Poll: Heckingbottom

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  • Make a change

    Votes: 80 19.8%

  • It's just a lack of form

    Votes: 240 59.3%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 85 21.0%
  • Total voters
    405



Without the injuries we'd be several points clear at the top.
No need to panic just yet, let's see how we go when we get players back.. Today we had Bash out of position on the left, lost RND, has 2 young lads finding their feet in midfield.. no surprise we aren't at our best.. Yeah Hecky could have maybe used the subs a bit earlier, but we were on top in the period leading up to their goal.
 
BladeInIreland said:
I have always thought of heckingbottom as a bit of a meh appointment. Steady hands, not the worst or the best we could do. I would take Wilder back tomorrow if the terms were right (e.g less money to balance the payout).
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Wilders a busted flush, need a young up and coming manager. Rob Edwards was done dirty at Watford, ideal one for the future.
 
Bedwetters out in force tonight that loss is firmly down to Basham.
 
All well and good if the returning players stay fit but they don't it is one injury after another.
Something is wrong and it has to be sorted out who or what is the reason. Otherwise players will lose confidence as they did with Wilder.
 
Chingo said:
First half was crap but we were the better side by a long way second half … you agree?
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We were half decent for the last 20 minutes which we did lots towards the end of the season last year when it was too late

You can’t butter it up we were poor and the managers decisions are baffling
 
Can I counter this poll with a question?

When the Watford game kicked off, would you have taken 4th place after 15 games, being 2 points of 1st, with the 2nd best attack and 2nd best goal difference?

We are having a major blip, no doubt about it, but who else is available who could do better?
 
I don’t think he should be sacked.But my fucking word he needs to get a grip of this injury situation I suspect he’s somehow contributing to.3 months in and our players look like they are hanging on by a thread.It’s incredibly strange and frustrating.
 
Stretch said:
Can I counter this poll with a question?

When the Watford game kicked off, would you have taken 4th place after 15 games, being 2 points of 1st, with the 2nd best attack and 2nd best goal difference?

We are having a major blip, no doubt about it, but who else is available who could do better?
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Corberan? Dyche ? Wilder ? free agents

I would go for managers in work

Jones @ Luton
McKenna @ Ipswich
 
FallowfieldBlade said:
Corberan? Dyche ? Wilder ? free agents

I would go for managers in work

Jones @ Luton
McKenna @ Ipswich
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Dyche - doubt he would come, although strangely I have always though he would end up here, just not yet. Reckon he will be keeping an eye on the likes of Forest, Villa or Leicester for next season in the champ.

Wilder - personally, I am not ready for him coming back. He has become a mood hoover. Besides, it ain't happening under the current ownership.

Corberban - meh, maybe, but he doesn't inspire me much.

Jones - worked wonders at Luton, but was a disaster at Stoke and there are similarly big expectations here.

McKenna - seriously unproven at this stage, at a decent level. He has got off to great start, but it's too early to risk his inexperience.
 



Hecky in
Maybe one day he will realise that if this club sets up for a point, we won't get one

If it sets up for three, we might not get them, but at least there's a chance we'll get something

But as sure as the sun rises in the East, if we go anywhere for a point, there'll be a total brainfart somewhere during the game
 
SwitchBLADE Smiles said:
We’ve hit our first bad run of ‘form’ for nearly 12 months (which just happens to coincide with the most bonkers run of injuries to 1st 11 players I think I’ve ever seen) and people want him gone?

Behave.
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If you give someone a job for 5 years, and they do well in their first year, then have a crap 2 and a half weeks, is it reasonable to sack them? The man’s had a shoddy couple of weeks at work (remembering that he didn’t miss Brewster’s penalty, or slide Egan’s interception straight to the opposition, or swing Basham’s leg out to give away a stonewall penalty), but the idea that we should sack a guy from his job after just over two weeks where we’ve not been impressed seems to be a bit of an odd way of acting. (And I really haven’t been all that impressed in the last 2 weeks by the way.) I know a job at a football club traditionally doesn’t last very long - averaging 4 or 5 years in the 60s, 3 or 4 in the 70s, 80s, dropping through the 90s to just over a year apparently in recent seasons (data for the top tier, actually a bit shorter historically in tier 2), but the baying for a sacking which happens at every club where there’s a few bad results seems to be an odd reaction to me.
I think we might overestimate the impact of a manager. Virtually every club seems to expect great results from this amazing plan to get a new manager, then be quickly disappointed and sack them - after about 1 year and a bit on average now, often much less.
Football clubs are big enterprises: scouting, player acquisition, academies, medical team (I know), coaches, players, manager - and I’ve probably missed loads out. Identifying just the manager as the source of everything going wrong (for two and a half weeks), or alternatively as the reason everything went right (for 3 quarters of a season) seems a bit excessive.
I think this is probably what’s behind the “he won’t be judged on Saturday’s result” headline that appeared from the board earlier in this thread - this idea that it’s probably not all down to the manager what that particular result is. I don’t know if that is the thinking; and I certainly don’t know if it’s a good idea; but jumping up and saying “I know, let’s get a new manager,” seems to not work very often either, so maybe it’s worth prioritising stability perhaps.
 
