Quote Originally Posted by llan bluebird View Post
It just seems to me we handicap our last few managers with the mantra that it must be a "modern game" when the recruiters are signing players incapable of doing so, but we persevere with it anyway to the point where we would have been relegated last season until we got a manager in who went pretty direct.

NG and Wintle grew in the Crewe system of pass and move, but they are not great at it in the wider scheme of things or they would have been sold to teams genuinely committed to that system. The point I am making it's not that simple to sign players there needs to be more tactically

I know I am preaching to the choir but the need of a DoF has been paramount since Malky, but Vinny doesn't go for it, it's madness.

So I find myself in the all-in on Bulut camp because he is the first football man since Warnock and our preferred method is to hand the keys to the house over to the manager with little oversight
I certainly don’t want Bulut sacked or anything like that as I agree he’s a step up from recent managers and I believe he’s won games for us at times with some clever substitutions. However, I look at how Siopis is playing lately and wonder about his signing. Originally, I thought he was a good signing because he was a step up from our other central midfielders - I still think he is, but, essentially, he offers more of the same and, even with a fit Ramsey, we needed something different from that.

I’ve mentioned Colwill and, although he’s not set the world on fire, it seems to me that, with Robinson a shadow of the player he was, he should be in the starting line up for most games now - he has improved in the things Bulut criticised him about, but you get the feeling he’s still not trusted.