Chris’s interview

[Slim Man]

Agree Seriki but he is but he’s crap at defending

He's not. It's a myth.

 

[Slim Man]

Having pace to burn doesn't make you a good player. He's decent going forward but isn't a good defender, highlited against Coventry when he needlessly ran the ball out of play then walked back to his position allowing Coventry to take a quick throw and score. He's a good player but not as good as some would have you believe.

One example, and I'd argue that was a lack of concentration or frustration or indeed a lack of urgency rather than being a bad bit of defending.

Lots of people say he's a bad defender but struggle with examples. They're just pre conceptions. Not to mention it can be worked on in training.

 

[Slim Man]

I agree on Seriki; a decent Championship player that’s been in good form this season but that’s it really for me. In his favour is his athleticism but he can be very sloppy on the ball, decision making and passing need work.

'A decent championship player that's been in form this season' - it's literally his second proper season

If you can't see the potential in Femi Seriki this game isn't for you. It's hardly like trying to find the Da Vinci Code.

 

[Nick Jansky]

One example, and I'd argue that was a lack of concentration or frustration or indeed a lack of urgency rather than being a bad bit of defending.

Lots of people say he's a bad defender but struggle with examples. They're just pre conceptions. Not to mention it can be worked on in training.

And he’s still young with loads of development ahead of him. Look at how far he’s come this season.

 

[Slim Man]

And he’s still young with loads of development ahead of him. Look at how far he’s come this season.

It's absolutely crackers. What's not to like about one of our own, who has tore several teams a new un from right back, is developing at a rate of knots and is the most exciting player we've had to watch since Illi (not discounting Brooks)? Well apparently according to our lot, quite a bit.

Decent championship player

 

[Broomhall Blade]

Agree Seriki but he is but he’s crap at defending

He didn't need to be good at defending yesterday, WBA offered little threat from a attacking sense.
Seriki should have started especially at home against a very poor side.
Just a bad decision by Wilder.

 

[chesblade]

Well someone is going to get an excellent player in the summer if all these rumours are true. That's what will be gutting for us if it's allowed to happen

 

[Sky Blues]

Well someone is going to get an excellent player in the summer if all these rumours are true. That's what will be gutting for us if it's allowed to happen

I'd prefer Brooks myself. Raw power and speed. He will go a long way in the game under the right manager and coaching team.

 

[scouseblade]

Word salad bollox. Wilder Sounds bereft of ideas or any insight into what is going on. Not his fault in any way, apparently, the players keep making ‘poor decisions’. Strategy was right, tactics were right, so no problems with the management - the players are just are too stupid to expedite the ‘master plan’. Yet another half time talk and reset that produces absolutely zero change in mindset or tactics. Unsurprisingly, doing nothing produces the same result. I like the guy, think he is genuine and passionate about the club. However, rinse and repeat ain’t working and time for a change. The play off final isn’t a bad bad memory, it’s a recurring nightmare

I wouldnt trust the current hierarchy to tun a bath let alone hire a decent manager. They shit the bed with selles. I think they'll go for another left field again.....

 

[The Crab]

You would have been promoted last season if there wasn't 2 other sides that got 100 points. How often isn't 90 points enough after taking your foot off the gas once the others had pulled away. Your squad wasn't brilliant but he got them playing with a siege mentality and it worked. His prize for this was the sack and his squad changed. After finding out how poor a squad you were left with his replacement got the sack and he came back to save you.

You've been left with an average Championship squad. He can't be blamed for this. He is a limited manager but he is good at what he does. But yes, he can be creative with his post match interviews, but there's a lot worse out there.

Always good to see a neutral perspective.

Personally, I think he’s lost a lot of the elements that he had about him previously.

Like him or loath him, his sides used to reflect our character. To be able to get an extra 10% out of players who didn’t have 10% to give. I just don’t see that now, in him or the players.

It genuinely pains me to say these things. What he has achieved for us puts him up there with Warnock and Bassett in my time (John Harris was a bit before me sadly).

But this now, puts me in mind of Mohammed Ali shambling around the ring when he was clearly done. Even true greats lose their power eventually

 

[TJ blade]

Well someone is going to get an excellent player in the summer if all these rumours are true. That's what will be gutting for us if it's allowed to happen

Hes not a prem player yet, needs another season with us, maybe a club will test the water with an offer, obviously if its ridiculous, snap there hands off.

 

[Cheesebored]

One example, and I'd argue that was a lack of concentration or frustration or indeed a lack of urgency rather than being a bad bit of defending.

Lots of people say he's a bad defender but struggle with examples. They're just pre conceptions. Not to mention it can be worked on in training.

I'd agree with that. I think he's a decent player and still young enough to improve defensively. My issue is more with people believing a Premier league team will pay big money for him. I just don't see it unless they're spending money on potential like Osula.

