Chris Wilder - manager suggestion

[bricktop]

Been a success wherever he has been.

Took over Oxford United when they was bimbling around in the conference and a couple of leagues below their natural level and has taken them to 2nd in their current division.

Knows the club, its fans and what it is all about. Worked his way up from the bottom. Never really had the chance to prove himself at a higher level.

 

[Wards]

Bladey bladey alert!

Just no.

We have a manager anyway, so what's the point speculating?

 

[gicslater]

no,no and no.not what we need.we just need some strikers 2 put the ball in the net.

 

[bricktop]

But the current manager is still unproven, has no real track record in management, and is currently making a pigs ear of it.

 

[essex blade]

I wouldn't call David Weir a manager !!!

 

[Silent Blade]

Been a success wherever he has been.

Took over Oxford United when they was bimbling around in the conference and a couple of leagues below their natural level and has taken them to 2nd in their current division.

Knows the club, its fans and what it is all about. Worked his way up from the bottom. Never really had the chance to prove himself at a higher level.

I spoke to David Frain's brother a few years ago (his son plays in same age group as my son) and he predicted that Chris Wilder would one day become Blades manager

 

[shorehamview]

I spoke to David Frain's brother a few years ago (his son plays in same age group as my son) and he predicted that Chris Wilder would one day become Blades manager

I predicted I'd be a millionaire by the time I was 40. I'm still a few quid off that, and 45. Predicting something doesn't mean it will happen. Just ask Mystic Meg.

 

[VespaBlade]

I spoke to David Frain's brother a few years ago (his son plays in same age group as my son) and he predicted that Chris Wilder would one day become Blades manager

Wow.
On this news I am straight to the bookies.....
ITK or what????

 

[sheffielder]

We need someone with a track record of managing at this level and/or above. This is no longer a learn on the job position and we have money now, although I know you still find this hard to believe.

We need someone who can energise this club and give it a bit of a spark.

Poyet
Di Matteo
Hoddle
O'Leary
Warnock

These are all managers I believe players would respond to in a positive way

 

[VespaBlade]

We need someone with a track record of managing at this level and/or above. This is no longer a learn on the job position and we have money now, although I know you still find this hard to believe.

We need someone who can energise this club and give it a bit of a spark.

Poyet
Di Matteo
Hoddle
O'Leary
Warnock

These are all managers I believe players would respond to in a positive way

But how many of them have managed at this level???
At the arse end of the 3rd division - Confidence must be low - Transfer window just shut.

I doubt any of them would want to come anyhow.
Plus we have a manager..

 

[Pinchy]

But the current manager is still unproven, has no real track record in management, and is currently making a pigs ear of it.

Whereas Wilder has established his mediocrity over many years.

Bladey Bladey nonsense. Do we never learn?

 

[LSF]

I don't even want to think about another manager at this point in time! Although we can't escape the fact our start is hardly the one we envisaged, we really have to hold our nerve and hope (yes, hope, because the signs of improvement aren't even green shoots) that the tide will turn with a Severn Bore like rush.
I hate losing, I hate the way we are playing, boring, predictable, punchless.... but... surely this bloke has more idea than a suicidal message board full of pub football experts?
I'm going to hope we tough it out because sacking another manager after footballs equivalent of the blink of an eye is more embarrassing than being 20th in the third tier with the prospect of two more defeats on the immediate horizon.
Not logical, but more sensible than sacking a bloke after a few games...

 

[SotonBlade]

We need someone with a track record of managing at this level and/or above. This is no longer a learn on the job position and we have money now, although I know you still find this hard to believe.

We need someone who can energise this club and give it a bit of a spark.

Poyet
Di Matteo
Hoddle
O'Leary
Warnock

These are all managers I believe players would respond to in a positive way

Poyet and Di Matteo - far too expensive. No matter how much money we have

Hoddle and O'Leary - been out of the game far too long. Hoddle is a boring fecker as well

Warnock - unlikely to come back in any capacity while McCabe is around

 

[sheffielder]

Poyet and Di Matteo - far too expensive. No matter how much money we have

Hoddle and O'Leary - been out of the game far too long. Hoddle is a boring fecker as well

Warnock - unlikely to come back in any capacity while McCabe is around

Don't you think McCabe being there would be the very reason he would come back. Didn't he offer himself as DoF last season?

