"I am not keen on the FA Cup and I am not keen on the LDV Vans Trophy either. These cups are not my primary objective - but they could affect my primary objective which is promotion.
"To me, the FA Cup and the LDV Vans Trophy are like paying tax - it is something that has to be done. People say that reaching the LDV Vans final will mean a great day for Cardiff, but I am not into having one great day. I want to have great days. What good is reaching the LDV final and winning it if we miss out on promotion? If our key players are injured playing in the FA Cup or the LDV Vans Trophy I will not be happy."
Not even Sam's experience of winning the FA Cup in 1988 will see him soften his view
"The FA Cup, like the LDV Vans Trophy, is of no consequence to me although I'm the only one at the club who thinks this way. I can assure you that Lennie Lawrence and the players are taking the Margate game very seriously and that they want to win it 100 per cent. And apart from wanting to do well in the FA Cup they also want to reach the Millennium Stadium and play in the LDV final. But as far as I'm concerned these competitions are small stuff - they are a total waste. The two most important things for Cardiff City are promotion and a new stadium."
City fans will remember last season when Sam refused to allow Alan Cork to field first team players in the LDV home game against Peterborough and the Bluebirds crashed out 3 - 1.
Sam concluded
"What I don't want are our best players getting injured or suspended playing in the FA Cup because this will affect our promotion drive. Will the supporters be happy if Cardiff are still in the Second Division next season because we had players injured in cup games?
"We missed out on promotion last season and I feel that this club suffered a lot of damage because of that. Winning promotion is not the be all and end all this season but I would like us to go up as soon as we can. This is a Premiership club and it's not right that we should be playing in the Second Division."