Nail on the head piece from Paul Abbandonato

[Butterwick Blue]

Re: Nail on the head piece from Paul Abbandonato

All our forwards of recent times, bar maybe Kaba seem to go downhill after joining, most starting well, but quickly turning to shyte…. I give you our forwards coach, Tom Ramasut. How he’s still in a job defies belief.

Edit. He might not be our forwards coach, I’m sure I read somewhere he was though!

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Nail on the head piece from Paul Abbandonato

Edit. He might not be our forwards coach, I’m sure I read somewhere he was though!

Have we got a forwards coach?

[splott parker]

Re: Nail on the head piece from Paul Abbandonato

Have we got a forwards coach?

I think we’ve definitely got a backwards coach.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

Re: Nail on the head piece from Paul Abbandonato

I think we’ve definitely got a backwards coach.

And a one step forward two steps back coach.

[BLUEAWAY TOO]

Re: Nail on the head piece from Paul Abbandonato

I want CCFC to do well and by that I mean end up in the top half of the table and look as if our performances are progressing towards a better season next year.
I would be happy to see Bulut achieve that and stick with him for doing so.
But right now my enthusiasm for him is waning with every performance.
I believe our players are better than the way they are playing.
The tactics are the problem and that’s down to Bulut to rectify.

[Bald Barry Bastad]

Re: Nail on the head piece from Paul Abbandonato

6th highest wage bill in the championship? That's a depressing thought with this team.

[City123]

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6th highest wage bill in the championship? That's a depressing thought with this team.

I've seen that thrown around a fair bit but I find it hard to believe. It's according to a website that reckoned we were paying Mark Harris £900 a week last season but were paying Ollie Tanner £4,000

[NYCBlue]

Re: Nail on the head piece from Paul Abbandonato

6th highest wage bill in the championship? That's a depressing thought with this team.

I don't buy into that too much.

[jon1959]

Re: Nail on the head piece from Paul Abbandonato

6th highest wage bill in the championship? That's a depressing thought with this team.

After at least 2 years of cost cutting, and in a league that has Leicester, Leeds, Southampton, West Brom, Watford, Hull, Norwich, Boro and Stoke in it - all of whom I am certain have higher wage bills than us..... Don't believe it.

[2b2bdoo]

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6th highest wage bill in the championship? That's a depressing thought with this team.

I don’t believe it but with us not being able to pay any loan fees at the start of the season no doubt we are covering a large part of the loan wages if not all of them.

[Alfresco]

Re: Nail on the head piece from Paul Abbandonato

Bulut picks the team he decides what tactics we play he calls the tune. The players are made to look worse than what they are and that's down to Bulut.

[Tuerto]

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He lost me at "Cardiff undoubtedly have the personnel in this squad to be far more adventurous in outlook" I don't see this to be the case.

Same. They can sack Bulut, that's fine, then we will see how good some of the players are with a new manager. Bulut is poor, but people are letting the players off the hook as well. And i'm in no way sticking up for Bulut. We see the odd glimpse of quality and we wet ourselves. That should tell us all we need to know. Standards are very low.

[Carl Dale's Mole]

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After at least 2 years of cost cutting, and in a league that has Leicester, Leeds, Southampton, West Brom, Watford, Hull, Norwich, Boro and Stoke in it - all of whom I am certain have higher wage bills than us..... Don't believe it.

From one of Swiss Ramble's recent pieces on Preston. Admittedly it's a few years old but it has us at 11th for wages and we've supposedly been cost cutting since then so could be even lower?

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[the other bob wilson]

Re: Nail on the head piece from Paul Abbandonato

We passed the ball poorly for years before Bulut was appointed, so he can’t be blamed for that, but he’s not improved that situation and I’d say we’re more negative now than we were before. Also, while I’ve no direct evidence to back this up, I think we’ve looked like one of those teams where the manager has lost the dressing room in our recent games against Leeds, Plymouth and Norwich -I might be wrong there, but, if I am then you have to question our manager’s ability to motivate the squad as heads have been going down too soon lately.
As for the sixth best paid team in the Championship, I don’t believe it and I hope and trust it’s not true because if it is and the result is what we’ve been watching since the end of October, then I despair -for the future of the club.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Re: Nail on the head piece from Paul Abbandonato

We passed the ball poorly for years before Bulut was appointed, so he can’t be blamed for that, but he’s not improved that situation and I’d say we’re more negative now than we were before. Also, while I’ve no direct evidence to back this up, I think we’ve looked like one of those teams where the manager has lost the dressing room in our recent games against Leeds, Plymouth and Norwich -I might be wrong there, but, if I am then you have to question our manager’s ability to motivate the squad as heads have been going down too soon lately.
As for the sixth best paid team in the Championship, I don’t believe it and I hope and trust it’s not true because if it is and the result is what we’ve been watching since the end of October, then I despair -for the future of the club.

It's always very difficult to determine how much responsibility of a poor team is down the manager - and while there is no doubt that Bulut has been dealt a very poor hand indeed, I can't help thinking that an experienced Championship manager may have been a better appointment.