If the club sacked him, who comes in....
 
Irrelevant poll.
He's unsackable , 5 yr contract , owners have said results don't matter.
So we've got to suck up his injury record , his selection blunders & bizarre substitutions I'm afraid.
 
The injury (and type of injury) situation does indicate some issue with how we are training and conditioning the players so that could be looked at. Tactically Hecky is doing what the owners ( and majority of fans?) wanted in carrying on with the three CBs and wing backs. I think that the problem is our final ball, it is 90% of the time terrible, if that was fixed I think we would be demolishing teams week in week out.

Bit worried that Hecky only had one decent full season in him and it was unfortunately the last 30 games of last season and the first 10 of this one 🤔😂
 
After brooding overnight I'm fully in the camp of not doing anything drastic. I was fucking apoplectic last night though, it was a gutless showing and I lay 80% of that at the managers door for how we set up.

But, it's hopefully a blip and we'll turn the corner...starting this weekend.
 
Away from home we are so boring and predictable said at half time 1-0 Cov win and although gutted with yet another poor away performance I just accept it.

We are poor away from home. It's a collective mess players and managers. Credit all the away Blades you deserve better than that UTB
 
Heckingbottom is giving me Gareth Southgate vibes.

Nice bloke who comes across well but quite a limited manager. Lucky to have a talented squad at his disposal that many would love to coach but he can’t seem to get the very best out of it. Often sets up too negatively, especially away from home.

The comparisons are there to see.
 
Having seen the managers insipid post match interview laced with tetchy, defensive and dismissive comments I see a man out of his depth.
I have one question.
Does anyone believe he has the skillsets, personality and frankly a pair to turn us round because we are without a doubt borderline freefall.
Injuries-sminjuries
bad luck-sad schmuck
All that fist pumping on the pitch post match with Hecky, Jack and Stuart McAll already feels like a distant memory. He is bomb proof as results aren't important.
They are to me and if they aren't to every single Blades fan we are really in the brown stuff.
January mid table and we kiss goodbye to Sander, Ilian and Anel. Just imagine the post apocolyptic disintegration that would follow but it wwouldn't matter because the revenue from that tranche of sales is what it's all about.
This season is a watershed. Fail to gain promotion guarantees the sales of all assets on the pitch, pennies from sales given to the manager as he bloods the next crop of cash cows, Osula, Jebbo, Arblaster and so it goes, rinse and repeat.
Then we have the drastic reduction in parachute and season ticket income.
Anyone who thinks we aren't close to a moment that will define our fortunes for years to come is sleepwalking off a cliff.
 
Just hit a bad run of form imo. If it continues when the injured players are back, I'd be debating pulling the trigger. His substitutions are questionable at times.. but he's playing with half a deck.
 
Some utterly ridiculous comments on here. Anyone seriously proposing that a change is made should just go and support Watford.

PH stabilised the club when it was in turmoil and was cruising the division until the current blip. I don't agree with all of his decisions, but I also disagreed with many of CWs and DB's.

The impact that injuries are having on results shouldn't be underestimated. Let's just hope that Egan, Norwood and Ndiaye stay fit.
 
Nightsweats said:
Having seen the managers insipid post match interview laced with tetchy, defensive and dismissive comments I see a man out of his depth.
I have one question.
Does anyone believe he has the skillsets, personality and frankly a pair to turn us round because we are without a doubt borderline freefall.
Injuries-sminjuries
bad luck-sad schmuck
All that fist pumping on the pitch post match with Hecky, Jack and Stuart McAll already feels like a distant memory. He is bomb proof as results aren't important.
They are to me and if they aren't to every single Blades fan we are really in the brown stuff.
January mid table and we kiss goodbye to Sander, Ilian and Anel. Just imagine the post apocolyptic disintegration that would follow but it wwouldn't matter because the revenue from that tranche of sales is what it's all about.
This season is a watershed. Fail to gain promotion guarantees the sales of all assets on the pitch, pennies from sales given to the manager as he bloods the next crop of cash cows, Osula, Jebbo, Arblaster and so it goes, rinse and repeat.
Then we have the drastic reduction in parachute and season ticket income.
Anyone who thinks we aren't close to a moment that will define our fortunes for years to come is sleepwalking off a cliff.
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So who would you replace him with?
 



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