Life after Wilder.

After Wilders gone we get a new manager. Results pick up for a bit, then the deficiencies in the players lead to inconsistent and sometimes bad results. Fans take the hump and so it goes on ad finitum. Its just the way.
 
jonny_greenings_sock said:
To be clear, I’m a huge fan of Wilder as a coach and think he’s a perfect fit for us. Can see the green shoots of what he’s doing here and I think he’s the best manager outside the Premier League at the minute, his record backs it up.

But… on one hand, 5 wins in 19 is nowhere near. If we don’t get close to promotion this season I can’t see us or him hanging around.

On the other hand, I get twitchy every time a PL manager loses their job, because you can see why Wilder would be a great choice for Bournemouth, Everton, Southampton, whoever else will change manager in the near future.

If Wilder goes, whether that’s because he’s taken the Burnley job of his dreams 😁 or if Gibbo loses patience with our form - which could happen, if it continues for another month - will he be uniquely hard to replace given the squad atm?

Getting Wilder seems like a real medium term project. Because his system is so specific, it’s like the requirements for players are unusually specific - never in my days following Boro have we been so desperate for a left footed centre back who is good on the ball and can drop into midfield, but can also defend in a 3.

He’s been here for a year and we still haven’t got near building a team that works with his system, though we can all see what we need.

If he does leave this season or next, will he be harder to replace than the average manager? Because the players have all been signed to fit the Wilder template? What would a Warnock do with a team of wing backs and ball playing centre halfs? Are we committed to playing 3-5-2 for the next ten years?

And, does all that make him less tempted to take a Premier League job, because he has to build a very specific squad from scratch to be able to do his thing?
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Burnley came knocking because wilder was the hot topic at the time when we were seemingly doing well and I so wish he had gone back then
We are languishing in the bottom half of the championship…no premier league club is going to pluck him away now…..it’s either sack him or waste yet another season because I’ve been telling you all since early August that this fella isn’t all THAT
 
starplayer said:
After Wilders gone we get a new manager. Results pick up for a bit, then the deficiencies in the players lead to inconsistent and sometimes bad results. Fans take the hump and so it goes on ad finitum. Its just the way.
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Not if you employ someone like Alex Neil who clearly knows how to improve players and teams and create spirit and strategy at the same time
There are managers out there but we keep picking the wrong uns’
 
Rofesleg said:
I would like to think that players Wilder signs for his very specific system, e.g. as you said - a left footed centre back who is good on the ball and can drop into midfield, but can also defend in a 3 - are by definition very flexible and should easily be able to adapt and play in any system.
I don't think Jones, for example, would
worry if a new manager wanted to play him as an out and out Winger.
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Clarke drop into midfield ? Hmmmm
Needs to be able to be a reliable centre half first and foremost and he isn’t even doing that
 
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