A Letter to Warnock

[Bashar Al Asaba]

The Colinettes?

That's a gentler word than I would use, but we'll go with that.

Maybe even the colonettes, considering how far their tongues are jammed up his rectum

 

[alcoblade]

That's a gentler word than I would use, but we'll go with that.

Maybe even the colonettes, considering how far their tongues are jammed up his rectum

I don’t know many people (me included) who don’t think that the man is at best in love with himself, at worst a cunt.

Whatever we think, we can’t rationally escape the cold hard fact that he is an exceptional manager.

 

[alcoblade]

I do hope all of those extra paying customers translates in to PL points

UTB

Fine, now that you accept that you’ve moved the dialogue along from Cardiff fans being happy with what his brand of football has delivered (as will be factually borne out), to how many points they are likely to get next season.

 

[DronnieBlade]

Fine, now that you accept that you’ve moved the dialogue along from Cardiff fans being happy with what his brand of football has delivered (as will be factually borne out), to how many points they are likely to get next season.

UTB

 

[Bashar Al Asaba]

I don’t know many people (me included) who don’t think that the man is at best in love with himself, at worst a cunt.

Whatever we think, we can’t rationally escape the cold hard fact that he is an exceptional manager.

Eddie Howe and Sean Dyche are exceptional managers. They got unfancied teams promoted and what's more, built on that success over a period of time.

Colin doesn't even come close.

 

[Rodley]

Eddie Howe and Sean Dyche are exceptional managers. They got unfancied teams promoted and what's more, built on that success over a period of time.

Colin doesn't even come close.

To be fair Eddie did have his begging bowl out a few times. Surprised you like Dyche, thought he’d be a bit robust for you?

 

[Bashar Al Asaba]

To be fair Eddie did have his begging bowl out a few times. Surprised you like Dyche, thought he’d be a bit robust for you?

Not at all, nothing but the greatest respect for the man.

 

[Rodley]

I don’t know many people (me included) who don’t think that the man is at best in love with himself, at worst a cunt.

Whatever we think, we can’t rationally escape the cold hard fact that he is an exceptional manager.

It’s a bit like appointing a lawyer, I don’t want someone acting for me who is a nice guy, well liked, bit of wet lettuce. I want the person who gets results, someone who is a nasty sod. NW gets results. His track record at getting promotion is outstanding. That’s the bottom line.

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

Anyone who is familiar with Warnock's modus operandi knows of his penchant for big, bad and ugly centre forwards. And the bigger, the badder and the uglier, the better. He then puts a couple of them in the team and stuffs the bench with the rest of them, one of them quite often in place of a substitute goalkeeper. He did it with us with the likes of Windass, Shipperley, Asaba, Onura, Hayles and the Chief, the majority of who were either fucking crap or past it. Nadine fitted the bill perfectly.

As for the relevance of Warnock to this forum, he featured in 7 years of our contemporary history and the connection to Cardiff City is nothing but a coincidence, it could have been any one of about 10 clubs.

Ah , Nadine, yes. My favourite Chuck Berry song . Especially the lines -

" I saw her from the corner when she turned and doubled back,

And started walking towards a coffee coloured Cadillac "

Bruce Springsteen said " I've never seen a coffee coloured Cadillac, but I know what one looks like now "

Might be going a tad off thread here.

 

[AWetFlannel]

They’re down now. But you’re right, we should hoof it. Hoof’s great.

Pulis kept them up for 7 years, then Hughes took over and changed the style, now they are down.
I don't want us to hoof it, the way we play at the moment is incredibly satisfying to watch.

 

[Pinchy]

Fine, now that you accept that you’ve moved the dialogue along from Cardiff fans being happy with what his brand of football has delivered (as will be factually borne out), to how many points they are likely to get next season.

Very deliberately expressed so as to avoid the suggestion that anyone would be happy with his brand of football per se. In fairness you have always been consistent about that issue.

As happened, I’m told, with Stoke fans towards Pulis, the brand of football is the first thing that gets it in the neck once the results turn. I suspect it will be no different at Cardiff, but one never knows with the Welsh - very odd.

I’ll say right now - no second season. That inability to cope at the highest level prevents him, in my view, from being labelled an exceptional manager (though he is certainly exceptional in many other ways!).

