By Chris O'Brien
January 10 2004

Paul Parry made his Cardiff City debut on Saturday, and the former Hereford winger put in a pleasing display against Ronnie Moore's side. BTTB reviews the start Parry has made to life at Ninian Park, and evaluates his chances of making the grade in the First Division.

Paul Parry was thrown straight into the starting line-up for the visit of Rotherham United to Ninian Park, mainly due to John Robinson still being injured.

The £75,000 signing played 70ish minutes of the 3-2 victory over the Millers and had a pleasing debut. He had a quiet start and wasn't overly involved but on the occasions he did get the ball he took on Rotherham defenders with impressive ease.

The 23-year-old clearly gained in confidence in the second-half as he got more involved, and although his crossing wasn't excellent, he caused the opposition problems down the left hand side. He went close with a low drive which was well stopped by Rotherham's 'keeper and also had a hand in one of City's goal.

The crowd instantly took to Parry, and to be honest a few were getting a little too over excited about him. However, it's clear we've signed a decent winger from Hereford and a bargain price. He's nearly twenty-four so there isn't a lot of time to breed him through, but judging by his performance today he should hopefully hack it against most teams in this division.

The only main complaint were the number of times he was forced into doing the ayatollah! It's always quite amusing seeing player teaching new signings how to do it, but by the tenth time it was wearing a little thin!!

Good start and time will tell...

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