So. It's about time I made myself massively unpopular. Whilst I will always have a special place in my heart for Sir Danny and what he achieved all those years ago, bringing him back to the club for a second term is just a bad idea. I can forgive the way he left, as time is Great healer and I can even forgive him for managing the blunts but one thing I could never forgive him for would be ruining his legacy. The job to keep us up in the division now is colossal and I don't even think the great Danny Wilson could keep us up. Remembering here that he pulled up no trees at MK Dons, Swindon or Hartlepool I think a lot of people are in danger of their heart ruling their head. Now is the time for steady thinking and not appointing a man based purely on nostalgia. Before anyone asks in an ideal world I'd have Holloway. I think most would! We can't appoint Appleton, that's out of the frying pan into the fire. I'd like to see us go for Steve Cotterill. Feel free to shoot me down in flames.
Oh and just to improve my popularity my other choice would be Warnock but he won't come out of retirement and we are skint.
Fair enough re your opinion, Ted, but quote some facts about DW "not pulling up any trees at MK Dons, Swindon and Hartlepool"!!!!!
I hate going down the statistics route as they don't really prove anything and can be used either way to prove or disprove an argument but seen as though you asked: MK Dons - 30% win percentage Swindon - 36% win percentage Far higher at Hartlepool of 43% His win percentage with us first time round was 36% but you would never mark that against him due to premiership opposition. It's the same old story of lies, damn lies and statistics.
And Holloway won't come for peanuts, plus he'd want a huge transfer budget. He's a Big Name Manager now you know!!
You are right - statistics don't prove anything. If you look beyond the statistics then you see a different picture to the one you try to paint above. I would say trees were pulled at Swindon for example. (courtesy of Jay) - http://bbs.barnsleyfc.org.uk/showthread.php?200147-Oh-no-Danny-Wilson-now-fav/page2#
If you look at my post again I'm not trying to paint any picture at all. I was asked to provide evidence to backup a theory of not pulling up any trees. Which I tried to do with statistics which I even mentioned I don't like doing. At the end of the day I don't think Wilson is the right man for the job. That's my opinion. However, whoever gets the job will get my full support and backing as has every manager (in the beginning) including Spackman, Parkin and Hill
Fair enough - but going back to statistics, if we must, his most recent experience, as manager of Sheffield United, where his sacking was one of the most bizarre I've ever seen, his win percentage was 51.89% !!!
That is true and there is no hiding that fact. However, the football down there was described by all and sundry as boring hoof ball which surprised me massively as all his other teams have generally played some good stuff.
It's not really a concern at the moment what kind of football we play to get out of this mess. I was merely highlighting that we might not get the brilliant flowing Wilsonesq football people are expecting. We need results, through a manager that doesn't have favourites and can quickly realise the majority of this squad isn't Championship standard. 'Have a word' - fook me. People get a bit snippy on here when you don't agree.