I fear we will lose our best manager since Harris

[8lade]

I shall say this only once, slowly, so it can be understood. It is not the result (s) it is the performance and selection that is in issue.

Imagine I'm saying this slowly back to you. 'yes i know that is the issue and i thought that was made plain in my original post. Wilder has had problems before and has sorted them out with time and work. If 10 games in performances are still the same then it will appear more needs to be done.'
You can read this at full speed, 'stop being a ring piece.'

 

[Snowman]

Imagine I'm saying this slowly back to you. 'yes i know that is the issue and i thought that was made plain in my original post. Wilder has had problems before and has sorted them out with time and work. If 10 games in performances are still the same then it will appear more needs to be done.'
You can read this at full speed, 'stop being a ring piece.'

Bellend is far more appropriate! Never thought of myself as a ring piece far too tight.

 

[Bashar Al Asaba]

The OP doesn't actually believe Wilder will go, it's a thinly-veiled way of having another go at a player he's always hated for no real reason.

 

[Hamburg Blade]

the self importance of some on this forum is quite astonishing at times
Wilder and the players don’t give a flying fuck about the inane ramblings of punters like me

Fixed it for you.
Wilder and the players are clearly interested in what the rest of us think.

 

[metalblade]

Silent Blade in melodramatic mood shocker

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

You are joking? A manager with no money signing players from Doncaster reserves and non-league football and keeping us up in the top flight?

Compared to a man who got us promoted with one of the two biggest budgets in the league?

Really?

Many comparisons across different eras of football are ultimately pointless (not a good choice of words in view of the league table). I loved the Bassett era, and he did about as well as it was possible to do given what was going on when he arrived. The same has been true of Wilder, whose first 18 months brought the whole club back to life. I think that if you make a comparison, you have to take into account the fact that parachute payments make it more or less impossible to do what Bassett did: signing a group of bargain basement players, getting team spirit high, playing high tempo muscular football achieved great things, but I don't think that would work now. It is also now difficult to establish yourself at this level and slowly build up a squad, because each year the best players leave, and you have to start again. Without large investment, you have to have a season where everything goes right, and that looked like happening for a while last season, before things went wrong. The challenge for Wilder is very different to that which faced Bassett; in my view it is even harder now to move up from the 3rd tier to the top tier, and we need to be patient. That is probably more unlikely than winning promotion.