2 games to save his job

[jono_t2000]

We get told all last season about how promotion is paramount to the fortunes of the football club. We get promoted having been under a transfer embargo and difficulties behind the scenes. Target 1 achieved.

Target 2 is to stay in the premier league. You would have thought given the owner wants to sell the club that a premier league team is far more attractive to potential buyers than a side back in the championship. We reach the promise land and the think tank involved with running this football club believes that spending about £15m on development players is the recipe to survival. Does anybody seriously think that even if we had kept Ndiaye and Berge that the transfer policy we were adopting was ever going to keep us up.

The people involved in running this football club do not have a scooby do what they are doing. Case in point, left back, an area that needed improving on from last season given long term injury to RND. The think tank think Larouci is the answer. Now i appreciate we have since had to deal with multiple injuries at the position, but because the initial cover we signed is nowhere near good enough, we have then had to waste a domestic loan spot on a replacement. A replacement who would have more than likely been available at the time we signed Larouci. The use of this domestic loan spot has then prevented us getting in a much needed striker imo on deadline day. It's totally haphazard in the way they have approached things. We are one injury to either Mcburnie or Archer away from an absolute disaster of a season. Another case in point, the think tank tell us about how we now have saleable assets and we have looked after the future of the football club. As i've said on another thread, our strikeforce for a promotion campaign next year will more than likely be Brewster, Traore and Osula.

This same think tank now believe we need a managerial change. We can talk about managerial changes and replacements all we like, but while ever the clowns running the football club are still in place, nothing will change.

That was not the target at all if you listened to any of the Prince's interviews.

It was to sign young up and coming players with potential for decent resale value.

Who may or may not be good enough for the Prem but very good chance of being really strong if we get relegated to give us the best chance of coming back up.

No chance Prince was gonna take a gamble on splashing the cash when all the indicators said we were highly likely to go back down regardless of who we bring in.

 

[Junior Soduko]

That was not the target at all if you listened to any of the Prince's interviews.

It was to sign young up and coming players with potential for decent resale value.

Who may or may not be good enough for the Prem but very good chance of being really strong if we get relegated to give us the best chance of coming back up.

No chance Prince was gonna take a gamble on splashing the cash when all the indicators said we were highly likely to go back down regardless of who we bring in.

So why is he now contemplating sacking the manager if surviving in the premier league isnt the target?

The plan is a complete mess, we've got 3 players that you could get reasonable money for, Anel, Souza and Hamer, and it wouldnt surprise me if all 3 had to depart following relegation. Our contractual situation is a complete farce. We will be in no position to come straight back up next year irespective of who the manager is.

 

[Le Cynique]

So why is he now contemplating sacking the manager if surviving in the premier league isnt the target?

We've only got hearsay and rumour suggesting that he is

 

[tincan]

We'd be better off signing a better defensive coach than Hudson. Someone who knows how to stop conceding set pieces in the PL without new signings.....

 

[TJ blade]

I would stick with Hecky and see how the next 6 to 8 games go. I can see us losing the next 4 games quite easily and a new manager won't make a difference. It's the games from 5 upwards where the team has to improve. If there's no improvement then a change of management will happen - the board might not even wait that long though.

If we are bottom at Christmas then we must not spend money in January and instead plan for the Champ next season. A few loans to go back along with Archer should see us financially comfortable for a couple of seasons.

A new owner would make all of my points above, well... pointless

We've been planning for the championship since July

 

[247Blade]

We'd be better off signing a better defensive coach than Hudson. Someone who knows how to stop conceding set pieces in the PL without new signings.....

We'd be better employing a bricky to brick goal up!

 

[billyblademan]

There is, of course, a Third Way.

A few things from that:

1) Didzy
2) Jack
3) How far forward was Fleck? Almost playing as a striker, or in the 10 role when Norwood/Didzy had the ball around the centre circle.
4) Fuck me how confident and bloody awesome we were back then. We were brilliant that day.

 

[Rodley]

A few things from that:

1) Didzy
2) Jack
3) How far forward was Fleck? Almost playing as a striker, or in the 10 role when Norwood/Didzy had the ball around the centre circle.
4) Fuck me how confident and bloody awesome we were back then. We were brilliant that day.

When you watch it back, how Wilder got that level of performance consistently from that team is absolutely astonishing. No wonder “Wilder of Nazareth” was on a banner.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

When you watch it back, how Wilder got that level of performance consistently from that team is absolutely astonishing. No wonder “Wilder of Nazareth” was on a banner.

And yet most people on here , or at least a loud minority, will slag him off. If anything this season is showing how special that year was and he managed to get us up without parachute payments and premier league signings.

 

[turnipblade]

Potter?

 

[TJ blade]

Potter?

Good call, but to a lot our fans it's rinse & repeat.i.e Wilder or Warnock the latter would make us a bigger laughing stock than we already are. Having said that let's see were we are in the next few games Sundays match just might have been a one off

 

[tincan]

Potter

I meant a coach not the manager, Potters former assistant Bruno Salter has just been paid off by Chelsea, his profile fits in keeping Brighton solvent..

 

[Bladesman]

Potter?

Oddly enough I am not sure Potter suits us. I think he could end up being the next Adkins or Slav.

Just another manager most of us fans would want but end up being disappointed by.

 

[Espania blade]

And yet most people on here , or at least a loud minority, will slag him off. If anything this season is showing how special that year was and he managed to get us up without parachute payments and premier league signings.

