25-12-2015, 13:16
Funniest thing about old Imre is that he doesn't think getting Barnsley into the Premier League is much of an achievement. Barnsley has spent longer in the second tier of English football than any other club. They had spent just 99 years trying to reach the top division when Danny got them there. Not much of an achievement really.
Sometimes the players you buy don't make a team, sometimes, as Mourinho found, the team decides not to be a team. Things didn't work out for Danny when managing Wednesday ...... as they haven't for several other managers. The problems at Wednesday have been bigger than any single manager. It would be great for us if they could re-establish themselves in the Premier League. A club just twelve miles or so away, likely to discard talent that might only be of Championship standard? But we'll also always want to beat them at any possible opportunity. When I was playing amateur football life didn't get much better than beating teams from Sheffield or Mansfield.
I strongly agree with St Charles Owl about young British managers. Just as there are Jamie Vardy's lurking in non-league, there are talented young managers full of ideas. Desperation and good fortune turned Eddie Howe from player to successful manager at Bournemouth - would he have got the nod had their situation not been so perilous? But in a moment of genius they made the right choice.
For years I've wanted Danny Wilson to take the reins at Chesterfield. I've made no secret that now I'd have gone for a younger, less experienced man, but Danny's playing career really took off with us and this is a chance for him to round it off with a lasting legacy. If he can develop an organisation that scouts some young talent, identifies discarded academy and undiscovered non-league talent, and simultaneously puts a team on the pitch that wants to play for Chesterfield and get our fans behind it he'll have achieved the earth for us.
The danger is that this nice, decent man is going to rely on the good offices of both DA and CT. He was no coward on the field, I just hope he has the steel to remain his own man, the one Chesterfield fans genuinely admire.
Sometimes the players you buy don't make a team, sometimes, as Mourinho found, the team decides not to be a team. Things didn't work out for Danny when managing Wednesday ...... as they haven't for several other managers. The problems at Wednesday have been bigger than any single manager. It would be great for us if they could re-establish themselves in the Premier League. A club just twelve miles or so away, likely to discard talent that might only be of Championship standard? But we'll also always want to beat them at any possible opportunity. When I was playing amateur football life didn't get much better than beating teams from Sheffield or Mansfield.
I strongly agree with St Charles Owl about young British managers. Just as there are Jamie Vardy's lurking in non-league, there are talented young managers full of ideas. Desperation and good fortune turned Eddie Howe from player to successful manager at Bournemouth - would he have got the nod had their situation not been so perilous? But in a moment of genius they made the right choice.
For years I've wanted Danny Wilson to take the reins at Chesterfield. I've made no secret that now I'd have gone for a younger, less experienced man, but Danny's playing career really took off with us and this is a chance for him to round it off with a lasting legacy. If he can develop an organisation that scouts some young talent, identifies discarded academy and undiscovered non-league talent, and simultaneously puts a team on the pitch that wants to play for Chesterfield and get our fans behind it he'll have achieved the earth for us.
The danger is that this nice, decent man is going to rely on the good offices of both DA and CT. He was no coward on the field, I just hope he has the steel to remain his own man, the one Chesterfield fans genuinely admire.