ADG wrote:
Totally agree.
I too slated Danny Wilson, especially after the Torquay and Shrewsbury games.
We talked about this before saturdays game.
Looking back, it wasnt just the players sulking about last season, we, the fans, were as well.
To be fair, the players brought in made the difference, and DW did make some baffling decisions.
But he got it right eventually, and how.
And thats what impresses me most about DW. He makes mistakes, but learns from them very quickly.
Even Coops kept making the same errors over and over.................Danny Wilson doesnt.
Cooper was relatively experienced in the world of management, a few years at a Scottish Highland team (despite their success) means very little in the big wide world of football and he was still getting coaching from Alex Ferguson shortly before joining us. Cooper bought an awful lot of shite into Pools, as well as some very good players but you can't always afford to play a player 10 games before realising he isn't good enough.
Wilson has mad signings that had very little 'wow' factor, I can't say I got particularly excited about the signings of Liddle, Monkhouse and Boland but they have all slotted in superbly.
My frustration at Wilson was built up from the previous 12 months of Martin Scott, I wanted an immediate fix and wasn't foresighted enough to realise that these things take time. I never dreamt we could go half a season without losing (including winning most of them) but we did it with relative ease.
If Wilson had been appointed in February when Scotty left, I dare say we may have won this league with 100+ points. It would have given him longer to sort the team out instead of the 6-8 weeks that he had.
The future is bright with these two at the helm, I really hope we're fighting to keep them both at the club in 12 months time
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