Bulut's free scoring City - looking at other City managerial starts
Erol Bulut's City has scored in all of his first 8 games as manager. This has only happened 7 times before and only once prior to the 1990s. We've scored 15 goals in those 8 games. This is how he compares to the others.
Alan Cork (2000) - scored 23 goals, W6 D2 L0, putting 5 past Bristol Rovers, 4 past York City and, famously, 3 in successive home comebacks against Lincoln City and Hartlepool United.
Lennie Lawrence (2002) - Cork's successor, scored 20 goals, W6 D2 L0, 7 came in a visit to Oldham Athletic.
Cyril Spiers (1947) - scored 18 goals, W4 D2 L2, including a 6-0 home win over Millwall.
Mick McCarthy (2021) - scored 17 goals, W6 D2 L0, biggest win a 4-0 home success over Preston North End.
Malky Mackay (2011) - scored 17 goals, W5 D2 L1, scored 5 against Huddersfield in the League cup.
Erol Bulut (2023) - scored 15 goals, W4 D1 L3, not scored more than 3 in a game but have scored 2 on 5 occasions.
Kenny Hibbitt (1996) - scored 13 goals, W4 D2 L2, only managed 8 games, we scored in 11 successive games including the 3 after his successor, Russell Osman's appointment.
Eddie May (1991) - scored 10 goals, W2 D3 L3, 7 games scoring 1 in each, scored 3 in the other.
Number of games from a start of a managerial appointment where we've scored in successive games:
Lawrence - 14. First blank was in the playoffs against Stoke.
May - 12. Biggest win was 5-0 at home to Wrexham in the 12th game, then failed to score at Mansfield.
McCarthy - 10. 10th game was a 4-0 win over Derby, he got a contract extension and we then scored 2 in the next 6.
Mackay - 10. Mackay holds the club record of only failing to score once in his first 25 games as manager, a 0-0 against Leicester.
Cork - 9. Run broken by a 2-0 defeat at Brighton in the cup, scored in all bar 1 of his first 20 games, netting 54 goals in those games, then 3 blanks on the trot to Rochdale, Brighton and Blackpool.
Spiers - 9. Second in the table and looking good for promotion, scored in all bar 1 of his first 15 games, then a winless run of 8 in March/April 1948, scoring only 3 in those games, saw City finish 5th.
Other managers who have scored more than Bulut in their first 8 games:
Ron Stitfall/Ernie Curtis - 25. They were a caretaker combo in 1962 before George Swindin took over permanently. Scored 6 against Preston and 5 against Swansea, Grimsby and Reading. Only failed to score in 1 game, a 6-0 defeat to Chelsea
Frankie Burrows - 18. Managed in 1998, included a 7-1 home win over Doncaster, failed to score in 2 of those games.
Bill McCandless - 16. City's best manager in terms of win ratio, only managed the club for 1 and a bit seasons after the second world war. His side scored 93 goals in winning promotion back to the second division.
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Two goals a game without a strong Striker, keep the clean sheets and we go up as Champions!
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We have as good as won it already…..
Both clubs should buy a trophy call it the “Doube” a bit like the Ashes etc
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Currently second top scorers in the Championship. I doubt anyone would have predicted that at the start of the season.
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Eric the Half a Bee
Currently second top scorers in the Championship. I doubt anyone would have predicted that at the start of the season.
back to back league wins for the first time in about a year?
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Rjk
back to back league wins for the first time in about a year?
Kyboshed this result.
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Rjk
back to back league wins for the first time in about a year?
February this year under Lamouchi - 2-0 vs Birmingham and 1-0 vs Reading.
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Eric the Half a Bee
February this year under Lamouchi - 2-0 vs Birmingham and 1-0 vs Reading.
What about three home wins on the bounce Eric that must have been a while ago??
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Harry Paget Flashman
Kyboshed this result.
almost
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Eric the Half a Bee
Currently second top scorers in the Championship. I doubt anyone would have predicted that at the start of the season.
To be fair Bulut made it clear things needed to change in the final third, it’s a new front line and then some.
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fugsyphil
What about three home wins on the bounce Eric that must have been a while ago??
It was. Mad Mick won 6 on the trot just after he took over. That's also the answer to the last time we won 4 out of 5 in the league (and should have won at Ipswich).
