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I'm finding myself to be a little vexed over what came out of last Friday night's fans' forum at the Cardiff City Stadium.

If the board have decided they will pump more money into the team only if they are higher up the league and pushing for promotion, as appears to be the case, what sort of message does that send to the manager? It's like he is being punished for the squad being too big and the overspending under the last manager.

The club should show the foresight to have a continual plan. That doesn't work on the premise of giving money if the club is successful and then cutting off the supply line if they are not.

The idea of this game is to try to get into the Premier League, grow and sustain. It shouldn't be a horses for courses mentality - all roads should lead to the Premier League.

In order to become successful, you need money and you obviously need investment.

I'm not someone who advocates massive expenditure in every transfer window, especially when the squad has 40 players in it!

This window, in fairness, seven players out and three players in, albeit on loan, seems to have addressed that imbalance. So a little blue tick for the hierarchy there.

In the summer, I would be looking to really cut this squad, even if it meant giving golden handshakes. That's easy for me to say, of course, it's not my money.

But I just look at two of my old teams, Wolves and Sheffield United, and look at what they are achieving. They are proof that if you have the capability, the will and the correct plan in place then you can elevate your club very quickly.

At the moment, we are sitting in 12th position in the Championship table and the mid-season transfer window has already come and gone.

Many supporters will have said that we could have done with a few players and a few players out, which I suppose we did do, but have we added sufficient quality in those three loan players? I don't know and I am open to them coming in and really improving this squad for the rest of the campaign.

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But it always just feels like that horse has already bolted with Cardiff City and it's so frustrating. Decisions are always made after the event. The club need to be far more proactive instead of reactive.

This club is so strange in that, in recent years, we have earned two promotions to the Premier League, but we still don't seem to have an identity. That has to be a concern.

Neil Warnock must have signed 30 or 40 players during his time here, chief executive Ken Choo last Friday said the club spent around £100m on transfers during the former manager's reign. So saying they need to tighten the purse strings now, well, the damage has already been done.

How are the board showing foresight, leadership and direction if, three months after Warnock leaves, the chairman and chief executive say the club spent too much money? Especially when they were the ones signing it off.

It's all OK saying it after it has been done, but while it was going on, no one was questioning it. It's like a dog chasing its tail, we are just going round in circles.

Look, it was a hell of a ride under Warnock and getting into the Premier League was incredible. And you can't knock the owner Vincent Tan for dipping his hands into his pockets and spending so much money, he really backed the manager and, ultimately, got his reward with promotion.

But it was all managed so poorly and now Neil Harris and the Cardiff City fans are being made to suffer because of it.

Let me put it in simple terms.

In the Championship season in which we got promoted, we were good at what we did. No fan was fooled, by the way, we all knew that type of football would struggle in the Premier League.

But we stuck with Warnock. And even though we knew his type of football would struggle in the Premier League, Cardiff gave him a load of cash to burn, got relegated, gave him some more cash, blew that and let him leave three months into the new season.

Then, the new manager comes in, we basically shut the purse strings and we say to this miracle man: Right, Jesus, take us to the Promised Land.