[spireitematt]

Oh dear, I can understand the bitterness of any Wednesday fan over Mr Allen, but to malign one of their own former players (who would in truth outshine any of their current squad on the field) because the best he could manage them to was 12th in the Premier League is a bit rich for me.

With Danny Wilson you get motivation, commitment and good faith. He's loyal. He was an all-time favourite at Chesterfield and, unlike some Wednesday fans, we don't forget our heroes. If his weakness is that he can't manage big-time players he's not likely to have a problem with us any time soon. In fact he could safely take over any club in Yorkshire, Derbyshire or Nottinghamshire without troubling himself about a big-time player couldn't he?

My own choice would have been a younger, less-experienced manager with some non-league time in his background, because that's where I think we should be recruiting players. Cast-offs from the bigger clubs around us used to be a fruitful source, but unfortunately none of them are currently that much better than us.

40% wins would keep us up and a few years ago Danny did exactly the job we're asking from him for Swindon. I hope we can then ask him to build our club into Championship challengers, because that is the best we can reasonably expect ever to be in a depressed footballing area. If Derby don't make it to the Premier League it's a trip to Manchester, Leicester or Stoke from Chesterfield for a club in the big-time. Of course Sheffield should there, and the sadness is that their fans have now become so accustomed to the small-time that we and our new manager are now rivals to be belittled.

Honesty, integrity and hard work have a lot to be said for them. We're getting all of them with Danny and there have been times when those qualities have been AWOL from our club and football itself. We're lucky to have such a decent man.

Spot on Dev I agree 110%. It doesn't matter what he did 15 years ago at Sheffield Wednesday that's in the past. I hope he succeeds with us.

Up the Spireites.