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It's a very passionate speech and there's a lot to take in. Just wondering if William Henry's around to give us it in bullet points.
 

cobbler150 said:
Hello Blades, Cobblers fan in peace here. I don't know if anyone has bothered to come on here from my club to post thoughts or pass on what to expect, but I have been fairly keen to since you we knew Wilder was going, and having read some of the thoughts on here I just want to dispel a few myths.


Aware that a few of you are under whelmed by his appointment due to him not having managed at this level or a club as big as you are. First of all any thing that you have heard that he play long ball football is highly inaccurate and likely to have come from jealous Oxalona fans. Since his appointment we have always played or attempted to play football at high intensity, passing, triangles, using the width of the pitch and something I've loved quick and clever set pieces.

All players he has brought into the club are of competitive nature and recruitment policy has tended to be people with experience in winning teams, who like to play football. He instilled a never say die attitude and created a team that never new they were beaten, finding a way to win and adapting to the game was again something he was very good at. Could never fault his decision making in a game, the days of watching managers make frustrating subs etc we gone under him and Knill.
His man management has been spot on to, he was not scared to loan out and transfer list our big marquee signing in O'Toole, something that transformed him into our player of the season, or drop Cresswell our 'rock' at the back we paid a bit of money for. He works on merit basis when it comes to team selection, often key players have been suspended and on return spent games on the bench due to their replacement giving him no reason to drop them.

His passion and love for football it seems means he will always tell it like it is, if you've been outplayed and won, that's what he will say. Never shy away from an awkward question about players’ ether. I could of course go on, as I firmly believe that without this man, I would have no club. With your budget and platform there is no way I can’t seem him taking you up. I've got friends from Sheffield (united fans of course) really hope you go up this season. If you've got the time watch the famous speech that saved our club from going bust! Its now Cobblers history and has put the word 'appeh' in our all vocabulary! The link is below, it’s worth it. Good Luck for season!

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I actually listened to this interview about a month ago because Wilder is someone who obviously has a lot of connections for us Blades. Totally heroic! I think the vast majority of Blades fans are pleased with Wilder's appointment, its by far the best candidate that we could have. All the best this season to you guys. If I was Northampton Town I would appoint Steve Cotterill who I think would be a good fit for you guys, and plays similar football to what Wilder did at your place. If you get Adkins then he'll play good football but he needs a decent team to start with, which he probably would get at your place, thanks to Wilder. Not that I've heard the favourites at your place.
 
cobbler150 said:
They cant handle fact under Wilder we dicked the league and beat them twice, most deluded fans I've ever come across, that's over Notts Country and Pompey fans.
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You've obviously never met any of our noisy neighbours, the pig fans !! They take arrogance to a biblical level and run courses for others to learn from .....

UTB & FTP
 
Thanks for writing all that pretty objectively, you must be gutted you've lost your man. Maybe us blades could be more humble when losing players to 'bigger' teams.

Anyway, why is Adkins' name getting dragged into this??!
 
stringjunior said:
My brother in law said, in all seriousness, they'd need 120,000 tickets to satisfy demand.

He needs medicating
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You sister needs a divorce. I heard some text read out on 5Live along the lines of "everyone wants the porcine shitsnufflers in the Premier League" or words to that effect. Of course they do, every PL team wants 6 points next season.
 
HillmortonBlade said:
You sister needs a divorce. I heard some text read out on 5Live along the lines of "everyone wants the porcine shitsnufflers in the Premier League" or words to that effect. Of course they do, every PL team wants 6 points next season.
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It's my wife's brother :( She's a grunter too:D:(
 
stringjunior said:
My brother in law said, in all seriousness, they'd need 120,000 tickets to satisfy demand.

