Breaking: Erol Bulut punched a door and slept for two hours

Erol Bulut punched a door and slept for two hours after bad Cardiff City display but praises big strides club has made


The Bluebirds boss spoke ahead of the trip to Hull City this weekend


When asked how he felt the day after the defeat, he said:

Erol Bulut:

"A lot better than yesterday. I went home, first of all, and watched the game again.”

“Still disappointing. I slept only two hours. It doesn’t matter, this is my job. Sleep less and work more. We have to clear these situations.”


Bulut said he was "always punishing himself" due to his aggression during his playing days, breaking his hands and hurting his feet on doors and tables after defeats. He thinks he has calmed down now, but when asked how he took his frustrations out after the defeat on Wednesday, he said with a wry smile: “It was a door. The door was strong enough, I felt it on my hand.”


"The communication and the issues between the lines we have, technically, between the players. The connections are not quite good enough right now," he added.






"There are too many things like this, what happened in previous matches, where we lost points. I am new here as a manager in the Championship, maybe it’s a normal situation, but it is difficult for me to accept this."


"I mean on the field. In the last two games, the connections between the players, tactically, is not how I was expecting it. The connections and communication, the automatic movements, have to be better.”


"Before we were not taking points maybe, but it was much, much better. At Southampton, they were better than us, but we were better than we were the last two games. I hope on Saturday we will be better connected."


"At the start of the season, after a few games had passed, I said where we could be. You [press] also asked me about the target, but I never mentioned a target. Only once I said it, I hope we can be in the first 10 positions in the table," he added.


, we have worked really hard. Maybe there wasn’t an expectation we would be in this position or in the play-offs, many supporters or other people would say we would be closer to 15th, 16th, 17th. So, still we are in a good position, three points from the play-offs. We have to keep close to the play-offs until the end of the season."

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he is doing right by calling out these underperforming players namely bowler etc
but the replacements are worse

He's taking the long way around but he's saying almost the same as I did yesterday after the game, namely that there was no cohesion.

He should have punched Bowler!

Think about it this way.A few players knew/know they were not in Ten Hag's plans going forward and I believe he is paying the price for not going about it in a smarter way.Bulut has not made the same mistake yet I think there are a few players in this club who fit in that category.It's plain to me anyway how the Gaffer is trying to play but some of the players just can't do it or are just not suited to his style.If the club ownership/directors on board with him we may see some stunning changes soon.

He has to admit it when he gets it wrong too.
Runarsson is a typical example of this. There is no good blaming the players when he picks the wrong team. I'm also concerned about some of the players that have gone backwards recently, Bowler & Tanner for example.

I believe runnarson is playing simply to make sure he don't get recalled in Jan and sent somewhere else.
Hope not, as I'm a big bulut fan. But feel he's costing us points being in goals.

I can see why he has played Runnarsson. Clearly he is pretty good with his feet and Bulut is aiming to play from the back
Problem is the back four are not equipped to do this, plus he is an absolute disaster waiting to happen
It seems pretty much everyone can se this, aside from our manager, which is worrying
I have never seen such poor positioning from a goalkeeper who is supposedly at this level

I also nearly broke my hand in anger when Birmingham scored, so I feel his pain.

I do think he will get us back on track but the last three home games haven’t been at the level we’ve been used to.

January window will decide our season.

I believe runnarson is playing simply to make sure he don't get recalled in Jan and sent somewhere else.
Hope not, as I'm a big bulut fan. But feel he's costing us points being in goals.

Alnwick kept 3 clean sheets in a row then the Norwich game - Lost 3-2 ...International break ...New Keeper ???

I also nearly broke my hand in anger when Birmingham scored, so I feel his pain.

I do think he will get us back on track but the last three home games haven’t been at the level we’ve been used to.

January window will decide our season.

I agree...!

Also, is it mere coincidence that manager slept about the same length of time as some of his players during the game...?