Danny Wilson

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We could be fucked with mr Clough then as well so .;)

Clough has never failed in this division. I think Wilson has been in it 8 or 9 times at least without promotion. I can't tell you how well Clough is going to do, however sitting behind him I have more confidence in him than any manager going back to Warnock.
 

sheffielder I can see your points, i dont agree with all of them but don't think you're an idiot :)

I personally thought that the first season under Wilson was excellent, but yeah he had a lot of championship players so we should've gone up automatically with the quality we had. You're right about the big games, god I know you're right. We bottled too many games that season. But points wise we got pipped and would've gone up any other season. He did get us playing some excellent football and managed to win over most fans with the football and his ability to get the best out of Ched.

Second season i thought his focus went on stripping the assets, we just couldn't have kept many of those better players because of wages and the replacements as you said had no pace. Yet he tried to bring in pacey young players, but it didn't work. He tried Kitson to add experience. Last season was a tale of two halves. First half was all about grinding results, getting the 1-0's or not losing. Second half seemed more gung-ho... But without the players to do it. Given a preseason like weir had and getting some of the players like Baxter in he might've done better this year. But by the end of last season it seemed we needed to take action and replace him because morale was rock bottom.

As I said, I don't think Wilson had a lot to be blamed for, he tried to do a difficult job during a period of big change to the playing staff. Weir was also caught in that and Clough too.
 
I don't go for this 'starry eyed' view of Danny Wilson
He 'blew it' when he had the best squad in the division bar none and he did not have the tactical nous or the balls to win promotion in his second year despite being league leaders at the turn of the year.
He lacked vision, foresight but most of all the steely judgement of what is needed to be a winner !
He was weak and niaive when it mattered and he paid the price - His performance was not unexpected - He had done the same at Swindon and MK Dons only to fail in his second year.
His transfer dealings were questionable Williams and Westlake are certainly not two of his better buys and in this life you make your own luck - Wilson just bemoaned his bad luck !
We now have a far better manager in Nigel Clough than Danny Wilson - lets move forward rather than look back with rose tinted glasses - Good luck to Barnsley - They'll need it !!
 
Wilson did absolutely nothing wrong in his time at SUFC. Robbed of his star striker at the worst possible time in season one and robbed of his top striker by an idiot chairman in season 2. Kept his dignity when he left. You only have to look at us after he left since to see how he was making a silk purse out of a sows ear.

Good luck Danny.
 
Have to admit, mostly because of Barnsley however I thought he was very lucky to inherit what would have been a middle of the road championship side and even luckier that Ched had an a weekend in rhyl before he joined so could not be sold. I think people gloss over the 1st season because the 1st half of the season wasn't great and the 2nd was all Ched until he got sent down. Worst still were the players he brought into the club and probably ended up with the slowest team sheff utd ever had.

I must admit Wilson did sign some very slow and average players.

That said I agree with most he was unlucky in his first season with us 90 points 9 times out of 10 wins you automatic promotion in any league.
 
Think he was an excellent manager for us and incredibly unlucky.

Never said a bad word about the club before, during or after his tenure. despite the way he was greeted by supporters upon his joining club.

Good bloke in my book and I wish him all the best.

Agree with every word of that. A gentleman and good football manager.

Should have been allowed to carry on at the lane.
 
If any one of 4 of our players could have put a penalty in the back of the net ,same outcome.

We shoot to the left;
We shoot to the right;
We're Sheff United;
Our pens are just shite.


With apologies to the Barmy Army (not singing that one as much this time, are you lads?)
 

Clough has never failed in this division. I think Wilson has been in it 8 or 9 times at least without promotion. I can't tell you how well Clough is going to do, however sitting behind him I have more confidence in him than any manager going back to Warnock.
. Think if he's given time and resources he could be good for us and sitting behind him on Saturday , was impressed with the way he kept telling players were they should be , rather than standing there like a statue , like weir did , the players now have a system to play and are playing it hence our small upturn in fortune , the wink at the end should have tipped you off though mate .
 
. Think if he's given time and resources he could be good for us and sitting behind him on Saturday , was impressed with the way he kept telling players were they should be , rather than standing there like a statue , like weir did , the players now have a system to play and are playing it hence our small upturn in fortune , the wink at the end should have tipped you off though mate .

While I don't really care whether a manager is demonstrative or not, I do find it interesting to watch what gets Clough going. If a player fails in trying to do the right thing, then Clough is usually up and applauding. Whereas, last Saturday, when the midfield lost patience and chipped a straight pass towards Porter, he went mental.

Got to like that.
 
While I don't really care whether a manager is demonstrative or not, I do find it interesting to watch what gets Clough going. If a player fails in trying to do the right thing, then Clough is usually up and applauding. Whereas, last Saturday, when the midfield lost patience and chipped a straight pass towards Porter, he went mental.

Got to like that.
Passing to porter or the mental bit . ;)
 
I like Wilson but i hope Barnsley get relegated.

Why anyone would wish Barnsley well is beyond me. Cant people remember the season we were relegated from the Championship & the way their scummy fans gloated?
 
With Wilson's signings you have to factor in the budget he probably had to recruit replacements after selling (or releasing) a group of better players.
Westlake and Williams will have come to the Lane on relatively low wages compared to those that left us (Williamson, Quinn, Montgomery etc) so it's difficult to state that Wilson was the only person at fault for the standard of player coming in. No doubt he was working to a mandate of reducing the wage bill whilst assembling a squad of players to fill all roles - when the coffers are shrinking the quality will almost always suffer.

