Sir Chris The interview

[ISZA ⚔️]

"that’s why it hurts so much that he repeatedly offered to quit and eventually did. It was like how I assume your dad waking out on you as a kid feels"


You think?.

You stink.

 

[Torrix1889]

Sorry, Chris who?

 

[The Bohemian]

Freddie Mercury is also legend...But he ain’t coming back either. We’re all gutted how it ended with Chris, but as a club (including the fans)...We gotta move on.

Those were the days of our lives though, weren’t they? Stuck in the pub league for 5 years, then Wilder arrives, we play the game the proper way and, in a flash, we are the champions. Then we’re rushing headlong into the Prem and did we party!

Then, Jesus! the hero does it again and we tear it up with the big boys despite having no hitman.

It’s a hard life being a Blades boss though. Like all fans, I want it all, which puts a manager under pressure. I’m thinking, ‘Chris, don’t lose your head mate, hang on in there, we’re doing alright’. But, maybe, too much love can kill you. First the innuendo and then another one bites the dust.

As Blades fans we know that pain is so close to pleasure; that after a beautiful day the rain must fall and, ultimately, it’s in the lap of the gods.

To me Wilder will always be the hero. In football terms, maybe, the love of my life. Some see his era as a lost opportunity but for me it was made in heaven.

I also love Freddie, though some prefer Prince.

 

[Large Mendonca]

Those were the days of our lives though, weren’t they? Stuck in the pub league for 5 years, then Wilder arrives, we play the game the proper way and, in a flash, we are the champions. Then we’re rushing headlong into the Prem and did we party!

Then, Jesus! the hero does it again and we tear it up with the big boys despite having no hitman.

It’s a hard life being a Blades boss though. Like all fans, I want it all, which puts a manager under pressure. I’m thinking, ‘Chris, don’t lose your head mate, hang on in there, we’re doing alright’. But, maybe, too much love can kill you. First the innuendo and then another one bites the dust.

As Blades fans we know that pain is so close to pleasure; that after a beautiful day the rain must fall and, ultimately, it’s in the lap of the gods.

To me Wilder will always be the hero. In football terms, maybe, the love of my life. Some see his era as a lost opportunity but for me it was made in heaven.

I also love Freddie, though some prefer Prince.

Was "Stuck in the pub league for 5 years" a b-side?

 

[Bladesman]

Rest of the interview:

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

Rest of the interview:

Top interview that

I would take that version of CW back to SUFC tomorrow and if Forest don't want to employ him then they deserve a relegation fight

 

[Bladesman]

Top interview that

I would take that version of CW back to SUFC tomorrow and if Forest don't want to employ him then they deserve a relegation fight

He is right to rule himself out of the Wednesday job.

 

[nopigfansintown]

Great interview!

 

[247Blade]

Yesterday's heroes ... bye bye!

 

[Greenblades]

I think he'd have given us a much better chance of bouncing straight back up. But keeping him didn't seem to be an option.

Also, he's right. Fulham are going to walk the division. And we will be nowhere to be seen.

Not sure I agree with the last comment. Nowhere to be seen is who’s fault ? Oh yeah the Prince because he spunked the money. ? Chris is now OOW. a millionaire oow and wanting more. ( good luck to him by the way) however top blades don’t quit. He did. Many on here like me and probably you have suffered years of pain. I have zero sympathy for him. Great job. Was on 3k a week at Oxford to 60k a week at the blades. Brilliant work and hats off. Last year garbage… transfers in the last 24 months garbage…. Facts he was great and facts he came up short……. Lots of people
On here all know that they employed someone who was fantastic….. but………

 

[Gyp the blade]

Wilder gave us something we never had. The whole country was talking about us. We lived in a bubble where we would never be without Wilder as manager. It was incredible. I think that’s why it hurts so much that he repeatedly offered to quit and eventually did. It was like how I assume your dad waking out on you as a kid feels.

