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TJ blade said:
No but the " one of are own " will☺️
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Fuck em! I know everybody thinks they’re writing something very profound on here, but let’s face it mini meltdowns on S2 ain’t gonna turn the dial much…Once people know they haven’t got a say in club matters, they’ll fall into line whoever’s running the team….It’s called being a supporter.
 

ancientblade said:
would love the old wilder back but sadly cant see that happening if he cant be more positive a change might be the best option
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It's never going to happen mate, " The old Wilder" but blades fans don't want change! There even clamouring for players what's left coming back! Ambition fuck that!
 
TJ blade said:
It's never going to happen mate, " The old Wilder" but blades fans don't want change! There even clamouring for players what's left coming back! Ambition fuck that!
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im not so sure tj i think lots of blades fans wernt happy the style of football we played last season yes succesful but so slow and negative in lots of games and certainly was a contributory reason for the poor atmospheres at lots of games
 
I have been told that wilder is on holiday this week whilst the board make a decision on whether to keep him or not. Not claiming to be ITK however was passed this snip of info last night. Wilder is not happy that it's happening whilst he is away and would rather be here but the board are doing things their own way.

Not sure what to make of it personally
 
Lord Eddard Muir said:
I know that probably isn't a serious suggestion but this account of Boro's internal review leading to him getting sacked makes interesting reading. Sounds like he's just an inferior version of Wilder with a beard and Man U connections

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/s...dlesbroughs-review-led-michael-carricks-exit/
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Interesting snippet from that article:

"creating the kind of internal recruitment tensions that were so destabilising under both Neil Warnock and Chris Wilder."

Leopards and spots.
 
Scoips said:
Which makes it criminally negligent not to try to replace him in the JTW.
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Leopards and spots.

We lost Jack O'Connell to a serious injury in 2020, replaced him with Jack Robinson and failed in our objective

We lost Harry Souttar to a serious injury in 2024, replaced him with Jack Robinson and once again failed in our objective.
 
Dave said:
I have been told that wilder is on holiday this week whilst the board make a decision on whether to keep him or not. Not claiming to be ITK however was passed this snip of info last night. Wilder is not happy that it's happening whilst he is away and would rather be here but the board are doing things their own way.

Not sure what to make of it personally
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If that’s the case, MCB can’t really be signing. Surely if it’s all up in the air, the board wouldn’t be looking at signings whilst debating binning a manager. (Which would be the right way imo)
 

Danetheblade said:
If that’s the case, MCB can’t really be signing. Surely if it’s all up in the air, the board wouldn’t be looking at signings whilst debating binning a manager. (Which would be the right way imo)
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You would like to think so. Unless we are heading down the director of football route...
 
Dave said:
You would like to think so. Unless we are heading down the director of football route...
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If that’s the case, we’ll be heading down a new manager route, as Wilders openly said several times he wouldn’t work under that method. He wants full control over everything
 
I must admit if we announce McBurnie the chances are Wilder is very much staying.

Was it just a coincidence that McBurnie was back in the area yesterday as the media team went a bit bonkers with posts about him on his birthday?
 
I don't think there'll be any drastic change in style of play should Wilder stay. If anything, I think we'll be even more cautious, so those wanting a return of Wilder 2016-2019 may not get their wish.

I'm torn on should he stay or go, on one hand I think it would be incredibly harsh to sack him given that we accumulated the most points we ever have at this level, but on the other hand there doesn't seem to be any indication that lessons have been learned from past mistakes and as tincan mentioned, we had a poor run of form post Xmas for a promotion chasing side.

Whatever the decision is though, I hope its a speedy one as we don't want this dragging into pre season. Ideally, transfer targets have already been drawn up so they can all get a full pre season rather than wait and feed of scraps well into August and those players not being match fit until halfway through the season (see Campbell).
 
Torrix1889 said:
I must admit if we announce McBurnie the chances are Wilder is very much staying.

Was it just a coincidence that McBurnie was back in the area yesterday as the media team went a bit bonkers with posts about him on his birthday?
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When’s Billy’s birthday? By comparison they should be putting up a statue of him based on their adulation of McBambie
 
Danetheblade said:
If that’s the case, we’ll be heading down a new manager route, as Wilders openly said several times he wouldn’t work under that method. He wants full control over everything
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Unfortunately for Mr Wilder not working with a DoF is not the "modern" way of thinking and hasn't been for a long time. British football is still playing catch-up with the rest of world football. Last season 19 of the 20 Premier League clubs had DoF or Sporting Directors. He also needs to realise that he is an employee of Sheffield United and has such can easily be presented with a P45. Players come players go, managers come managers go, owners come owners go but the club and it's loyal supporters will always be there.
 