He needs medicating
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Meanwhile back on planet Earth they averaged 22k in a promotion season - next season proper big clubs coming into the championship Newcastle and Villa, even Norwich will average more than Pigs
 

I completely forgot to mention, don't be surprised if you sign Adam Smith our keeper, young talent got involved in a naughty video when at Leicester and was sacked ends up with you. Easily best keeper we have had here in years, if ever(Mark Bunn being the last) Also Ricky Holmes, who I cant believe has spent his career in lower league football he is 29 He. has a great footballing brain and can he finish, think he had about 5 goal of the season contenders. Wilder calls him 'his little magician'

Below was his and our goal of the season.

 
cobbler150 said:
I completely forgot to mention, don't be surprised if you sign Adam Smith our keeper, young talent got involved in a naughty video when at Leicester and was sacked ends up with you. Easily best keeper we have had here in years, if ever(Mark Bunn being the last) Also Ricky Holmes, who I cant believe has spent his career in lower league football he is 29 He. has a great footballing brain and can he finish, think he had about 5 goal of the season contenders. Wilder calls him 'his little magician'

Below was his and our goal of the season.

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What about Rod McDonald? How good is he? Any chance we could go in for him?

As for Holmes, he's always appeared to have bags of ability going back to his Barnet days, he's either a late developer or it's ridiculous no one higher up has taken a chance on him.
 
cobbler150 said:
I completely forgot to mention, don't be surprised if you sign Adam Smith our keeper, young talent got involved in a naughty video when at Leicester and was sacked ends up with you. Easily best keeper we have had here in years, if ever(Mark Bunn being the last) Also Ricky Holmes, who I cant believe has spent his career in lower league football he is 29 He. has a great footballing brain and can he finish, think he had about 5 goal of the season contenders. Wilder calls him 'his little magician'

Below was his and our goal of the season.

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You've probably already been asked, but what did you think of Calvert-Lewin and Diego? Also any memories of Kyle Walker on loan?
 
blade.i.am said:
Didn't we have Kyle Walker on loan?
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Yes.

Tottenham Hotspur loaned him back to us for the 2009/10 season.

Kyle is 26 in thirteen days time, he was our youngest ever player to play at Wembley and his favourite colour is red.
 
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cobbler150 said:
Hello Blades, Cobblers fan in peace here. I don't know if anyone has bothered to come on here from my club to post thoughts or pass on what to expect, but I have been fairly keen to since you we knew Wilder was going, and having read some of the thoughts on here I just want to dispel a few myths.


Aware that a few of you are under whelmed by his appointment due to him not having managed at this level or a club as big as you are. First of all any thing that you have heard that he play long ball football is highly inaccurate and likely to have come from jealous Oxalona fans. Since his appointment we have always played or attempted to play football at high intensity, passing, triangles, using the width of the pitch and something I've loved quick and clever set pieces.

All players he has brought into the club are of competitive nature and recruitment policy has tended to be people with experience in winning teams, who like to play football. He instilled a never say die attitude and created a team that never new they were beaten, finding a way to win and adapting to the game was again something he was very good at. Could never fault his decision making in a game, the days of watching managers make frustrating subs etc we gone under him and Knill.
His man management has been spot on to, he was not scared to loan out and transfer list our big marquee signing in O'Toole, something that transformed him into our player of the season, or drop Cresswell our 'rock' at the back we paid a bit of money for. He works on merit basis when it comes to team selection, often key players have been suspended and on return spent games on the bench due to their replacement giving him no reason to drop them.

His passion and love for football it seems means he will always tell it like it is, if you've been outplayed and won, that's what he will say. Never shy away from an awkward question about players’ ether. I could of course go on, as I firmly believe that without this man, I would have no club. With your budget and platform there is no way I can’t seem him taking you up. I've got friends from Sheffield (united fans of course) really hope you go up this season. If you've got the time watch the famous speech that saved our club from going bust! Its now Cobblers history and has put the word 'appeh' in our all vocabulary! The link is below, it’s worth it. Good Luck for season!

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Cracking watch that, and a lot of encouraging stuff you mention. Hopefully, in his words, he pulls a rabbit out of a hat here.
 
cobbler150 said:
Hello Blades, Cobblers fan in peace here. I don't know if anyone has bothered to come on here from my club to post thoughts or pass on what to expect, but I have been fairly keen to since you we knew Wilder was going, and having read some of the thoughts on here I just want to dispel a few myths.


