Jones: 'We are not a one man team'

30 October 2010 11:11
Talking ahead to today's game with Norwich, Dave Jones has answered the press who suggested City are all about Craig Bellamy. "We're certainly not a one man team," Jones responded. "He (Craig) has brought a quality that teams in the Championship don't normally get. You might get players coming to the end of their careers drop down, but someone with his stature and quality you very rarely get in our division. He just gets us up the pitch quicker because you don't find many players of his sheer pace.Cardiff have won every game Craig has played?"If people want to say that, then fine, but we have also won games when he is not in the side. The period when he arrived he was carrying the football club a little, but that isn't the case now and the players here are helping him just as much. Certainly when he was injured they helped him a lot because he was so determined to help us and he maybe lost a bit of focus. We have got some good players here besides Craig."Canaries boss Paul Lambert will not focus all his attention on Bellamy because of the other threats posed by Cardiff."If you put all your attention on one lad then you deflect from other lads they have got in the side, so I won't change our way of playing," said Lambert."Craig is certainly up there with the best in the Championship. He could do jobs in a Premiership team. The way he plays the game, he is certainly up there, that's for sure."How do you define the best player? You can't, that's a hard thing to do, but he could certainly play another level up."Even if there was pressure on him, he will breeze it because he's used to it. I don't see going to Cardiff as added pressure on him"Cardiff City v Norwich CitySaturday 3:00pm.

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