Danny Higginbotham

[Ashtonsmashton]

Yesterday listening to Talksport and Danny is telling them how Danny Wilson was an amazing defensive manger (I agree). He then tells them what the problem was with David weir, he says the defenders where made to do something they weren't used to (attacking). This then lead to them losing game after game because we were letting in too many goals game after game. I agree with everything he said.


So David Weir's downfall was because he wanted to play a type of football with players that didn't want or weren't used to playing it . If he wanted to play that way he should have brought players in like Aidy white in the summer window.


Thank you for reading

 

[JohnDenver]

To be more precise, I think he asked his defenders to spread out across the pitch and pass their way out of deep positions. Their lack of pace and technique, plus an amazing disappearing midfield, left them completely exposed on and off the ball.

Weir might be great manager if he inherited a great set of players.

 

[Hartley Hare]

Weir tried to make a silk purse from a sow's ear.

He should have looked and thought................. I have a Sow's ear in my hand, I don't think I can make a nice silky purse from this tatty thing, but he didn't, and he got sacked.

The moral of this story is - know your limitations.

I didn't get where I am today without knowing my limitations...............

HH

 

[Gibbo89]

Seems to me new managers have choices once they are appointed. 1) look at the playing staff and backroom staff and then decide what style and tactics will get the best out of them in the short term and go with that, whilst making changes over time to staff and style/tactics to achieve the vision you think will progress the club in the medium and long term. 2) insist on a playing style and tactics which you are familiar with but which doesn't suit anybody else at the club and which results in defeat after defeat. So bring in a disparate heap of players (who similarly aren't up to what you expect) to sort things out but to no avail.... so rightly get the sack. To me it's a difference between an experienced manager who's willing to adapt and a rookie with a closed mind.
Cloughie may or may not work out in the long run but for now I'm more confident than for several years.

 

[MBoreman]

To be more precise, I think he asked his defenders to spread out across the pitch and pass their way out of deep positions. Their lack of pace and technique, plus an amazing disappearing midfield, left them completely exposed on and off the ball.

Weir might be great manager if he inherited a great set of players.

Agreed, I think he will have some managerial success if he gets the right club. Unlike most new managers it would probably have benefited him to just be chucked in at the top as opposed to starting out in a terrible league with terrible players.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

Agreed, I think he will have some managerial success if he gets the right club. Unlike most new managers it would probably have benefited him to just be chucked in at the top as opposed to starting out in a terrible league with terrible players.

I think he'll have to do his time in the backroom somewhere before he gets another crack at management.

 

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

Danny Higginbotham always struck me as a pleasant guy and I suspect he is extending that towards David Weir as well.

That said, I find the excuse for Weirs shortcomings as a Manager was because he wanted to play attacking football as nothing short of absolute bollocks.

1. The defence leaked goals because nobody in front of them were scoring or at least keeping possession. So if the emphasis was on attacking, why wasn't his attacking players (that he also signed) doing their job? Was it because they came from teams where the coaching emphasis was on defending from the front. Failure.

2. The style of play in his early games wasn't attacking. It was a feeble attempt at a patient/possession style with the aim of trying to pull the opposition apart. When it was clear that wasn't working because we didn't have the players to do it, he was too stubborn to try and change it (e.g. 2 strikers). Failure.

3. What position did David Weir play in throughout his long and respectable career? You'd expect him to have been able to stress the importance of defenders doing their basic function; keeping the ball away from our goal. Failure.

4. The WORST thing I observed during his time was how he couldn't even put on a pre-season to prepare a team to last 90 minutes. The players were visibly blowing out of their arse after 60/70 minutes. We conceded late goals against Burton (cup), MK Dons and lost games in the 2nd half to Rotherham, Carlisle and Preston. Failure.

One thing I cannot understand is that there is still a bit of sympathy towards Weir who statistically is the worst ever Sheffield United Manager, but when Micky Adams got the sack we all rejoiced even though his record was marginally better flogging a dead horse?

 

[Bladesway]

In short Weir tried to change too much too soon. Anyone who has been in management early in their careers is open to doing that, I know I have done it. I think if you want to beat the bloke up then you have all the ammo you need, but if you reflect on the absolute truth he just threw too much change into players who were limited in the first place. They may have come good, but it wasn't a chance the Board were prepared to take.

Reason for sympathy for Weir Deadly_D'Jaffo, probably because we all knew it was a gamble and most of us thought it was a good appointment at the time. Adams was universally thought to be the wrong man and they appointed him for the blade, bladey, blade factor. Possibly

 

[Darren]

My hunch is still that Weir will do a Martin Peters and will decide that he really doesn't need the flack that comes with this managerial lark. He will play golf, do match day hosting at Everton ad Rangers, do some punditry and count his money.

 

[billyblademan]

Danny Higginbotham always struck me as a pleasant guy and I suspect he is extending that towards David Weir as well.

That said, I find the excuse for Weirs shortcomings as a Manager was because he wanted to play attacking football as nothing short of absolute bollocks.

1. The defence leaked goals because nobody in front of them were scoring or at least keeping possession. So if the emphasis was on attacking, why wasn't his attacking players (that he also signed) doing their job? Was it because they came from teams where the coaching emphasis was on defending from the front. Failure.

2. The style of play in his early games wasn't attacking. It was a feeble attempt at a patient/possession style with the aim of trying to pull the opposition apart. When it was clear that wasn't working because we didn't have the players to do it, he was too stubborn to try and change it (e.g. 2 strikers). Failure.

3. What position did David Weir play in throughout his long and respectable career? You'd expect him to have been able to stress the importance of defenders doing their basic function; keeping the ball away from our goal. Failure.

4. The WORST thing I observed during his time was how he couldn't even put on a pre-season to prepare a team to last 90 minutes. The players were visibly blowing out of their arse after 60/70 minutes. We conceded late goals against Burton (cup), MK Dons and lost games in the 2nd half to Rotherham, Carlisle and Preston. Failure.

One thing I cannot understand is that there is still a bit of sympathy towards Weir who statistically is the worst ever Sheffield United Manager, but when Micky Adams got the sack we all rejoiced even though his record was marginally better flogging a dead horse?

Add Wolves to point 4. Well in the game first half, second we weren't even chasing shadows - we couldn't catch up with them.

At Peterborough, we were visible shattered, but kept going, and harassing every Posh player on the ball. At FT, all the midfielders just collapsed, but they showed more effort in the last 20 than they had done. Probably due to the fact Morgan was watching over them!