Tan gives green light to Bulut contract talks

[North Cardiff Blue]

We were generally playing better up to the wurzels home game. It’s strange that a game you lost 3-2 after being 2-0 up should make you feel positive, but I did after the game at Ipswich because we played some really nice stuff that day and Ipswich got lucky with two of their goals. However, that day also offered the first clue as to what was to come with Ollie Tanner taken off at half time with our manager making his dissatisfaction with him clear and other defensively minded substitutions. Aaron Ramsey was coming into form through September and he might have made a difference if he’d stayed fit, but in the month following the Swansea game, something went wrong and for the last six months, apart from the occasional game, we’ve been awful to watch even when winning. The way Bulut stuck to his favoured way of playing through our terrible November, December and January makes me think he’s not going to change his approach even if he’s given a decent amount to spend.

I think teams started to suss out how to stop us, Bowler stopped being able to cut inside, and he did change to a more defensive approach around that time. Obviously the loss of key forward players also had an impact.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

I think teams started to suss out how to stop us, Bowler stopped being able to cut inside, and he did change to a more defensive approach around that time. Obviously the loss of key forward players also had an impact.

Which players were these? Ramsey had been out for a few games, O'Dowda even longer before Bulut changed things and went all defensive. Oddly, we were winning games without those two and playing some decent stuff, until he changed things, we found goals difficult to come by but shipped them in at the back at a higher rate than before.

[North Cardiff Blue]

Which players were these? Ramsey had been out for a few games, O'Dowda even longer before Bulut changed things and went all defensive. Oddly, we were winning games without those two and playing some decent stuff, until he changed things, we found goals difficult to come by but shipped them in at the back at a higher rate than before.

Ramsey and O'Dowda, it took teams a few weeks to understand how much we were weaker without them and work out how to stop us.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Ramsey and O'Dowda, it took teams a few weeks to understand how much we were weaker without them and work out how to stop us.

I'm weak reading this! In all the years of this board I've read some bullshit but this is right up there.

So professional footballers in one of the strongest divisions in world football can't spot weaknesses if certain players aren't there? Ever thought of stand up?

[North Cardiff Blue]

I'm weak reading this! In all the years of this board I've read some bullshit but this is right up there.

So professional footballers in one of the strongest divisions in world football can't spot weaknesses if certain players aren't there? Ever thought of stand up?

You're just being a pedantic nit-picking idiot, yes it takes teams a few weeks to suss out teams' tactics and use it to their advantage, you always hear pundits saying how certain teams have found a way to beat another team, it's basic stuff, maybe stick to stats ?

[Eric the Half a Bee]

You're just being a pedantic nit-picking idiot, yes it takes teams a few weeks to suss out teams' tactics and use it to their advantage, you always hear pundits saying how certain teams have found a way to beat another team, it's basic stuff, maybe stick to stats ?

It's not being pedantic at all. You suggested it would take a couple of weeks for teams to work out how to play us without Ramsey and O'Dowda. I reckon that's nonsense.

[The Lone Gunman]

Ramsey and O'Dowda, it took teams a few weeks to understand how much we were weaker without them and work out how to stop us.

We'd won just one game before O'Dowda got injured, and that was a 2-1 victory over Sheffield Wednesday courtesy of an injury time penalty.

We'd won two games before Ramsey got injured - Sheffield and Swansea.

Give your head a wobble.

[North Cardiff Blue]

We'd won just one game before O'Dowda got injured, and that was a 2-1 victory over Sheffield Wednesday courtesy of an injury time penalty.

We'd won two games before Ramsey got injured - Sheffield and Swansea.

Give your head a wobble.

We were playing well, Rambo was class at Swansea and was just finding his feet, we missed them, they would have made a difference., they are two decent players.

[The Lone Gunman]

We were playing well, Rambo was class at Swansea and was just finding his feet, we missed them, they would have made a difference., they are two decent players.

That's somewhat different to your earlier claim, which was: "It took teams a few weeks to understand how much we were weaker without them and work out how to stop us."

[Dembe]

That's somewhat different to your earlier claim, which was: "It took teams a few weeks to understand how much we were weaker without them and work out how to stop us."

If you look closely at what he says he talks himself around in circles half the time

[North Cardiff Blue]

That's somewhat different to your earlier claim, which was: "It took teams a few weeks to understand how much we were weaker without them and work out how to stop us."

Nit pick all you like