Dave Jones criticised sections of the home crowd who jeered the Cardiff City team after the 1-1 draw against Blackpool.

The City manager said: "When you hear a small section start to boo you ask what are they booing for? They're not booing because the players are not wanting to do well. Just get behind them. With all the problems we've got on the playing side, people retiring, injured and ill, the lads went out and gave everything they had today. We worked on things this week without certain players who are ill, and then they turn up and play.

"We brought in young Josh, who was doing all right and then he broke a leg. We lost Burkey to a rib injury. We've got a lot of illness - Ross, Huds, and McNaughton are all throwing up.

"I was proud of them today. I wasn't proud in the second half at Peterborough, but today when you look at the extent of the injuries and you see players going out and doing their best, they deserve a pat on the back.

"People ask why are we taking a player off - it's because he's ill. If we could have had three more substitutions, I'd have made them.We started brightly, and as the game wore on, one or two of them started feeling the effects of illness. One or two ran out of steam and needed to come off. Sometimes they deserve credit and they get it from me today.

"In the second half, you could see our players starting to flag. They weren't getting up and getting tight as they did in the first half because they'd given everything they'd got.

"Getting booed spurs the opposition on. When we go away and get our noses in front they first thing we say is it gets the crowd on the home side's backs.

"The chants from the terraces didn't help but people pay their money so they're entitled to do it.

"The crowd don't know the reasons why players are coming off, and I'm not going to explain it beforehand to give my opposite number the opportunity to make changes because he knows we're having problems..

"Ross was struggling to breathe. He had to come off, but went as long as he possibly could and credit to him. We were asking certain players like young Adam to take a role he wasn't used to.

"And sometimes you need a break. We had a perfectly good goal. Their keeper dropped the ball - nobody touched him and he dropped it before Anthony Gerrard put it in.".