Reply With QuoteTbf whatever he says fans aren’t going to be happy, he needs to back it up with performances and results.
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When asked about losing six of the last seven games:
"In my career I have never lost so many games in a row as a manager," Bulut said. "I have to adapt also a little bit. I don't like losing. My players don't like the situation right now.
"We started well this season and got 40 points. We have to continue for 14 games more and change it again. We have to give the fans something back. We have to show more, even when the opponent is stronger than us.
"It's a good moment for us to play at home in front of our fans, so we have to get the three points. It's a good time to think about everything, we will analyse it tomorrow so we can be much better on Tuesday.
"It hurts me a lot. I have to handle this quick with my players, because we need these players again on Tuesday. I need my players on Tuesday. I spoke to them inside (the changing room), they have to be positive. I cannot shout at them to make them more down, they are already down because we lost 4-1.
"I will try to keep morale up to have a good morale on Tuesday for the game."
Cardiff were comfortably second best throughout the afternoon, which has been a far too familiar story over the course of the last few months. At times on Saturday it looked like they were playing Manchester City rather than Norwich City.
"It was a very difficult afternoon," he admitted. "It was a game that was much, much better for them than for us. When we see the first 20 minutes, they were pushing, but we made it 1-0. From the pressing we got the ball and we scored, but after that we didn't manage to stop the opponent. They were much better than us. We have to accept that today we didn't have a great game.
"I knew that when I started here at the start of the season, what I have and where I want to be. When we speak about the top six and us it is a long way to be there, where we want to be.
"This is about time and working and we have to keep working.
"For Tuesday, I think it will be difficult," Bulut said of Ramsey. "He got injured, he has a strain on his calf. Also Perry Ng was injured on his hips. That's why they didn't play.
"For Tuesday, Aaron, it will be difficult. I think it will be a short time, around one week. We saw in the last game, at West Brom, when he came in, it was a different game from how we started, we got a few chances to score and make it 1-1.
"It would be great to have him, but if a player is injured, I cannot change it.
"Perry has an old injury with his hips, I hope he can be with us on Tuesday but I'm not sure about that."
Tbf whatever he says fans aren’t going to be happy, he needs to back it up with performances and results.
Norwich manager David Wagner:
"The lads played very well, all the departments of our game were top quality.
"We started well and the only criticism I could make was we were not ruthless enough early on. But we stayed calm, kept playing our football and scored some wonderful goals.
"You can see from the way we are playing at the moment that there is a lot of confidence in the group.
All of the players are doing their jobs at a high level and full credit to them for that.
"I was also impressed with the way we defended. Cardiff are one of the best set-piece teams in the league and we didn't concede a single corner, which was very pleasing."
It's a good time to be at home?
Get to feck we are shit at home and he knows it
could have been serious big number loss today.... big defeats mean so much when the end of the season comes...
hope this see through clown is gone by the next game
I think a scrappy 1 0 win in one of these next 2 games will save his job- and people will be on here saying he has silenced his doubters like they were after the smash and grab at Watford.
He seems to be very down in that interview. Gulut and his coaches have show their naivety in their understanding of the Championship. There should have been someone there who could have guided him.
I am not sure he knows what to do. Another 2 defeats this week will see him gone.
5 of the next 7 games are at home.Originally Posted by insider
We've also lost 4 and drawn 1 of our last five home games.
We've lost 13 of 19. He ought to be down. What I don't get is, why he gets more and more defensive. Someone said, if we sack Bulut, we'll have Purse. Good, it literally cannot get worse.
Quite comman with managers. Warnock and Mick did the same, try and get a goal from a set play.
Call me radical, if playing negatively hasn't really worked for 18 games, maybe don't do it 19 times? Like Melchett in Blackadder, doing exactly what we've done 16 times before means it is the last thing they'll expect us to do again.
If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.
I don’t disagree.
But then you look at all our forward players who are basically useless and have rarely scored a goal in year. Then you look at our set piece stats, you can see why some managers do more defensive.
People talk about Sheffield Wed away in the cup as an attacking performance, we lost 4-0 I think? We can’t attack, we don’t have the players.
The answer? I don’t know. It’s depressing.
And the more defensive approach isn't working.
Agreed, it is depressing.
Again, radical, our players might score more goals if we actually tried to score more goals. Grant is not a bad player, neither is Bowler, neither is Colwill. Tanner has disappeared. This is on the manager.
Not just Bulut, but the coaching, the whole approach.
Everything is wrong. I'd keep the goalie coach, mainly cos he scares me but he's made Alnwick look like a passable Champ keeper which I didn't expect last season.
I know it's easy to over react at times like this, but I do feel we're currently worse off in terms of performances and optimism than most of the last few years. If it hadn't been for the start we made this season, we'd be in the shit.
Grant and Bowler are alright but kind of niche. Bowler (and also Tanner) seems to have specialist skills but little else and when the specialist skills don't come off, that's it. Their parent clubs don't want them cos they don't have enough of everything else. Colwill will hopefully improve but would do so faster with players around him who could pass and control the ball on a fairly regular basis.
I feel some sympathy for Bulut but he still tries to play out from the back and through our shabby midfield although launching it wouldn't do much good either. He doesn't have the personnel but Wintle was re-signed on his watch and he wants to give Ralls another contract even though his best days are gone. Is he trying to build something? It's dispiriting to think that unless we bring in another 12 players in the summer we'll just get more of the same next year.
The man appears to have convinced himself that we’ve been creating plenty of chances in recent games which our strikers have been missing - if he genuinely believes that, I wouldn’t rule out relegation because we have someone in charge who will not turn around this slump as he cannot see what is so clear to us mug punters.
It’s a shame but I think Bulut has run his course, unless he adopts different tactics and methods he’s gone by next weekend
You can look at injuries to key players as one excuse, but in reality we played well and won plenty of games after Ramsey was injured.
It’s on him, that players have gone backwards and or are not interested in fighting for a result.
There’s not many of those who started yesterday that you would want to count on as the gets tough
Most of them look like they couldn’t give a shit and are just going through the motions
No pride in performance, representing the club our even trying to be the best that they can be
Colwill apart, they were a team of shithouses and shirkers, robbing a living yesterday!!!
Bulut can’t motivate them and he signed most of them
Time to go
If you ever see our goalkeeping coach taking shots at our goalie in the warm up before the game, he blasts them at the goal with great accuracy.
You will then see the actual attacking players practice their shooting by calmly attempting to pass the ball with pace into the corners of the net.
Then, during the game our players will not calmly attempt to place the ball into the corner of the net, but mostly endanger someone who thinks they are safely sitting wide of the goal in row z!
I often think to myself… “why isn’t the goalkeeping coach also the strikers shooting coach?” And I’m not joking!
When your "I like to win" mantra stops working and you have no backup plan so you change it to "I usually win".
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