Whose fault is it?

[SteveBlade]

 

[Tom Bott]

You forgot a box to blame the fans.

 

[Bladesman]

I'd say both but mostly Wilder. He had been given more money than any Blades manager in history and more than McCabe would have allowed him to have had he been sole owner. Wilder seemed reluctant to change anything but blamed lack of spending during a global pandemic and then spent what money he did get on the wrong areas of the squad.

The board are at fault regarding how they have gone about him going but it was very abrupt. If he was going to be sacked it would have happened months ago. So something happened Thursday evening or Friday morning that broke the camels back.

 

[AdamSufc1997]

Both but mostly has to be wilder the money he's spent could have been used better.

 

[Cheesebored]

 

[Withington Blade]

Impossible to say with any certainty as we weren’t party to the private discussions. However, it seems from that Abdullah has been quickly rowing back from all of the original plans and promises put in place and CW finally snapped. The failure to deliver the training ground improvement, the failure to bring any loan players in during the JTW and now the indication players will need to be sold over the summer when the original plan was to build a sustainable squad capable of mounting an immediate promotion challenge should we go down. The DOF talk was probably the straw that broke the camels back. If correct it is an idiotic way to treat the best manager we’ve had in a generation and one that will backfire on us I fear.

 

[BladeTillIDie]

Both.

 

[Greg.]

 

[Cheesebored]

Impossible to say with any certainty as we weren’t party to the private discussions. However, it seems from that Abdullah has been quickly rowing back from all of the original plans and promises put in place and CW finally snapped. The failure to deliver the training ground improvement, the failure to bring any loan players in during the JTW and now the indication players will need to be sold over the summer when the original plan was to build a sustainable squad capable of mounting an immediate promotion challenge should we go down. The DOF talk was probably the straw that broke the camels back. If correct it is an idiotic way to treat the best manager we’ve had in a generation and one that will backfire on us I fear.

Agree. If that happened.

 

[Nine Inch Nalis]

You'd have to apportion some of the blame to the concoction of glassbacks, carthorses and shitcunts that constitute the team.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Another member of the shitbox cabal that is loving this.

 

[SteveBlade]

Another member of the shitbox cabal that is loving this.

Buzzing me, love it when we're in the shit

 

[Swinton Blade]

Both but mostly has to be wilder the money he's spent could have been used better.

He may have had £130m to spend but when your wage bill is £13m (last season) you're not going to get ready made Premier League players tbh.

 

[bromtom]

He may have had £130m to spend but when your wage bill is £13m (last season) you're not going to get ready made Premier League players tbh.

No way was our wage bill £13m. There won't be a starter that's not on less than a million a year, so unless the other 14 are getting paid a couple of hundred a week you're about 1/3rd of the actual bill. It's still low but when we got promoted our wage bill was £19m.

 

[Swinton Blade]

No way was our wage bill £13m. There won't be a starter that's not on less than a million a year, so unless the other 14 are getting paid a couple of hundred a week you're about 1/3rd of the actual bill. It's still low but when we got promoted our wage bill was £19m.

I was just going by the figure Yorkshire Live reported last July/August.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Buzzing me, love it when we're in the shit

Yeah I know. Really strange isn’t it ?

 

[Davalon]

I blame you SteveBlade

You're not sneaking under my radar

 

[Sean Thornton]

No way was our wage bill £13m. There won't be a starter that's not on less than a million a year, so unless the other 14 are getting paid a couple of hundred a week you're about 1/3rd of the actual bill. It's still low but when we got promoted our wage bill was £19m.

17/18 £21m 18/19 £44m including promotion bonuses.

 

[Ridgeway Blade]

Having seen today's performance perhaps the Prince is right that this squad is just not good enough to take us forward next year in the Championship and in desperate need of new blood through the team. We were outfought, outpaced, lost every 50-50 tackle and created nothing. Having said that, it seems that CW has been completely unprepared to compromise. Only one winner in that case.

 

[We are bladesmen]

The milkman’s

 

[siblade]

I'm sure the players need to be in that list

 

[Yewsman]

What we failed to invest in was a decent recruitment team/department/structure. We seem to have been very blinkered in the players we have signed and not looked abroad at all. Look at Fulham. 7 loan players from abroad and most of those seem to be skilful, athletic and quick. Apart from Berge we don't seem top have looked abroad at all.
Also the First Team has got so far so quickly we have no young players coming through, although it appears that there is now a promising crop but they all have a long way to go to get in the first team.
Whoever is the new manager will need to wheel and deal to get the squad rebalanced for next season.

