Neil Warnock heaps Praise on Chris Wilder........ (and himself)

[Harry's Game]

Neil Warnock labels Chris Wilder "tactical genius" after Sheffield United's rise

EXCLUSIVE: One boyhood Sheffield United fan turned Blades boss has been absolutely delighted by the club's rise under another boyhood fan turned boss

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

I would say I don't know how Colin has got the cheek, but yeah thinking about it, he's definitely got the brass neck for it. Let's be reyt the two CWs are poles apart, Wilder total class act and a proper Blade, Mr W***er not fit to lace his boots. No proper Blade would ever refer to W*****day before United either.

 

[bornablade]

I think there was a little subtle dig at McCabe with his reference to the ownership. (30.33)

 

[Bladesman]

I think there was a little subtle dig at McCabe with his reference to the ownership. (30.33)

Nah, I don't think so. I think he was just highlighting that the ownership issue coming to an end would be making life easier now for Wilder.

Here is the full podcast for anyone wanting to listen to Warnock talk about himself for the most part.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Another thread to criticise Warnock then?

We must be the only club that takes such delight in slagging off everyone from the past associated with us.

McCabe, Bassett, Bruce, Warnock, Robson, Blackwell, Adams, Wilson, Weir, Clough, Adkins...

There was even a thread on here calling TC a cunt once.

Give it a few years and Wilder & Knill will be a reyt pair of twats.

 

[Bladesman]

Another thread to criticise Warnock then?

We must be the only club that takes such delight in slagging off everyone from the past associated with us.

McCabe, Bassett, Bruce, Warnock, Robson, Blackwell, Adams, Wilson, Weir, Clough, Adkins...

There was even a thread on here calling TC a cunt once.

Give it a few years and Wilder & Knill will be a reyt pair of twats.

Not really. It was an interesting listen despite me not being a fan of Warnock these days and I don't think he took a swipe at McCabe either.

 

[Superblades]

Struggling to see anything wrong with what he’s said tbh. I don’t really get understand why some Blades have it in for him either.

 

[8lade]

1. When did Eamonn Holmes suddenly take an interest in football?
2. Holmes (this one not the other one) is an absolute dick.
Now I've got that out of my system i'll watch the video.

 

[Cheesebored]

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1. When did Eamonn Holmes suddenly take an interest in football?

When it was covered in icing and had candles on it.

 

[S40BLADE]

Another thread to criticise Warnock then?

We must be the only club that takes such delight in slagging off everyone from the past associated with us.

McCabe, Bassett, Bruce, Warnock, Robson, Blackwell, Adams, Wilson, Weir, Clough, Adkins...

There was even a thread on here calling TC a cunt once.

Give it a few years and Wilder & Knill will be a reyt pair of twats.

TBF Adkins was/is a prick...

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

1. When did Eamonn Holmes suddenly take an interest in football?

He's Manchester United's most famous celebrity fan.

He never shuts up about them.

He was on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? at least twice with Fergie.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Nah, I don't think so. I think he was just highlighting that the ownership issue coming to an end would be making life easier now for Wilder.

Here is the full podcast for anyone wanting to listen to Warnock talk about himself for the most part.

“Eamonn and The Gaffers” sounds like a shit student band.

 

[Bladesman]

“Eamonn and The Gaffers” sounds like a shit student band.

Exactly what I thought.

 

[SelbyBlade]

Another thread to criticise Warnock then?

We must be the only club that takes such delight in slagging off everyone from the past associated with us.

McCabe, Bassett, Bruce, Warnock, Robson, Blackwell, Adams, Wilson, Weir, Clough, Adkins...

There was even a thread on here calling TC a cunt once.

Give it a few years and Wilder & Knill will be a reyt pair of twats.

I can't remember ever slagging off Bassett or seeing a thread or even a post slagging him off. I remember someone not liking that he called us Sheffield instead of Sheff United but not slagging off his time with us. All the others I can understand for one reason or another;

McCabe did keep the purse strings tighter than he should have at various times and has made a cock out of himself since leaving the club.
Bruce did one, to a better situation leaving us in the shit and has consistently done it since.
Robson spent big money in the championship and completely messed it up his drinking could have been forgiven if he was half competent
Blackwell just removed the heart out of the club
Adams This was a shame as he had done great things elsewhere just didn't have the players and it just didn't work, good bloke though.
Wilson He was a Wednesday man FFS what do you expect? However he did an alright job but just wasn't good enough
Wier What on earth are we to say that's positive??????????
Clough I can't remember anything specifically bad at the time he was manager and he was not sacked for footballing reasons. No reason was ever public. He lost Maguire so couldn't repeat his first season getting to the Semi of the FA cup and close to the Playoffs. The only thing I can think of is he was defensive but can't think of any other negativity towards him,
Adkins Just oh dear.

I doubt Chris Wilder or Alan Knill will be thought of in any negative way. Even if their departure is controversial. They have given us the best of times and in the same way Bassett did (tactics aside). I think we will be wanting selfies with both of them long after they have left the club. Hopefully it won't come to that.

