Kennyb41 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:31 am
How long does it take a manager to get his team ticking these days huh ? 5 games ? Because that's what DF did - 5 GAMES!
Look how he managed his players thru the tough Xmas period, thru the tough travelling games we had, how did this shite manager manage to reel in not just 1 but 2 teams that were waltzing this division by 17pts, htf did he do that??
We shouldn't even be going into these last 3 games with a sniff of a chance, but we are, because of the good work he's done throughout the season, I'm not a child that can't see the bigger picture, i don't pluck negatives to suit my narrative, i don't exaggerate and lie to suit my narrative.
This guy has earned respect, and he definitely gets mine.
That is why it is better to judge over a full season as form comes and goes. Since the start of January we are probably the form team, our last 3 matches probably the worst team formwise. So which one are we? It is easy to overachieve and then when you don't overachieve you haven't suddenly become sh*t.
Wilkinson achieved too much too soon with Leeds. Promoted and then 4th and 1st. After that he was on a hiding to nothing with fans basically thinking he had become a sh*t manager especially after finishing 17th the year after winning the title. However if you rearranged his years and did promotion, then 17th, then a couple of mid table finishes, then 5th, 4th and then the title fans would have been singing his praise instead of chanting for him to get sacked.
Had Wilkinson turned into a bad manager?
Mix the last 3 results into the recent great run and we are the form team over the period.
Often it can be one key event that changes so much. We got the penalty to win v Preston deep into injury time, we didn't get penalties in the last two matches. We get a penalty against Sunderland and win the game and thena lot changes. We then don't have as much pressure in the Blackburn game and maybe we don't make all the substitutions that we made, and most fans lambasted, and we end up taking at least a point or maybe nicking three.