 

[BobblesBlade]

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Yours Steve

 

[Alex Cheeseright]

Henderson. He caused the O'Connell injury and the rest is history....drop mic.

 

[Bobby b]

The players on the pitch haven't helped, you cant blame any player for not being good enough that blame rests on the manager for constantly picking them, lundstam?, the players who we spunked a dollop of money for haven't helped but you cant blame the player for how much the transfer was, the manager felt the transfer fee was good value in hindsight it wasn't, the players play a system that they are told to, even though everyone on here felt that plugging away at the same system even though it was flawed was madness, I personally think that Chris wilder performed miracles with his man management skills where he got a load of average players playing way above their standard, but you can only do that for a certain length of time before they go back to their natural level, what you have to do is get players in who'll improve things, this wasn't done.

 

[BobblesBlade]

The players on the pitch haven't helped, you cant blame any player for not being good enough that blame rests on the manager for constantly picking them, lundstam?, the players who we spunked a dollop of money for haven't helped but you cant blame the player for how much the transfer was, the manager felt the transfer fee was good value in hindsight it wasn't, the players play a system that they are told to, even though everyone on here felt that plugging away at the same system even though it was flawed was madness, I personally think that Chris wilder performed miracles with his man management skills where he got a load of average players playing way above their standard, but you can only do that for a certain length of time before they go back to their natural level, what you have to do is get players in who'll improve things, this wasn't done.

That’s what’s done us/ Wilder really.
we were desperate for some one to unlock the opposition defence and he gets rid of Freeman and plays Lundstram. Bad form and injury to Norwood and Fleck them Berge getting ruled out for the rest of the season and boom! No midfield! We are overrun every game and it looks horrible. We are shocking in defence and have nothing up front.

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

Buzzing me, love it when we're in the shit

You cheeky, cliquey cabalistic bastard

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

You don't have that many ex-pros, neutrals, pundits, players, fans of other teams and even fans of the other side of the city questioning this decision, if it isn't ultimately a very, very bad decision.

 

[Kop sufferer]

Who's fault ? take your pick, Covid, lack of the Faithful in the grounds both home and away, injuries, suspensions, loss of form, players like Robinson and Rodwell etc. who've simply disappeared into who knows where, car crashes, 2nd season syndrome, CW & co. and the Board, apologies if I've missed anyone.
Can't really blame todays regime, yet, as today's team would have been close to the one CW would have fielded.
Believe me, there's a shit storm brewing, shoes are being stockpiled as I speak in a garage off London Road,
But, only time will tell, as for me, I'll be forever more, always, on the march with Wilder's Army (or what will be left of it) UTB,

 

[tridellaswasclass]

First up, I think we dropped off massively from January last year, a few good performances aside post lockdown. For the most part we edged games then by the odd goal. Not a huge amount between us and the relegated Norwich or Bournemouth. Henderson saved us in both of those games if I remember rightly. It's hard to blame Wilder for this because we were so good in the first part of the season and continued to get results. But we could all see the squad was thin and could never be expected to continue to punch above its weight.
Secondly, as good as Wilder's recruitment was in the lower leagues - and I believe it was unbelievably good - his recruitment in the PL has been a joke. I love the man to bits but there is no other way of putting it. Even signings like Callum Robinson were wasteful. We massively overpaid for Oli Mac. He fell out with Duffy, didn't really replace him, thus forcing us to play with a flat midfield three. For a while it worked, partly because Lundstram overperformed. He has never strengthened the squad in midfield. Signed Freeman, let him go on loan, didn't replace him. Didn't replace Besic. Berge came in for big money and was a good signing I think, but he knew the ongoing Lundstram contract situation and didn't foresee needing another option. So as soon as injuries came, as with our back three, we could never cope. The likes of Jack Robinson weren't adequate cover. He never utilised his second loan before the start of the season. He persisted with Kean Bryan in the squad. KEAN BRYAN. Don't get me wrong, it's not Bryan's fault. He's just simply a League One player at best.
Then the board. Whatever we told Wilder when he signed his new contract last year the board should have stuck to. There was, as Wilder has said, a plan in place. There must have been. The board I believe have backed Wilder reasonably well. We are not privy to what is said behind the scenes but in a pandemic, with all the uncertainty around, there are potential reasons why there would be reluctance to break the wage structure of the club. Borne out by the Norwich model.
Finally, the players. The drop off of the senior players' form with a couple of exceptions has been cataclysmic. It's a shame many of them have ruined their legacy.

So for me, in short, 1. Wilder, 2. The board and the players.