Having thought through this carefully and sombrely, this is how I see it:
1. He will not resign. Doing so will be taking responsibility for this mess making it harder to take a new job , whilst losing the rest of his contract which he will need for his family in these tough economic times and make him look like a pathetic coward quitter. Completely understandable that he doesn't resign, even though if he had done an Ian Holloway (resigned at Crystal Palace) earlier we might have had a better chance.
2. He will not get sacked. The Prince has said so and there is no reason not to believe him. He will understandably believe that there is no one else out there who could get us out of the Championship. The only one I can think of as an alternative would be Slavan Bilic and there are no guarantees of success there.
It is difficult, believe me, to come to terms with relegation and international sporting humiliation which we may have to put up with for a hundred years (Lucky Loughborough!), though points 1 and 2 will not change even if we go down with less than 10 points.
This reminds me of the film 'The Day After Tomorrow' where the storm is about to hit. Had something been done before then the disaster might have been mitigated or even averted, but it's too late now for us to reach 12 points let alone battle to survive regardless of who is in charge. So all we can do is bunker down and ride out these torturous few months and hope come the summer we can move on and recover.
This is because the team that Wilder has assembled is actually so atrocious nothing can be done now. He's managed us so badly since lockdown that he's made us unsalvageable for the PL. (If he had done his job a bit better to make us salvageable for someone else I'd want him gone asap)
He has failed, in summary:
Recruitment: Signing Forest rejects and relying on them. Huge wastes on unproven PL talent and refusing to look beyond Dover for players.
Formation: Reluctance to change an out of date system
Coaching: Keeping it stale with no coaches who have Premier League experience.
It is absolutely fair enough that he has criticism (though abuse is not acceptable) and to those who want Wilder to stay it is perfectly reasonable to think, even if you don't agree, that Wilder's time is up at SUFC.
It's very sad to come to terms with
1. He will not resign. Doing so will be taking responsibility for this mess making it harder to take a new job , whilst losing the rest of his contract which he will need for his family in these tough economic times and make him look like a pathetic coward quitter. Completely understandable that he doesn't resign, even though if he had done an Ian Holloway (resigned at Crystal Palace) earlier we might have had a better chance.
2. He will not get sacked. The Prince has said so and there is no reason not to believe him. He will understandably believe that there is no one else out there who could get us out of the Championship. The only one I can think of as an alternative would be Slavan Bilic and there are no guarantees of success there.
It is difficult, believe me, to come to terms with relegation and international sporting humiliation which we may have to put up with for a hundred years (Lucky Loughborough!), though points 1 and 2 will not change even if we go down with less than 10 points.
This reminds me of the film 'The Day After Tomorrow' where the storm is about to hit. Had something been done before then the disaster might have been mitigated or even averted, but it's too late now for us to reach 12 points let alone battle to survive regardless of who is in charge. So all we can do is bunker down and ride out these torturous few months and hope come the summer we can move on and recover.
This is because the team that Wilder has assembled is actually so atrocious nothing can be done now. He's managed us so badly since lockdown that he's made us unsalvageable for the PL. (If he had done his job a bit better to make us salvageable for someone else I'd want him gone asap)
He has failed, in summary:
Recruitment: Signing Forest rejects and relying on them. Huge wastes on unproven PL talent and refusing to look beyond Dover for players.
Formation: Reluctance to change an out of date system
Coaching: Keeping it stale with no coaches who have Premier League experience.
It is absolutely fair enough that he has criticism (though abuse is not acceptable) and to those who want Wilder to stay it is perfectly reasonable to think, even if you don't agree, that Wilder's time is up at SUFC.
It's very sad to come to terms with
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