Before kick-off, Brian Barry-Murphy and Rubin Colwill stated their desire for Cardiff to show they can compete with Championship teams.<\/p>\n
And they did far more than just compete against their Welsh rivals.<\/p>\n
The Bluebirds dominated the majority of the opening half and added attacking threat to their control.<\/p>\n
Even after a brief wobble when Moore equalised for the hosts, the Bluebirds regrouped admirably and created further chances – with Will Fish doing the business to get his Cardiff account up and running in fine fashion.<\/p>\n
“Our players believe we can get to that level for sure, and that’s our intention this season,” Barry-Murphy told BBC Sport Wales.<\/p>\n
“To put ourselves in a game like this against a team who have been so impressive recently was a real test for us because you never know how it’s going to go, so to perform in the manner that we did gives us great hope for the future.”<\/p>\n
There was some talk of the ownership of the two clubs ahead of the contest.<\/p>\n
But it will be Vincent Tan who has a beaming smile on his face rather than Hollywood duo Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney after south trumped north.<\/p>\n
And Barry-Murphy admitted Bluebirds owner Tan will be an incredibly happy man after watching his side’s triumph over Parkinson’s men.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got a very demanding owner who is very insistent that we have more shots, so hopefully he’ll be very pleased tonight,” said the Irishman.<\/p>\n
When asked if he would have a happier phone call with the 73-year-old next time around, Barry-Murphy simply responded: “Fingers crossed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before kick-off, Brian Barry-Murphy and Rubin Colwill stated their desire for Cardiff to show they can compete with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-232084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}