Torrix1889 said:
I must admit if we announce McBurnie the chances are Wilder is very much staying.

Was it just a coincidence that McBurnie was back in the area yesterday as the media team went a bit bonkers with posts about him on his birthday?
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If McBurnie is coming back and Wilder is staying then I think we've pretty much given up on the ownership's stated aim of becoming an established Premier League club in the foreseeable future. Several on here have mounted a stout defence of Wilder, but for me he's nothing like the manager we had 6/7 years ago.

I don't think the rebuild was as good as many make out - the majority of the players who got us through this season were already here.
We brought in 17 players in the last year, I think 5 of those can be counted as good signings, Cooper (excellent!), Burrows, Campbell (for 60 minutes per game), Souttar (for the first part of the season) and Choudhury (for the second.) Others went from OK (O'Hare, Moore) to disastrous (Cannon, Shackleton.) We had the resources through parachute payments to blow other Championship teams out of the water, we could have done better.
The January window as a disaster - we didn't replace Souttar, we didn't replace Arblaster, we didn't get a decent specialist right back, we threw away £10m on Cannon, but wouldn't pay QPR an extra few hundred k for Dunne.
I can't think of one player who has improved this season as a result of our coaching staff - either individually or in terms of their team contribution.
I think it was Bladepicker who said that our second half performances have been poor. Our substitutions always seem to make us worse - is that poor preparation or poor recruitment?
Other teams seem to be better coached than us. Teams like Portsmouth, Plymouth and Hull all seemed to have more idea of what they were trying to do, albeit with more limited players. Most transition better and quicker than we do.
Our fitness levels are shocking, compounded by our tendency to acquire players who are already unfit (Campbell, Holding etc) and to keep playing players who are clearly injured eg Souza.
We want to make the academy a mainstay of the club's progression, but I can't see that we have a clear strategy for managing the development of our young talent. Is there a clear plan for getting the best out of Brooks, Seriki etc - even Peck, who did a manful job of filling in, but could you see him developing as a player? I though Brooks' treatment was very poor.
The team selections have often been bizarre/controversial. Continually picking Robinson, the insistence on playing Brewster (lately in a new and unfamiliar position), dropping O'Hare, the treatment of JRS, playing Burrows in midfield, the lack of game time for Tom Davies etc
Tactically we've often been outthought. Our sit back and defend strategy after scoring a goal was our eventual undoing.

We are now in a position of having spent over half of the parachute payments that give us such an advantage, but are we in any better position than we were 12 months ago? If Anel, Gus and Vini leave, as I expect them to, is the squad any better?

If we get promoted, I want us to go up with at least a core of players who might be Premiership quality and a manger who can continue to work with his own squad with a progressive development strategy, even if we get relegated. Currently I think we have one or two Premiership standard players (Cooper and, at a stretch, Hamer.) I don't think Wilder and his team are up to the current Premiership, we need a Director of Football and a new head coach.
 
Scoips said:
If McBurnie is coming back and Wilder is staying then I think we've pretty much given up on the ownership's stated aim of becoming an established Premier League club in the foreseeable future. Several on here have mounted a stout defence of Wilder, but for me he's nothing like the manager we had 6/7 years ago.

I don't think the rebuild was as good as many make out - the majority of the players who got us through this season were already here.
We brought in 17 players in the last year, I think 5 of those can be counted as good signings, Cooper (excellent!), Burrows, Campbell (for 60 minutes per game), Souttar (for the first part of the season) and Choudhury (for the second.) Others went from OK (O'Hare, Moore) to disastrous (Cannon, Shackleton.) We had the resources through parachute payments to blow other Championship teams out of the water, we could have done better.
The January window as a disaster - we didn't replace Souttar, we didn't replace Arblaster, we didn't get a decent specialist right back, we threw away £10m on Cannon, but wouldn't pay QPR an extra few hundred k for Dunne.
I can't think of one player who has improved this season as a result of our coaching staff - either individually or in terms of their team contribution.
I think it was Bladepicker who said that our second half performances have been poor. Our substitutions always seem to make us worse - is that poor preparation or poor recruitment?
Other teams seem to be better coached than us. Teams like Portsmouth, Plymouth and Hull all seemed to have more idea of what they were trying to do, albeit with more limited players. Most transition better and quicker than we do.
Our fitness levels are shocking, compounded by our tendency to acquire players who are already unfit (Campbell, Holding etc) and to keep playing players who are clearly injured eg Souza.
We want to make the academy a mainstay of the club's progression, but I can't see that we have a clear strategy for managing the development of our young talent. Is there a clear plan for getting the best out of Brooks, Seriki etc - even Peck, who did a manful job of filling in, but could you see him developing as a player? I though Brooks' treatment was very poor.
The team selections have often been bizarre/controversial. Continually picking Robinson, the insistence on playing Brewster (lately in a new and unfamiliar position), dropping O'Hare, the treatment of JRS, playing Burrows in midfield, the lack of game time for Tom Davies etc
Tactically we've often been outthought. Our sit back and defend strategy after scoring a goal was our eventual undoing.

