table again.

Up For The Cup!

RAVE: As you know, I am not a big fan of Cup football. However, the enormity of this win suddenly hit me on Saturday night. The fact that this is the first time Cardiff have reached the quarter finals of the FA Cup since the famous year 0f 1927 is obviously momentous in its own right. This means that it is the first time it has happened in my lifetime. In fact, this is the first time this has happened in my parents' lifetime, which makes it even more amazing!

RAVE: A cracking goal from JFH!

It seems that a slow start by Wolves and a fast start by the City was enough to see us 2 up in 11 minutes and that was effectively that!

And OK, I admit it - I will be glued to the quarter final draw on monday lunchtime. Mind you, I'm not sure I would like us to have Bristol rovers or Barnsley away, never mind the Baggies. Or we could get Man Utd or Chelsea.

Perhaps this will give the whole club a lift we can take forward to our Championship form.

Bore Draw

A suppose a draw was inevitable in the circumstances - Cardiff struggling to find form and Coventry without a manager. According to the radio the game was pretty dire and it was only after the break that Cardiff managed to show a bit of form, although for the second time this season they were unable to break down the Coventry defence.

Only one point from the last 9 has put our playoff hopes in some disarray, although the same could be said for many teams at present, and we are as good (and no better) than many teams in this division. Two fairly good teams are likely to make it to the playoffs so it might as well be us as anybody.

However, we now have "the magic of the cup" with a 5th round game against Wolves on Saturday. Could this be the first time we reach the 6th round since 1927? Although I am not a fan of cup football a match like this where the pressure is off could be just what we need at the moment.

Welshman Stars!

RAVE: Unfortunately, he wasn't one of ours. I think this is the first time that I've given a "rave" to an opposition player, but in this case it goes to Ched Evans. The Wales under 21 international is on loan at Norwich from Manchester City, and what a player he looks! He was by far the best player on the field, scored both Norwich goals, including astunning winner 2 minutes from time. This boy could be really good and be a big star in the future.

NEITHER RANT NOR RAVE: The Cardiff performance. It was reminiscent of some of the early season form when we were playing well without getting a result. A draw would have been a fair result, and it would have been if not for the late intervention of Mr Evans.

We created a number of chances at least, and I would say that Norwich are one of the better teams to visit Ninian Park this season. If they continue to play like this then they too could make their way into a playoff position.

Coventry tonight (Tuesday). You can never tell with teams who have just lost their manager - they could fall apart or they could rally the cause - lets hope it is the former as another defeat would be very deflating for the team.

Gavin Rae scored his first home goal on Saturday.

The Curse of the Manager of the Month strikes again!

Well - it had to happen - the unbeaten run came to an end, just as Dave Jones wins the January Manager of the Month award! There is now a lot of folklore concerning the bad luck which results from winning this award but it hasn't done any harm to Sir Alex Ferguson!

I don't know whether the same thing happens to players of the month but it was nice for Joe Ledley to win the Championship player of the month award - especially as the transfer window has close with Joe still at Ninian Park! Let's hope his good form continues.

Stoke have become a bit of a bogey team - it seems to have been so ever since beating us in the playoffs a number of years ago - they are the second team to do the 'double'over us this year. It seems that we only started to play well after we were 2-0 down and could have stolen a point but it wasn't to be.

NEITHER RANT NOR RAVE: Roger Johnson scores his second freak own goal in 2 Championship games - lets not go for the hat-trick Roger!