Warnock though is a different kettle of fish. He is a very good championship manager and can even put a decent squad together the triple assault squad and matches were some of the best I have ever seen. His big problems are his ego (trying to say Chris Wilder is like himself in the interview, he wishes!) and the fact that he builds team spirit by alienating everyone else so us v the world mentality. Chris Wilder builds relationships with everyone, all the squad players speak highly of him, Besic being the latest. Warnock kind of spoilt his rapport with the Blades by saying that every other set of fans were better than us wherever he went (only to build his us v them mentality) but there was no need for it.
So by alienating people including refs and therefore the authorities we were up against it in the prem before we kicked a ball. He nearly did it but refs decisions (surprise surprise) against West ham away and Liverpool at home meant we were relegated. Tactically he is not in the same league as any premier league manager he is a championship manager hence he can't keep a team in the prem.
I think we can therefore say what we think about anyone that was at the club in a big position it is a forum about the club and there's nothing wrong with you coming on and defending Wier, good luck.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Bruce did one, to a better situation leaving us in the shit and has consistently done it since.
Robson spent big money in the championship and completely messed it up his drinking could have been forgiven if he was half competent
Blackwell just removed the heart out of the club
Adams This was a shame as he had done great things elsewhere just didn't have the players and it just didn't work, good bloke though.
Wilson He was a Wednesday man FFS what do you expect? However he did an alright job but just wasn't good enough
Wier What on earth are we to say that's positive??????????
Clough I can't remember anything specifically bad at the time he was manager and he was not sacked for footballing reasons. No reason was ever public. He lost Maguire so couldn't repeat his first season getting to the Semi of the FA cup and close to the Playoffs. The only thing I can think of is he was defensive but can't think of any other negativity towards him,
Adkins Just oh dear.

Bruce – naive, but not helped by the continued sell offs and boardroom squabbles between McDonald & The Count.

Adams – he needed to bring Bassett in to help answer the phone. That was an immediate alarm bell that he simply couldn’t handle the size of the job.

Weir – the moment McDonald was sold was effectively the moment his departure was inevitable. It completely messed up the system, and we scrambled to replace him. Had McDonald stayed, or the deal with the Prince happened in preseason, it might have been different. Ultimately his career since would suggest he just wasn’t right for the job though, but he wasn’t helped by the situation here.

Clough – I’m amazed given his erratic behaviour in his full season how you can’t remember anything negative. It started with that very first game against Bristol City and continued over the course of the season right to the very end. We didn’t play two full backs in the middle of defence because of some sort of injury crisis outside his control – we did that because he’d fallen out with Collins, fallen out and sold Butler, and preferred to get multiple full-backs than an actual central defender to replace the ones we’d either sold or he was refusing to play. He is at the very least a contributing factor to the failure of Adkins the following season.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Monty today in an interesting Athletic piece where he talks about being in touch with Wilder a bit (I hadn’t realised they overlapped during Wilder’s 2nd spell).

“It is something I talked about on the video call with Chris. His teams seem to thrive under that pressure, just as we did under Neil. I do see similarities between Chris and Neil. Both are so passionate about winning and that creates a certain culture.

“I also hear training is like it was when we were there under Neil. Everything at full tilt. I remember Paul Devlin, Georges Santos, Browny (Michael Brown) — we all had fights every day. I would fire into people as a young kid and I think that is how I won their respect.

“Chris has brought that attitude back to Sheffield United. Jags is there along with Billy (Sharp), another great friend of mine. I speak to them a lot. But it is how the team is on the pitch that means I know what sort of culture Chris has brought back.”

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[Harry's Game]

Bruce – naive, but not helped by the continued sell offs and boardroom squabbles between McDonald & The Count.

Adams – he needed to bring Bassett in to help answer the phone. That was an immediate alarm bell that he simply couldn’t handle the size of the job.

Weir – the moment McDonald was sold was effectively the moment his departure was inevitable. It completely messed up the system, and we scrambled to replace him. Had McDonald stayed, or the deal with the Prince happened in preseason, it might have been different. Ultimately his career since would suggest he just wasn’t right for the job though, but he wasn’t helped by the situation here.

Clough – I’m amazed given his erratic behaviour in his full season how you can’t remember anything negative. It started with that very first game against Bristol City and continued over the course of the season right to the very end. We didn’t play two full backs in the middle of defence because of some sort of injury crisis outside his control – we did that because he’d fallen out with Collins, fallen out and sold Butler, and preferred to get multiple full-backs than an actual central defender to replace the ones we’d either sold or he was refusing to play. He is at the very least a contributing factor to the failure of Adkins the following season.

Spot on summaries of all the above managers.

