I hope Sheffield United don't come to regret this

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

Go into politics.

Go into writing fantasy novels

 

[Nick Jansky]

Go into writing fantasy novels

He would, but Mills & Boon won’t release him from his contract.

 

[Winn Gardens Blade]

That second half at Wembley did it for me.Cost is promotion with his negative approach,keep attacking and we win that game

 

[Proper Blade]

That second half at Wembley did it for me.Cost is promotion with his negative approach,keep attacking and we win that game

Not exactly Wilder's fault that Brooks misses a one on one and Moore chooses not to square it to Campbell for a tap in. 99 times out of 100 we win that game.

 

[1066blade]

For balance, the board -
Spend £10m on a player that worsens the team
Fall from 1st to 3rd then lose PO final
Payout £500k in fines created by the ‘culture’
Become a club everyone loves to hate due to managers antics
See manager pick JLT every week despite funding a proven EPL defenders wages
See teams like Hull Plymouth and Oxford have a better game plan despite been relegation contenders
turgid football when even a win is a tough watch most games
manager pissed up on a pub table singing
manager wants Oli Mac back, you want data driven global recruitment strategy

To then keep this manager, is that not equally high risk?

Definition of insanity

Post of the day mate. Class.

 

[jt64]

Not exactly Wilder's fault that Brooks misses a one on one and Moore chooses not to square it to Campbell for a tap in. 99 times out of 100 we win that game.

I wish you were a bookmaker

 

[itsinyerblood]

I see that the OP mentions regret. Hasn't regret become an accepted emotion for any Blade?

Being a bridesmaid and never the bride seems to be our natural constituency. Who knows what decent leadership, both managerially and at Board level, might achieve, but we go with what we know and have become used to.

 

[Frank the tank]

Not exactly Wilder's fault that Brooks misses a one on one and Moore chooses not to square it to Campbell for a tap in. 99 times out of 100 we win that game.

Whose fault was it jack Robinson left mayenda with enough space to
Park a cruise ship. ?

 

[GrayBlade]

I did my grieving for Wilder the first time he left with four excellent and exciting seasons still fresh in my thoughts. This time around, not so much.

 

[Tezza1889]

For balance, the board -
Spend £10m on a player that worsens the team
Fall from 1st to 3rd then lose PO final
Payout £500k in fines created by the ‘culture’
Become a club everyone loves to hate due to managers antics
See manager pick JLT every week despite funding a proven EPL defenders wages
See teams like Hull Plymouth and Oxford have a better game plan despite been relegation contenders
turgid football when even a win is a tough watch most games
manager pissed up on a pub table singing
manager wants Oli Mac back, you want data driven global recruitment strategy

To then keep this manager, is that not equally high risk?

Definition of insanity

This is the season in a nutshell.

And Everybody does hate us...

Not one neutral wants us to win that playoffs.. not fucking one.

 

[Bobby b]

For me there wasn't a major rebuild required, everyone could see at the beginning of the season when souter came in the defence rarely looked in any trouble, so we need a good centre half, a defensive centre mid for cover and maybe winger or 2 for some width, all it needed was a little tinkering, when a new manager comes in he'll want a revolution when all was needed was a little evolution, come the end of the season and we win the title with 100+ points i will say it's inspired, but I can't see that happening at this moment in time, so I would say it's a very risky play by the owners

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

This is the season in a nutshell.

And Everybody does hate us...

Not one neutral wants us to win that playoffs.. not fucking one.

Not quite true, at least a dozen of my mates from cricket wanted us to win. That's a start anyway.

 

[Tezza1889]

L

Not quite true, at least a dozen of my mates from cricket wanted us to win. That's a start anyway.

Well im happy for you, did they also. Laugh when we lost ?

Everybody i spoke to was going with Sunderland.

God I wish id never come back here to work.

 

[HillStreet Blade]

This is the season in a nutshell.

And Everybody does hate us...

Not one neutral wants us to win that playoffs.. not fucking one.

But conveniently omitted the signing of Cooper, Burrows, Campbell, O'Hare.

 

[FlamingLip]

United have always been a club others love to hate. Nothing new. Wednesday were always the darlings.

 

[Lane Ender]

Great post pal but not a patch on gentleman John.

Or Bassett

 

[FlamingLip]

Anything other than promotion was going to lead to this understanding the urgency these owners have to get to the so called promised land . We don’t know the facts. We know CW has previous for confrontation with owners . Personally I think he was a dead man walking at the final whistle at Wembley. There is no room for sentimentality in the game today it’s a result business and I don’t think the Americans want long term ownership just to flip the club once we get to the prem which is why they are not taking a more relaxed view . If they turn us into the next Bournemouth Brighton or Brentford nobody will be bitching . The interesting days ahead but let’s get behind the boys anyway ! UTB

Or... We find ourselves searching for someone else in 12 months time following another promotion miss.

 

[Cheeky Blade]

Yes it’s a gamble.

New manager has to finish in play offs to match Wilder last season.

 

[William Large]

Whose fault was it jack Robinson left mayenda with enough space to
Park a cruise ship. ?

Not leaping to JLT’s defence entirely as for me, Holding should have played since he arrived, but having watched the game again since - Burrows bizarrely drifted into the middle of the pitch which left a load of space for Sunderland.

 

[William Large]

This is the season in a nutshell.

And Everybody does hate us...

Not one neutral wants us to win that playoffs.. not fucking one.

I personally know at least 6 neutrals that wanted us to win….

 

[Nick Jansky]

United have always been a club others love to hate. Nothing new. Wednesday were always the darlings.

Only since Bassett, really. Under John Harris we were widely admired for our style of play.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Go into politics.

He runs that thread on Vital.

 

[William Large]

Not leaping to JLT’s defence entirely as for me, Holding should have played since he arrived, but having watched the game again since - just before that goa, Burrows bizarrely drifted into the middle of the pitch which left a load of space for Sunderland.

 

[Montymagic]

Regret what?

Failing to beat teams at the bottom of the table and bottling it against Sunderland ? shit signings?

Yes he's a legend and did fucking wonders for us but fuck me the cult of wilder has to stop and we need to move on.

 

[Bladesdoc]

We all know that we have this season alone with the parachute advantages to get back to the Prem and the money tree. Miss out and we are back with the WBAs / Norwich’s / Stokes etc who used to be Prem teams and are desperately hoping to strike it lucky. We don’t want to regret fucking up the best chance of yo-yoing back up.

 

[Eskimo]

What presumably attracted the Yanks was that we have been brilliantly successful in spotting, developing and selling ( sometimes too cheaply) talent from a young age sometimes discarded by others. Aren’t we the best? Add AI to this and we could be flying.Great. So the last thing you should be doing is dismantling precisely the set up which nurtured this outcome. Wilder wasn’t certainly not the only one …. but has been an instrumental part in the leadership of the club and this success for the last nine years or so. Why thhe hell sack him for a Hull reject??

 

[Old Programme seller]

If we had gone up how would everyone think about keeping Wilder? Do you think he’d keep us up irrespective of the football we play?

 

[FlamingLip]

Only since Bassett, really. Under John Harris we were widely admired for our style of play.

So for only 40 yrs then

 

[Eskimo]

If we had gone up how would everyone think about keeping Wilder? Do you think he’d keep us up irrespective of the football we play?

 

[Nick Jansky]

So for only 40 yrs then

Yep, not for the first 100 years.