Wilder interview

[Sean Thornton]

BlahBlah, Championship players, Premiership players, better than us Set pieces switch off. No Chris LOOK AT YOUR TEAM SELECTION AND STOP PUTTING YOUR ARSE OUT FOR PULIS TO BANG IT!

Defences fault again - clearly a not unreasonable opinion - but no comment on a poor midfield selection and although they didn't get much service - let's be kind - lethargic strikers.

 

[sitwell]

The presenter actually rephrased the question as Wilder had said players had not being doing their jobs on set plays; so asked it he felt that also was down to complacency. I thought all the questions were fair. He could have got a worse ride. We are rock bottom after 2 games and the manager has now said we are signing noone and noone will be coming in, after having weeks and weeks of saying how we have bids in for players. It was an odd interview. He came across as quite rude and argumentative and tried to create an almost siege mentality for himself against the radio and the fans. It was heat of the moment stuff though and compared to Warnock etc was mild mannered.

I am Wilder's biggest fan and know internally he will do what he needs to do to turn it round but I am a llittle concerned that he feels it is just down to poor defending or missing chances. Our overall work ethic, pattern of play, organisation and attacking intent has been really poor so far. It is not simply about a couple of odd mistakes for me.

If you look at the game though ,we conceded 3 terrible set piece goals and then the pressure is on so we cant perform ,don't concede early soft goals and its a different game. Our defending for the set pieces was embarrassing ,it was the same at Mansfield but they didn't have Flint. I reckon Egan will be getting both barrels along with the others.

 

[Stretch]

Scouring the bottom two leagues for benchwarmers.

Because out of the Walker/Maguire and Brooks money, that's all he'll get. We've several ex-managers to pay off, don't forget. And an expensive, protracted court case.

pommpey

Well when you put it like that.....

Was thinking more about working the loan market and trying to drill some defensive discipline back into this shower. Fingers crossed.

 

[A_Blade1889]

Wilder should not be immune to criticism.

He’s got quite a few signings wrong. What I hope is that he isn’t too stubborn. Managers fail when they stick with formations and players that clearly aren’t working.

I don’t care if Evans & Lundstrum look like Xavi & Inesta in training, they are terrible on match days and that’s what counts. We waste time chasing players we are never going to sign, with what looks like no back up plan and our scouting network doesn’t go further south than Brentford.

Creating chances at 3-0 means nothing. He would have gained respect by coming out and saying he got the team selection wrong and the performance was unacceptable.

It’s too early to panic, but I will be really worried if the team is unchanged on Saturday!

 

[Bashar Al Asaba]

"I picked a set of shitcunts tonight and for that I am deeply sorry. Now I finally realise that Lundstram and Evans and the rest of the cunts at the back are about as much use as tits on a nun."

Is how it should've gone.

 

[Laney Blade]

Missed by his favourite striker Leon, who will no doubt he leading the team out again on Saturday.

Yes he will because fitness wise & gritting his teeth wise he played nearly every game last season when in pain or injured. As there was noone else who was willing to do this for the Blades. He was & still is the only one either brave enough....or daft enough ? - to do this. Because he's loyal to the Blades & to Chris Wilder. Remember his 2 goals against the pigs at swillsborough ? your post proves you are not a Blade. No true Blade would post such vileness about Chris & Leon.

 

[Roygbiv]

No idea what is going on with the transfers. If he is telling the truth and we really only had one target then i'm not sure how that can be defended. Weird interview.

 

[Deadbat]

If you look at the game though ,we conceded 3 terrible set piece goals and then the pressure is on so we cant perform ,don't concede early soft goals and its a different game. Our defending for the set pieces was embarrassing ,it was the same at Mansfield but they didn't have Flint. I reckon Egan will be getting both barrels along with the others.

They went through us like a knife through butter in 45 seconds and missed a sitter. They had other chances too that were not set plays. Yes, that was where we conceded but as with Swansea, teams are going through us easily as we are slow, unathletic and do not have a good shape. These breaks are leading to set plays and subseqent chances. When we had it we tossed it away or played it safe. Noone wanted to penetrate or pass and move into space. It was all static. It is too easy to just blame Egan, Stevens, Evans, Lundstram. Where is Fleck, Clarke, O'Connell. Not sure they have offered much fight or ability on the ball so far this season and they are meant to be our main men?

