Cardiff City boss Dave Jones says his players must 'get angry'
Cardiff boss Dave Jones has warned his players that there will be changes in personnel if they do not use their end-of-season capitulation to spur them on.
A last-day loss at Sheffield Wednesday saw Cardiff drop out of the play-offs, with Preston leaping over them.
"We thought we were ahead of our time slightly, this is the biggest knock that we could get," Jones said.
"If we don't learn from it and we're not angry for it for another season, then them players will go or I go."
At one point Cardiff were well-placed to challenge Birmingham for an automatic promotion place.
But the Bluebirds imploded at the tail-end of the season, taking just one point from a possible 12 on offer in a run that included a disastrous 6-0 defeat at Preston.
Preston, who beat QPR 2-1 on Sunday, took the last play-off place from Cardiff on the tightest of margins.
The sides were matched on both points and goal difference, with Preston only higher on goals scored.
Cardiff will now start next season still in the Championship, but in a new state-of-the-art stadium built in Leckwith next to their aging Ninian Park ground.
"It's a new era for the football club, we're moving into a brand new stadium, we've got to keep building," Jones added.
"We all have a responsibility to want to be back in training, back playing and try and put it right, and the only way you can do that is by getting ready again for next year.
"We all take responsibility: me, the players, the staff, we all have to take it on the chin.
"There'll be a lot of recriminations, there'll be a lot of angry people and there'll be a lot of things said.
"But we've come such a long way and you've just got to be very, very careful that you don't destroy all the good work that's been going in - certainly over the last 18 months."
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