 

[SotonBlade]

Don't you think McCabe being there would be the very reason he would come back. Didn't he offer himself as DoF last season?

He might be willing, but i dont think McCabe would

 

[sheffielder]

He might be willing, but i dont think McCabe would

Not sure the Prince would accept that as a good reason. If I bought into 50% of something and wanted to appoint someone I believe I could bring success you would be told to leave your pride out of it. This is business and that's the way I expect the prince to conduct himself.

 

[alcoblade]

Whereas Wilder has established his mediocrity over many years.

Bladey Bladey nonsense. Do we never learn?

You don't seem to. Obsession with ethos and being ashamed of our past has blocked rational thinking.

Now we're on our knees do we celebrate the new ethos? Once the celebrations are over can we start with the rational thoughts employed by all the clubs above us?

UTB

 

[Pinchy]

You don't seem to. Obsession with ethos and being ashamed of our past has blocked rational thinking.

Now we're on our knees do we celebrate the new ethos? Once the celebrations are over can we start with the rational thoughts employed by all the clubs above us?

UTB

Yes, they are falling over themselves to appoint Chris Wilder.

 

[alcoblade]

I know the odds are against it these days, but believe it or but Oxford are below us.

At least there's plenty to choose from above, none of them getting their knickers in a twist about ethos or amount of time the ball rolls on the floor.


UTB

 

[bricktop]

Whereas Wilder has established his mediocrity over many years.

Bladey Bladey nonsense. Do we never learn?

Yes we do learn Pinchy, bit by bit, slowly, slowly, catchy monkey.

The real, proper football offered up Messrs Weir, Wilson and Clough is discredited to be replaced by plenty of crosses in the box, plenty of exciting football played at high tempo, spearhead by journeymen, characterised by proficiency at set pieces, and ‘gerrinforrard’ with speed, guild and precision.

The failed experiments of Little Louis, Diego De Juve, and Ironside are part of the distant and discredited past, and we got all Bladey Bladey with the returning hero Billy Sharp.

When I wrote this the old kings were either dying or dead, the longings for the return of the old warlord Warnock was strong, the memories of discredited king of hoof, Semi-Pro Blackie still remembered warmly. We had just been beaten by some non descript pub league side like Crawley, Stevenage or Carlisle, the deep unpleasantness of the minute gory details of who now thankfully expunged from the memory,

Like all great visionaries of the past, my thoughts dismisses as the inane thoughts of the mad man.

Long live tuftyball

 

[8lade]

Alright, alright, you got your 'like'!

 

[JackSUFC]

Quality bump.

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

I spoke to David Frain's brother a few years ago (his son plays in same age group as my son) and he predicted that Chris Wilder would one day become Blades manager

Hope he lumped on.

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

Wow

 

[Paisley Blade]

Been a success wherever he has been.

Took over Oxford United when they was bimbling around in the conference and a couple of leagues below their natural level and has taken them to 2nd in their current division.

Knows the club, its fans and what it is all about. Worked his way up from the bottom. Never really had the chance to prove himself at a higher level.

Bump of all bumps !!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Ooooooo some humble pie being eaten tonight. I didn't post on this one but if I did I must admit I would be in the no thanks brigade. Funny old game Saint.

 

[bornablade]

King of the ITK

We're you just waiting for him to win the LMA award before bumping it?

 

[Rodley]

 

[MobileBlade]

I think Silent Blade comes out of this pretty well. Did VespaBlade get the bet on? And has shorehamview made it to a millionaire in his 50's?

 

[Bladesman]

King of the ITK

We're you just waiting for him to win the LMA award before bumping it?

I think he was biding his time for the Premier League promotion. He could have easily brought this thread to life after promotion from League 1.

Brownie has timed it right especially as it is regarding the resident troll.