We are now in a position of having spent over half of the parachute payments that give us such an advantage, but are we in any better position than we were 12 months ago? If Anel, Gus and Vini leave, as I expect them to, is the squad any better?

If we get promoted, I want us to go up with at least a core of players who might be Premiership quality and a manger who can continue to work with his own squad with a progressive development strategy, even if we get relegated. Currently I think we have one or two Premiership standard players (Cooper and, at a stretch, Hamer.) I don't think Wilder and his team are up to the current Premiership, we need a Director of Football and a new head coach.
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Excellent post and I 100% agree...
 
Dave said:
I have been told that wilder is on holiday this week whilst the board make a decision on whether to keep him or not. Not claiming to be ITK however was passed this snip of info last night. Wilder is not happy that it's happening whilst he is away and would rather be here but the board are doing things their own way.

Not sure what to make of it personally
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I wouldn't imagine they'll say anything till he's back, but would think a lot will depend on their replacement targets? If they're not available I'll put money on wilder stays for now 🤬🤬 ( but with a firm hand on the purse strings and player targets)
 
Scoips said:
If McBurnie is coming back and Wilder is staying then I think we've pretty much given up on the ownership's stated aim of becoming an established Premier League club in the foreseeable future. Several on here have mounted a stout defence of Wilder, but for me he's nothing like the manager we had 6/7 years ago.

I don't think the rebuild was as good as many make out - the majority of the players who got us through this season were already here.
We brought in 17 players in the last year, I think 5 of those can be counted as good signings, Cooper (excellent!), Burrows, Campbell (for 60 minutes per game), Souttar (for the first part of the season) and Choudhury (for the second.) Others went from OK (O'Hare, Moore) to disastrous (Cannon, Shackleton.) We had the resources through parachute payments to blow other Championship teams out of the water, we could have done better.
The January window as a disaster - we didn't replace Souttar, we didn't replace Arblaster, we didn't get a decent specialist right back, we threw away £10m on Cannon, but wouldn't pay QPR an extra few hundred k for Dunne.
I can't think of one player who has improved this season as a result of our coaching staff - either individually or in terms of their team contribution.
I think it was Bladepicker who said that our second half performances have been poor. Our substitutions always seem to make us worse - is that poor preparation or poor recruitment?
Other teams seem to be better coached than us. Teams like Portsmouth, Plymouth and Hull all seemed to have more idea of what they were trying to do, albeit with more limited players. Most transition better and quicker than we do.
Our fitness levels are shocking, compounded by our tendency to acquire players who are already unfit (Campbell, Holding etc) and to keep playing players who are clearly injured eg Souza.
We want to make the academy a mainstay of the club's progression, but I can't see that we have a clear strategy for managing the development of our young talent. Is there a clear plan for getting the best out of Brooks, Seriki etc - even Peck, who did a manful job of filling in, but could you see him developing as a player? I though Brooks' treatment was very poor.
The team selections have often been bizarre/controversial. Continually picking Robinson, the insistence on playing Brewster (lately in a new and unfamiliar position), dropping O'Hare, the treatment of JRS, playing Burrows in midfield, the lack of game time for Tom Davies etc
Tactically we've often been outthought. Our sit back and defend strategy after scoring a goal was our eventual undoing.

We are now in a position of having spent over half of the parachute payments that give us such an advantage, but are we in any better position than we were 12 months ago? If Anel, Gus and Vini leave, as I expect them to, is the squad any better?

