Wilkins - what a coach

[Questions]

Wilkin`s Albion youth team go from strength to strength. Then he steers the first team to a more than credible 7th place.
Now he joins Saints and they look tasty.
What a coach.

Meanwhile.........................................................

 

[DerbyGull]

I went off the albion after they sacked Wilkins, he was the first manager in a while that i fully backed 100%, and since his dismissal i've been less interested, i'm still waiting for someone else to come along and pick up where he so prematurely left off

 

[Titanic]

He is, indeed, a very good coach. Not a good manager, though.

 

[DerbyGull]

i miss his cheeky face

 

[CHAPPERS]

I went off the albion after they sacked Wilkins, he was the first manager in a while that i fully backed 100%, and since his dismissal i've been less interested, i'm still waiting for someone else to come along and pick up where he so prematurely left off

snap

 

[Mendoza]

It is annoying he wasnt a great manager, his coaching skills I dont think anyone doubts.

Maybe he was a good coach because he played football in Holland for a while, where coaching meant a lot more than in England??

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

He is awknowleged by everyone as a fine coach who develops young players brilliantly and knew exactly who could make the step up to senior level...and it is'nt always the most skilful players who are ready, its as much to do with temprament and work ethics...he showed that at Brighton and he will do the same at Scumhampton..thats why he's there.

It occurs to me that he was not 100% happy managing the senior squad day to day and quite a few of the pro's are on record as saying that when he had that role at the Albion..I just don't think he could be arsed with the ego massaging that is part and parcel of that job.

When he was offered the No. 2 job at saints he jumped at it because that means he can play to his strengths and bring the decent lads along. His future there is fantastic and he is already paying them back in spades.

All those on here who go on about how he was treated badly by DK should remember that once he left us he did not want another management position, he waited until a job like the one he has now came along, despite interest from a fair few teams at our level and above, because he realised himself that there are others who can handle all that personality management thing far better than him.

Move on everyone eh?

 

[pork pie]

I went off the albion after they sacked Wilkins, he was the first manager in a while that i fully backed 100%, and since his dismissal i've been less interested, i'm still waiting for someone else to come along and pick up where he so prematurely left off

I must admit that I am inclined to feel like you. The only problem with Dean Wilkins was his aparant problems with managing men, rather than boys. I still think that the best answer would have been to appoint a "Director of Football" or such-like to support him. He was hardly given much quality support was he?

 

[Silent Bob]

My prediction that the sacking of Wilkins would set us back two years is starting to look a bit over optimistic.

 

[On the Left Wing]

He even made Dean White look good ....

He built a great team and team spirit ...

Revell and Jake scored for fun under him

Wilkins In now!

 

[Icy Gull]

Can we please have another "not good at managing" manager? 7th will do me, christ knows where he waould have taken us if he was any good.

Interestingly he just didn't play the players he didn't get on with, maybe Russell should adopt the same attititude with those players who are not behind him. Reading between the lines from Forster's commenst there appear to be some??

 

[Lokki 7]

Yeah but he "fluked" that season we finished 7th, didn't you know?

 

[DerbyGull]

I must admit that I am inclined to feel like you. The only problem with Dean Wilkins was his aparant problems with managing men, rather than boys. I still think that the best answer would have been to appoint a "Director of Football" or such-like to support him. He was hardly given much quality support was he?

If it's true that he didn't like being a man manager, then why didn't he go back to youth coach again (or was he offered this and turn it down, i cant remember). But a director of football post sounds like it would have been a good idea to work alongside him

 

[Jim D]

Can we please have another "not good at managing" manager.....

Please take your pick from John Barnes or Tony Adams.

 

[Spider]

He is, indeed, a very good coach. Not a good manager, though.

I think what managers since him have 'achieved' with arguably better squads shows up that particular line of argument as absolute bollocks.

 

[Icy Gull]

Please take your pick from John Barnes or Tony Adams.

Have they achieved 7th place anywhere?

 

[Pavilionaire]

For those who laughed at Southampton last season the joke's wearing a bit thin now. I see NOTW gave Harding MOTM while Hammond chipped in with a goal.

Good luck to Wilkins. Now Dick Knight's stepped down we'll probably never get the full story of what happened.

It IS hard to "move on" when w're in the relegation zone and one of the teams below us has a major Albion influence at the club, but the chance's were Wilkins would resurface somewhere else in League 1 because that's his level.

 

[Johnny Crumplin Football]

snap

Yep, same here

 

[Titanic]

I think what managers since him have 'achieved' with arguably better squads shows up that particular line of argument as absolute bollocks.

That is an overly simplistic analysis.

 

[Jim D]

Have they achieved 7th place anywhere?

You didn't say anything about what they had done previously - you just said they had to be not good at managing. If that's the criteria then perhaps Bryan Robson or Roy Keane would be candidates.