Following 30+ consecutive seasons in the top flight. You might be back soon though Robbie. In the meantime, hold on to that grudge, it's good for the soul.
Season update thread post Stoke
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I must be the anti exorcist.
We love you reallyI must be the anti exorcist.
I’m going to have a rant about Bulut and his team selections.
So yesterday he picked a team to attempt to stymie the opposition rather than one to defeat them.
If I’m right in that & I’m confident I am, then what real chance did we have of winning?
We’ve no pace in the team to counter attack effectively and so our only prospect of scoring is from set pieces or a worldly long shot.
The only real creative player we have (Ramsey aside) is Colwill. What on earth was Bulut thinking by dropping him & making him his 5th substitution?
Turnbull is by his admission in his interview this week an attacking midfielder. He’s not a defensive one. Yet yesterday when he should have been up the pitch looking to feed Etete or score himself he was deep. This meant Etete was on his own with no City player near him. He showed his limitations as a player at this level yesterday and again total lack of goal threat.
Bowler must have been told to use his right foot more as his coming in off his left was blocked time after time as it was so predictable.
On the few occasions we got near their goal it resulted in long range shots.
Even when Grant or Bowler got free their crosses were easily defended.
By my calculations City have scored 2 goals in the last 6 or so home games. Leicester & Leeds games aside lot of that is down to Buluts defensive team selection.
If it wasn’t for our decent away form we’d be in a relegation scrap.
Going to home games is now a chore, there’s little to get enthused about. There’s no entertainment or attacking mentality just a boring defensive set up.
I wouldn’t lose sleep if Bulut wasn’t offered a new contract.
So yesterday he picked a team to attempt to stymie the opposition rather than one to defeat them.
If I’m right in that & I’m confident I am, then what real chance did we have of winning?
We’ve no pace in the team to counter attack effectively and so our only prospect of scoring is from set pieces or a worldly long shot.
The only real creative player we have (Ramsey aside) is Colwill. What on earth was Bulut thinking by dropping him & making him his 5th substitution?
Turnbull is by his admission in his interview this week an attacking midfielder. He’s not a defensive one. Yet yesterday when he should have been up the pitch looking to feed Etete or score himself he was deep. This meant Etete was on his own with no City player near him. He showed his limitations as a player at this level yesterday and again total lack of goal threat.
Bowler must have been told to use his right foot more as his coming in off his left was blocked time after time as it was so predictable.
On the few occasions we got near their goal it resulted in long range shots.
Even when Grant or Bowler got free their crosses were easily defended.
By my calculations City have scored 2 goals in the last 6 or so home games. Leicester & Leeds games aside lot of that is down to Buluts defensive team selection.
If it wasn’t for our decent away form we’d be in a relegation scrap.
Going to home games is now a chore, there’s little to get enthused about. There’s no entertainment or attacking mentality just a boring defensive set up.
I wouldn’t lose sleep if Bulut wasn’t offered a new contract.
Agree 100%.
Bulut is Dalman's man and as such, Damlan has got his back.
I'm convinced if Dalman wasn't there, Bulut would have gone before Christmas after that home defeat by Brum and the hammering we got at Hull.
We’ve got 4 more games this month before the return derby in Bristol.
2 away games at unpredictable Norwich and WBA. Trying to be optimistic if we get 2 draws from them that would be an achievement. Surely it’s asking too much for another away win with our backs against the wall for most of the game.
But it’s the 2 home games which concern me more than those away games where on paper WBA & Norwich will be favourites.
These are against two teams below us in the table - Blackburn & Stoke. Without a home win (which was streaky) since early December & a string of dismal performances since does not augur well unless something drastically changes in team selection & tactics. City can’t rely on corners and pot shots; they need to look to play the game further up into the opposition half.
2 away games at unpredictable Norwich and WBA. Trying to be optimistic if we get 2 draws from them that would be an achievement. Surely it’s asking too much for another away win with our backs against the wall for most of the game.
But it’s the 2 home games which concern me more than those away games where on paper WBA & Norwich will be favourites.
These are against two teams below us in the table - Blackburn & Stoke. Without a home win (which was streaky) since early December & a string of dismal performances since does not augur well unless something drastically changes in team selection & tactics. City can’t rely on corners and pot shots; they need to look to play the game further up into the opposition half.
So you think moving out of the way to allow the other player to score is a good idea. Why you think kicking the ball as hard as you can is a good idea I have to tell you that is not the way to control the flight of the ball but if you want to kick it out of the ground it would be a good idea. A better idea is someone in the six yard box who can tap it in from yard out if you are lucky to have a player like that, being in the right place at the right time for these tap ins is an art very few players have..
I complained about Bulut after 5 games with 4 points and losing 2-0 leads by mad substitutions. After all this time suddenly all the forums are saying the same as I said way back then. I said Ugbo would score goals for us and he did and now hes scoring for Sheffield. Siopsis is hopeless he fumbles on the ball and hardly looks when he does manage to kick it. Wintle was getting like Pack but all credit to him the last two games he played forward passes and did really well. Grant should play up front as a striker and Bowler can go to his favoured position in Grants place. Not playing Ramsey and Colwill is another Bulut masterclass. This is mild compared to what the other forums are saying about Bulut.
More likely losing games we should have won.Possible 91 but historically 75 should see us in the playoffs...............
Mind you, we may drop the odd few points through drawing games we should have won.
We are being over run in midfield and everywhere else on the pitch in case you have not noticed lol.sounds like a plan
maybe our keeper can push up in to midfield just in case they win the ball back and overrun us in the centre circle
Was that another joke. By the way I can make my point without swearing any 5 year old can swear.
Turns out I can be arsed.
"People who swear have a poor vocabulary" is something I've heard all my life from pretentious and intellectually challenged individuals.
The vast majority of recognised, eloquent, great minds will tell you the exact opposite and that swearing brings colour to the language. If it offends, that's a completely different argument and is down to the individual. However, as first stated, to suggest that swearing is an indication of a poor command of a language is not only incorrect but totally without logic.
So while I fully appreciate that this response is probably giving a rise to a sh*t stirring, f*ckwit that continues to demonstrate his incapacity for human interaction, I'm happy to humour myself and to tell the fostering, rancid lump of dog turd, to p*SS off .
"People who swear have a poor vocabulary" is something I've heard all my life from pretentious and intellectually challenged individuals.
The vast majority of recognised, eloquent, great minds will tell you the exact opposite and that swearing brings colour to the language. If it offends, that's a completely different argument and is down to the individual. However, as first stated, to suggest that swearing is an indication of a poor command of a language is not only incorrect but totally without logic.
So while I fully appreciate that this response is probably giving a rise to a sh*t stirring, f*ckwit that continues to demonstrate his incapacity for human interaction, I'm happy to humour myself and to tell the fostering, rancid lump of dog turd, to p*SS off .
I know. I have a terrible penchant for sugar coating