Bravo ISZA I’ve been trying to explain to myself since the day Wilder left how Ive been feeling the past few months. I could never put my finger on it till reading your post Bravo Now let’s get behind big Slav and the boys COYRAWA

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

Bravo ISZA I’ve been trying to explain to myself since the day Wilder left how Ive been feeling the past few months. I could never put my finger on it till reading your post Bravo Now let’s get behind big Slav and the boys COYRAWA

The biggest shame for me was that it didn’t have to end like that at all

We wanted him to stay and he would have stayed

Now he can’t even get a job in the champ and we have made a poor start with Slav, who will come good eventually we hope

However I would have much rather kept CW well the version in that interview anyway

 

[bertieblade]

The bloke who Managed us in his last season was not the bloke in that interview

 

[MagnifiqueShorehamStreet]

It was a bit like when we finished well under Clough and had a good cup run. It was all geared up for a winning next season and the preseason just got too weird.

A few things I just simply didn't understand why Chris didn't do things differently because it was well within his capabilities to have done so:

1. His original plan was to have Freeman challenge Duffy. He wanted more creativity. So with Lundstram playing up, with his 3 month purple patch over, why did he send Freeman to Forest? Why did he not just go back to plan A and Play Freeman behind the strikers as originally intended? Why did the solution have to be just signing new players?

2. Why did he not change the system when O'Connell was out? It was obvious Bryan and Robinson were no more then stop gaps. He'd played other formations, and not 3 at the back, before he came to us. Why did he not develop one of those and park the 3 with JOC out?

3. Why did he insist on spending so much on fees leaving little left for other things? Having a 30m pound Chris Wilder Training Complex and Academy would have been a far better legacy than hoping Brewster, McBurnie, Berge etc turn it around to recapture some value. It seemed saving face became more important than the long term of the club.

4. Similarly, as a new found PL team with more pull than many, how come we didn't get any decent Bosman's? Did our net just not stretch wide enough? Why did we not use up all our loan options in the final year yet end up short on midfielders and lacking in defence?

5. Why did he show such little understanding around COVID? Bleating to the media about the training ground and roof seemed wilfully blind with a number of major income streams compromised. This seemed a far cry from not tipping up the owner in search of cash that he previously mentioned.

Simple stuff really that was bread and butter to Chris. I felt quite let down because everything suggested that he'd handle those situations well. At some point his focus got lost. I don't dislike Chris. He did very well overall, but if he'd shown more maturity and resilience in the face of adversity he could have created a 10 year legacy. Look at his mate Dyche. He has a tiny squad, makes just one or two key additions each window and that's it. He embraces their limitations. He doesn't bleat about them.

Why is hindsight, so much better than plain sight?

 

[JJBlade]

I read that as he chucked him under the bus. Is he actually being complimentary about him saying he was chucked in when he shouldn't have been?

Not sure i agree TBH. A £23m players should be ready to play.

I'll watch this later

Yes, exactly
If we pick up a 21 year old through another channel, to see how he fits in, we can gradually ease him into the squad.

Spend £23 million on a player and he has to be ready

Wilder has been one of our best managers, but comments like that suggest he hasn't fully recovered from his massive brainfart yet

 

[Gin&Juice]

Our Chris went from Peroni to Peroni red label. Went to his head a bit.

 

[MagnifiqueShorehamStreet]

Our Chris went from Peroni to Peroni red label. Went to his head a bit.

Surprised you guys aren’t in line for the Forest job with all your expertise!

 

[Gin&Juice]

Surprised you guys aren’t in line for the Forest job with all your expertise!

I tried. But I once pushed Gary Brazil down some stairs by accident and they still remember.

 

[steve26272]

Don't get me wrong as that's only a portion of the interview but comes across as very much like " hey don't forget about me I'm still out here and available" with one of the only serious questions Wilder going on about what he would bring to another club.

Would he do these interviews if already had a job.. highly doubtful.

