DAVE JONES - where has it gone wrong?

If I could sum up Cardiff City's and Dave Jones' problems in just 3 words, they would have to be complacency, arrogance and non-accomplishment.

The charge sheet is filling but chief crimes have to be;

The crass decision to let Neil Alexander go without any better replacement signed and sealed. Forde, Turnbull, Oakes, Schmeicel and still we wait for someone permanent.

The self-congratulatory smugness of Jones building City's "best ever squad" without "spending money" while our results tell their own story.

Continually telling us how far we've come and our remarkable progress when we've actually come nowhere at all. Lennie Lawrence left us a mid-table side, Dave Jones has provided exactly the same every year in 3 years save the delights of Koumas and Chopra and that superb start to last season.

The club's foolishness by giving Dave Jones two improved contracts and shares over the past year while we've endured relegation form and Cardiff City's worst finish to a season in their entire history - and given our history, that takes some doing.

Always finding someone or something else to blame and always covering his own backside. It's strikers one week, defence the next. Defence are now his regular target yet these are the players he brought us and he selects nearly the same faces every week no matter what to the extent that you suspect 5 or 6 players have their names pre-printed on his team sheets. That home record is disgraceful but he's never shown any humility about it.

Never admitting his own mistakes such as dropping Parry last weekend (inconsistent but our best player in midweek) whilst forever standing by players like Capaldi, McPhail and Fowler.

The incredible number of inadequate signings - Byrne, Forde, Feeney, Campbell, Capaldi, Redan, Turnbull, Flood (the list goes on).

I'd wish Jones can turn this around - as I believe he's a good manager - but ever since he apparently was offered but declined the job at West Brom last season, he's been a very different man in my opinion. You can pinpoint his moans and attitude, City's decline all coming at the same time.