If we get promoted, I want us to go up with at least a core of players who might be Premiership quality and a manger who can continue to work with his own squad with a progressive development strategy, even if we get relegated. Currently I think we have one or two Premiership standard players (Cooper and, at a stretch, Hamer.) I don't think Wilder and his team are up to the current Premiership, we need a Director of Football and a new head coach.
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Good post and the truth. How dare you state the obvious, I thought it was only these high paid professional clowns that know anything about football.
 
Scoips said:
If McBurnie is coming back and Wilder is staying then I think we've pretty much given up on the ownership's stated aim of becoming an established Premier League club in the foreseeable future. Several on here have mounted a stout defence of Wilder, but for me he's nothing like the manager we had 6/7 years ago.

I don't think the rebuild was as good as many make out - the majority of the players who got us through this season were already here.
We brought in 17 players in the last year, I think 5 of those can be counted as good signings, Cooper (excellent!), Burrows, Campbell (for 60 minutes per game), Souttar (for the first part of the season) and Choudhury (for the second.) Others went from OK (O'Hare, Moore) to disastrous (Cannon, Shackleton.) We had the resources through parachute payments to blow other Championship teams out of the water, we could have done better.
The January window as a disaster - we didn't replace Souttar, we didn't replace Arblaster, we didn't get a decent specialist right back, we threw away £10m on Cannon, but wouldn't pay QPR an extra few hundred k for Dunne.
I can't think of one player who has improved this season as a result of our coaching staff - either individually or in terms of their team contribution.
I think it was Bladepicker who said that our second half performances have been poor. Our substitutions always seem to make us worse - is that poor preparation or poor recruitment?
Other teams seem to be better coached than us. Teams like Portsmouth, Plymouth and Hull all seemed to have more idea of what they were trying to do, albeit with more limited players. Most transition better and quicker than we do.
Our fitness levels are shocking, compounded by our tendency to acquire players who are already unfit (Campbell, Holding etc) and to keep playing players who are clearly injured eg Souza.
We want to make the academy a mainstay of the club's progression, but I can't see that we have a clear strategy for managing the development of our young talent. Is there a clear plan for getting the best out of Brooks, Seriki etc - even Peck, who did a manful job of filling in, but could you see him developing as a player? I though Brooks' treatment was very poor.
The team selections have often been bizarre/controversial. Continually picking Robinson, the insistence on playing Brewster (lately in a new and unfamiliar position), dropping O'Hare, the treatment of JRS, playing Burrows in midfield, the lack of game time for Tom Davies etc
Tactically we've often been outthought. Our sit back and defend strategy after scoring a goal was our eventual undoing.

We are now in a position of having spent over half of the parachute payments that give us such an advantage, but are we in any better position than we were 12 months ago? If Anel, Gus and Vini leave, as I expect them to, is the squad any better?

If we get promoted, I want us to go up with at least a core of players who might be Premiership quality and a manger who can continue to work with his own squad with a progressive development strategy, even if we get relegated. Currently I think we have one or two Premiership standard players (Cooper and, at a stretch, Hamer.) I don't think Wilder and his team are up to the current Premiership, we need a Director of Football and a new head coach.
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Yep, nailed it.
 
Scoips said:
If McBurnie is coming back and Wilder is staying then I think we've pretty much given up on the ownership's stated aim of becoming an established Premier League club in the foreseeable future. Several on here have mounted a stout defence of Wilder, but for me he's nothing like the manager we had 6/7 years ago.

I don't think the rebuild was as good as many make out - the majority of the players who got us through this season were already here.
We brought in 17 players in the last year, I think 5 of those can be counted as good signings, Cooper (excellent!), Burrows, Campbell (for 60 minutes per game), Souttar (for the first part of the season) and Choudhury (for the second.) Others went from OK (O'Hare, Moore) to disastrous (Cannon, Shackleton.) We had the resources through parachute payments to blow other Championship teams out of the water, we could have done better.
The January window as a disaster - we didn't replace Souttar, we didn't replace Arblaster, we didn't get a decent specialist right back, we threw away £10m on Cannon, but wouldn't pay QPR an extra few hundred k for Dunne.
I can't think of one player who has improved this season as a result of our coaching staff - either individually or in terms of their team contribution.
I think it was Bladepicker who said that our second half performances have been poor. Our substitutions always seem to make us worse - is that poor preparation or poor recruitment?
Other teams seem to be better coached than us. Teams like Portsmouth, Plymouth and Hull all seemed to have more idea of what they were trying to do, albeit with more limited players. Most transition better and quicker than we do.
Our fitness levels are shocking, compounded by our tendency to acquire players who are already unfit (Campbell, Holding etc) and to keep playing players who are clearly injured eg Souza.
We want to make the academy a mainstay of the club's progression, but I can't see that we have a clear strategy for managing the development of our young talent. Is there a clear plan for getting the best out of Brooks, Seriki etc - even Peck, who did a manful job of filling in, but could you see him developing as a player? I though Brooks' treatment was very poor.
The team selections have often been bizarre/controversial. Continually picking Robinson, the insistence on playing Brewster (lately in a new and unfamiliar position), dropping O'Hare, the treatment of JRS, playing Burrows in midfield, the lack of game time for Tom Davies etc
Tactically we've often been outthought. Our sit back and defend strategy after scoring a goal was our eventual undoing.

