'relegation A Blessing' But Issues Remain - Cardiff's Reset

As overmuch arsenic nan temper has undoubtedly improved this season, nan guidelines causes of Cardiff's caller troubles person not simply disappeared.

Tan remains a divisive figure, arsenic do president Mehmet Dalman and main executive Ken Choo.

They were nan target of galore protests past season, immoderate of which saw hordes of supporters marching to Cardiff City Stadium, holding banners and singing songs demanding that Tan and his chap committee members leave.

Some of nan sick emotion tin beryllium traced backmost to Tan's highly arguable rebranding of nan club's colours from reddish to bluish successful 2012, moreover though he reversed nan determination 3 years later.

More recently, nan anger relates to his perceived deficiency of interest, pinch Tan having not attended a location crippled for much than 2 years.

Then, possibly astir damningly, location is nan measurement he, Dalman and Choo person tally nan club.

Fans, erstwhile players and pundits person each highlighted nan startling deficiency of shot knowledge astatine committee level, pinch nary furniture of expertise betwixt Tan and nan galore managers he has hired and fired.

Cardiff astatine slightest tried a caller method successful their assignment of Barry-Murphy, forming a one-off sub-committee which included nan club's academy head Gavin Chesterfield, erstwhile Swansea City sporting head Mark Allen and members of nan Wasserman agency. However, nan last determination still belonged to Tan.

"They didn't scheme to get relegated," says Perry. "And successful hiring Barry-Murphy, is it really a thorough process that we've sewage to nan result of getting him? I don't deliberation so.

"It's a filtering system, a fewer group narrowing it down to 5 choices, and those 5 choices spell past to nan owner.

"The problem will ever beryllium nan owner, simply because he hasn't sewage that knowledge to prime retired of those five. Nathan Jones was successful location [on nan shortlist], location were others who weren't akin to Barry-Murphy.

"I'll only commencement calling it a process if Barry-Murphy goes and nan adjacent assignment is very similar. Then it becomes a process, get different coach who puts a squad retired that we tin place pinch arsenic supporters and is besides successful.

"But you must person knowledge of what you're looking for. The aforesaid problems are present astatine this club, and they request to alteration for america to person occurrence continuously."

Given really good nan Barry-Murphy assignment has gone truthful far, then, mightiness Tan beryllium convinced to usage a head of shot aliases akin connected a imperishable basis?

"The full opposite," Perry says. "I deliberation he'll get carried away, truthful overmuch truthful that it will reenforce his ain sentiment of himself, that he is nan correct man because of what we're seeing now.

"He will not look astatine nan process and put his hands up and go, 'possibly we're fortunate present because it wasn't our first choice'.

"You person to beryllium honest, reflection is simply a cardinal portion of shot aliases immoderate large business, but erstwhile you bespeak you person to beryllium honorable and you person to look astatine your skillset. Then you person to either amended that skillset aliases you bring personification successful that has those skills. Unfortunately, astatine City we don't person that and that is my concern."

There is nary guarantee of an instant return to nan Championship. It took Cardiff 18 years to get backmost to that level erstwhile they were past relegated to nan 3rd tier successful 1985.

Of nan 30 teams to person been successful nan Premier League and relegated to League One, six person ne'er made it backmost to nan Championship.

Given really Cardiff are going this season, they should not adhd to that number.

Promotion will not hole everything, though.

"I came into this play wished to bask it," says Perry.

"We're doing well, playing a marque that we place pinch and everybody's happy.

"But you've only sewage to look astir nan shot nine and I still spot nan aforesaid mistakes."