I echo those who wish Danny all the best - a man of integrity and honesty - there is no reason not to.
 
If people want to know about the car park protest I have absolutely no qualms in admitting that it was me whose idea it was and I was instrumental in getting it going.

I was furious when we found out we was getting Danny Wilson for 3 reasons. The first one was that I didn't want the club to appoint a Sheffield Wednesday legend, and secondly I didn't think his track record was all that great especially in recent years and thirdly I believed there was better candidates to go for such as Mark Robins and Keith Hill. You also need to consider that at the time emotions were running high as we had just endured our worst season in years and got relegated with a series of mercenary loan players and uninspiring free transfers turning in a succession of spineless and abject performances.

What started out as an half arsed idea on Facebook and thread on here, quickly got picked up on and due to the power of the internet in the space of a few hours had a lot of people interested and also the press had picked up on it. During the space of that time I had also realised that I had maybe gone a bit over the top and wished I had not bothered doing it. I had also began to get a lot of media requests for interviews the next day which I declined as I didn't want anything I said taken out of context.

I went down the next day to see the protest but stood back and watched from a distance. I would have said there was a hardcore of 20-30 with the banners and making all the noise and probably a couple of hundred onlookers. I spent most of the protest sat in my car listening to Radio Sheffield.

After that day I decided that Danny Wilson was here and here to stay, and there was nothing to be gained from wishing ill fortune on him or the club. I went to the forums, listened to what he had to say and decided that he deserved to be given a fair shot.

Subsequently we began to play well under Danny Wilson although I thought it did take longer than normal for him to become accepted at the Lane, and I began to feel guilty about my part in the car park protest, so I decided to sit down and write him an email explaining my actions and why I had felt the way I did, expressing the fullest of apologies and wishing him well for the rest of his time at the Lane. A few days later I received an email from him in return thanking me for being a big enough man to write in and apologise and explaining my actions.

In the end I was desperately disappointed that we didn't get promotion under Danny Wilson, probably more disappointed for him than I had been for any other manager we have had at Bramall Lane, as I felt he was under rated as a manager and as a person he was a really honest, likeable and genuine bloke, and he is one of those very few people who I would consider to genuinely liked and respected by both sides of this city, and I really do hope Barnsley stay up and do well under Danny Wilson as I think he is an absolutely cracking bloke and really does deserve some success out of the game.
 
Good post brownie - fair play for getting in touch with the feller to offer your apologies. I think it would have meant a lot to him that someone took the time to explain their motivations and admit they had been too quick to judge.

Mind you if we were writing headlines about it now, I can just about picture it.

Keyboard Warrior, Wilts and Whelps ;)
 
That protest was fucking hilarious

I would prefer the word embarrassing.

I still remember that idiot with the toy pig in a Wednesday shirt being incredibly annoying and trying to be the ringleader and then appearing on the front page of the star the following week convicted of paedophilia.
 
I would prefer the word embarrassing.

I still remember that idiot with the toy pig in a Wednesday shirt being incredibly annoying and trying to be the ringleader and then appearing on the front page of the star the following week convicted of paedophilia.

Crikey, how old was the toy pig?
 
I don't go for this 'starry eyed' view of Danny Wilson
He 'blew it' when he had the best squad in the division bar none and he did not have the tactical nous or the balls to win promotion in his second year despite being league leaders at the turn of the year.
He lacked vision, foresight but most of all the steely judgement of what is needed to be a winner !
He was weak and niaive when it mattered and he paid the price - His performance was not unexpected - He had done the same at Swindon and MK Dons only to fail in his second year.
His transfer dealings were questionable Williams and Westlake are certainly not two of his better buys and in this life you make your own luck - Wilson just bemoaned his bad luck !
We now have a far better manager in Nigel Clough than Danny Wilson - lets move forward rather than look back with rose tinted glasses - Good luck to Barnsley - They'll need it !!

People also forget that Wilson had the chance to get the players he needed but decided to go sign a unknown striker from Bolton (?) which he never even seen play.
 
Although the season was fantastic in terms of entertainment, it is right up there with all our major disappointments for me. Points ahead and games in hand and all I could see was Blades telling the pigs to mind the gap. Facebook and twitter lit up and ultimately we fucked it up.

I remember being at Exeter thinking, just what the fuck are we doing here spending £300 quid on a fucking party to celebrate it.

Spending the same amount on fucking Wembley to go down there and not to for it.

I don't accept that Evans getting sent down fucked us up because we didn't beat the top 2 and if wilson had rotated his team even slightly some of the players who came in would have seen some game time.

I look back at the whole season with heartbreak because here we are 2 years later languishing in the bottom half of the same division. Wilson has never been promoted from this division in about 8/9 attempts and has a history of fucking it up at Bristol City with squads equal to the one he had in his 1st season and we put this team in his hands.

Yes I know in any other season 90+ Points would have got promotion but this team should have got 100 ultimately failed. People might not agree but I look back in heartbreak and hopefully now that the Prince has attracted Clough we can start afresh from here.

And I didn't fucking protest, I just didn't agree with the appointment. I also never ever sang the Danny song because my life motto is that 'alright' is not good enough.
 

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