Here are your Cardiff City headlines for Monday, January 16.
Earnshaw: 'Ship has sailed' with Warnock
Former Bluebirds striker Rob Earnshaw believes Cardiff City must look to the future with their next managerial appointment and believes the "ship has sailed" with regards to re-appointing Neil Warnock.
Earnshaw told the BBC: "I don't think it will be Neil Warnock. I think that ship has sailed a little bit.
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"I think it will be somebody else. There are a few contenders. There's a few people that obviously could do the job very well."
The ex-Wales international striker believes that, despite the battle to save off relegation, the club should appoint a manager for the long term, rather than just looking to get to the end of the campaign.
"You can have somebody that fixes it, stops them from getting relegated, as well as looking at the long term. That's what they need to do," he added.
"The worst thing in the world is Cardiff City get relegated. I think that's why they have made this decision [on Hudson], and also because it's January.
"But really Cardiff City shouldn't be in his position. They shouldn't be fighting relegation in the Championship. That's not good enough.
"They really need to sit down and think about this [appointment] because it could be detrimental to the club."
Hudson sack 'harsh', claims pundit
Pundits of ITV's Championship highlights show have given their tuppence worth on the decision to sack Mark Hudson.
Speaking after the decision was announced, former Norwich City, West Ham and England striker Dean Ashton said: "Five draws in six for Mark Hudson. A last-minute goal. Seconds away from getting three points, it feels like an easy get-out, a cheap get-out. Unless they've got someone lined up straight away, I don't get the decision.
"I know that dotted line (relegation) is scary, but they've not been on the worst run ever."
While ex-QPR man Jamie Mackie branded the decision to axe Hudson "harsh".
He said: "I think it's harsh. He got the job as a young, exciting coach coming through. They obviously saw that in him. Then to have that many draws, that could have been wins, they did well in the FA Cup against Leeds, then to get the sack. I don't know what's happening there under financial constraints.
"I think it's harsh."
Peltier on Neil Harris fallout
Former Bluebirds fan favourite Lee Peltier has detailed the way he left the club in January 2020.
Peltier, who played more than 150 times for City and won promotion to the Premier League, left the Bluebirds mid-season and joined promotion-chasing West Brom, but all was not well behind the scenes, according to the now Rotherham defender.
"A little regret of mine is the way I left Cardiff, because I had five unbelievable years there," he to The Tenth Pint Podcast.
"Neil Warnock left and as he left, we were in a discussion over a new contract I was going to sign. Then a new manager came in, Neil Harris, and I'll never forget the first day he came in, he came over to me and said: 'Pelts, I know the situation with your contract, don't worry we will get it sorted. Let me get my feet under the table and let me get to January.'
"For whatever reason, it didn't materialise. And I can say it now, because I left, but me and the manager fell out over the contract, I thought he was a bit disrespectful towards me in the way he did it.
"We didn't see eye to eye over the contract, because up until then I'd played every game for him. So I was like, 'Why are your being like this?'
"I was at a point in my career where if I had to leave, I had to leave, but I did want to stay. We just fell out. Then the phone rang and Slaven Bilic rang me.
"It was mental, because he left me out of the squad, Neil Harris, for two or three weeks where we weren't seeing eye to eye and the last game he put me in the squad was against West Brom and that day, Slaven Bilic had rung me. How mad is that? I ended up saying, 'I'm leaving.' Because I had a great relationship with the club and the chairman, they terminated my contract.
"I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to the fans. That's was the only sour bit at Cardiff, I didn't like the way I left."
Transfer situation up the in the air
One of the key reasons this manager situation has to be sorted quickly is that we are already halfway through the transfer window.
Everton recalled Niels Nkounkou on Saturday and sent him to St Etienne, hours before Mark Hudson got the sack. That position, for example, appeared to be one Hudson was keen to strengthen this month, saying: "We're always looking at options. I think Callum [O'Dowda] has been fantastic.
"There was a decision made by Everton and ultimately he's going to play in St Etienne. And so we'll look to see what can be done in a window and what's available.
"Again, we're not the only teams looking, so we will be in competition with others to see what we can strengthen."
What will the new manager think? Hudson also wanted more goal threat up top, which he said before his final game against Wigan Athletic. Will the next appointment want to strengthen elsewhere?
Time's ticking.
Cardiff City Women hit Llandudno for 10
Cardiff City Women progressed through to the Adran Trophy semi-finals in convincing fashion with a remarkable 10–0 win over Llandudno Ladies on Sunday afternoon.
Star striker Phoebie Poole bagged a hat-trick, while Siobhan Walsh and Lily Billingham both hit two each. Danielle Broadhurst, Danielle Green and Ffion Price also found the back of the net at Cardiff International Sports Campus.
Head coach Iain Darbyshire said after the match: "I thought we were in control from minute one. Some of the build-up play, the passing sequences we put together and the goals we scored were fantastic. We’ve tweaked a few things to be a bit more fluid and creative, the girls executed the gameplan perfectly. You could see that they were enjoying it and were playing with a smile on their face. That first-half performance especially was one of the best I’ve seen.
“We knew this was an important game, not only because we want to win the competition, but because it sets us up for the final two games of Phase One. We know we have to difficult away games coming up, the girls are all prepared, but we need to demand the standards that we set going forward and if we do that, we’ll have a successful second half of the season.”
City return to league action next week, travelling to Aberystwyth Town on Sunday, January 22 for a 2pm kick-off.
Cardiff City Women: Chamberlain (Roberts 46’), Price (Owen 72’), Power, S Walsh, Bowen, Green (Cook 63’), Watkins (Norman 72’), Broadhurst (Saunders 63’), Billingham, Atkins, Poole.
Llandudno Ladies: Bibby-Fry, Roberts, Madison Williams, Dutton, Jarris-Evans, Gibbard, Maddie Williams, Phillips, S Owen (Jones 76’), Doran (Perry 84’), F Owen.
Subs not used: Colville.
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