 

[Pinchy]

Pulis kept them up for 7 years, then Hughes took over and changed the style, now they are down.
I don't want us to hoof it, the way we play at the moment is incredibly satisfying to watch.

As I understand it, the Stokies’ Pulis patience was wearing very thin?

 

[Pinchy]

It’s a bit like appointing a lawyer, I don’t want someone acting for me who is a nice guy, well liked, bit of wet lettuce. I want the person who gets results, someone who is a nasty sod. NW gets results. His track record at getting promotion is outstanding. That’s the bottom line.

Some lawyers are nice and get results as well. I know one...

 

[Rodley]

Some lawyers are nice and get results as well. I know one...

Can’t be contentious law Pinch.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Can't we bring this to a close and just address a Congratulations! Card to Neil, with the inside smeared with dogshit?

 

[AWetFlannel]

As I understand it, the Stokies’ Pulis patience was wearing very thin?

Indeed it was.
Preference is a subjective matter, as shown by the hoards of fans I hear sat around me shouting 'shoot', 'gerrit foward', 'stop pissin abart wiv it' ect.
In my opinion, watching hoofball is so much harder to enjoy and makes football look a worse sport.

 

[alcoblade]

Very deliberately expressed so as to avoid the suggestion that anyone would be happy with his brand of football per se. In fairness you have always been consistent about that issue.

As happened, I’m told, with Stoke fans towards Pulis, the brand of football is the first thing that gets it in the neck once the results turn. I suspect it will be no different at Cardiff, but one never knows with the Welsh - very odd.

I’ll say right now - no second season. That inability to cope at the highest level prevents him, in my view, from being labelled an exceptional manager (though he is certainly exceptional in many other ways!).

Make no mistake Pinchy , I’d rather have what we have today over Warnock’s football, though unlike you I did really enjoy that era too.

But the wider public vote with their feet, and primarily it’s all about winning to them. The evidence is irrefutable.

 

[Laney Blade]

Every club he's been at has had the best set of fans.

It was us.
Then it was Palace.
Then it was QPR.
Then it was Leeds.
Maybe not Rotherham...
But then Cardiff

Wonder where he's off to next when he gets sacked in November.
He could be at Wigan and they'd have the best fans in the land.

Arsehole.

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

Having reviewed all the recent posts on Neil Warnock, it's pretty obvious that we have a wide split amongst our fan base. To resolve this and return to the harmonious consensus that has always been a feature of S24SU, I feel the only solution is to...........write him a letter. Here goes:

Dear Neil,

You may or not be aware that your recent antics in getting Cardiff promoted have resulted in a commonly known psychological condition known as "meltdown" on S24SU. Blood pressure readings have reached a very unhealthy level amongst some of our fans and reports of people foaming at the mouth have led to DEFRA roaming the streets with anti-rabies innoculations. Now this state of affairs is avoidable and the part you can play in future is as follows:

Firstly, lets deal with goal celebrations. The way you celebrated at the Lane recently you would have thought that you had scored a last gasp equaliser in a promotion defining game after being under the cosh for 90 minutes.or something. And then you had the temerity to go and applaud your fans who had made a 300 mile round trip on a goddam awful night. All this without considering the sensitivity of your adoring ex-fans who fondly refer to you as "a cunt". Next time, just control yourself. You could always shake hands with the fourth official or send a message on your group chat to your best mates Stan, Wally and Gary.

Secondly, "the best set of lads". Now we know that you need to show faith in your players but it's obvious that none of them could surpass the world-beaters at SUFC. We have football forum members who are both football and linguistic experts and will easily articulate how Sol Bamba couldn't possibly have been better than Claude Davies. They will then spend hours boring us to fucking death on football forums.

There is also the added matter of you failing to improve our team in the JTW when our board, in a fit of generosity, gave you £3m to spend to ensure our premiership survival. If you had shown any ambition, with the funds available, you should have gone for Christiano Ronaldo instead of Luton Shelton if you was, as quoted "planning for the future". This would have cemented our claim to our team being "the best set of lads" and your recent assertions about Cardiff would have sounded even more ludicrous.

So in future to appease our fans, could you simply refer to them as a "good set of lads" or even a "great set of lads" but never "the best set of lads" unless you are referring to your lads at SUFC.

