Wilder OUT - megathread

[blades_95]

I ultimately think we need to move on from him, but with the current board I do think we’d be worse off as they clearly don’t have any form of plan or footballing knowledge.

But that doesn’t excuse Wilder from criticism from things that are in his control. Brooks left at the start of pre-season & Hamer going was always likely yet we’ve wasted our limited resources on Phillips, Jairo, Hamza & Doherty. We have FIVE (or 6 if Hamza plays there) defensive midfielders, and 4 (arguably 3) right backs with Seriki, Doherty, Shackleton & Hamza. Fine these players individually are ones he knows & will ‘do a job’ but what’s the point when half of them will be sat on the bench?

We spent all pre-season playing 4-2-3-1 without having the depth of personnel, then have abandoned this & moved to a 4-4-2 / 5-4-1 that we haven’t prepared for. In fact Wilder point blank refused to switch to a back 5 last season even when the squad was set up for it (one dead rubber against Bristol City aside when he changed the whole team).

Everything about this summer from the board to the manager has felt so haphazard, reactive and so poorly thought out.

We have some individual talent still (Cooper, Seriki, Tanganga, Burrows, McCallum, Peck, Phillips, Donovan, Bamford, Oné) yet we seem to have zero idea how to use them, how to improve them and how to get the best out of them. This is why people are frustrated with Wilder - yes there are things out of his control, but he should be getting more out of this group than he is. The performances to date have been embarrassing and aside from a 6 week purple patch, they weren’t much better last season.

 

[HeySethUTB]

In regards to being creative, both tactically and in transfer market, it’s not great.

In regards to having all you best players sold from underneath you, being giving false hope and little support, it not his fault.

Feel sorry for him, and I’d rather it be wilder managing the club under these circumstances rather than anyone else. He might be the only thing that claws us into a survival place this season. Albeit playing functional football.

 

[Blade59]

I also think we need to move on but it is not just the manager, it is the whole structure of the club from recruitment, tactics, short medium and long term planning. Just changing the manager is not going to alter anything. What we need are owners who have a proper vision of what they want for the club and than to set up a structure and management team to deliver that vision. Football has changed and continues to change but we are not moving with the times. It is a bit like a transport company where the industry is changing to modern electric vehicles and using the latest satellite and route planning technology. We in the meantime are buying second hand diesels with a few miles left on the clock and using the local A-Z.