Feel like he's trying hard not to become the forgotten man imho.

quote from today’s press

”we all know what a fabulous club Nottingham Forest is, whether you go there as a player, as a manager, or whether you go there to watch games.
It very much reminds me of Sheffield United, but Sheffield United have not got the two stars on their badge.”

anyone else get the feeling the similarities to Warnock are getting stronger?

first presser in new job “…best fans ever”

wilder/Warnock bingo

blades fan
came in at a bad time
took us up
great motivator
amazing bargain basement recruits
tactically one dimensional
cant recruit with money
got us relegated
wont let it go, sticks knife in
best fans ever
HOUSE!!

honest think he damaged his rep with last 6 months antics

steve cooper has 2 failed playoffs on his CV
wilder has 2 promotions and a 9th place Prem finish

yet Cooper walks the job?

think CW may have to drop to league1, maybe Sunderland or Ipswich and work his way back up

 

[Mojo]

He's cut off his nose to spite his face by quitting us only to be scratching around desperate to land the scabs job

 

[Deadbat]

I think Wilder knows the longer he is out of the game the harder it is to get back, certainly at a decent level.

I love him for what he did for us but there are other recent examples of supposedly top up and coming managers like Paul Jewell, Owen Coyle, Paul Lambert and even a certain Mr Adkins who now are either out of the game or struggling where they are.

I think his man management and ability to galvanise a club means he can have an impact at Champ level.

I think he will get back in but it will be a struggling Champ team at best who take him and would not be shocked to see his next job be League One. That's incredible when just over a year ago he was being talked of at clubs like Everton or Spurs.

You can go from being the next big thing to the forgotten man very quickly in football. I hope he gets back into management and learns from his mistakes/stubbornness and can be successful again.

 

[CPB]

Surprises me at how many fans are easy to slag off a manager who gave us some great times took the club from L1 and even with a relegation left us in a better place than when he started. They also don't know what went down behind the scenes either.

He made some mistakes last season, but matters also transpired against us too.

He's still a big blade, this guy has supported us proper on the terraces pre and post playing. He's still watched us post his exit now.

I find it sad how it ended. I don't think it was supposed to be this way. But it was.
But the reasons for his exit are really between him and the board and basically both parties couldn't see a way to make it work. He'd become dissillusioned with the board and when this happens it's hard to keep working in that environment.

He's a blade and I don't think he wanted to leave too but it reached the point of no return.

Weve got Slav now and let's get behind him. But the we don't have to slag off one of our best managers.

 

[Whiston Blade]

We've got Slav now and let's get behind him.

The only relevant part.

 

[I should coco]

Rest of the interview:

An excellent listen.

Despite a few comments above wanting to airbrush out four of the best years in our last fifty, he gave us some fantastic times.

The interviewer is excellent and CW is relaxed and seems honest and open. Even if you are one of those, still bitter about how it ended, it is well worth a listen.

 

[Bladesman]

An excellent listen.

Despite a few comments above wanting to airbrush out four of the best years in our last fifty, he gave us some fantastic times.

The interviewer is excellent and CW is relaxed and seems honest and open. Even if you are one of those, still bitter about how it ended, it is well worth a listen.

He does loosely admit to making mistakes with recruitment. I think the more he has thought about it, he could have handled things much better than he did.

He has won back some of my respect with that interview.

 

[mattbianco1]

Love the pig fans getting rattled on Twitter by the headline they used. I'm not sure why they led with that TBH and the context behind it isn't anything like how it sounds. He was asked the question and answered it honestly. He's a fan and says he could never bring himself to do it.

Enjoyed the interview TBH. Good to see him looking well again because he looked stressed and knackered last season.

 

[Bladesman]

Love the pig fans getting rattled on Twitter by the headline they used. I'm not sure why they led with that TBH and the context behind it isn't anything like how it sounds. He was asked the question and answered it honestly. He's a fan and says he could never bring himself to do it.

Enjoyed the interview TBH. Good to see him looking well again because he looked stressed and knackered last season.

Click bait, it was to get more than just Sheffield United fans watching it.