Thirdly, and this is probably the most important, "the best fans". Now we appreciate that at your age you may have difficulty remembering us after 11 years and your involvement with about 200 other clubs, but when you called Cardiff City "the best fans" it was hard to take. I can remember on cold February nights, along with thousands of others chanting your name. "Warnock Out" still reverberates around my head on sleepless nights. In view of the number of clubs you have been associated with, we suggest that you compose a league table. You could then refer to Cardiff as "the second best set of fans" or Plymouth as the "eighth best set of fans". Obviously the best ever can only be reserved for us because if you don't I'm sure that you, like me, doesn't like to see grown men cry.

Yours faithfully etc etc.

To give this letter added weight I'm planning on roping in Foxy , that is when he's finished with the "other" one. (What's taking you so long by the way?, everyone would think you have a full time job, a family to look after, a household to run and a forum to manage).

Of course, this would never succeed without the support of forum members......

Fabulous. No better satire displayed on these boards since the much regretted demise of The Crab Industries. Multitudinous 'likes' deserved.

Colin def still a cnut, though

 

[alcoblade]

Eddie Howe and Sean Dyche are exceptional managers. They got unfancied teams promoted and what's more, built on that success over a period of time.

Colin doesn't even come close.

8 promotions suggests otherwise to me.

I accept that there are (a few) other exceptional managers, Sean Dyche being one. It’s s diffrent point thoug.

 

[Dellas Cowboys]

....and plenty of us have handed back season tickets in despair.

The decision that he wouldn’t come back was not his. You have to be asked. KM has said he should have sacked him once we got promotion. He’s absolutely right. Cardiff take note.

He likes the Championship, him.

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Which is where we are

Emperor Tan (I've named him thus after seeing him held aloft resplendently by what seemed to be his own security guards) won't keep Warnock on in the Prem.

 

[wizadry]

Anyone who is familiar with Warnock's modus operandi knows of his penchant for big, bad and ugly centre forwards. And the bigger, the badder and the uglier, the better. He then puts a couple of them in the team and stuffs the bench with the rest of them, one of them quite often in place of a substitute goalkeeper. He did it with us with the likes of Windass, Shipperley, Asaba, Onura, Hayles and the Chief, the majority of who were either fucking crap or past it. Nadine fitted the bill perfectly.

As for the relevance of Warnock to this forum, he featured in 7 years of our contemporary history and the connection to Cardiff City is nothing but a coincidence, it could have been any one of about 10 clubs.

Fair enough!

You are right regards Warnock with his tanks but as ST has quite rightly pointed out, £6 million for that cunt is about £6 million overpriced and I see that as spunking money away. Nadine is pretty apt ‘btw’.

I wouldn’t trust him with the Man Utd, Man City’s and the Chelsea war chest sums of money like some are advocating on here, it’s not his level and he wouldn’t be able to deal with their egos and players who will feel that they’re more important than him. He knows his level and has done very well at it but can’t we just leave him be to get on with his job in hand at Cardiff? We’ve enough on our plate at present to discuss without the need to worry about Cardiff and their manager.

 

[SuperDuperBlades]

Got all the time in the world for OUR Colin.

Me too. There are plenty on here though who deride him: mostly self-centred, egotistical braggarts ... Imo.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Fair enough!

You are right regards Warnock with his tanks but as ST has quite rightly pointed out, £6 million for that cunt is about £6 million overpriced and I see that as spunking money away. Nadine is pretty apt ‘btw’.

I wouldn’t trust him with the Man Utd, Man City’s and the Chelsea war chest sums of money like some are advocating on here, it’s not his level and he wouldn’t be able to deal with their egos and players who will feel that they’re more important than him. He knows his level and has done very well at it but can’t we just leave him be to get on with his job in hand at Cardiff? We’ve enough on our plate at present to discuss without the need to worry about Cardiff and their manager.

I think the £2.2m spent on Rob Hulse was one of the few instances where he’s made a good decision with a 7 figure fee, because generally speaking a good number of the players he’s spent sizeable money on have been misjudgments. One of Warnock’s key skills was in finding cheapish players and getting a great deal more out of them than expected. The likes of Brown, Kabba, Webber, Ifill for fairly modest 6-figure sums, freebies like Shipperley. He got a similar one in Jamie Mackie at QPR, around the time he got Taraabt for £1m in what was also a steal. £6m is possibly the most he’s spent on a player – it was very clearly a ridiculous fee, and is looking like one of his worst signings so far.