Manager situation and the constant changing over recent years

[Eric the Half a Bee]

I will most definitely contradict myself...

It is unhealthy to continually chop and change manager, of that I 100 percent agree. The club needs stability from top to bottom.

The Bulut train was quick out the station, the football he looked to be trying to play seemed pleasing on the eye, I enjoyed the trip to Albufeira in the summer. At some point this changed. I understand its about staying in the league, but what was the reason for the with in play?

Cardiff City aren't going up or down. Why is he setting us up to be hard to beat and to nick a win?

If this is what we are going to be served up week in week out then id rather see a change, maybe find out the philosophy of the incoming manager and chose one based on how they want the club to play. Lets have an identity, a pathway to the first team, a way of playing that the scouts understand what to look for, and the stupid transfer squad to whatever they call it these days can identify players based on a playing style that runs from the kids up to the seniors, this makes it easier to bring in players from the younger year groups, we will never be Man City or Liverpool, great, but if we do manage to produce the odd player it would be great for them to just slot seamlessly into the senior squad and not enter a completely alien training session... its proven to work so why do we do it so differently.

We do have players capable of playing better football, COD and Bowler with the shackles off could run at defences, its not like they're incapable of this, its the way they're instructed that hinders them.

I agree that Bulut is too negative. Most pundits seem to think so as well. As you said, he wasn't at the start of the season. However, 2-0 up at Leeds, he decides to shut up shop. We drew but on another day we wouldn't have got as lucky as we were at times and have lost.

I would love it if Bulut could get back that formula from the start of the season. It wasn't dependant on Ramsey.

However, I would suggest your fifth paragraph needs to go into some sort of reverse, though I agree with it. The thought that our next manager could be responsible for our style of football going forward for years fills me with total dread. Our board couldn't appoint a visionary, it'll be another manager on the cheap. The last time we appointed a manager for the future was Malky Mackay.

[Dembe]

I agree that Bulut is too negative. Most pundits seem to think so as well. As you said, he wasn't at the start of the season. However, 2-0 up at Leeds, he decides to shut up shop. We drew but on another day we wouldn't have got as lucky as we were at times and have lost.

I would love it if Bulut could get back that formula from the start of the season. It wasn't dependant on Ramsey.

However, I would suggest your fifth paragraph needs to go into some sort of reverse, though I agree with it. The thought that our next manager could be responsible for our style of football going forward for years fills me with total dread. Our board couldn't appoint a visionary, it'll be another manager on the cheap. The last time we appointed a manager for the future was Malky Mackay.

It fills me with dread as well, because nobody at the club seems to have a clear plan. They say a lot of things, but from what I can see no one person is in charge of what goes on at the club, we seem to flip flop from one identity crisis to the next.
I see peoples POV when they mention the managerial situation, it isn't good to go from one manager to the next year in year out.
But it also isn't good to have a manager who's going to piss off so many with his negative style, fans are fickle they'll put up with it if we win, but personally ive had a guts full of the football under managers like Slade, Warnock, Harris and Bulut. Some posters point the finger at OGS and Trollope as reasons not to swap our style..but as others have pointed out teams like Ipswich and Plymouth have managed to get it done, it doesn't have to be a guaranteed disaster.

I want to see us win more than we lose, and I want to be entertained at the same time, I don't care if it takes a few transfer windows to sort out. I don't really care if we go up or not anymore, I think the chase is where you get the fun from.

Why don't the people making the decisions actually look at how the managers previous teams play? And not have the wool pulled over their eyes? Plenty of people have the gift of the gab..it wouldn't surprise me if nobody at the club knew what type of football bulut has played in the past.

There was a lot to reply ive probably missed out a lot of what I intended to say, and also blabbed to the pointy it makes no sense but ive not had a day off work for ages