Sheffield Wednesday Banter Archive February 15 2015

15 Feb 2015 12:57:48
Let me be clear, I don't want grey gone right now.

But t if it's in the owners plan to get rid, do it now. The worst thing (besides getting it caught between two swinging bricks) is to finish mid table, go through pre-season and then sack after ten games, it will waste all next season too.

Remember I'm not calling for his head!

I tend to agree with you Des, its important that the close season is used as the foundation for next season.
Except that I personally would be very reluctant to see SG go. Unless, as I have already said in another post, he is replaced with somebody who is definitely better and NOT just somebody more famous - a name!
I believe SG has proved in the last 12 months that he has real coaching ability, which is something that the majority of so called names that constantly move from club to club, getting sacked then another new job don't really have, they only have reputations. Usually earned on the back of one successful season.
SG has performed miracles with our very very limited squad over the past 12months. He's been criticised heavily by some of our fans for some of his signings, May in particular.
But does anybody really believe that he wouldn't have signed better players if he'd been able to?
Of course he would!
All managers obviously sign the best players they are able to get in with the resources they've got available.
Most of these signings, for loads of reasons, won't be the players that the manager would ideally want! They would all want the players that ManU, ManC, and Chelsea are after, but they have to make do with what they can get.
All fans cheer the players to the rafters and chant their names when they are winning games and scoring lots of goals -its never the manager that wins the games its the players.
Yet when the same players are giving pens away, not chasing down in midfield, not tackling, snatching at every chance and blazing every shot wide or 6ft over the bar - suddenly it becomes the managers fault?
We have to recognise that 14-15 of our squad are at the end of their contracts and most of them are well aware that they will be moved on for sure now that MM has gone. They know themselves better than any of the fans how good/bad they are and whether they can cut it at a higher level.
IMO that's why performances have dropped markedly since The Takeover, and there is little that SG or any other manager can do about it, its down to the players pride and how much the player wants to give I'm afraid.

I get the feeling that SG will still be manager next season but I think that there will be changes in the staff around him and there will be a director of football type person coming in who will deal with the transfer market side of things. I agree with you hOWLer that we have a lot of players who are out of contract and they seem to have suddenly become resigned to their fate of not getting a new contract. You would think that they would play better to put themselves in the shop window but it seems to have had the opposite effect on our guys.

16 Feb 2015 07:59:59
When you look at the turn around, first when he joined as coach and then when he stepped up, I wouldn't want him to go anywhere. But he won't step down to assistant.

In agreement again Des, but I'm sure I recall when SG was given the "Head Coach" title/job, MM did say it was on the understanding that there would probably be a Director of Football appointed at some point in the future?
We might be approaching that time?
SG seemed OK with it then so it probably wouldn't be a problem for him.
He gives the impression that he would much rather be out coaching with the players than stuck on a phone in the office or in meetings.
So could be we all win out ?
The Chairman gets his own football man to deal with, SG gets full time work with players and we get to keep a coach we trust, at least for foreseeable!