Ask Steve Morison what he thinks of his strikers and grab some popcorn while you hear his withering assessment.
Here was yet another limp, anaemic attacking performance as Cardiff were roundly beaten in the Severnside derby. The most damning thing of all? They never truly looked like scoring.
Morison, not one to mince his words, made it plain that he's fed up and has had enough.
'What did I say to them? I told them 'I'm fed up defending you, you've got to put the ball in the back of the net'. That's exactly what I told them,' Morison fumed.
Consider the finger pointed at Max Watters and Mark Harris, both of whom missed gilt-edged one-on-one opportunities. Watters fluffed his lines at 0-0 and Harris failed miserably to round the goalkeeper down 2-0.
So, with both yet to score this season and Cardiff netting just once in their last four games, can they cut it?
'We don't know yet,' Morison shot back. 'They haven't done it. But it's what we've got. There's no one else there at the minute. There's no one else available that can come and do it either.'
Morison scored 111 goals in his playing career and so has the cache to call it as he sees it.
Watters has one league goal since January, coincidentally in this fixture last season, and Harris hasn't scored in the Championship since back in December.
But, he insists, he can't 'magic someone out of thin air' before the window closes this month. No arm round the shoulder here.
How Morrison would have wished to have had 20-year-old Bristol City striker Tommy Conway in his team. His brilliant display had energy, finesse and the finish to match with the opening goal here.
A switched phase of play found its way to Nahki Wells on the left and his cross was met in the air by Conway, who had the finesse to flick his header into the bottom right corner. Make that four in four for the in-form 20-year-old. And on manager Nigel Pearson's 59th birthday, too. Wife Nicky and kids Hannah and James will have to go some with their presents to beat these three points.
This was a real beating in the end in what is a third successive Severnside derby win for Bristol City.
Conway left to a standing ovation having scored the first and won the free-kick that led to Rob Atkinson’s second. Pearson will just hope those sniffing around Conway were watching another channel with the TV cameras in town.
For Cardiff it’s back to the drawing board. Morison cannot allow for this to unravel their promising start.
Having lost first-choice left back Jamilu Collins to a season-ending ACL injury against West Brom, it was to be a nightmare start when stand-in left back Joel Bagan saw his race run after seven minutes.
The 20-year-old, one of four changes, felt the full force of Alex Scott’s head and while the Bristol City midfielder was able to shake it off, Bagan could not remember hitting the ground and Jack Simpson was sent on to replace him.
Three clean sheets in their opening four games suggested Cardiff would come here as something of a tough nut to crack. Not so.
Conway was first to cut them open 14 minutes in as he cleverly beat the offside trap down the left, only to see his driven effort parried by Ryan Allsop. Andi Weimann got his follow-up effort all wrong and send it careering into the away fans behind the goal.
The hosts came again, wave after wave it no doubt felt like for that Cardiff backline.
On the stroke of half-time Cardiff were convinced they were level when Callum O’Dowda, booed with every touch on his return to these parts, fizzed a cross in and Sheyi Ojo bundled in. Offside. No goal. That was about as good as it got for those in blue.
No team has conceded more goals in the second half of games in the Championship than Bristol City this season. But few attacks look as lifeless as Cardiff’s. The clean sheet never really looked in doubt.
And so it ended with birthday delight for Pearson and a war of words with his strikers for Morison.
There’s nothing quite like a derby day.