What is Wrong With Wilder?

[United Aren't Back.]

Your first point is wrong, teams that do well score goals look at Leeds, Burnley last season and Coventry and Middlesbrough this season.
All were not particularly solid at the back but attacked with pace and always looked threatening going forward.
They didn't need too be that strong in defensive because they know if they did concede they are more than capable of out scoring the opposition.
Of course the Holy grail would be a tight defensive and a lightning quick free scoring attack.
Personally I think it is more important to be better in attack than defense, at the end of the day goals win games.
The triple assault season was a good example we often conceded but you knew we had goals in us, we were equally capable of scoring inside the first 10min or in the 96th minute.
Now when Wilder makes substitutions our attacking threat evaporates and we never look like scoring.

Agreed but Burnley were ultra tight defensively last season.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

It was right to get rid of Hecky. In fact it should have been much earlier; he should have been shown the door after the Fulham away game.

And any normal club would have binned Wilder off too, way before the end of that season as in many ways it got worse. Probably after the Arsenal humiliation when we'd conceded 21 goals during 4 consecutive home games.

There is no changing things around without risk. I think back, for example, to when Ipswich got rid of Mick McCarthy and we had the usual "be careful what you wish for" warnings from the punditry wankerati. Sure enough, Ipswich did get relegated and spent 3 seasons in the 3rd Division but they're in a far better place now. I wonder where they'd be if they still had McCarthy boring them to death?

Of course, we had a similar experience ourselves. The trouble is there's still a hell of a lot of Blades who think that can be repeated.

Hecky should have gone after the 8 goal Newcastle defeat.

 

[Blade56]

It'll be an intresting summer.

“Now is the summer of our discontent”.

If we don’t do it now, next summer Wilder will be a dead man walking. If he’s not offered a new deal the summer will all be about keeping or getting rid of him and his team. His mate int pub will start the toxic posting etc and we can forget about on field events.

 

[Nick Jansky]

Hecky should have gone after the 8 goal Newcastle defeat.

That game shouldn’t have been played in the first place after what had just happened within the club.

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Im a big wilder fan as you know but he's talking crap here. Chances other night...

 

[YES Blade]

Im a big wilder fan as you know but he's talking crap here. Chances other night...

I don’t see how the mood is going to really improve now the season is over. It’s going to be a bit apathetic until the summer.

 

[Weasel]

Im a big wilder fan as you know but he's talking crap here. Chances other night...

I took it that CW was talking about the chances we made v WBA last Saturday, not the 'get in the lead, shit ourselves, and time waste' experience in midweek.

He is right, we should have beaten WBA comfortably, but the players looked like they couldnt be arsed to grab the game by the scruff, and the game drifted and we got what we deserved in the end. We did in midweek too i.e. feck all.

 

[Blade56]

Im a big wilder fan as you know but he's talking crap here. Chances other night...

Blame the fans

 

[54yrblade]

Blame the fans

Never his fault. Always deflecting.

 

[Silky Sabella]

Slav and Selles deserved the sackings they got. Not "bladey blade" but awful at their jobs so rightfully were fired.

Results picked up with Hecky and Wilder coming in as replacements.

Slav, with the enormous backing wilder has had, would have been a massive success, and would be classed as the third greatest blades manager ever behind the legendary John Harris and Dave Bassett!

 

[Back post bob]

Just a point I would make last season some of the football we played was turgid and it was unbelievable the amount of points we gained playing like that.
Once Wilder came in this season he needed to win games he send them out and we have seen dome of the best flowing attacking football.
But when it started to look like we could Gate crash the playoffs we started well in games and then became negative.
It's something over the many years I have seen in football team in relegation position change manager and miraculous stay up by playing attacking football with points rally that would have seen them in told six.However the following season negative play comes into play the manager changes his thought process and style.
You only have to look at what happened at our neighbours with sausage roll.

 

[Blacksea]

24 points lost from winning positions. All under Wilder as we never lead under Selles. Has to be one of the highest in the league.

6 points gained from losing positions is also one of the lowest in the league.

Has he been asked to explain this in a presser,or brought it up himself to offer his explanation?
There can be a number of explanations imo, opposition bench change tactics and it's not answered by ours,we switch tactics and go more defensive for instance,we are not fit enough to see games out.
I don't recall that we concede more than usual amount of late goals though,a lot seem to have occurred just before or just after half time,do the fitness thing might be answered by that.

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

We might scrape a result today and all the happy clappers will be jumping on the wagon again with the so called messiah back to god status

 

[prescotblade]

Nothing is wrong with Wilder. He is a manager who is managing a club who have high expectations on the cheap.
If we had a top manager like Pep, he wouldn’t achieve as much on our resources.
Okay to aim for Premier League but no way we can compete.A different world

 

[Willglynning]

We might scrape a result today and all the happy clappers will be jumping on the wagon again with the so called messiah back to god status

You’re bang on with this.


It’ll be straight into ‘we can still make the playoffs, only 8 points off’ etc.

 

[Willglynning]

Nothing is wrong with Wilder. He is a manager who is managing a club who have high expectations on the cheap.
If we had a top manager like Pep, he wouldn’t achieve as much on our resources.
Okay to aim for Premier League but no way we can compete.A different world

Just to clarify, the implication here is that the current iteration of Chris Wilder is a better manager than Pep Guardiola?

Obviously it’s a completely redundant thing to even hypothesise about because there’s no way a manager of Guardiola’s pedigree would be managing Sheffield United; but to suggest that one of the best current managers in world football would not be able to achieve mid-table in the Championship with this team is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever read.

 

[JT89]

Nothing is wrong with Wilder. He is a manager who is managing a club who have high expectations on the cheap.
If we had a top manager like Pep, he wouldn’t achieve as much on our resources.
Okay to aim for Premier League but no way we can compete.A different world

The delusion is strong with this one