We did concede 3 terrible goals (third was not a set play I dont think) but as I said in other posts; the whole work ethic of the side is not there. Its not just about individual errors for me. It was not as if in between those 3 goals we were playing well or restricting them from attacking. We barely had an attack of note and struggled to even get over half way. It was embarrasing the first 20 minutes tonight as was the last 20 minutes on Saturday, the ease with the opponent got through us. If we cannot win tackles, be first to the ball (all over the field) or pick up loose stuff we have no chance of getting anything from games. In simple terms we have to compete.

 

[Jonboy60]

Yer that’s what he said, and he also said that we had brought in 5 new signings that have made our squad better? Can anyone name the 5 he refers to?

Is this a trick question. Henderson, Egan, Woodburn, McGoldrick and the young lad from man citeh.

 

[oldblade]

Wilder should not be immune to criticism.

He’s got quite a few signings wrong. What I hope is that he isn’t too stubborn. Managers fail when they stick with formations and players that clearly aren’t working.

I don’t care if Evans & Lundstrum look like Xavi & Inesta in training, they are terrible on match days and that’s what counts. We waste time chasing players we are never going to sign, with what looks like no back up plan and our scouting network doesn’t go further south than Brentford.

Creating chances at 3-0 means nothing. He would have gained respect by coming out and saying he got the team selection wrong and the performance was unacceptable.

It’s too early to panic, but I will be really worried if the team is unchanged on Saturday!

I agree. He shouldn't be immune to criticism, but let's keep it a bit reasonable.

We are two games into a season and some posters are calling him deluded and telling him it's time to go. at this stage that seems a little extreme to me.

And I beg to differ about creating chance at 3-0. I can remember United losing a 3-0 lead and I can remember us pulling back a 3-0 deficit.

 

[Slug]

If you look at the game though ,we conceded 3 terrible set piece goals and then the pressure is on so we cant perform ,don't concede early soft goals and its a different game. Our defending for the set pieces was embarrassing ,it was the same at Mansfield but they didn't have Flint. I reckon Egan will be getting both barrels along with the others.

The 3rd goal wasn’t a set piece.
That level of schoolboy defending can not be legislated for though.
Lee Evans was the man ‘marking’ Flint at times it was laughable

 

[oldblade]

"I picked a set of shitcunts tonight and for that I am deeply sorry. Now I finally realise that Lundstram and Evans and the rest of the cunts at the back are about as much use as tits on a nun."

Is how it should've gone.

Glad to see your still Teetotal Tyler.

 

[Laney Blade]

He said it.

We don’t have the dollar for permanent signings.

Oh dear !!!!! I knew we couldn't compete with Derby for Waghorn on wages / personal terms. It must be the ownership court case problem as Kevin McCabe would want us to compete with the top Champ clubs if it was down to him.

 

[bromtom]

We looked like 10 flies trying to get out of a window.

Whether we get people in or not, as a group of professional footballers, most of whom have had a couple of seasons with each other, we should not be that bad at having a shape and doing the basics.

 

[Bashar Al Asaba]

Glad to see your still Teetotal Tyler.

Teetotal? That's a vile accusation.

 

[BladeFisher]

What he thinks privately could be different from what he says publicly.

At the moment, I'm more than prepared to cut him some slack. He deserves that. We all know his record over the past two seasons. The fact that we are where we are and have higher expectations than we thought possible just a couple of seasons ago is largely due to him and the players, who play to the system he has decided upon.

But these days, in the words of Bachman Turner Overdrive, "you are only as good as your last record". We are two games into a new season and I agree that performances and results have been very disappointing.

However, it is only two games. And did anyone really expect us to win both of those games. I didn't. If I'm honest I hadn't got a clue how we would do against Swansea. A win would not have surprised me, but a loss wasn't a shock either. You can call me negative, a cap doffer or anything else, but I expected us to lose at Middlesbrough (and that was before the Swansea game). So, as I see it we are probably around a point away from a par score for the two fixtures.

The performances have been disappointing, but to call Wilder deluded at this early stage of the season when his past performance tends to suggest that he isn't, seems to me a bit harsh.

If things carry on as they are now for several more games I will be concerned, but I think Wilder has earned the right to be allowed a few adverse results and performances. Two years ago our early season results were poor and the performances patchy. Some were saying he was out of his depth and we were doomed. He proved emphatically that they were wrong. I hope he does so again. there is the chance that he won't, but I'm not going to jump off any buildings just yet.