We are now in a position of having spent over half of the parachute payments that give us such an advantage, but are we in any better position than we were 12 months ago? If Anel, Gus and Vini leave, as I expect them to, is the squad any better?

If we get promoted, I want us to go up with at least a core of players who might be Premiership quality and a manger who can continue to work with his own squad with a progressive development strategy, even if we get relegated. Currently I think we have one or two Premiership standard players (Cooper and, at a stretch, Hamer.) I don't think Wilder and his team are up to the current Premiership, we need a Director of Football and a new head coach.
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Absolutely spot on !!
 
Scoips said:
If McBurnie is coming back and Wilder is staying then I think we've pretty much given up on the ownership's stated aim of becoming an established Premier League club in the foreseeable future. Several on here have mounted a stout defence of Wilder, but for me he's nothing like the manager we had 6/7 years ago.

I don't think the rebuild was as good as many make out - the majority of the players who got us through this season were already here.
We brought in 17 players in the last year, I think 5 of those can be counted as good signings, Cooper (excellent!), Burrows, Campbell (for 60 minutes per game), Souttar (for the first part of the season) and Choudhury (for the second.) Others went from OK (O'Hare, Moore) to disastrous (Cannon, Shackleton.) We had the resources through parachute payments to blow other Championship teams out of the water, we could have done better.
The January window as a disaster - we didn't replace Souttar, we didn't replace Arblaster, we didn't get a decent specialist right back, we threw away £10m on Cannon, but wouldn't pay QPR an extra few hundred k for Dunne.
I can't think of one player who has improved this season as a result of our coaching staff - either individually or in terms of their team contribution.
I think it was Bladepicker who said that our second half performances have been poor. Our substitutions always seem to make us worse - is that poor preparation or poor recruitment?
Other teams seem to be better coached than us. Teams like Portsmouth, Plymouth and Hull all seemed to have more idea of what they were trying to do, albeit with more limited players. Most transition better and quicker than we do.
Our fitness levels are shocking, compounded by our tendency to acquire players who are already unfit (Campbell, Holding etc) and to keep playing players who are clearly injured eg Souza.
We want to make the academy a mainstay of the club's progression, but I can't see that we have a clear strategy for managing the development of our young talent. Is there a clear plan for getting the best out of Brooks, Seriki etc - even Peck, who did a manful job of filling in, but could you see him developing as a player? I though Brooks' treatment was very poor.
The team selections have often been bizarre/controversial. Continually picking Robinson, the insistence on playing Brewster (lately in a new and unfamiliar position), dropping O'Hare, the treatment of JRS, playing Burrows in midfield, the lack of game time for Tom Davies etc
Tactically we've often been outthought. Our sit back and defend strategy after scoring a goal was our eventual undoing.

We are now in a position of having spent over half of the parachute payments that give us such an advantage, but are we in any better position than we were 12 months ago? If Anel, Gus and Vini leave, as I expect them to, is the squad any better?

If we get promoted, I want us to go up with at least a core of players who might be Premiership quality and a manger who can continue to work with his own squad with a progressive development strategy, even if we get relegated. Currently I think we have one or two Premiership standard players (Cooper and, at a stretch, Hamer.) I don't think Wilder and his team are up to the current Premiership, we need a Director of Football and a new head coach.
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With respect, I disagree with most of that post.

You have to remember the budget from last summer and the rebuild needed under the remit of an owner not willing to seriously back the rebuild and as Hamer, Souza and Anel didnt leave there wasn't much to play with, yet Wilder brought in some of the best players we've had in my time supporting United - 35 years, with Cooper, Souttar, Campbell and Burrows.

Campbell is well known to have fitness issues from his past which I assume with the data the fitness coaches have available to them was why Wilder took him off most matches. Would we rather we didn't sign Campbell?! He had no preseason also if you recall.

