those who say "leave the past in the past" ....... I fully respect your opinion, but: We have tried everything in the last 10 years, option wise except: 1) going back to the past 2) poaching a big name manager from one of the teams currently chasing Champions League places Option 2 was never going to, and never will be a valid option. Option 1 remains.
People will only be disappointed when M'Voto doesn't turn into De Zeeuw and Pedersen and O'Grady dont turn out to be the old Wilkinson Hendrie double act, and we don't get promoted on a shoestring budget again. Wilson has left himself an incredible legacy at the club, he's no need to come back and tarnish it.
Allan Clarke did OK second time round with no money whatsoever, but no more than OK, and was eventually sacked after a 7-0 dicking at WBA. Nevertheless, he is still a legend at the club and always will be. Wilson is out of work. Why wouldn't he want to come back to manage a club in the Championship.
I'm a bit young to remember Allan Clarke's tenure at the club, but I can imagine that circumstances weren't as bad as they are now, the 2nd time he took over?
No, you are probably right, they probably weren't. We didn't have a pot to piss in and had to offload David Hirst for peanuts to Wednesday just to pay the bills. But we were established in the division, had been in it roughly the same amount of time since the last promotion as we have now since the last promotion, but the playing field wasn't as skewed financially as it is now and we were more able to compete effectively, even with no money. But surely that means there will be less expectation on Wilson to repeat his heroics, not more. In my opinion, Wilson, or whoever else it is, would be a miracle worker if he could get us stablised in the middle of the division on a repeated basis - it's the maximum any of us expect these days.
I just feel as though, if he didn't keep us up, the fans would be after his head, as they have been for Flicker, despite what Wilson did last time he was here. Although I firmly believe he'd bring us back up if we were to go down.
No mate Winnie is retired, he has been really unwell and he could not comeback now, I am sure his son can tell you more when he logs on.
This is exactly why I want Wilson, because I actually think the opposite - I think that if he plays without fear and lets youth have its chance, and we can see something to build on, then the fans would be behind him because no one with a brain could blame the next manager for us going down, unless he doesn't win a game and we are down before March with a record minimum number of points. But if the next manager is a grim "play it ugly" type of manager, who tries to bore us to safety, and it doesn't work and we go down anyway, then there will be nothing to be optimistic about. Whoever comes in, I wouldn't hold it against them if we went down this season - we are already in a position where we need the equivalent of 13 wins in 29 games so it already looks tough. By the time we have been to Brighton and Burnley, and possibly lost them both, we would be needing pretty much 1 win every 2 games. It's gonna be tough and I don't think we'll do it. But I agree with you that Danny Wilson would get us back up. That's what we should be looking for, surely?
I am unfortunately old enough and things were about the same except crowds were even lower. We had a dreadful start it the season and he came in and sorted it though he had a bit longer to do so.
That was the following season when we had the bad start, mate. Allan Clarke was appointed manager for a second time in the Summer of 1985. That season we had a strike force of Ian Walsh, David Hirst & Gordon Owen, all of whom were amongst the goals and we were comfortable throughout in mid table.