 

[54yrblade]

Always good to see a neutral perspective.

Personally, I think he’s lost a lot of the elements that he had about him previously.

Like him or loath him, his sides used to reflect our character. To be able to get an extra 10% out of players who didn’t have 10% to give. I just don’t see that now, in him or the players.

It genuinely pains me to say these things. What he has achieved for us puts him up there with Warnock and Bassett in my time (John Harris was a bit before me sadly).

But this now, puts me in mind of Mohammed Ali shambling around the ring when he was clearly done. Even true greats lose their power eventually

Excellent post!

From the start of his managerial career Chris was known for positivity, attacking intent and his teams being fit enough to run other sides down in that mad, glorious run to the PL.

Whatever happened for him or between him and the club in the early part of the 21-22 season that led to him leaving has changed how he manages and his ability to push a squad on.

He's not the same and that's where I differ with many on here. Like us all, he's getting older and times are moving on.

His tactical plans don't allow for very obvious changes to be made quickly, we waste so much time and possession and we still have a fitness problem that was present all last season.

Some times, things happen in life that changes us and we simply can't go back or pretend that things haven't changed , however much we want to cling to the old image and thoughts.

And ageing is part of that too. It's life and life moves on, for us all.

 

[Andy67]

To be fair, the majority of the current squad are pretty thick, and a couple of the handful that aren’t are past it or just not very good. The intelligent ones are Bamford, Riedewald, Mee, Bindon and McGuinness. The rest of them are, at best, not very bright.

Is this sarcasm? What has not being able to do a qualification got to do with understanding and executing playing a football match.

 

[Nick Jansky]

Is this sarcasm. What has not being able to do a qualification got to do with understanding and executing playing a football match.

Intelligence, understanding and particularly speed of thought have nothing to do with passing exams.

 

[Andy67]

Intelligence, understanding and particularly speed of thought have nothing to do with passing exams.

Intelligence of the subject content and understanding + speed of thought does in all the qualifications I teach.

 

[The Fox]

The owners , the club and the supporters to a degree are in a bit of a catch 22 situation.

On one hand Wilder is a good championship manager , he'll generally put out a team to compete well , not be relegated , and therefore a safe option if the ambition of the club is to do that .
From reports he's not a guy who wants to work under a DOF and wants control over the football side of the club / business including recruitment.

On the other hand if the ambitions of the owners and supporters is to not just get promoted to the PL but stay there then there are doubts that under the current setup and personnel thats unlikely to be realised.

The Selles gamble highlites the risk , returning to Wilder as supreme leader is to many a safe but unambitious option .

So we get stuck in a recurring argument of looking at what wilder has achieved, the Selles saga and what direction the club takes .

Keeping it as it is has its merits, doing bit part change didnt work , but wholesale change ( DOF, head coach new approach ) is risky and the owners probably dont have the knowledge to manage that process .

At some stage the club and its owners need to decide where we want to be and just how we get there .

Its a tough call whichever.

 

[Bladesman]

 

[Yoonitedite]

Intelligence of the subject content and understanding + speed of thought does in all the qualifications I teach.

How instinctive ,intuitive and organic is teaching when you are placed under strict guidelines to follow a curriculum put together by those that seem to imagine we all belong in a box and are criticised for thinking outside it.
Our education system doesn't even measure intelligence

 

[Andy67]

I don’t want to get into a debate on intelligence, might first point stands that we shouldn’t judge footballers on how intelligent they are.

 

[Nick Jansky]

Intelligence of the subject content and understanding + speed of thought does in all the qualifications I teach.

I have worked with hundreds of people with very impressive qualifications who haven’t got the first clue how to apply what they have learned.

 

[VonBrysonsExpress]

I have worked with hundreds of people with very impressive qualifications who haven’t got the first clue how to apply what they have learned.

I won't say where I work but there is a flow of graduates coming straight in at senior manager level. Most are intelligent but then most can't adapt or adjust to challenging situations (essential for the job) and most lack emotional intelligence simply because they've not had the opportunity old gits like me have, to have to strife and work through difficult circumstances and learn from them.

Not their fault but being dropped into senior roles with little life skills means some learn and thrive whilst others implode!

 

[wadblade]

You would have been promoted last season if there wasn't 2 other sides that got 100 points. How often isn't 90 points enough after taking your foot off the gas once the others had pulled away. Your squad wasn't brilliant but he got them playing with a siege mentality and it worked. His prize for this was the sack and his squad changed. After finding out how poor a squad you were left with his replacement got the sack and he came back to save you.

You've been left with an average Championship squad. He can't be blamed for this. He is a limited manager but he is good at what he does. But yes, he can be creative with his post match interviews, but there's a lot worse out there.

