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'I could have been sacked a long time ago'
           

DANNY Wilson has accepted he has benefited from an ambitious board abandoning the ‘hire and fire’ mentality of modern football in favour of a more
  progressive approach during Town’s monumentally disappointing campaign.

           

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Nothing we didn't know already. It's been done to death on here already, and I think most people acknowledge he could and possibly should have gone at the start of Jan, but is now here until the end of the season at least.

Thought he made one good point in there though:

i'm still a supporter of DW and his team. i think you don't go from being a good manager to being a crap manager over night.

as he has said it's a young team and one which will flourish next season.

This year is consolidation and build on it for next year. the team needs the support from us fans and not hounding out DW all the time. let the board sort that one out. Fitton knows what he's doing.

just shut the fuck up and win a game or two.

To be fair its part of a managers job to speak to the press.

If you don't like what he says don't read it.

yeah.he hasn't been trying and should ignore the press when questioned.

I'm putting DV on orange alert.

It's all about results isn't it.

Take Saturday as an example, if we hadn't conceded the goal to Rochdale & Benyon's late goal had been a winner there would have been far less Wilson Out comments & general doom & gloom afterwards.

Maybe it's Rose tinted spectacles time, but I'm sure that when I were a lad that we supported the team in games & sometimes booed them off at the end if they were really crap.
Now it seems that the team get the bird as soon as it looks like we might lose the game.

The impatience and short sightedness in football nowadays is remarkable.

Maybe not, but a crap manager who has one lucky season is still a crap manager.

Hear, Hear!

Shut up. When Danny Wilson was appointed I bet you were chuffed to bits.

How can you 'get lucky' throughout one whole season? Admittedly, last season we were fortunate not to have many injuries/suspensions to key players, but otherwise, how can anyone state 'we were lucky last season', or we 'over performed'. It doesn't make sense to me?

Indeed, but on the flip side you cant (not that you have personally) claim that this season is just 'bad luck' either.

So when we have a good season it's lucky now.

Jeez there really is no pleasing some people.


Yes you're right, not aware that anyone is claiming that though. Well certainly not in this thread.

Not really relevent Sippo is it tbf. How i felt when he was appointed has nothing to do with us winning 1 in 10 games

No i agree. I mean don't get me wrong, we've had our fair share of so called 'bad luck' this season, but i don't think anyone can use that as an excuse for where we are in the table because we have played absolute dogshite at times.

Although saying that, given the conditions, I don't think we played THAT bad on Saturday, whereas the majority think different, so what the fuck do i know :D

They were saying that DW has been a crap manager all along. I don't agree.

to go back over old ground what killed us was having no replacement for Greer at the start of the season. LJF isn't upto scratch. Morrison was inconsistant and Cuthbert lacked having an experienced player along side him.

add to this no replacement of Paynter.

Dossevi and Pericard clearly aren't upto the task.

Hes an average ploddy manager,and we're an average ploddy club.

Could you make that 'a slow boat to China' instead ? (with no internet access)

By chancing upon a line up, formation and tactics that worked. By having at least half the team have the best season of their careers. By signing a few loan players that added to the team. By having very few injuries or suspensions.

When our Plan A didn't work, which happened increasingly towards the end of the season, there was no Plan B.

If it wasn't luck, why hasn't he been able to repeat it this season? Main problem is he tried the same Plan A which didn't work this season, even down to signing a striker on loan to play out of position at left midfield, so the lack of an alternative has become a real problem.

I'd loved to be proved wrong about the above, but at present he's just proving me right every week.

Sitting in front of a computer whinging isn't going to change anything is it?

Some of the comments towards Wilson and the boards support of him on here recently has been so cynical, so critical, so angry yet nobody seems to want to do anything about it!

No protests, minimal booing and people turning up to games means the board are not being forced to change their minds.

But hey, it's far easier to argue online with fellow fans than do something pro-active about a situation many of you are quite clearly passionate about.

No it isn't.

there is nothing pro active about not going to games!

