The Wilkins Situation.

[Barrel of Fun]

Pretty embarrasing that someone can have a nervous breakdown over being demoted. If he was sacked it'd be understandable.

I don't agree with a fair amount of what you write, but we are all of differing opinions and it would be rather bland if we all had the same viewpoint, but that is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read on here.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Thats right BOF. If Wilkins has taken this badly he should be given time. I think the clubs silence is showing some compassion and patience. Wilkins is a proud man and it could have affected him badly. Dr David Kelly after all when his professional integrity was put into question was so devastated that he went and killed himself. It affects people in different ways. Someone can laugh off a demotion or sacking, other people will go into an ever downward cycle of depression and self loathing.

I hope Wilkins is ok.

 

[bristolseagull]

I saw him jogging round Rottingdean the other day

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

How long is the usual stint in the Priory?

 

[British Bulldog]

Pretty embarrasing that someone can have a nervous breakdown over being demoted. If he was sacked it'd be understandable.

Thats got to take the first prize for the daftest post ever on NSC.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

He won't like the fixture list.

We'll know that he's gone for certain ... by the end of the day.

 

[Superphil]

Here's some more rumours

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Omigod: it's the Mick Fleetwood 'I've removed my scrotum for artistic effect' cover!

 

[Knotty]

He was sacked five weeks ago now, and offered a new job. How long do you take to make a decision on a job? I can't believe many employers would let you get away with wasting away over a month. It may be the close season, but this is really the most crucial period of the year. We need to be planning now, and putting in the groundwork for a successful season. I can't believe that not having a clue over the make-up of your coaching staff is really helping Adams achieve that. There is also the chance the club know Wilkins won't be coming back (which I believe to be the case), which then begs the question why not just make it public? They've made a very controversial decision in the first place (one which, had it happened at any other club, we'd be laughing at and labelling them a joke), so to then drag it out for so long seems to me to be just prolonging the uncertainty.

Neither the club nor DW has any obligation to make anything public.

Sure, we'd like to know what Dean is going to do, but we don't have a right to know. Maybe they gave him a certain deadline by which to make his decision and that deadline has not yet been reached.

I can't see why any of it should be a laughing matter or a joke.

It is a contractual matter between the club and an employee and, as such, is totally confidential until or unless they want to make it public. It is a metter between them, not us.

What's the rush, anyway?

 

[BigGully]

Wilkins did not have a nervous breakdown !!!

Wilkins nearly took the post but in the end thought it was something that he felt might not work out and decided that he must leave.

No doubt he was extremely disappointed and felt that he was treated unfairly by some within the club.

I guess it has taken a bit of time to sort out the finer points of any severance deal.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

I think once you post your "theories" on a message board they become rumours....and not very nice ones at that.

rumour
(US rumor)

• noun a currently circulating story or report of unverified or doubtful truth.

• verb (be rumoured) be circulated as a rumour.

— ORIGIN Latin rumor ‘noise’.

Well my theory is not a story or a report so I don't know how it can be a rumour?
How is a theory of Dean Wilkins possibly having a nervous breakdown not very nice? It happens to lots of people every day in this country.
I have not made any criticism of Wilkins when stating this theory either, if I had done I could understand you saying that it is not very nice.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

He won't like the fixture list.

We'll know that he's gone for certain ... by the end of the day.

Why won't he like the fixtures list LB?

 

[Mrs Coach]

Are you saying he's gone to Crewe or Bristol then Ed?

 

[severnside gull]

Unfortunately the longer a (public) resolution takes the more conjecture there will be. Unfortunately because conjecture usually misses the target by some distance when the truth is known.

In an age which demands instant solutions to everything perhaps we could try to show a little patience?

 

[Boroseagull]

Thats right BOF. If Wilkins has taken this badly he should be given time. I think the clubs silence is showing some compassion and patience. Wilkins is a proud man and it could have affected him badly. Dr David Kelly after all when his professional integrity was put into question was so devastated that he went and killed himself. It affects people in different ways. Someone can laugh off a demotion or sacking, other people will go into an ever downward cycle of depression and self loathing.

I hope Wilkins is ok.

Very debateable point if David Kelly killed himself or if some other party did the deed. Think a certain Norman Baker is trying to assertain the truth in this case.

 

[B.W.]

As usual, the club too fcuking slow to sort things out... just a theory!

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Don't blame the bloke. I think I'd get a nervous breakdown if I had to try and make professional footballers out of people like Revell, Fraser, Mayo et al.

Must admit I did laugh out loud when I saw that! Very good!

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

He won't like the fixture list.

We'll know that he's gone for certain ... by the end of the day.

Presumably that means he may have joined (in some capacity) a team that we encounter early in the season.

Rovers, Sarfend, O's or Yeovil presumably - going on southern based teams. But then he may move ooop north?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Very debateable point if David Kelly killed himself or if some other party did the deed. Think a certain Norman Baker is trying to assertain the truth in this case.

And were going to believe Norman ( I am a c*nt ) Baker

 

[Lord Bracknell]

And were going to believe Norman ( I am a c*nt ) Baker

OK, Gareth. Carry on believing Blair's version of the story.