Go or stay
Answer as a fan or put yourself in the shoes of Tan.
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Go or stay
Answer as a fan or put yourself in the shoes of Tan.
Yes , give him another season then we can make a fairer assessment .....fan
Sack him ......tan
Our biggest issue is the midfield.
He has given Ralls and Wintle new contracts.
He signed Turnbull and doesn’t see him as an automatic starter.
What do you think will be different in our midfield next season?
Stay.
If were him though, I'd be telling Vincent Tan and the fans to "stick your club up your arse.".
How we got so many points is head scratching most games we have been totally out played out fought and out thought. The home games have been unbelievably poor. I've renewed for next season hoping there will be someone in charge who can at least get there team playing a style of football that City supporters deserve.I don't think Bulut is the answer. It's a go from me
We’ve stolen some games to make our league position more comfortable than it deserves to be. I don’t want to witness the mind numbing dross we have seen this season. I hope Tan gets rid.
Get rid of Bulut.
As mentioned by 'BLUEAWAY TOO', he's rewarded Wintle and Ralls with extensions on their contracts; £2m on a midfielder who warms our bench.
Bulut's football is mind-numbingly boring.
Someone on Twitter suggested Bulut has laid the foundations for next season. My response was that if those foundations are Wintle, Ralls and Turnbull, we've got problems. Phillips will go back to Liverpool and McGuinness isn't really quite up to Phillips' standard, decent though he is. Colwill apart, there's no-one up front really fit to wear the shirt when Grant returns to West Brom.
So what happens during the summer? I can't see Vinnie spending much because of FFP, so like lots of other Championship clubs we'll be looking in the bargain bin.
So what exactly are our foundations if it doesn't mean another season of the same football?
Me too and don't give a feck who the manager is at the moment as it's easy to blame them on the product and to an extent fair enough - but for me I'm more concerned that yet again an apparently successful business man has no plan for the club - it's pathetic yet still want us to handover our hard earned coin - how can he and his horsemen of the apocalypse be so impotent after so long in charge seemingly not having learnt one football lesson along the way - tossers
Our manager seems to be 'playing' to the fans, even saying he'll play a different type of game next season. The Wintle & Ralls contracts say it all for me, plus playing Turnbull as a no10.
How often this season - irrespective if results - could you have said after the game 'overall, we were the better team'.
Funnily enough, I've just said the same on Twitter. Looking ahead to next season, what improvements have we had over the last 4/5 months to make anyone think next season will be better? I know football is a results business but I feel we've been on a downward spiral after a good start to the season, one punctuated with the odd last minute win. If it hadn't been for our injury time heroics over the last few months, things would be very different. We cannot keep relying on pinching games. It will stop happening.
Very interesting thread, when you have to actually answer the question. We're split in our house. Go from me, stay for my lad.
Stay!
Stay, how is tearing it all up to start again gonna fix things.Some are having a Homer Simpson moment methinks.How many times have you got to sack a manager before you realise it doesn't always fix the football.Given the circumstances he's worked under this season I think he deserves another go.
Get him gone he’s the football anti christ. The. second coming of Russell Slade. Mind numbing football and never his fault.
If we had any real ambition of going forward id say go.
However I think safety will be seen as success.
I dont think the current regime will employ anyone better and in fact we will likely get someone far worse. We are still suffering from Steve Morisons disastrous appointment.
I think Bulut will keep us up next season. Leave it to Tan and co to appoint someone else could easily push us into L1.
What we need is a takeover but I dont see any interest and I think Tan will be owner for many years yet.
His football is dreadful though. Slow tedious passing from the back going nowhere , no press , heavily reliant on set pieces. The main difference between him and Morison is Morisons football was as bad but somehow he made us shit at set plays as well.
Go - I don't like his football or him as a man. I don't see him as a longer term option.
However, it really depends on who we replace him with. I can a similar season next year with him in charge, possibly a bit better if we can sign a competent centre forward. But it won't be pretty and it would have little charm or excitement.
The evolution of the squad this season in terms of depth and quality has been pretty good, I'm not sure if that is credit to Bulut of the management above him. However, the club also has their best crop pf youngsters for a generation and their development has stalled, even regressed.
There are some on here that clearly don't give a damn about the latter, even appear to resent local players; however even if you dismiss it's benefit to the 'soul' of the club as romanticism, it is essential for any modern football club, as a business, that they generate a profit from their academy - look at Man City, it is the only thing saving them from FFP censure.
The normal saving grace of a season of safety and mid table mediocrity is the unearthing of a couple of youngsters, to excite and offer hope. We have had the opposite.
Unless those foundations are bore everyone to death I'm struggling to work out what they are.
