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“And in the two months I’ve been with the manager he’s been excellent for me. His man-management has been great, how he looks after his players, how he sets his team up, how he wants you to play.”
The feeling is mutual. Warnock insists the former Clyde and Kilmarnock man is as low in maintenance as he is high in work levels, praising the runs he makes when his side look to attack teams, but also the work done when Cardiff need to be difficult to beat.
“Sometimes you have to sacrifice your own performance for the team to get the result and me and Joe (Ralls) did that up at Middlesbrough,” agrees Bryson.
“We put in a lot of work that could go unnoticed, but it helped us do what we wanted and get a good win there.
“But players here are willing to do that and it’s says much about the manager and the team spirit, which is one of the best I’ve been involved in during my whole career.”
A team spirit that Bryson reckons allowed the Bluebirds to reassert their promotion credentials on Teesside.
“We definitely had to bounce back after the performance at Birmingham,” Bryson says. “It wasn’t good enough – I don’t think anybody played well that night.
“The manager didn’t have to tell us; we have an honest bunch of lads, there’s no big-timers or egos, everybody wants to get promoted so we knew even at half-time we weren’t playing well and it wasn’t good enough.
“We knew between us if we continue to play like that we won’t get promoted, so we had to show a reaction at Middlesbrough and that’s what we did.”
The tests and challenges will continue to come, Millwall set to provide a tough old time for Cardiff, but Bryson – who says he is comfortable for dsicussions over a potential permanent stay to wait until the end of the season – admits: “I can’t see why we can’t be up there at the end of the season.
“I’d probably look more towards Christmas time when you’re halfway through and played each team once and you kind of know where you stand.
“The teams who are up there then tend to be still up there at the end of the season.
“We have a hard couple of months coming up with some tough games, but if we keep playing the way we can, or picking up results even when we don’t play well, then you never know what can happen.
“It’s the same for what happens for me.
“I know I’m here until the end of the season and nothing else has been said about it just now.
“I don’t know if that will change in January or it all waits until the end of the season, but I’ve got the rest of the year here and a year at Derby still at the end of that, so we’ll have to wait and see and how I perform.
“It’ll be more down to the clubs than me.
“I’m here until the end of the season no matter what – there’s no recall – so it’ll be whether Cardiff, Derby and myself can come to agreement, but I don’t know what to say – what will happen, will happen.”