Wilder’s Watford lose

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

Corky for one. He can’t stand Karanka and often drops in sly digs.

He’s trying to take the moral high ground and condescend the fan base (nothing new there) but is simply coming across as a hypocrite.

I'm not bitter about him, I think he was shot as a manager the year we went up and Gibbo should have moved him on after promotion. I'm not going to follow his every move though, I have an idea he's been crap everywhere he's been since but only from reading this board.

 

[SuperStu]

I don't like Karanka tbf. Went right off him in our Premier League season when he kept slagging off the club, fans, recruitment team.

Don't like Monk for the dodgy transfer business.

Don't like Wilder for the stuff he was saying about the club before he finally went - that fans expectations to not be 3 nil down at HT to Cardiff were unreasonable.

Southgate, Mowbray and Woodgate I don't have any bitterness towards. Just wish it'd gone differently for them. Would be perfectly happy for any to get given another crack at it!

Strachan I don't really have any opinion on.

McLaren I see as a bit of a figure of fun but do have a soft spot for him after the cup win. Same with Robson.

Pulis I don't have any strong feelings about. I don't think the football was as bad as gets made out. At least not the whole time. That 5 months when Bamford and Traore were in the side we were great to watch. Mind you in Bamfords case it obviously wasn't by design.

So there you go. Out of the last 10 or so Boro managers I have fond memories of some, dislike a few, and am indifferent to the rest - and mostly for trivial, inconsistent reasons. Hardly surprising or unusual, I'd guess everyone else is similar. It'd be weird if someone loved every single ex boro manager or despised every single ex boro manager.

 

[Linny]

I'm not bitter about him, I think he was shot as a manager the year we went up and Gibbo should have moved him on after promotion. I'm not going to follow his every move though, I have an idea he's been crap everywhere he's been since but only from reading this board.

Oh no. I’m sure your criticism of an ex manager is purely constructive whereas others are just bitter.

 

[Jedi boro]

I don't think the football was as bad as gets made out.

Each to their own.

I like to something better than throwing on a towel as a tactical master class along with A4 size notes mid match.

And who could forget this gem

 

[SuperStu]

Each to their own.

I like to something better than throwing on a towel as a tactical master class along with A4 size notes mid match.

And who could forget this gem

Dunno what to say to that Jedi. I feel like quoting that one sentence from my post without the two that followed it really changes the context of what I was saying. Your highlights are from a year after the period I've said we were good to watch.

 

[Ipad1977]

Agent Wilder.

Aye. Agent for the Blades, that is.

 

[Ipad1977]

This is the same Wilder that the board loved last Christmas?

Aye we gave him our hearts. But the very next day, he gave them away. And used the arterial blood from them to scrawl some more bull$hit in his CV to forward to the Burnley hierarchy.

 

[Ipad1977]

Will Carrick get the same when he moves on or is our bitterness reserved for Southgate, Strachan, Mowbray, Karanka, Monk, Pulis, Woodgate (now once again a red), Warnock and Wilder?

Carrick would have to go on some hell of a treacherous path to receive our bitterness tbh!

As for the others, I generally put them into 3 brackets.

1) Tos$biscuits who I'd not be bothered by ome little bit or even delighted by, them failing in the future. Wilder sits in this bracket for being a slimy little toad. Also keeping him company are his fellow tossbiscuits, The Monk of course and quite possibly Ginge as well for being either a charlatan or someone who set us back an age despite spunking a good chunk of cash comparatively to those around them.

2) The "nothing personal, you just didn't fit". Tony Pulis being the prime example, perhaps with Warnock to keep him company. I have no real bad feeling towards Pulis, it's just that he was a dinosaur with a footballing approach from the dark ages and was never going to take us anywhere. I won't lose any sleep if he fails in employment hereafter, though I certainly don't wish it upon him.

3) The wishing them the best in future, even if it didn't end up working out in their final period in charge I'd have loved to have seen these guys succeed, usually because they're honest, decent men and have often sweated blood for the club as a player. Mowbray, Southgate, Woody and of course AK take a bow.