He can't say he's made us defensively sound and needs to work on our attacking play over the summer because we often ship lots of goals. The midfield don't make many chances or control the game and our attack is blunt.
I accept our league position and points tally is better this season than last but if we play the same way next season I can see us being much worse on both fronts because we've stolen several games this season.
Keep him. If he goes we’ll end up replacing him with Ian Holloway, Darren Purse or the ticket office manager.
Go. Yes, it's great not to be battling relegation for a third successive season, but that team seems utterly clueless for huge swathes of matches. Even when we've won we've barely played well for more than 10 minutes at a time. The football's slow, ponderous and negative, and I've seen and heard nothing to suggest that Bulut wants to do anything but the same next season but more effectively. The problem is, I think we'll be found out. Get in our faces, move the ball quickly and work on your defending at corners will be the blueprint for opposition managers, and as we know, we have no plan B.
Credit where it's due for a season of stability, but I cannot see it as the stepping stone for further progress.
The only thing that makes a little bit of me think he should stay is the thought of Tan, Dalman and Choo sitting down to choose his successor. If they did stick with him though I reckon he'd be gone by November.
Stay. We’re 10 places better off this season. Who wouldn’t have taken that before the season started?
I've spent most of the season sat in our stadium waiting for the 90 minutes to be up so I can get to the pub.
Do I think it will improve next year under him no not really I just see a continuation of this season.
What we really need is a change of owner with some football knowledge and ambition because no one really gives an f down there.
It's like witnessing a death by a thousand cuts.
It's striking just how split we are on Erol Bulut. Comfortably mid table after only surviving last season after Reading's points deduction, we should all be happy really. Our performances though. Weird season.
Think you’re being a bit harsh there. The players don’t have the right mentality. OK, he signed 7 of the starters, and the other 4 he’s given contract renewals too. Ignore the subs, too, as he signed 2 of them and has given renewals to the other 3 but it definitely isn’t his fault.
If Bulut had a 2 year deal originally I wouldn’t be bothered but you cannot give him a 2/3 year deal now. If you give him a 1 year deal, it’s going to be the same story. People keep telling me he is building something, and I don’t like it. The football is dire, he’s had ample time to try to attempt to play better football and he’s not blinked. I’m not asking us to play like Barcelona but attempting to put the ball in the goal when we have possession would be a welcome surprise
June 2023
Tan, Dalman:
Welcome aboard Erol, we don't care how you do it but you have been hired to keep us in the Championship until the club stabilises and the transfer embargo put upon us is lifted.
Bulut:
Ok boss I'll do my best.
April 2024
Bulut:
Job done boss! How about a new contract and a war chest?
Tan/Dalman:
Plenty still going on behind the scenes but sit tight for now, we'll let you know very soon mate...
to be continued....
Me:
Who the feck else will make a difference with the stance from on high?
Give him a season and a pocket full of cash.
He can get his teams playing some decent stuff as we've seen glimpses.
I think a fixed 1 year contract will be best
If he fecks up and we are down the bottom 6 then it's not going to cost us a bomb to sack him
If he improves our style of play and we score some goals and make a good shot of it we roll the contract on ?
I mean where is the difficulty in this ?
My issue is that we end up doing the same next season - mind numbing football, can't open most defences in open play, but pinch enough wins to keep us mid-table.
I don't see how that is any sort of progression, unless we're giving up on that and just hope for survival again.
There surely has to be a target of aiming for Premier League promotion in 3-4 seasons, playing a type of football that would suit the Premier League, with a younger squad that builds together. Instead, we have no plan, we lurch from season to season hoping for the best with absolutely no structure.
The bottom line is that I don't trust the club. So reluctantly I have to stick.
I think he should go, that doesn’t mean I think he’s done a bad job. I would just like to see a more progressive manager come in and build on this season.
This season is the introductory offer.
Commit for two or three years and allow him to build or wave goodbye.
If he had a two-year deal with an option for a third, this season would not be an issue, we'd have to trust him and hope for a better spectacle next season. Its the one year contract that's causing the uncertainty
I’m not sure why the 1 year contract has caused such panic amoungst our fans, I keep reading about stability. But who in the championship has stability, a lot of clubs seem to have new managers this year, I think other than Coventry and Ipswich every other team had had a manager less than 2 years. I can’t find the article now but it felt like most were under a year.
I don’t think stability needs to be an excuse.
Very reluctant stay, just because I don't rate Bulut at all but the overwhelming chance is whoever the club gets to replace him will be worse. If we put an experienced and knowledgeable Director of Football in place who was given the freedom to choose the next manager, I'd drive him to the airport myself.