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What's so dramatic about not instructing Sean Morrison not to hoof the ball 70 yards up the pitch and play it 10 yards up the pitch to an open team mate?
A man who is smart does not employ Neil Harris followed by Mick McCarthy in a bid to entertain fans.
He is also one of the men in the transfer committee and signs off the players that we sign.
All roads lead to Tan.
The product served up on the pitch is a direct result of the players, the way they play, the way the manager wants them to play and the tactics outlined by the manager. All of which overseen by Choo and Dalman who are overseen and picked by Tan.
We may be stuck with him but if he wants any return on his investment then I am sorry but he is not going the right way about it.
Cutting our budget to next to nothing while employing managers with a woefully bad style is not the way to go sadly. I wait with baited breath for the 'but he funds this club out of his own pocket' lot.
He might not have to pay so much to keep us afloat if him and his cronies had a scooby what they were doing.
I tell you where we go from here
In an Ideal world Cardiff City would be a big club with people queuing round the block to get into the ground and others lining up to buy us
And a long list of managers dying to get a job
But we don't have any of the above so we have to stick with what we have and hope that the 9th place we are in becomes 6th
What other alternative do people think we have ?
What I would ask here is why he, Choo and Dalman are on the transfer committee if they believe they have been caught out by Mackay with the Cornelius deal among others? There have been many since this and for what it is worth I think there was a player in Cornelius, we just didn't see it.
If you don't know what you are assessing and managers can get bad signings past the committee then what is the point of a committee? Surely three man saying that the manager has made a bad signing is an admission in itself that they are naive and do not know what to look for in a good signing.
Or is it a case of good signing and they were hands on involved and take credit, bad signing throw the manager under the bus?
The owner and board seem to be very much playing at running a football club. Directionless guess work.
I would add that Tan and the people he surrounds himself with have picked the following succession of managers after Dave Jones -
Malky Mackay
Ole
Slade
Trollope
Warnock
Harris
McCarthy
Now even if you're being kind that is quite a random mix of managers. More bad than good for me. At least 4 failed without question for me, one is still here and even the ones that had success more than undone that further down the line and brought us back to where we were or played a part in doing.
I highlight these managerial picks as there seems no rhyme of reason to them. The only link I can make with any of them is the last 3 playing crap football.
Tan has picked the managers.
If he has been conned into buying the wrong player for inflated fees then he picked the man who did it to him. He will have also signed off the money to complete the signings before they were.
Let's argue that he was not knowledgeable enough to work out that the player was a dud or overpriced. Then he has chosen to take on those decisions and not employ somebody with the knowledge to oversee this.
We have had issues until recently with the academy not producing players. Sorry but an academy that Tan overseen for over a decade means that he has not corrected it. Nobody else.
Tan picks the manager, oversees the academy, releases funds/or not to sign players, or if he doesn't do these things is directly responsible for employing the people that do.
Tan and his cronies can point the finger all they like but they have the power to change every element of this club to their liking. The success of this football club or otherwise is totally down to them. Good, bad or ugly.
If we split your statement up:
I) we'd have seen signs of change by now - I disagree.
II) Mick's not going to change - I'm inclined to agree but we can't say definitely until end of this season with renewals/new signings etc.
I'm not saying we shouldn't push for better but that we can't do that without some resources to work with (money, youth players coming through) and we're in the process of building up our resources.
Fans on here speaking about mistakes from between DJ leaving and Harris coming in doesn't describe our club's current situation - though does have a role in explaining why we have so few resources to build on.
Just asking for a bit more patience really so that if it goes wrong next summer posters on here haven't exhausted their moaning during a time when things are going reasonably well given our circumstances.
Enjoy the re-building process! There's actually some things within it going well.
Sounds like you’re saying that we should pin our hopes on getting a promotion.
Personally, I think a promotion this season would be a disaster with the squad we have.
I don’t have a problem with another season in the Championship, as long as the club is steadily building towards a good tilt at promotion and a squad that doesn’t need a complete rebuild if we actually get there. What we have is a team that would be annihilated in the Premier League, with slow older players and young, inexperienced ones.
The emphasis needs to be on good performances, entertaining the fans and genuinely building something and that is what the club appears to be failing to deliver.
I actually feel that Dalman and Choo take us for fools, as their replies to the supporters questions were full of fluff.
And before the lynch mob accuse me of being a Jack, I believe that true supporters want the best for their club and should be trying to hold the management to account for their failings.
McFootball is, however, the status quo for now.
We've removed a huge chunk of the wage bill, that was spent on players who just weren't justifying that expenditure. While our income has dropped by half we just couldn't afford to be wasting so much of it.
We've reduced the average age of the squad significantly, and we are trying to bring youngsters though. Some may not ultimately make it at this level, but they have a far better chance if we actually try.
Yes we aren't going to be in the hunt for promotion this season, and possibly not even next, but to continue as we were would have been madness. If we can stay around midtable in this division while the squad gets such an extreme overhaul then I'd consider that a big success.
That should then be a platform to push for more - if we have got rid of the premier league wages and old players, if we have developed 3 or 4 players to be good at this level then we can look to concentrate our remaining funds on the other players and have another go.
I'd say we are probably bang on schedule. Narrowly losing a game away at Coventry doesn't change that.
So the rebuild process in short is letting players leave and replacing them with kids because we have to?
We are talking as though it will be a successful overhaul as well. It is an overhaul headed up by Mick McCarthy and the transfer committee that picked him. I shudder to think what will happen.
That's pretty much the only sensible plan at the moment.
Having no parachute payments AND a bunch of players on premier league wages can work in the short term if those players are good enough to take you up - but they arent.
Nobody is going to come in for a bid for a lot of these players given the wages so we are left to wait until their contracts expire.
Is it a plan though or simply cost cutting.
As you have pointed out, the wages of many of our players are too much for this level.
Let's say we do sign more players at the end of this season do you think it is wise to then use the exact same people to negotiate these deals that offered those inflated wages previously?
Blame the managers in place at the time all we like but the managers can only advise on deals. It would be Choo and Dalman who relay the plan back back Tan where the final decision is made. And that is where there is a lack of knowledge and a problem for me. How can you oversee something and make those type of decisions with no knowledge of what a player is worth both transfer fee and wages wise. It is crazy.
I think it's fairly obvious this is the plan, they've maybe overdone it slightly as I don't think Kieron Evans & Sam Bowen being in the squad in September was expected but it's pretty clear that with the number of players out of contract this summer that the plan is to see if the best of the youngsters can hack it at this level and thus mean we don't have to keep someone around who is on 10x their salary
Cost cutting IS a plan.
The main mistakes for me were the wrong signings, on inflated wages, not making time for youth to come through and relying too much on the manager.
Now we seem to be addressing some of those points - we are giving a lot more opportunities to the kids. We are getting rid of the higher wage players.
Also it's possible that the manager has less sway than before, as it felt like he wanted Marley Watkins here, but we ultimately didn't sign him - would be interesting to know who were the voices pro ad against that signing. Have the board gained enough experience to make that call themselves? or are there other voices in the club they trust now.