Earlier than kick-off, Brian Barry-Murphy and Rubin Colwill acknowledged their want for Cardiff to indicate they will compete with Championship groups.
And so they did excess of simply compete towards their Welsh rivals.
The Bluebirds dominated nearly all of the opening half and added attacking menace to their management.
Even after a short wobble when Moore equalised for the hosts, the Bluebirds regrouped admirably and created additional probabilities – with Will Fish doing the enterprise to get his Cardiff account up and working in positive style.
“Our gamers consider we are able to get to that stage for positive, and that is our intention this season,” Barry-Murphy advised BBC Sport Wales.
“To place ourselves in a sport like this towards a staff who've been so spectacular not too long ago was an actual check for us since you by no means know the way it will go, so to carry out within the method that we did provides us nice hope for the long run.”
There was some discuss of the possession of the 2 golf equipment forward of the competition.
However it is going to be Vincent Tan who has a beaming smile on his face slightly than Hollywood duo Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney after south trumped north.
And Barry-Murphy admitted Bluebirds proprietor Tan will likely be an extremely pleased man after watching his facet's conquer Parkinson's males.
“We have got a really demanding proprietor who may be very insistent that we've got extra pictures, so hopefully he'll be very happy tonight,” mentioned the Irishman.
When requested if he would have a happier cellphone name with the 73-year-old subsequent time round, Barry-Murphy merely responded: “Fingers crossed.”