It's not something I would ever do but it was used as an example about proving a point to any powers that be.

That would have to be an awful lot of luck involved! So therefore i don't buy it.
Surely the 'signing a few players on loan', as well as the players who so say 'had their best season of their careers' is down to good management???
He's unable to repeat it this season as we lost key players from last seasons squad....We haven't replaced them, hence a poor season - Bad management/lack of judgement - call it what you like, but it's not down to luck or the lack of imo.

Edit: Just in case you pick up on it, i wouldn't say a player had the best season of their career last season. It's your opinion if you think so, of course

and all that will do is rock the boat even more when currenrtly we need to support those that are in charge and the team to try and pull us away from the drop zone. once safe then tell the board you want change.

I agree with this.

Whether people like it or not, Wilson's not going to be sacked anytime soon, so instead of just fearing the worst, why don't we do something about it? Like this crazy thing called support?

Que us losing to Orient tonight, with Wilson getting sacked in the morning  ;D

That would be quite ironic, the day he was appointed we played Orient away too.

People that think Wilson is a shit manager who got lucky last season want their heads examining if you ask me. No one disagrees that this season has been a huge disappointment and not up to the required standard - and Wilson takes his considerable portion of blame for that.

But overall his track record in the league is very good, and I appreciate the board's refreshing aversion to making a knee jerk decision and attempting to build through continuity.

In my opinion that will make for a much more successful club over the long run, even if it has led to a few really shit journeys home on a Saturday this season.

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Chuffed to bits that we hired a manager just sacked by Hartlepool??

Yeah right...

I fully agree. I'm just highlighting how people can get so passionately against a manager/the club and do nothing other than seemingly wishing for the club to fail so they can sit there and say "I told you so".

So what had you been hoping for when Danny joined us then?

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Yep, that's probably the thing I hate most in football. Pessimist cunts who sit their whinging and whinging and being bitter as fuck and then acting smug when we lose or get scored against. Fucking cunts. Grow up and support your club rather than getting negative in the hope you can stoke your ego by being right about our misfortune. Do you actually support the club?

I sat near a cock, who I think was a grounds man on Saturday. When Prutton came on all he did was talk about how terrible he is before the bloke had done anything. He then continued to talk in the most bitter tones about all kinds of annoying shit like he was some sort of voice of reason. He was a total cock.

I put my stereo on so I didn't have to listen to his bile and then, even over my stereo, I could hear his gloating when they scored. He was smuggly sat back saying, "told you so, told ya!" to his mates. He was an absolute fucking dickhead and I had to leave then.
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With all due respect, you talk shit at times.

Tbf I don't think our support has been that bad considering the predicament we're in.  There's been some good attendances and okay, there's been some booing at the end of a few games recently, but that's hardly surprising given some of the shit we're had to sit through.  I haven't heard any Wilson Out chants, irrelevant of how people might feel.

Wilson hasn't replaced them, that's Wilsons fault and Wilson fault alone. Maybe he should have stopped signing left backs and central midfielders and used the money more wisely instead.

I'd say Paynter, Ward and Cuthbert all had the best seasons of their careers. Added to which Lucas, Douglas, Ferry, McGovern, Amankwaah, Sheehan were all a lot better last season than this.

Last season was a perfect storm - it all came together at the same time, nothing to suggest Wilson was behind it. If he was, why hasn't he done it this season?

Again, don't blame the players we've got as Wilson signed them all. I'd also argue we've got a better squad this season.

Without doubt it was a perfect appointment at the time and this was proven. At the time we were all mostly "well, okay" or "meh" but he kept us up.

You'd probably suggest a former Swindon player with no experience ;)

But we didn't score a last minute winner. From the sound of it we played well against Bournemouth andv despite losing the fans were encouraged. Saturday we were shit and we only drew at home to another poor team.

I was hoping for Jason Drysdale, yes...

I know!  :soapy tit wank:

But what does this have to do with Danny Wilson?