These are your Cardiff City headlines on Monday, March 8.
Colwill reveals Ralls invite before screamer
Rubin Colwill says he jumped at the chance to take the free-kick which produced the Cardiff City winner at QPR on Saturday.
Isaak Davies had got the Bluebirds back on levels terms in west London, and four minutes later the striker was felled 20 yards out from the Hoops' goal.
And after a quick chat with Joe Ralls, it was Colwill who stepped up to hammer home what proved to be the winner.
"Isaak got fouled and we all got around the free-kick and I was like 'I've got a little chance here to take it'," Colwill revealed.
"Rallsy said 'Rubes, do you want to take it?' and I was like 'yes!'
"If I could just keep it on target and put a bit of power behind it, hopefully it will go in!"
And in it flew to send the travelling support in the away end into raptures.
The win on the road in the English capital capped off a brilliant day, not just for the fans and club, but the academy too.
With two youth products on the scoresheet, it put the cherry on a rather tasty cake.
"What a day for the academy," Colwill added.
"We've been around it for a while now, we're all starting to find our feet, and obviously today tops it all off.
"There is only more to come from us. Hopefully this will be a regular occasion, two academy boys scoring goals and winning games."
Colwill hopes that is form for club will hopefully lead to another call from Wales manager Rob Page with a World Cup play-off match against Austria scheduled for the end of the month. The attacker knows, however, that competition is fierce.
"You just do what you can at club level and hope you are selected," he said.
"I think there are a load of boys doing really well for Wales. Isaak's doing really well, Sparky (Mark Harris) is doing really well, Will (Vaulks) is doing really well and obviously the boys at the other clubs are all doing really well. So there is a lot of competition at the moment for the Wales squad, which is great for the country really."
Davies signed a new deal with the club last week, and his goal at QPR will have felt even sweeter knowing he's been tied down to a long-term deal in south Wales. Colwill says his team-mates are over the moon for him.
"Everyone has been buzzing for him," he said. "He's such a nice lad and everyone gets on with him really well. Everyone is buzzing for him doing so well."
Whyte address future
Gavin Whyte says he isn't thinking about his future as his Oxford United stay draws to an end.
Whyte has nine games left with the League One side, who are flying at present.
The Northern Irishman scored his first goal of the campaign and registered his 10th assist. He is due back at Cardiff City Stadium this summer but he stressed that he was concentrating on the here and now.
“I haven’t really thought about it too much, I’m just taking it in the moment," he said.
“I can’t really look too far ahead, I love being here and I just want to play as many games as I can until the end of the season.
“The reason I came here is because I loved it so much when I was first here.
“It’s a great club, great people, great fans and I felt at home when I first came here.”
Sang suffers injury
Cardiff loan man Tom Sang picked up a hamstring injury on Saturday during St Johnstone's match with Hibs.
Sang started the game at right wingback but was replaced after 20 minutes. That was compounded by the fact that his replacement, James Brown, also had to be substituted at half-time due to a muscle complaint.
Jamie McCart was also forced off late on, with boss Callum Davidson pointing to the surface as a contributory factor.
“It’s not great when both of your right wing-backs get injured within 20 minutes of each other,” said Davidson.
“I was almost going to bring Shaun Rooney down from the stand in the second half!
“But it shows our squad is a good size at the moment and Michael (O’Halloran) did well when he came on and gave us a wee threat.
“Tom is a hamstring, James is a calf and Jamie a groin.
“Our pitch is quite soft and it was firmer there.
“When you contrast the pitches and ask boys to play at that intensity you always run the risk of picking up little niggles.
“Fortunately it didn’t cost us the game but I wasn’t able to make too many forward-thinking changes.”
Former Bluebirds boss dies
Former Cardiff boss Frank O'Farrell has died aged 94.
He managed the club briefly between November 1973 and April 1974, before leaving to take the Iranian national team job.
The Irishman was best known as the man who succeeded Sir Matt Busby as Manchester United manager in 1971, although his Old Trafford reign would last only 18 months.
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