How did they do?
"As has happened extraordinarily often, the interval arrived with the score goalless. But it was much less goalless for us than for Cardiff, who only managed a couple of tame free kick efforts from Kavanagh that were comfortably dealt with by the evergreen Chamberlain. It had been a decent half, a good effort. But we still needed to win the game...."

How will they do?
Cardiff flirted half-heartedly with the play-offs last season, but seem some way short of a more sustained promotion challenge this time. The new arrivals, at the time of writing, look more like the sort of names to drop an anchor in mid-table than to push for the Premiership and if one of the occasional rumours linking Rob Earnshaw with mid-ranking top flight clubs comes to fruition Cardiff's "difficult second season" will see them struggle to emulate the first.