Of course this sentence is a big fat lie. I totally understand why people want to hear poor old Chris speak and clear his name. It's so they will have yet another stick to beat Gibbo and the rest of the club's leadership with.
I’m not sure anyone is saying the want wilder to clear his name. He poorly answered a question no one can deny that. What was the reason he answered that way. Only Chris wilder knows, although thousands of boro fans will tell you otherwiseOf course this sentence is a big fat lie. I totally understand why people want to hear poor old Chris speak and clear his name. It's so they will have yet another stick to beat Gibbo and the rest of the club's leadership with.
A couple of us asked Wilder straight after and outside the Bournemouth away game right when the story broke. Despite the fact he knew me really well by that point he did not reply. In hindsight that silence said more than many words.
If that were the case though, wouldn’t the club have acted much quicker, like they did with Monk, once the trust is broken, then there is no come back.
Exactly rob both you and the bbc crew had that kind of access that wasn’t always public and as you say for whatever reason not only did he not answer even or deny the speculation he fanned it with his insipid response.
This is the key point, why continue into the summer if there were substance to the wilder thing
Well all we now know for sure is that there was indeed a 'Burnley situation' as referenced by KS. We saw Wilders public response when questioned about it. There can be no doubt it damaged his relationships inside the club. Maybe the cup run convined Gibbo that it could still work so he let things play out to see what happened. Maybe they just didn't feel like there was anyone better than Wilder available at the time so didn't want to rush into pulling the trigger. Could be many factors, but it was clear they weren't working together during summer window so in hindsight I'd say he should have gone before start of season.
Like with any meeting, we sometimes do get asked to keep some things off the record and we have to respect that. They may provide us with confidential information to give us more context to an answer, but don’t want it documented. But we will share everything we can.
With respect, speculation by the media when linking him with the Burnley job is never going to cause an issue with the club, it's beyond their control.
If you go back to a week after the rumours and bookies made Wilder favourite for Burnley, the Boro boss finally issued a statement at the press conference for the next match. He was cracking jokes and on a real charm offensive. But he also admitted there had been a dinner with Steve Gibson, a clear the air meeting/dinner. No public statements were made until after that face to face meal/meeting. We can take it that the ,meal was not just about eating, a lot will have been said and Wilder made it clear Steve Gibson was not just there to listen.
That’s the job. A results driven business. They know that when signing the contract.
multiple reasons, non-disclosure is usually a two way clause, otherwise the club can slate wilder without his right to defend. People lie, clubs lie sometimes, so a two way clause protects against either lying and harming the other.
I suspect Wilder claimed one thing to get the job, then behaved differently when in post
Think that's a bit unfair tbh, Warnock should have gone in the summer really, he was given an extra season by Gibson but clearly wasn't part of the long term vision for the club, so as soon as the feeling was that we weren't challenging for promotion there was no reason to keep him on. Of course Warnock and his fan club may claim we were still in the hunt that season but most fans were far more pessimistic about our chances, so it's not that surprising that he got the bullet at that point. Could have been done a little less clumsily for sure. Then with Wilder he must have said all the right things to get in the door, as in his initial interviews he talked about working with Kieron and developing young players like Josh Coburn.. so I think it's more Wilder being a two faced knob, and Scott being at worst a bit naive.
Now that I could believe