I think you are missing the point. We have been pretty rubbish since the Coutts injury not able to string many consecutive wins together and all the tv pundits say that. Wilder has repeatedly said in RS interviews 'we have not been found out, it is individual errors or we haven't got the quality'. Well do what DB and NW did then - play to your strengths with what you have got/can afford or move on! The L1 champions season was two seasons ago!

I think his RS interview tonight gave the first indications that he may well walk out this season citing lack of money, can't compete with the Derby's and the like. Perhaps our RS interviewers might like to remind him that we didn't do as well as Brentford, Millwall or Preston. And I bet they have less money than we have.

No I stand by the fact CW is now becoming deluded and somewhat dogmatic and clearly his team selection was crap. He's just too arrogant to admit it. We'll see what Saturday brings in our first 'six pointer' of the season.

 

[oldblade]

Teetotal? That's a vile accusation.

My apologies.

 

[sitwell]

The 3rd goal wasn’t a set piece.
That level of schoolboy defending can not be legislated for though.
Lee Evans was the man ‘marking’ Flint at times it was laughable

It was Egan on the second goal ,Fleck and Baldock were very poor on the 3rd goal and Lundstram lost the first header on the first one ,Evans the challenge with Braithwaite.

 

[A_Blade1889]

I agree. He shouldn't be immune to criticism, but let's keep it a bit reasonable.

We are two games into a season and some posters are calling him deluded and telling him it's time to go. at this stage that seems a little extreme to me.

And I beg to differ about creating chance at 3-0. I can remember United losing a 3-0 lead and I can remember us pulling back a 3-0 deficit.

I hope we sign players, I hope he changes the team. I hope everyone thinks he’s a hero again. Fans aren’t stupid though, he’s picked players that aren’t good enough, in a system that’s not working.

We did create a couple of chances but Clarke consistently misses them. I find it hard to explain why he starts every game & doesn’t get subbed. Very strange? Surely to boost the moral of the squad, you drop players who play poorly. Otherwise why have a squad? Why chase Leonard for months to never give him a chance?

 

[Laney Blade]

I hope that’s a bluff from Wilder cause that’s a right kick in the bollocks after tonight’s performance!

I expect it's similar to the Waghorn scenario. I never feel comfortable saying players should play for low wages when they can get higher wages somewhere else. It's a short career so who can blame them ....with their wives input....for chasing the money. Leon turned down higher wages last season out of loyalty to The Blades & Chris Wilder. But now noone has a good word to say about the lad.

 

[BladeFisher]

I agree. He shouldn't be immune to criticism, but let's keep it a bit reasonable.

We are two games into a season and some posters are calling him deluded and telling him it's time to go. at this stage that seems a little extreme to me.

And I beg to differ about creating chance at 3-0. I can remember United losing a 3-0 lead and I can remember us pulling back a 3-0 deficit.

Apparently last season we got 6 points from a losing position. One of the worst.

 

[Laney Blade]

I hope we sign players, I hope he changes the team. I hope everyone thinks he’s a hero again. Fans aren’t stupid though, he’s picked players that aren’t good enough, in a system that’s not working.

We did create a couple of chances but Clarke consistently misses them. I find it hard to explain why he starts every game & doesn’t get subbed. Very strange? Surely to boost the moral of the squad, you drop players who play poorly. Otherwise why have a squad? Why chase Leonard for months to never give him a chance?

To be fair every time Leonard got game time last season he was terrible. Maybe he or his wife miss Southend I don't know but he hasn't made the step up to the Champ confidently..

 

[SteveBlade]

It's a farce, the manager has done what the majority of our managers have done in my lifetime and inexplicably lost his mind.

What was the best football I've seen played from a Blades side has turned into eleven players who look like they've never seen each other before, and who can't string a couple of passes together. Not to mention it seems like they've completely fucked off cardio all summer.

It's pretty gutting, I thought we were really onto something not too long back, pretty big comedown from last year.

Oh fucking well, I've seen worse. This probably isn't even in the top ten in my list of Blades related shithousery.

 

[Laney Blade]

I hope that’s a bluff from Wilder cause that’s a right kick in the bollocks after tonight’s performance!

Chris will not lie ....it's difficult for managers as to what they can say & can't say it's like the official secrets act !