 

[Gimli]

I can't remember ever slagging off Bassett or seeing a thread or even a post slagging him off. I remember someone not liking that he called us Sheffield instead of Sheff United but not slagging off his time with us. All the others I can understand for one reason or another;

McCabe did keep the purse strings tighter than he should have at various times and has made a cock out of himself since leaving the club.
Bruce did one, to a better situation leaving us in the shit and has consistently done it since.
Robson spent big money in the championship and completely messed it up his drinking could have been forgiven if he was half competent
Blackwell just removed the heart out of the club
Adams This was a shame as he had done great things elsewhere just didn't have the players and it just didn't work, good bloke though.
Wilson He was a Wednesday man FFS what do you expect? However he did an alright job but just wasn't good enough
Wier What on earth are we to say that's positive??????????
Clough I can't remember anything specifically bad at the time he was manager and he was not sacked for footballing reasons. No reason was ever public. He lost Maguire so couldn't repeat his first season getting to the Semi of the FA cup and close to the Playoffs. The only thing I can think of is he was defensive but can't think of any other negativity towards him,
Adkins Just oh dear.

I doubt Chris Wilder or Alan Knill will be thought of in any negative way. Even if their departure is controversial. They have given us the best of times and in the same way Bassett did (tactics aside). I think we will be wanting selfies with both of them long after they have left the club. Hopefully it won't come to that.

Warnock though is a different kettle of fish. He is a very good championship manager and can even put a decent squad together the triple assault squad and matches were some of the best I have ever seen. His big problems are his ego (trying to say Chris Wilder is like himself in the interview, he wishes!) and the fact that he builds team spirit by alienating everyone else so us v the world mentality. Chris Wilder builds relationships with everyone, all the squad players speak highly of him, Besic being the latest. Warnock kind of spoilt his rapport with the Blades by saying that every other set of fans were better than us wherever he went (only to build his us v them mentality) but there was no need for it.
So by alienating people including refs and therefore the authorities we were up against it in the prem before we kicked a ball. He nearly did it but refs decisions (surprise surprise) against West ham away and Liverpool at home meant we were relegated. Tactically he is not in the same league as any premier league manager he is a championship manager hence he can't keep a team in the prem.
I think we can therefore say what we think about anyone that was at the club in a big position it is a forum about the club and there's nothing wrong with you coming on and defending Wier, good luck.

Wasn’t there a massive thread about how Bassett was a hoofball dinosaur?

Can’t think of who may have been the major contributor to that thread...

#hoofwaffe

 

[8lade]

Wilson He was a Wednesday man FFS what do you expect?

I'm hoping this is a whoosh moment but I've heard it so many times, if anything I'd call Wilson a Barnsley man where he achieved most of his success. As a player yes he did play for Wednesday but again was more of a journeyman than anything else.
And also nearly all of those managers were heralded by most people when they were appointed. The only one I knew would be a failure was Captain Marvel, turned out as a manager he was more Joker.

 

[MalvernBlade]

Another thread to criticise Warnock then?

We must be the only club that takes such delight in slagging off everyone from the past associated with us.

McCabe, Bassett, Bruce, Warnock, Robson, Blackwell, Adams, Wilson, Weir, Clough, Adkins...

There was even a thread on here calling TC a cunt once.

Give it a few years and Wilder & Knill will be a reyt pair of twats.

I think that one was started after the first few games of his first season, you know that one where we finished champions on 100 points and was bumped in the past week

 

[FATTYFOULKE]

Chris Wilder interview on The Football Show at eight tonight.

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

He was great young Nigel played negative without any proper centre halves, lol genius ... They had some high points under Clough but filling in with full backs at centre half for nearly a full season was ridiculous

 

[dublin 10 blade]

Another thread to criticise Warnock then?

We must be the only club that takes such delight in slagging off everyone from the past associated with us.

McCabe, Bassett, Bruce, Warnock, Robson, Blackwell, Adams, Wilson, Weir, Clough, Adkins...

There was even a thread on here calling TC a cunt once.

Give it a few years and Wilder & Knill will be a reyt pair of twats.

Unfortunately Pedro, I won’t ever Slag Sir Dave , or believe it or not Wilson ( 2nd season his team was gutted and did far better than could have been expected) or Clough his football was dire at times but 2 semis , almost in Europe as a result if we’d beaten Dull .
Uncle Colin was good back then but his time has come and gone
Blackwell should have gone after playoff defeat
McCabe deserves some praise for steadying our holed ship
The rest deserve all the abuse they get

 

[dublin 10 blade]

1. When did Eamonn Holmes suddenly take an interest in football?
2. Holmes (this one not the other one) is an absolute dick.
Now I've got that out of my system i'll watch the video.

Manure fan Eamonn Holmes ( already posted ) should have read entire post and

 

[dublin 10 blade]

I think that one was started after the first few games of his first season, you know that one where we finished champions on 100 points and was bumped in the past week

Must have been the one where I posted after 4 games we would go up as champions ( we did )
Finish with 100 points ( we did ) and score 100 goals ( 90+ in all comps , so not far off )
But yes your right some thinking the job was too big for him on ere

 

[crucialkneeligaman]

Another thread to criticise Warnock then?

We must be the only club that takes such delight in slagging off everyone from the past associated with us.

McCabe, Bassett, Bruce, Warnock, Robson, Blackwell, Adams, Wilson, Weir, Clough, Adkins...

There was even a thread on here calling TC a cunt once.

Give it a few years and Wilder & Knill will be a reyt pair of twats.

One or two on that list maybe deserved it Peter but would agree overall with your sentiment.