Provocative comment by Naylor about Wilkins!!!

[Mendoza]

The article is in todays paper under the title "Knight usually makes the right choice"
Has photos of all the managers but Wilkins. Top work

Talks about how Knight usually gets it right, but Gritt moved too early, McGhee sacked too soon and the bit about Wilkins

"Even the removal of Dean Wilkins and the re-appointment of Adams, while impossible to justify, with hindsight purely based in terms of results, was based on sound reasoning"

 

[itszamora]

The article is in todays paper under the title "Knight usually makes the right choice"
Has photos of all the managers but Wilkins. Top work

Talks about how Knight usually gets it right, but Gritt moved too early, McGhee sacked too soon and the bit about Wilkins

"Even the removal of Dean Wilkins and the re-appointment of Adams, while impossible to justify, with hindsight purely based in terms of results, was based on sound reasoning"

When will the man move on? Aside from anything else, it's becoming hugely spiteful to a loyal servant of the club for 20 years passing off all this speculation as fact.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

And how on EARTH can he say history has showed Knight made the right choice in picking McGhee over the other candidates?

Would that be the other candidates which included Iain Dowie who took Palace to the Premiership?

 

[itszamora]

And how on EARTH can he say history has showed Knight made the right choice in picking McGhee over the other candidates?

Would that be the other candidates which included Iain Dowie who took Palace to the Premiership?

To be fair, McGhee did do very well with us at first, getting us up then keeping us up. We even played some good football under him at times.

Then unfortunately the wheels fell off and he had to go.

 

[Bwian]

When will the man move on?

When all the Wilkins lickers do?

 

[itszamora]

When all the Wilkins lickers do?

Cos being a professional journalist is exactly the same as being a fan of a football club who wants a particular manager in charge isn't it?

 

[The Large One]

I wonder who the two players were?

One is almost certain to be MURRAY from various stories doing the rounds, but who is the other?

McFaul did say when he left that he wondered why Wilkins signed him in the first place.

Possibly him?

 

[Johnny Crumplin Football]

Oh OK then fair do's.

Personally I think he is a very good journalist that says things people don't like hearing hence gets slagged off all the time.

Have to agree there Chez. Andy Naylor is an excellent journalist in my humble opinion. He deals in telling the news as it is and is not some glorified cheerleader.

 

[Bwian]

Cos being a professional journalist is exactly the same as being a fan of a football club who wants a particular manager in charge isn't it?

Moving on is moving on-or is it only people with different opinions who have to move on?

It is 9 months since Wilkins left-time to move on surely? Especially as you know he won't be coming back in the foreseeable future-if ever.

The next manager needs everybody supporting him-including Wilkins' fans and friends on here-unless of course their dislike of DK over-rides their desire to see the club move forward.

 

[ROSM]

And how on EARTH can he say history has showed Knight made the right choice in picking McGhee over the other candidates?

Would that be the other candidates which included Iain Dowie who took Palace to the Premiership?

or indeed leroy rosenior who has dissappeared without a trace. Or indeed Ian Dowie who left Charlton after a few months and who ended up rubbing Simon Jordan up the wrong way when the first opportunity came along?

I know let's play Walt Jabsco bingo:


Knight Is always wrong
McGhee was crap
Wilkins was god

BINGO

 

[Storer68]

You trusted Wilkins ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Blimey, there's something I never thought I'd here.

I suppose it's because I had the unfortunate job of watching him play for Brighton. He was never honest with the fans as a player so I see no reason for him to change as a manager, he spent his entire Brighton career trying to hoodwink the fans into believing he was a decent midfielder. Thankfully the fans weren't that stupid and saw through it.

What abolsoute bollocks.

He was a more than decent midfielder with a really sweet left foot and had more technical skill than anyone else at the club at the time (and is one of only three players to have scored for BHA at Wembley). OK so he wasn't the most combatiative physicall imposing midfielder we ever saw, but that wasn't what he was there to do.