 

[oldblade]

I think you are missing the point. We have been pretty rubbish since the Coutts injury not able to string many consecutive wins together and all the tv pundits say that. Wilder has repeatedly said in RS interviews 'we have not been found out, it is individual errors or we haven't got the quality'. Well do what DB and NW did then - play to your strengths with what you have got/can afford or move on! The L1 champions season was two seasons ago!

I think his RS interview tonight gave the first indications that he may well walk out this season citing lack of money, can't compete with the Derby's and the like. Perhaps our RS interviewers might like to remind him that we didn't do as well as Brentford, Millwall or Preston. And I bet they have less money than we have.

No I stand by the fact CW is now becoming deluded and somewhat dogmatic and clearly his team selection was crap. He's just too arrogant to admit it. We'll see what Saturday brings in our first 'six pointer' of the season.

We have not been pretty rubbish since Coutts was injured.

In the immediate aftermath of that injury, when you would expect some disruption, we lost 4 out of 5 games. One of those was 4-5 to Fulham, in which we played pretty well against a very good Fulham side, and d another was the 1-2 defeat to Bristol City where we again played very well.

After those 5 games we won 8, drew 8, lost 8. That is not rubbish. It is mid table or mediocre and we did not play rubbish in most of those 24 games.

The league 1 season ended 15 and a bit months ago. Last season , where we performed very well in most of our matches, ended 3 months ago.

I think it is not unreasonable to ask questions when matches go wrong, but to call someone deluded (a pretty offensive term) after two games is in my opinion a little unreasonable, especially given his very recent record.

 

[Laney Blade]

Which board member was defending for us tonight?

The ones in a court dispute over ownership..... so affects transfers in which cost money they might lose if lose court battle ? All I have to say is one joint owner attends all matches..

 

[AdamSufc1997]

if it's true we only have made 1 bid for a player on loan that is shocking. we need quality up top with pace. looks like we will have to give lavery a chance then

 

[oldblade]

Apparently last season we got 6 points from a losing position. One of the worst.

I think that is probably right, but we tended to attack teams and get ahead first more often than not.

Under our previous manager (Adkins) in a lower division, we did not manage to win at all after conceding the first goal. Even in the dire 1975-6 and 2010-11 seasons we didn't achieve that honour.

 

[Laney Blade]

We have not been pretty rubbish since Coutts was injured.

In the immediate aftermath of that injury, when you would expect some disruption, we lost 4 out of 5 games. One of those was 4-5 to Fulham, in which we played pretty well against a very good Fulham side, and d another was the 1-2 defeat to Bristol City where we again played very well.

After those 5 games we won 8, drew 8, lost 8. That is not rubbish. It is mid table or mediocre and we did not play rubbish in most of those 24 games.

The league 1 season ended 15 and a bit months ago. Last season , where we performed very well in most of our matches, ended 3 months ago.

I think it is not unreasonable to ask questions when matches go wrong, but to call someone deluded (a pretty offensive term) after two games is in my opinion a little unreasonable, especially given his very recent record.

I agree ....no true Blade would insult Chris in this manner. None of these whingers have any experience as a Pro Football Manager trying to improve a team with a net /minus 8 miĺlion ! And if they continue to use Leon as the scapegoat for everything they will get us relegated. As Chris knows without Leon up front creating platforms for his striker partner to score ...as Leon ALWAYS has 2 defenders marking him ....we are nothing. As noone else will take on this always be marked by 2 defenders role & never show you are tired. Chris is a bright young manager & knows Leon will run through brick walls for him & he can do a full 90 minutes. When people criticise Leon
...who also defends corners brilliantly ....they criticise Chris. Which is abysmal.

 

[oldblade]

I hope we sign players, I hope he changes the team. I hope everyone thinks he’s a hero again. Fans aren’t stupid though, he’s picked players that aren’t good enough, in a system that’s not working.

We did create a couple of chances but Clarke consistently misses them. I find it hard to explain why he starts every game & doesn’t get subbed. Very strange? Surely to boost the moral of the squad, you drop players who play poorly. Otherwise why have a squad? Why chase Leonard for months to never give him a chance?

Does a manager always drop a player after one poor performance? Not often.

Was Clarke really poor against Swansea or was the supply poor?

Leonard does get chances and will probably get them again. If I remember rightly, he played in the away win at Bristol City on the last day of last season.