Time to question Wilder.

[west_yorks_blade]

There's not a lot of point to digging up old threads and scoffing at contributions with hindsight.

Forum views are written at a point in time, and reflect a snap shot of the authors emotions at that point in time.

No one felt happy about us being bottom after 4 games. Some were more despondent than others. So what?

 

[grafikhaus]

Sorry to remind you of this post! Car crash

Bugger! I don't suppose I'm the first poster who has been proved wrong. What I misconstrued as a poor poor first four games of CWs regime (a case of of 'here we go again') was simply a case of CW 'lighting the blue touch paper'.

 

[sheffielder]

There's not a lot of point to digging up old threads and scoffing at contributions with hindsight.

Forum views are written at a point in time, and reflect a snap shot of the authors emotions at that point in time.

No one felt happy about us being bottom after 4 games. Some were more despondent than others. So what?

Very tongue in cheek and glad he took it that way.

 

[Roygbiv]

I've been reading a few threads from what seems like a lifetime ago when we were bottom. Incredible how quick things have changed and in such a fashion. I was reading Deadbats report from the Millwall game and it really did seem there was only one way we were going

 

[IdLiketoRogerMoore]

At the risk of flying in the face of popular opinion, it is only October!

To quote the great Winston Wolfe: "let's not start sucking each other's dicks just yet"

 

[YES Blade]

At the risk of flying in the face of popular opinion, it is only October!

To quote the great Winston Wolfe: "let's not start sucking each other's dicks just yet"

Agreed, we were on a similar number of points at this time last year and we all know how that turned out.

We are looking a lot better than last season and a slump doesn't seem to be likely, but a few injuries and things can soon change.

 

[wizadry]

At the risk of flying in the face of popular opinion, it is only October!

To quote the great Winston Wolfe: "let's not start sucking each other's dicks just yet"

Someone can suck mine but there's no way I'm sucking theirs. Quoted by the once great Wizadry.

 

[IdLiketoRogerMoore]

Agreed, we were on a similar number of points at this time last year and we all know how that turned out.

We are looking a lot better than last season and a slump doesn't seem to be likely, but a few injuries and things can soon change.

Aye, I can't help but feel like a once battered housewife who's found a new husband who's been nothing but nice, yet cant get rid of the feeling I'm going to get locked under the stairs at some point in the not too distant future...

 

[PeteBlade]

how many of the wednesday fans that posted earlier in this thread are no longer with us
looking back the bile in some of the comments could only come from pigs in disguise

Yes, those kinds of people are real dicks.

 

[Harry's Game]

Was Millwall away the last game Leon Clarke started?

Coincidence that our style of play and performances picked up afterwards?

 

[JJ Sefton]

I'm glad nobody has reposted that message of mine from 1996 saying that Menswear would be bigger than Oasis.

 

[Bladepicker]

At least Adkins would have used players like Hammomd and Woolford instead of just paying god knows how much getting them out the place.

Hammond would be an improvement on Basham or Coutts right now. Overpaid, but still a better player than those 2.

Sorry YES but.....

lolz...

 

[Bladepicker]

Ah but have you seen how uncomfortable they are with the short ball?

Like Phil Tufnell against Curtly Ambrose.

 

[itsinyerblood]

Someone can suck mine but there's no way I'm sucking theirs. Quoted by the once great Wizadry.

Wiz, once you agree to have yours sucked, no questions asked, it's a downward slope. Before you know it you'll be known as the Kop slut, greeted with a cheer by all interested parties at home games.

 

[GrayBlade]

Calling for a manager's head and wring off players two or three weeks into the season is madness. Surely we've all watched enough football to know that teams' that start bad can go on and get promotion and even win the title, and that run away early leaders can be relegated?

Imagine if we were written off in our own day jobs before we'd even completed the training/induction? I know plenty of work colleagues that had poor starts but settled and went on to bigger and better things, just like I know some who initially flattered to deceive. Sometimes just like in the 'real world', things can just click into place for football managers and players alike, and then they're off and rolling.

 

[him behind you]

IMO they are certainly no better. And this isn't hindsight (honest) I was concerned when they were signed. I hoped to be proved wrong but so far am not convinced I will be.

Happy to admit, I appear to be being proved wrong.

