Here are your Cardiff City headlines for Friday, February 18.
Ormerod picks out Cardiff danger
Blackpool legend Brett Ormerod believes the Seasiders' clash with Cardiff City will be a tricky test and picked out January signing Jordan Hugill as one of the dangers.
Hugill has scored two goals and provided an assist since arriving at the end of last month and has made an immediate impact.
But he is only a small cog in a wheel which has been turning increasingly smoothly in recent weeks and Ormerod, who scored 61 league goals in more than 200 games for the Tangerines, believes Blackpool have a job on their hands this weekend.
"It’s a trip to Cardiff City this weekend, which will be tough as they’ve picked up in recent weeks," he wrote in his Blackpool Gazette column.
"They got a good result at Bloomfield Road at the start of the season and they were in and around the play-offs at one point.
"They have a big, strong team with some powerful lads, they’re really good at set-pieces and cause you all sorts of problems.
"After that performance, you were thinking they would be right up there this season, but it’s just totally fallen away while Blackpool picked up.
"It’s always a tough game there. They’ve signed Jordan Hugill, who looks to be doing fairly well, so they’ve still got a lot of dangerous players and I’m sure it will be a very difficult game."
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Niasse links up with Hasselbaink at new club
Cardiff and Everton flop Oumar Niasse has linked up with former Bluebird Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.
Niasse on Thursday was announced as a new signing for League One outfit Burton Albion after a trial period with the club.
Lest we forget, the Senegal striker was once a £13.5m signing for Everton back in 2016, but was released by the Toffees in 2020.
His spell at Goodison Park included a loan stint with Cardiff in the second half of the Premier League campaign. Niasse didn't score a goal in his 13 appearances for the Bluebirds.
After a fruitless stint with Huddersfield Town, the 31-year-old has now found a new home at Burton.
“We are obviously aware that Oumar has been out of training for a while since he left Huddersfield," Burton manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink told the club's website.
“He’s been training with us for a short period and has shown a lot of hunger and desire to get back playing.
“We know he’s made over 50 Premier League appearances, and he’s shown us that he can add something to the squad that we have – hopefully he’ll be a good help for us to finish the season strongly.”
New addition to staff
Cardiff City have sought the expertise of sports performance coach Steve Sallis in recent months.
Morison knows Sallis from his Millwall days, but the performance coach is probably best known for his work in helping out former Bluebird Jonny Williams in Netflix's Sunderland 'Till I Die documentary series.
Morison believes that now, there is a better culture and environment within the club than there was before he took the reins.
"As soon as I came, there was one thing I wanted which was a performance coach or psychologist to come in to work with the mindset, to spark conversations I can't have, to get to know people, to challenge the staff on our meetings and how we do things. That’s all about the culture. You need to have a more open culture," he said.
"I’d like to get to a culture one day where I can just name a squad and not have to speak to individuals unless you really need to. We are just trying got pick the best XI and the best subs to win the game.
"Tactics aside, you look at Jurgen Klopp, the subs he has and how he keeps that whole group winning.
"It’s all about the group and the way they live and handle themselves. It’s a better place than it was."
Morison explains Bacuna absence
Leandro Bacuna has been missing from matchday squads owing to both a hamstring injury and being usurped in the pecking order.
Bacuna has not featured once for Cardiff in their last eight Championship games, since his sending off against Bournemouth in December,
It's clear that Bacuna has fallen down the pecking order. Since he last played, Joe Ralls, Ryan Wintle, Will Vaulks, Marlon Pack, Tommy Doyle, Colwill and Eli King have all had a run out in the middle of the park and appear to be in front of the midfielder.
And Morison said that, even when he was fit, Bacuna was omitted from the matchday squads to accommodate other midfielders in the last six weeks or so.
"He just needs to get himself fit," the boss added.
"He had a little bit of a hamstring injury. He came in for a few days but then dropped out again.
"He has been out and I don't think we will see him for at least the next couple of weeks. But there are so many midfielders in there now and people are doing well.
"When I had left him out I didn't change the squad, so he fully understood where he was."
Vaulks: Fans are buying into the football now
Will Vaulks believes Cardiff City fans have bought into the football amid a recent upturn in results.
Cardiff's four wins in five have included three triumphs in front of the home crowd and Vaulks said it it gives him and the players a lift to see the supporters enjoying it more.
"It's something that we lacked earlier on in the season, but I think we've turned it around," Vaulks said. "We were giving away too many points, but I think it's now a place that people don't want to come to.
"As players, we've had to turn the performances round and give the fans something to cheer about. I think we're playing a better brand of football now, and I think the fans are really buying into it now.
"Recently you can feel the fans enjoying it a little bit more, and the atmosphere has been brilliant. It's so nice to be able to clap the fans off at the end of the game with a victory - it means everything."
On the last few months of the season, the Wales midfielder added: "We’ll be looking to make it four games on the spin at home, if we win. That’s what we’ve got to do; we’ve got to start climbing that league and forget about what’s below us."
House of Sport collapses
The air dome at Cardiff International Sports Campus in the capital was brought down as Storm Eunice brought severe stormy weather on Friday.
Cardiff City House of Sport has confirmed that nobody was in the area at the time of the collapse. On Thursday afternoon, Cardiff City House of Sport confirmed that the dome was "completely out of action".
On Facebook, they wrote: "Unfortunately due to damage sustained by Storm Eunice, the Air Dome at Cardiff International Sports Campus is completely out of action for the foreseeable future.
Social media user, Mike Dibble, captured the fallen dome on video via Twitter.
He tweeted: "Hope this doesn't take off!"
"All bookings were cancelled prior to the damage and nobody was in the vicinity of the Dome.
"We will update everyone as we find out news on the repair progress."
"All bookings were cancelled prior to the damage and nobody was in the vicinity of the Dome.
"We will update everyone as we find out news on the repair progress."
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