It takes an outsider to see how it is
Every other fans in the league rate CW its a shame so many of our fans are so entitlteld
the deludamol isnt resticted to S6
FYI football you win some you lose some

 

[Badger Blade]

From where we were when he came back to where we are now, Chris has done a good job steering us away from danger and having us look up the table instead of down it. Casting our minds back a few months, we could easily still be in the mix with West Brom and co

Yesterday was a poor result that leaves us with an uphill and improbable battle to reach the play offs that were always something of a pipe dream.

The frustration is with the dull football we lapse back into when our best performances have been on the front foot and looking to attack.

We need to win probably 7 out the next 10.

At the end of the day, a lot rests with the donuts running the show at the top and all told, CW has done well with the hand that he was dealt.

The biggest bugbear is how shit most sides in the Championship are, particularly this year, and we've missed the boat on promotion courtesy of hiring a Spanish PE teacher in the summer who is out of his depth no matter where he ends up.

 

[Maidenhead]

I won't say where I work but there is a flow of graduates coming straight in at senior manager level. Most are intelligent but then most can't adapt or adjust to challenging situations (essential for the job) and most lack emotional intelligence simply because they've not had the opportunity old gits like me have, to have to strife and work through difficult circumstances and learn from them.

Not their fault but being dropped into senior roles with little life skills means some learn and thrive whilst others implode!

Absolutely.

The worst line manager that I ever had was a very intelligent guy and was very well thought of by the bank's hierarchy, but he didn't have a clue about real life or what motivated his direct reports so despite his undoubted intelligence and his impressive string of qualifications he was a crap manager.

The second worst line manager I ever had was almost a carbon copy.

Both were trying to manage teams doing a job that they didn't understand themselves, and whilst they knew all the theories they had no clue about life on the ground.

I once took the second one to a networking meeting with about 120 others present and when we left she said to me "wow, you knew everyone in there".

I just looked at her and said "that's my job" but she just didn't get it.

 

[Maidenhead]

From where we were when he came back to where we are now, Chris has done a good job steering us away from danger and having us look up the table instead of down it. Casting our minds back a few months, we could easily still be in the mix with West Brom and co

Yesterday was a poor result that leaves us with an uphill and improbable battle to reach the play offs that were always something of a pipe dream.

The frustration is with the dull football we lapse back into when our best performances have been on the front foot and looking to attack.

We need to win probably 7 out the next 10.

At the end of the day, a lot rests with the donuts running the show at the top and all told, CW has done well with the hand that he was dealt.

The biggest bugbear is how shit most sides in the Championship are, particularly this year, and we've missed the boat on promotion courtesy of hiring a Spanish PE teacher in the summer who is out of his depth no matter where he ends up.

It's not the "poor result" that bothers me, it's the crap performance that led to it.

We had poor opposition that came to defend and Wilder's saying "we're a possession based team"

Possession without a purpose is boring as fcuk.

 

[Ned the Donkey]

 

[sheepbridge]

You would have been promoted last season if there wasn't 2 other sides that got 100 points. How often isn't 90 points enough after taking your foot off the gas once the others had pulled away. Your squad wasn't brilliant but he got them playing with a siege mentality and it worked. His prize for this was the sack and his squad changed. After finding out how poor a squad you were left with his replacement got the sack and he came back to save you.

You've been left with an average Championship squad. He can't be blamed for this. He is a limited manager but he is good at what he does. But yes, he can be creative with his post match interviews, but there's a lot worse out there.

He has to take some of the blame. The vast majority of the players in that average championship squad were bought by Wilder.

9 of the 11 starters yesterday were bought by him or youth team players, and of the two who weren't, Binden was probably man of the match.

I actually don't think the squad is that poor, it's much better than an average Championship squad as you described it, probably top 6, but we have had a succession of poor transfer windows, not just last summer's, which was bad of course, there's no denying that.

But last January and this January's were especially bad as well. We keep signing right backs on loan who aren't as good as the one we already have and last year managed to sign a £10m striker who is dreadful. He came on yesterday and did nothing, same as Rothwell.

Everyone, including the media, refer back to last summer and pretend all our issues stem back to just that, but there's much more too it. We've also signed a lot of expensive players, most, if not all have since departed for either £0 or at a loss hasn't helped.

The issue for a lot is games like yesterday. Easily the better team and should have won easily, but for whatever reason we were content to pass sideways and backwards just to keep possession without ever threatening, and then concede a late goal, which is what occurred a lot in the second half of last season.

 

[reedy63]

Nod the donkey, what does a list of nazi war criminals have to do with football?

 

[Blade In Flame]

That’s why I mentioned not being very good. Very intelligent but a poor footballer.

Just like Albert Einstein. If we'd signed him in 1915, we'd probably not have won the FA Cup. Small margins and all that.