 

[Barney]

There's not a lot of point to digging up old threads and scoffing at contributions with hindsight.

Forum views are written at a point in time, and reflect a snap shot of the authors emotions at that point in time.

No one felt happy about us being bottom after 4 games. Some were more despondent than others. So what?

If anything I think a lot more of those who were passionate and cared about the truly awful form than I do those who didn't seem all too bothered.

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

Wiz, once you agree to have yours sucked, no questions asked, it's a downward slope.

To be fair, on the odd occasion such an action has been performed for me, it tends to be very much on an upward slope.....at least for a few seconds

 

[itsinyerblood]

To be fair, on the odd occasion such an action has been performed for me, it tends to be very much on an upward slope.....at least for a few seconds

Ah, your context was celebratory, Wiz's has a slightly more decadent context

 

[blade too long]

I'm glad nobody has reposted that message of mine from 1996 saying that Menswear would be bigger than Oasis.

never liked oasis , prefer proper orange juice

 

[itsinyerblood]

Calling for a manager's head and wring off players two or three weeks into the season is madness. Surely we've all watched enough football to know that teams' that start bad can go on and get promotion and even win the title, and that run away early leaders can be relegated?

Imagine if we were written off in our own day jobs before we'd even completed the training/induction? I know plenty of work colleagues that had poor starts but settled and went on to bigger and better things, just like I know some who initially flattered to deceive. Sometimes just like in the 'real world', things can just click into place for football managers and players alike, and then they're off and rolling.

Completely agree, impatience or ignorance seem to be the guiding principles for supporters who are incapable of evaluating the circumstances a manager has to negotiate.
Admittedly, Wilder's start was less than desirable, but it was only a few games, yet the calls came for him to be replaced. When problems happen the way you judge anyone is to see what solutions they choose to correct said problems? New manager, new players, surely a chemistry that demands time and a little patience?

We fell lucky with Wilder's appointment, yet still a few supporter's moan and question his capability? That's not to suggest that the right to complain should be removed, but at what point do any of us begin to realise that after many years negativity we seem to have a manager who might possibly take us to promotion? And before anyone mentions it, yes I know, it's still October (just!) and there's still an awful lot of football to be played, but since when was it wrong to express an optimistic opinion? We're in great shape, our league position (for this time of year) is far better than we could have had hoped for, and most importantly, this is all deserved.

 

[Weasel]

If anything I think a lot more of those who were passionate and cared about the truly awful form than I do those who didn't seem all too bothered.

Or maybe there were fans out there who were very very bothered and very very passionate about Utd's piss poor start, but they might have engaged their brain and thought it was too early to press the panic button after just 4 games into a season. Dont confuse the 'didnt seem all too bothered' with a degree of cool collected common sense from some.

 

[wizadry]

Wiz, once you agree to have yours sucked, no questions asked, it's a downward slope. Before you know it you'll be known as the Kop slut, greeted with a cheer by all interested parties at home games.

How the fuck did you know i sat on the kop?

 

[itsinyerblood]

How the fuck did you know i sat on the kop?

Either demographic analysis, or football's equivalent of pin the tail on the donkey.

 

[wizadry]

Either demographic analysis, or football's equivalent of pin the tail on the donkey.

I can assure you now, my nickname is not Eeyore.

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

I can assure you now, my nickname is not Eeyore.

Although strangely, that is the nickname my wife calls me whenever I'm trying to embark on a sexual adventure with her.
Oh hang on, no it's not. Come to think about it, she just says Geeyore.

 

[wizadry]

Although strangely, that is the nickname my wife calls me whenever I'm trying to embark on a sexual adventure with her.
Oh hang on, no it's not. Come to think about it, she just says Geeyore.

 

[Roygbiv]

Doing a bit of research for the next podcast and came across this beauty (there are threads out there featuring me saying we are going down from this season but you'll have to find them yourselves )

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Doing a bit of research for the next podcast and came across this beauty (there are threads out there featuring me saying we are going down from this season but you'll have to find them yourselves )

O/T Roy but could you give us fans view from from the bottom 6 and relegation? I need a good chuckle.

 

[Roygbiv]

O/T Roy but could you give us fans view from from the bottom 6 and relegation? I need a good chuckle.

I'm gonna try and get that done this week. Had a few requests but I've still got 2 Easter Eggs to eat