SWAN-SEA FEE-NEY

Cardiff City’s Warren Feeney has joined the Jacks on loan until January – the only player move in and out of Ninian Park in the final week of the transfer window which is now shut until January. Only emergency loans and transfers can now be authorized.

Feeney has also been a dubious signing for The Bluebirds. He was hardly a regular and certainly failed to score for now relegated Luton in the Championship so eyebrows were raised were Dave Jones not only paid £75k for the player but also handed him a 3 yr contract. Those suspicions that it was bad business were, I’m afraid, only heightened and confirmed by his appearances in a City shirt. Not really deemed good enough to get much action for Cardiff, wholly unspectacular when he did get It, his work-rate and enthusiasm alone but not make up for the impression that he was simply not good enough to help City, the final nails in his coffin seemed to be confirmed with the arrival into the team of Robbie Folwer and JFH leaving him with an even more limited future at best.

His choice of club was a surprise, he turned down offers to go elsewhere, but his young family are settled in the area and his grandfather played for The Jacks and you can only wish him well but it’s a move that has a definite “out of the frying pan, into the volcano” feel about it. For now, the joke that the extent of his effectiveness has been proven as it enabled then to call off a game this week against Cheltenham as he became their third international player needs to be won over for the player’s own good and Cardiff’s too. After all, if that loan doesn’t work out, we get him back!