If everyone outside of Sheffield United are questioning and laughing at it, results are proving it and COH are unwilling to defend it….

[nopigfansintown]

Unfortunately one person says it loudly and repeatedly, others latch onto it and say it loudly and repeatedly and all of a sudden it’s ‘fact’ without anyone ever being able to provenance where it has come from.

Same with lots of myths about Wilder.

I do agree with other posters that quite a lot of the football last season was really tough to watch and many of the close wins could very easily have gone the other way. For those reasons I understand exactly why people wanted a change.

From an outside perspective without actually watching us play every week, it appears that Wilder keeps grinding out results and getting rid of him was utter madness.

In balance grinding out results is exactly what he did.

Someone else summed it up really well (I forget who and the exact words) Wilder 1 was exceptional, Wilder 2 was competent. I would argue he was more than competent but it’s a pretty accurate summary in my opinion.

I think we should've been nowhere near automatic. Wilder essentially made a rod for his own back by massively overachieving on the results front. The period between October and the January reinforcements coming in is arguably his greatest period at the club. The squad was knackered, key injuries had kicked in and he just kept getting results against all the odds, keeping us in the automatic hunt. The problem he has is that he's a Blade and himself so it wasn't good enough for some.

At the risk of repeating myself, I think we won as many games we could've lost as we lost games we could've won. We scored and shut games down very effectively. This is especially true before the Souttar injury. There's precious few games where we took the lead and the opponents should've got back into it and didn't. The Leeds, Blackburn and Hull home games, Boro away and Wembley immediately spring to mind as games we should got more from. Sunderland away is another possibility. We were fortunate at Pompey home and Plymouth home but our team was in the fucked period at the time so getting the results was a significant achievement. The same with the Hull and Sunderland games above. The lack of squad depth cost us massively on reflection, but it could've cost us top six under a lesser manager

 

[vas borbokis]

I think we should've been nowhere near automatic. Wilder essentially made a rod for his own back by massively overachieving on the results front. The period between October and the January reinforcements coming in is arguably his greatest period at the club. The squad was knackered, key injuries had kicked in and he just kept getting results against all the odds, keeping us in the automatic hunt. The problem he has is that he's a Blade and himself so it wasn't good enough for some.

At the risk of repeating myself, I think we won as many games we could've lost as we lost games we could've won. We scored and shut games down very effectively. This is especially true before the Souttar injury. There's precious few games where we took the lead and the opponents should've got back into it and didn't. The Leeds, Blackburn and Hull home games, Boro away and Wembley immediately spring to mind as games we should got more from. Sunderland away is another possibility. We were fortunate at Pompey home and Plymouth home but our team was in the fucked period at the time so getting the results was a significant achievement. The same with the Hull and Sunderland games above. The lack of squad depth cost us massively on reflection, but it could've cost us top six under a lesser manager

This post has nailed it. Spot on!

 

[botoble]

This post has nailed it. Spot on!

Agree 100%

The rebuild went ahead of schedule and he paid the price for not achieving miracles.

There could be arguments that say the takeover which led to his sacking was aided by his successes on the pitch!

 

[Snowflake]

The only folk thinking that sacking Wilder was a good decision are about 40 folks on here. All those fans last night at Ipswich to a man/woman were singing for Wilder back.

And regardless of what the 40 say - they are in a massive minority.

He may not be coming back, but that was a huge mistake and all pundetary like you say are laughing at the decision, because it was idiotic.

Next manager - please have a proven track record of success in Championship please.

UTB

40 folks on here and a board of directors .
It depends on how you define failure: if not being promoted is failure then it made sense. If obtaining 92 points is success without being promoted then he didn’t fail.
If he returns, but doesn’t get 82 points from the remaining games, has he failed again ?

 

[Big.Dane.w]

Trouble is if wilder comes back will he get anything out of this team , signings we made are just not good enough. Panic buys and loans when we could have paid less for probably better players. Would have taken Gilchrest rather than Godfrey, younger with lots to improve on and knew the club . We have also lost a lot of the backroom team including Jack Lester. Wilder would certainly have plenty of hard work in front of him

We’ll be reyt

 

[HillStreet Blade]

Agree 100%

The rebuild went ahead of schedule and he paid the price for not achieving miracles.

There could be arguments that say the takeover which led to his sacking was aided by his successes on the pitch!

I don't understand why people cannot accept that last season we were the 3rd best team in the division. Leeds and Burnley were just that bit better than us. Nothing we could do about that.