'I absolutely hate it!' Steve Morison fumes after Cardiff City defeat as he poses question to dressing room

A gutted Steve Morison was left fuming again as he asked his players if it hurt enough to lose in a Cardiff City shirt following their 2-0 defeat by Middlesbrough.

Cardiff succumbed to their fourth successive league loss up on Teesside, they have won one of their last six games dating back to the middle of March, with the last three opponents all chasing a spot in the play-offs.

While the focus has turned towards the transfer window and building to next year, it still pains the fans, 600 of whom had made the trip to the Riverside Stadium on Wednesday night, to see their team lose a string of games. Indeed, it hurts Morison, too, but he posed that very question to his players in the dressing room after the match.

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"I hate it. I absolutely hate it," he said of losing. "I get out of bed every day to win games of football. I absolutely hate it.

"The question I asked them in there is; 'Does it hurt enough to lose?' But you always have to take yourself away and look at the bigger picture. I am picking teams, the best team I think I can pick. I've got no one else to come into this group. That is my 18 players.

"We only came with 18 players because we've got no one else to bring and we will do the best we can with that group and try to pick a way to get the best out of those players.

"I just want to win games of football. There are two games left and it would be great to go out on a high. Once we start building, at the minute it's all talk, there is stuff in place, but until we can start showing you guys what we are looking to do and put stuff together, it's a waiting game and a frustrating one."

Cardiff gave as good as they got early on against