by URZZZZ »
19 Jun 2023 00:08
Elm Park Kid I'm surprised we haven't seen more backlash about Selles. Is it just the fans being blinded by a manager with PL background, the same as the owners?
This is clearly a massive mistake to go down the same route as our previous appointments. Don't get me wrong, I'm not criticising the guy himself, maybe he has the potential to be a solid manager. But we are in crisis and desperately need someone who can inspire confidence from the start. Not another spin of the roulette wheel.
Every choice is effectively a “spin of the roulette wheel”. Huge clamour for Wilder yet his last three seasons:
- Relegated Sheffield United with a measly 14 points in 28 games
- Collapsed and lost out on a top 6 spot with Middlesbrough from a promising situation
- Sacked by Boro this season after a continuation of that poor form before making very little impact at Watford
Not to discredit his achievements, to take a struggling Sheffield side from L1 to the cusp of Europe was fantastic, and obviously Watford are a basket case of a club. But it doesn’t hide the fact he’s struggled in recent years
And part of a wider point that there really is no magic formula when appointing a manager (except for Warnock of course
). Easy to forget our best two managers in the last 15 years have been the ones with very little prior management experience