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Wilkinson’s comments re players to suit Jack’s style
Posted by Ninja on 19/2/2026, 7:34:47
What a grim concept this now is.
With every managerial change that they get wrong, they are backing the managers to buy players to suit their style and we are seeing turnover and change. This time the end result is a dire possession based football with no end product. The players looked lost and flat, again.
Why can’t we have a Luton Town identity and recruit a manager whose style is close to it? Our most successful periods have been with a press, an energy, pass and move forwards, decent crossers of the ball, decent full backs, some physical presence. two actual strikers up front, etc.
Just don’t recognise us. No identity or soul.
How are we still lost? How are we not learning? Inadequacy of the highest order.
Re: Wilkinson’s comments re players to suit Jack’s style
Seriously questioning the board’s backbone and credibility. There is backing your man and then there’s just blind inadequacy and loyalty. Maybe they just do not have the expertise and knowledge to do the right thing. He’s overseen one of the most appalling collapses in football. Yes, some credit in the bank, but not this much.
It’s sad really - nobody is saying he hasn’t got a role at the club. Just drop the ego and control - great leaders want better people around them and he simply does not have football background and expertise. It’s a huge hole at board and executive level.
Re: Wilkinson’s comments re players to suit Jack’s style
His football is dull, boring, slow and none creative. You have to have more about you than that to be successful. I'm sorry, I've been fully behind him until last night but patience has run out, hes not a manager and I'm not sure what Chris Powell brings to the club either, the dithering about bringing the 3 replacements on last night confirmed what a shambles this is.
Re: Wilkinson’s comments re players to suit Jack’s style
It's genuinely quite mad how we've provably spent about 30m-40m on players in the last few seasons only to now be told we need to rip it up and start again because a rookie manager has said they don't fit his style.
What club runs like that? Pisses away money on players with managerial appintments made on what appears to be little more than vibes.
Re: Wilkinson’s comments re players to suit Jack’s style
Retaining the status quo - which has fucked virtually everything that 2020 originally built on the pitch - just because there is a risk an alternative strategy doesn't work, is madness
A DoF would implement a playing style and identity and then he would recruit managers to suit that identity. The manager and DoF would then recruit players to suit that style and identity
If the DoF and a manager agree that the identity and style needs to change, then a long term plan is put in place to gradually build towards that place. Rather than a new manager coming in, ripping everything up and insisting that the players, from Day 1, play the way he prefers even if he doesn't have the players to do it
With the current way the football club is 'organised', when Wilshere leaves or is sacked, the rancid cycle starts again and another manager will come in with HIS own style and the players will have to adapt yet again
That constant churn and change is utter insanity. We got promoted to the Prem through years of playing a certain way and recruiting for that certain way. Then, that got thrown out of the window instead of gradually building to something else. And, here we are
Re: Wilkinson’s comments re players to suit Jack’s style
Doing something wrong may not be ideal but always recognise that there's infinite opportunity to fuck it even worse.
I genuinely believe that that's what our biggest problem is. The model that worked so well has been improved such that it's now fucked. But, given our experiences of the last couple of seasons, everyone's now terrified of doing anything. Especially anything radical.
So, what. Nobody's giving Sweaty the sack. Nobody sensible wants to kick off a coup in case they jeopardise PC. What is it that anyone can actually do to effect change?
COYH, Jim
Re: Wilkinson’s comments re players to suit Jack’s style
Maybe not you, I don't read all posts or memorise every post on here, but lots of posters seem to think a DoF is a silver bullet that will cure everything. Any successful appointment in football relies a lot on luck and circumstances at the time. Why would anyone trust this board to appoint a DoF? I also wonder how many "experienced" managers at this level would want to work under a DoF.
Re: Wilkinson’s comments re players to suit Jack’s style
To be honest, I could not give a shit what happened 3-9 years ago. I'm worried about what is happening now. Just because something worked in the past, it does not mean that that will work indefinitely. Plus the situation then might not have been identical to the situation now. In fact, I know the situation with Jones and Still WAS different
It's an over-simplification
Can I ask you a couple of pretty simple questions
-Is the current system (whatever that is) working? -If you think it isn't, don't you think trying something different is probably wise?
The definition of madness is doing the same stuff over and over again and expecting different results
Re: Wilkinson’s comments re players to suit Jack’s style
No the current system isn't working, the wrong manager was appointed. Some poor signings made some good,a better more experienced manager would get a better tune out of this group.
Yes you can try something different, a DoF, but that gives no guarantee of success or the improvement that many posters seem to think is certain. The manager and the players have to be responsible for what happens when they cross the white line, the majority of those players could and should be performing better, regardless of who is in the boardroom.
Re: Wilkinson’s comments re players to suit Jack’s style
Sunderland brought in a DoF and his brief was to bring in young, technically gifted players with sell-on value. He had really good oversees contacts and although it took time the project eventually worked and they got to the Prem.
The managers they bought in were clear on this brief from day one. Eventually they got a manager in who found a way of making it work.
It's not perfect but it meant there was consistency throughout the club despite several managerial changes. We seem to be on a pathway of lurching from one disaster to another with absolutely no plan whatsoever.
Re: Wilkinson’s comments re players to suit Jack’s style
No one’s saying a Director of Football would be perfect, of course they’d get some decisions wrong.
But after nearly two years of recruitment failures, poor managerial calls and repeated strategic mistakes, the standard isn’t perfection, it’s clear improvement.
A proper structure brings expertise and accountability and if it doesn’t work, you replace the person responsible. What we have now feels like the same people making the same errors again and again without meaningful change or accountability.
Re: Wilkinson’s comments re players to suit Jack’s style
The CEO has proved he can’t oversee football/take us to that next level but the board have not got the teeth to sort it out. It’s been massively fumbled.
You’re right, a DoF was needed when we got promoted to the prem. share the load and have an executive member who was a football man. Pride and ego wouldn’t allow it though.
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on 19/2/2026, 7:34:47