I agree in Robbo playing was frustrating due to errors but he also had a reasonable season overall and he wasn't getting any match time till Souttar got injured.

Your point on players not developing is tosh, sorry. Peck being the main example, Campbell has had the best season he's had in years, Burrows has developed throughout the season as had Seriki, Brooks also. The "treatment" of Brooks as you put it was because Wilder deemed him not good enough to merit match time based mainly on training I recall and most United comments on Brooks I've read concur that brooks is hot and cold, Wembley a classic example of that, same with JRS who was brought in last summer when I imagine Wilder wanted a more experienced equivalent such as Mikey Johnston which Wilder confirmed we were interested in.

The Cannon deal as yet hasn't come off, partly because of the form of Moore and Campbell both Wilder signings. Let's see how Cannon does next season On Moore, everyone was lording Moore in the last few weeks of the season and he was brought in to add a presence, hold the ball up, and be an outlet, all of which he has done. One bad game at Wembley happens, and now the half glass full brigade wants him sold on such a basis.

O'Hare played some of his best football as an impact sub in those final weeks. He's not a winger and Brewster offers pace and directness, albeit I agree he's not a winger and if we persist with 442 then I'd expect us to sign a winger in the summer. I think most agree that our performances improved going two up top but for parts of this season we had only one or two fit strikers so it wasn't an option. We all recall as fans how Wilder wanted another forward in the last week if the window; it didn't happen and that cost us big time in my opinion. Do those critical of Wilder just conveniently ignore this?

Fans of every club can be critical, but in terms of our output from last season I think very few fans thought we'd push top two, I was one who said we would because of the quality signed by Wilder to compliment the talent we retained in the summer.
 

Scoips said:
If McBurnie is coming back and Wilder is staying then I think we've pretty much given up on the ownership's stated aim of becoming an established Premier League club in the foreseeable future. Several on here have mounted a stout defence of Wilder, but for me he's nothing like the manager we had 6/7 years ago.

I don't think the rebuild was as good as many make out - the majority of the players who got us through this season were already here.
We brought in 17 players in the last year, I think 5 of those can be counted as good signings, Cooper (excellent!), Burrows, Campbell (for 60 minutes per game), Souttar (for the first part of the season) and Choudhury (for the second.) Others went from OK (O'Hare, Moore) to disastrous (Cannon, Shackleton.) We had the resources through parachute payments to blow other Championship teams out of the water, we could have done better.
The January window as a disaster - we didn't replace Souttar, we didn't replace Arblaster, we didn't get a decent specialist right back, we threw away £10m on Cannon, but wouldn't pay QPR an extra few hundred k for Dunne.
I can't think of one player who has improved this season as a result of our coaching staff - either individually or in terms of their team contribution.
I think it was Bladepicker who said that our second half performances have been poor. Our substitutions always seem to make us worse - is that poor preparation or poor recruitment?
Other teams seem to be better coached than us. Teams like Portsmouth, Plymouth and Hull all seemed to have more idea of what they were trying to do, albeit with more limited players. Most transition better and quicker than we do.
Our fitness levels are shocking, compounded by our tendency to acquire players who are already unfit (Campbell, Holding etc) and to keep playing players who are clearly injured eg Souza.
We want to make the academy a mainstay of the club's progression, but I can't see that we have a clear strategy for managing the development of our young talent. Is there a clear plan for getting the best out of Brooks, Seriki etc - even Peck, who did a manful job of filling in, but could you see him developing as a player? I though Brooks' treatment was very poor.
The team selections have often been bizarre/controversial. Continually picking Robinson, the insistence on playing Brewster (lately in a new and unfamiliar position), dropping O'Hare, the treatment of JRS, playing Burrows in midfield, the lack of game time for Tom Davies etc
Tactically we've often been outthought. Our sit back and defend strategy after scoring a goal was our eventual undoing.

We are now in a position of having spent over half of the parachute payments that give us such an advantage, but are we in any better position than we were 12 months ago? If Anel, Gus and Vini leave, as I expect them to, is the squad any better?

If we get promoted, I want us to go up with at least a core of players who might be Premiership quality and a manger who can continue to work with his own squad with a progressive development strategy, even if we get relegated. Currently I think we have one or two Premiership standard players (Cooper and, at a stretch, Hamer.) I don't think Wilder and his team are up to the current Premiership, we need a Director of Football and a new head coach.
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Great post….exactly what lots of people, if not all, are thinking themselves.
 
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