Aware that a few of you are under whelmed by his appointment due to him not having managed at this level or a club as big as you are. First of all any thing that you have heard that he play long ball football is highly inaccurate and likely to have come from jealous Oxalona fans. Since his appointment we have always played or attempted to play football at high intensity, passing, triangles, using the width of the pitch and something I've loved quick and clever set pieces.

All players he has brought into the club are of competitive nature and recruitment policy has tended to be people with experience in winning teams, who like to play football. He instilled a never say die attitude and created a team that never new they were beaten, finding a way to win and adapting to the game was again something he was very good at. Could never fault his decision making in a game, the days of watching managers make frustrating subs etc we gone under him and Knill.
His man management has been spot on to, he was not scared to loan out and transfer list our big marquee signing in O'Toole, something that transformed him into our player of the season, or drop Cresswell our 'rock' at the back we paid a bit of money for. He works on merit basis when it comes to team selection, often key players have been suspended and on return spent games on the bench due to their replacement giving him no reason to drop them.

His passion and love for football it seems means he will always tell it like it is, if you've been outplayed and won, that's what he will say. Never shy away from an awkward question about players’ ether. I could of course go on, as I firmly believe that without this man, I would have no club. With your budget and platform there is no way I can’t seem him taking you up. I've got friends from Sheffield (united fans of course) really hope you go up this season. If you've got the time watch the famous speech that saved our club from going bust! Its now Cobblers history and has put the word 'appeh' in our all vocabulary! The link is below, it’s worth it. Good Luck for season!

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Welcome cobbler150, many thanks for this very positive insight, along with many I really do hope you are right. We have shown great skill at SUFC, over the last 9 years, in dragging both managers and players down though, I just hope Wilder can break the cycle.

I've got to say that the video you posted is a pretty impressive demonstration of Wilder's character and I'm immediately more optimistic having seen this.

I hope Mcabe's seen it as it shows the pressure he's prepared to put on those who nominally are his boss. It demonstrates a confidence in himself. Very impressive.
 
cobbler150 said:
At the start of the season our previous chairman David Cardoza stated he was selling the club to an 'indian constortium' This rumbled on for months and we were never sure weather it was smoke and mirrors, as it fell through. The club then had its assets frozen due to 10.25 million loaned from the council to rebuild our stadium going missing. We missed paying our tax bill and faced going bust. Wilder put Cardoza in touch with Kelvin Thomas a chairman he worked under at Oxford. Cardoza continued to drag out proceeding (we think so we went into liquidation and paper work could be swept under). Cue Wilders speech....2 days later.....deal done, Wilder is immortalised in our history. Previous and since his relationship as been spot on with no problems at all. I think he must work on a honestly is best policy!
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And that's where we're at. Like politics, the 'foot-soldiers' get the blame (the players, the manager etc.) What we need is an utterly-corrupt chairman. Worked for Wendy.
LYDON said:
Why do the tourists always "Come in Peace?"
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Because, occasionally, rival fans like cobbler150 (and Charlton George) come on here and talk sense, unlike pig fans and that Coventry fan who are purely on the wind-up. They 'dip their toe in the water' not knowing the reception they'll receive, and their views are welcomed.
 
AnonymousBlade1995 said:
much better report than we got for Adkins or Clough
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Doesnt matter though does it. We are a death trap for managers. Theres so much wrong at board level Wilder will deserve a medal if he gets us going in the right direction. I long stopped hoping we would play good football because winning games really is all that matters right now.

Wilder has everyones best wishes but I wont be surprised if we are here again next season having crashed another manager into the wall.
 
Newbury Blade said:
Well done finding a negative angle on this very encouraging OP but Adkins' last club was Reading and he didn't exactly arrive with a glowing recommendation from them.
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Yeh and we know at first hand, that when things weren't going well, he could be a right annoying cunt.
 

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