Dave Jones and Cardiff City's history of collapses

Dave Jones is the Championship's longest serving manager having been in the Bluebirds hotseat since May 2005. It would be churlish to deny he hasn't progressed the club on and off the pitch and the Wembley 2008 F.A. Cup Final appearence is something I will take to my grave.

However there are justifiable questions as to whether he can take us further and deliver us to the promised land. We collpased last season under his charge and many are speculating whether yesterday's surrender at Peterborough is a fatal blow to this season.

One damning aspect of Dave Jones' charge is a seemingly never ending ability to close out games. Yesterday on the blog, I listed a number of occasions where it has happened just within the past 2 months. Over his time, I speculate Cardiff City have dropped points in the last 15 to 10 minutes and upto 30 occasions - it vastly outweighs the occasions we've grabbed late results.

However I've taken a look at City's best (or worst) collapses with Dave Jones. This list is compelling and damning.

28/12/09 Peterborough away 4-4 draw after leading 4-0 half time

29/11/09 Losing 2-1 at home to bottom club Ipswich after leading with 15 mins to go

2008/2009 Gifting added time equalisers away at all the Championship’s top three – Wolves, Brum and Reading

23/08/08 2 up and rampant at home to Norwich with 12 minutes to go and we ‘escaped’ with a 2-2 draw

19/01/08 Cruising to a big win at leaders West Brom but we lost a 3-1 lead in the last 12 minutes with the leveller being a great Roger Johnson o.g.

02/10/07 3-1 up at Sheffield United with 5 minutes to go, we drew.

12/09/06 Plymouth away, three up with 21 minutes to go and we drew thanks to 2 own goals

27/08/05 Two-nil up at home to Wolves with 16 to go, we drew and held on for dear life at the end