Time to ponder and take stock

I woke up this morning feeling exactly the way I did when to bed this morning well and truly pissed off big time. I should have known not to get my hopes up after my negative feels towards the game only to be sucked in has the kick off grow closer and closer. By kick-off I was a raving nutcase high on expectation planning next season in the Premiership telling twitter and facebook pals the future is blue, but forgetting Reading home strip is also blue.

If you were a Cardiff fan your game lasted around 25 minutes it would have been nice if a few goals had been scored it could have had a major leaning towards the outcome to the game. Oh there I go again fantasy dreaming again. Once they score I just knew that was it and when the second when in right on half-time I official announced game over.

I was never comfortable with the play-off has people who have read some of my entries on this blog. I was always about automatic promotion and was dismayed at the inability of Cardiff boss Dave Jones and players to secure it especially only a few games before the end of the season it was in our hand to win.

The future now is a total rebuild when the loan, out of contract and unwanted players leave the club there will not be much left, but what of boss Dave Jones future with Cardiff City will he be around to be in charge of the rebuild? Most fans would want to see him go he was back by the Malaysians who help build a squad many outside Cardiff rate for promotion. He has said a few times 'judge me at the end of the season' well I think he has been judged. There are rumours doing the round that he has put his house in the Vale of Glamorgan up for sale or sold it, but he refuted the rumour when asked during an interview.

Chief Executive Gethin Jenkins was on a BBC Wales radio phone-on this afternoon and was asked a number of times about the future of Dave Jones, but he was very non committal leaving the door wide out for speculation. Jones told the press,

"I have to take stock of my career and my life and what I do.

"It might not be a decision by the owners. It might be my decision.

"I will assess it and if anything is to be done it will be done in the cold light of day. It will be a calculated decision I will make. They might say yes and I might say no - or vice versa.

"I don't know what's in the heads of Vincent Tan and the chairman. It's time for me to take stock as well as them."

Like most fans I am calling for new blood at the manager's desk, but what concerns me at the top table of the club there is a lack of football knowledge. The Malaysians have no football experience and admitted themselves they are on a steep learning curve in running a football team. The rest of the board a dominated by Rugby people even the Chief Executive Gethin Jenkins is from the world of the egg shaped ball. Can the fans relay on them to get it right or will they stick with the man already in place for another season.