He's not done anything since though, maybe found out and neutered

 

[idleurchin]

Oddly enough I am not sure Potter suits us. I think he could end up being the next Adkins or Slav.

Just another manager most of us fans would want but end up being disappointed by.

Agreed. Think this club always does better when there's a big character in charge. I don't get that impression from Potter. I also don't think he'd come to us. Chelsea is a shit show and football knows this. His stock will still be high following his work at Brighton. Hate to say it, but I think he can aim higher.

 

[lazyfecklessblade]

Surely not. Going from being too potless to bring in loans to flesh the squad out properly (several of our 25 are out long term), to paying up a man with several years left on his contract.

Surely we’re not that fucking thick, surely?

 

[ATL Recs]

I'm never going to criticise a manager in bringing on additional firepower when we needed (checks notes) three goals to get anything out of the game. The execution in how you play to do so? Open season on that one. But "needed to tighten up"? For fuck's sake. If we had done something like Basham for McAtee at half time instead I would treat that as tantamount to trying to defend a three goal deficit, giving up on the game and not waited for the fourth to go in before leaving for the pub.

Sometimes you need to steady the ship get a bit of a foothold in the game to get something - that was stupid what he did but hey if your tactics work on Concorde park etc

 

[jt64]

Sometimes you need to steady the ship get a bit of a foothold in the game to get something - that was stupid what he did but hey if your tactics work on Concorde park etc

In general I can agree with that, but that's usually more applicable when you're getting overrun but still only one, maybe two down. At 3-0? Alright, we'll just shut up shop, take it steady for 10-15, not let things get worse, then all Howe needs to do is bring an extra man on in midfield, pass it around the back for a while and maintain the bulk of possession, then what? We've got a quarter of the game to go, we still need three goals, been chasing the game so those still out on the park are even more fatigued, then we go into Benny Hill mode against a better team that are quite good at playing defensively. If we wanted something out of that game, we needed to pull it back to 3-1, and quickly. Going down further is the risk you take in doing so

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

Oddly enough I am not sure Potter suits us. I think he could end up being the next Adkins or Slav.

Just another manager most of us fans would want but end up being disappointed by.

He's the type that'd need to come in with a full pre season ahead of him, not mid season with a defined set of players etc.

Think he's out of our reach though. Don't think our 'project' would appeal to him.

 

[ancientblade]

im not so sure potter would be as out of reach as much as some on here seem to think he would definetly be my choice if hecky was sacked i think hes just sat at home waiting for the sacking season to start in october as great a job that hecky has done i just think hes a championship manager not a premier league manager but to be fair to him hes had his hands tied by the boardroom

 

[bladesmanluke]

Oddly enough I am not sure Potter suits us. I think he could end up being the next Adkins or Slav.

Just another manager most of us fans would want but end up being disappointed by.

I'm old enough to remember people saying this about Eddie Howe when they thought he was coming in with Tindle

 

[Stretch]

And yet most people on here , or at least a loud minority, will slag him off. If anything this season is showing how special that year was and he managed to get us up without parachute payments and premier league signings.

It is indeed a minority, but a minority on here also think COVID jabs implanted tracker devices into us, or some bollocks like that.

From what I have seen, most of us on here will be forever grateful for four incredible seasons that Wilder gave us. Most likely the best time any of us will ever experience as Blades.

We also acknowledge that his, and the team's demise was dramatic and ever since he seems to have lost all that made him great.

The two things can be and are both true.

 

[The Crab]

He's the type that'd need to come in with a full pre season ahead of him, not mid season with a defined set of players etc.

Think he's out of our reach though. Don't think our 'project' would appeal to him.

He’s a long way out of our reach sadly. I’m surprised he turned Rangers down though as that would have been a well paid shooting fish in a barrel gig most weeks

 

[The Crab]

I'm old enough to remember people saying this about Eddie Howe when they thought he was coming in with Tindle

I think with Howe it was a case of decent coach meets club with a decent budget

 

[Davalon]

Just got into a scrap at Sports Direct with a over the last tennis balls left on sale.

Need to prepare early for the Warnock appointment replacing Hecky.

 

[Pintor75]

Just got into a scrap at Sports Direct with a over the last tennis balls left on sale.

Need to prepare early for the Warnock

SERVES you right, causing RACKET in there, lucky you weren't COURT, please let us know when the NEW BALLS arrive, that would be ACE

 

[Gin&Juice]

Ice Cube and Bielsa. YHIHf.

 

[Sheffsteel]

Would make Bettis look like foolish after saying he's safe even if relegated

Only an incompetent would reveal that a member of staff is unaccountable and is able perform however they like, with zero repercussions.

Common sense really....Hecky has deserved some good will and should be given a chance...
but no single person (not Hecky not Wilder) should ever be bigger than the club.
If they fail to perform then they should be replaced....but only if we have a better replacement lined up....as it gives us the best chance of staying up.

 

[mancunianblade]

But also: we can make 5 subs. Trusty was on the bench. 2 of our CBs were absolute dogshit. How does Trusty not get any minutes at all in this scenario? Unless he has an injury we're not being told about and was just sat there to make up the numbers.

I get what your saying but bring trusty on in that game had the potential to kill his blades career before it had even started.

Imaging being a CB and your debut being a 5+ goal defeat even thought it’s not the whole story that’s the reality on paper game was gone before he would have even been considered..

 

[Nicesheffielder]

I hope Heckie grows some bollocks and gives the team a reyt shake up if and I hope it doesn't come to it my choice would be MARK ROBINS as new gaffer