| The Jason Wilcox Myth 13:44 - Mar 14 with 808 views | Butty101 |
I’ve read several times that he did a good job for us and steadied the ship. He was only here 10 months and partway through got his head turned . We sold a bucket load of players and spent 20mill on Stewart and Charles. They played a very small part in us getting backup.
So what exactly was his success? |  |
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| The Jason Wilcox Myth on 13:56 - Mar 14 with 784 views | PatfromPoole |
The loan signings got us promoted.
Harwood-Bellis, Downes, Fraser, Rothwell and Brooks all made an impact.
Holgate was the only dud out of the loan signings. [Post edited 14 Mar 13:56]
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| The Jason Wilcox Myth on 16:58 - Mar 14 with 642 views | MytchettSaint |
You are not alone in thinking this. His modus operandi was it seemed, to buy Man City academy players. I struggle to believe we’d be doing much better with him still here. Perhaps those trumpeting his influence know more than us about what he was doing behind the scenes. |  |
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| The Jason Wilcox Myth on 08:25 - Mar 15 with 461 views | Berber |
| The Jason Wilcox Myth on 16:58 - Mar 14 by MytchettSaint |
You are not alone in thinking this. His modus operandi was it seemed, to buy Man City academy players. I struggle to believe we’d be doing much better with him still here. Perhaps those trumpeting his influence know more than us about what he was doing behind the scenes. |
Are those trumpeting his success from the club? I doubt it. |  |
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| The Jason Wilcox Myth on 09:24 - Mar 15 with 408 views | Block8 |
I think his success is not being involved with the dross that we signed after he left! |  | | |
| The Jason Wilcox Myth on 09:25 - Mar 15 with 408 views | MytchettSaint |
| The Jason Wilcox Myth on 08:25 - Mar 15 by Berber |
Are those trumpeting his success from the club? I doubt it. |
I can’t remember how long he was with us for, it didn’t seem a particularly long time? From memory, only Lavia was a success from the signings I remember being attributed to him.
Sports Republic are only interested in signings costing up to £15M so even if he’d still been here I can only assume that we’d be making more of the same signings.
Perhaps he did have a big influence behind the scenes. His leaving seems to be linked by some for a big factor in our current malaise. | |
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| The Jason Wilcox Myth on 09:30 - Mar 15 with 387 views | Butty101 |
| The Jason Wilcox Myth on 09:25 - Mar 15 by MytchettSaint |
I can’t remember how long he was with us for, it didn’t seem a particularly long time? From memory, only Lavia was a success from the signings I remember being attributed to him.
Sports Republic are only interested in signings costing up to £15M so even if he’d still been here I can only assume that we’d be making more of the same signings.
Perhaps he did have a big influence behind the scenes. His leaving seems to be linked by some for a big factor in our current malaise. |
Lavia came the year before Wilcox.
Wilcox gave us Ross Stewart and Charles as the big signings .... | |
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| The Jason Wilcox Myth on 09:52 - Mar 15 with 363 views | SaintNick |
| The Jason Wilcox Myth on 09:30 - Mar 15 by Butty101 |
Lavia came the year before Wilcox.
Wilcox gave us Ross Stewart and Charles as the big signings .... |
Under Wilcox we brought in permanently
Manning - this was more a Martin signing, for a free transfer he had been a reasonable signing.
Shea Charles- Started 15 plus 17 as sub in the League, a reasonable signing who looks set to play a big part next season.
Joe Lumley - Free transfer so just a back up.
Ross Stewart - A gamble that didn't pay off so not good value for money
On loan
David Brooks - played a part in our promotion
Flynn Downes- Big part of our promotion
Taylor Harwoood-Bellis - Big part of our promotion.
Ryan Fraser- Big part of our promotion
Mason Holgate - Not a big part but in his final League game was man of the match against West Brom, Russell martin just didn;t want to play him, preferring Jack Stephens
What Wilcox did was stuff that you don't see, he was a figurehead in persuading people to come and play for the club, after he went we had no one, signing players was difficult because they and their agent could see that we were rudderless, they were not speaking to someone running the footballing side who knew the game.
If Wilcox had stayed I think we would have had a better chance of staying up, someone who would have taken a difficult decision in sacking Martin a lot earlier instead of letting it drift, someone big enough to tell the manager that his system was not working.
Now hopefully in Johann Spors we have someone who will be able to do all of that |  |
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| The Jason Wilcox Myth on 11:15 - Mar 15 with 319 views | MytchettSaint |
| The Jason Wilcox Myth on 09:52 - Mar 15 by SaintNick |
Under Wilcox we brought in permanently
Manning - this was more a Martin signing, for a free transfer he had been a reasonable signing.
Shea Charles- Started 15 plus 17 as sub in the League, a reasonable signing who looks set to play a big part next season.
Joe Lumley - Free transfer so just a back up.
Ross Stewart - A gamble that didn't pay off so not good value for money
On loan
David Brooks - played a part in our promotion
Flynn Downes- Big part of our promotion
Taylor Harwoood-Bellis - Big part of our promotion.
Ryan Fraser- Big part of our promotion
Mason Holgate - Not a big part but in his final League game was man of the match against West Brom, Russell martin just didn;t want to play him, preferring Jack Stephens
What Wilcox did was stuff that you don't see, he was a figurehead in persuading people to come and play for the club, after he went we had no one, signing players was difficult because they and their agent could see that we were rudderless, they were not speaking to someone running the footballing side who knew the game.
If Wilcox had stayed I think we would have had a better chance of staying up, someone who would have taken a difficult decision in sacking Martin a lot earlier instead of letting it drift, someone big enough to tell the manager that his system was not working.
Now hopefully in Johann Spors we have someone who will be able to do all of that |
I thought we got Martin because he played the style of football Wilcox wanted us to play? I’m not so sure he would have told Martin his system wasn’t working if it aligned with his vision.
The points you make about him being a figurehead, I can see his value somewhat there but since departing his legacy hasn’t seen us shining so perhaps as the OP stated, there’s a bit of a myth about him. | |
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