Just read this post to Nigel. He seemed rather pleased. Told me that Bobby Campbell once hitchhiked home from a game in London.
Nice one mate! Thanks!
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Just read this post to Nigel. He seemed rather pleased. Told me that Bobby Campbell once hitchhiked home from a game in London.
I'd resigned myself that Clough was going to be here next season actually got my head round it that he would address his mistakes and move forward.
Having said that I didn't renew my season ticket I couldn't chance putting myself through that again every other week .
However with this appointment my brother and I are going down fo our season tickets this week.
It's a new dawn it's a new day and I'm feeling good as the song goes
I Totally open to new ways of working.
Excited that he has recently gone around lots of other sports to try and learn new things from them.
After the fecking dinosaur he is JUST so refreshing.
Agree CB,Unfortunately Weir talked a good talk and had the right "speak" , here's hoping Nigel can walk the walk for us as well. UTB
fk it bed time
probably wake up tomoz to find Adkins as fked us off an all
I shall be very pleased if it is Adkins, he always struck me as one of footballs good guys. I know people might argue that you need to have a nasty streak, have a presence etc. to command respect of your team but I believe that to be bollocks.
Also, given his career before Football management, we might get 5 games out of James Wallace and Terry Kennedy!!
Saw this on twitter, which I liked:
Nigel Adkins at Sheff Utd=good appointment and likely promotion.
Steve MacLaren at Newcastle= certain relegation and the demise of a top club
Happy days.
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Well pleased with this appointment
Great appointment
Ok I'll say again... Well done jim and co great appointment.
Roll on next season.
right.... Next thread and repeat
Great news
Very pleased with this. As I've already said, he is the stand-out candidate that has escaped this league where the expectation and pressure has been enormous.
I said my reaction to the Clough sacking at the time, which I hadn't called for, would be determined by his replacement. With this appointment, I think it looks like a brilliant decision.
I think the vast majority of Blades will be happy with this appointment. The board have done what we all wanted, a heavyweight manager who could have held out for a job in the Championship at least.
I assume he is on board because SUFC directors have confirmed he will be backed with sufficient funds to get us the players we need to accelerate our departure from league one, and beyond.
This was NOT the cheap option, this is the serious option.
This is the new Sheffield United.
UTB.
Awesome
Aaaawesooomme vid! I recognise Robert Downey Jr., but what's the guy from 'Cars that Rock' doing in there?
Brilliant news. Best realistic available manager and most exciting appointment since Kendall.
Absolutely brilliant appointment. Can't wait for him to sort our squad out.
GET IN! Well done Blades!
So, as underwhelmed as I was when Clough was appointed, I should put on record how overwhelmed I am by this one.
I think Adkins was a country mile in front of the other contenders, relatively speaking.
Well done all at Sheffield United with this one. At last, a manager we can and should have some real faith in.
I'm going to get drunk tonight.
UTB
I could see us becoming a mid table premier league side in the near future under Mr Adkins to be honest. Best managerial choice in a while.
In Nigel we trust........
Sorry, just a few reminders of how delighted we were with Nigel Adkins appointment 5 years ago tomorrow, including myselfA great appointment.
Could we really have got anyone else with a better track record of getting out of League 1?
Not only that but he also knows the Championship very well.
Like someone else has said. The best appointment since Kendall.
I stand by my thoughts back then - definitely the best realistic candidate at the time.Sorry, just a few reminders of how delighted we were with Nigel Adkins appointment 5 years ago tomorrow, including myself
He isn't shit.
Yeah rumours never hurt, not to say i agreed with them, nor believed them.
I and many others would much prefer Adkins i'd expect.
But Conor Sammon? Dean Hammond?
See according to experts Conor Sammon was Clough’s signing. Despite not being our manager at the time...He lives near me in Hampshire. I know the pub he goes in. What questions would you want to ask him if you could?
I have often thought of going up to him and saying "Thanks for signing Billy Sharp, he might not have come otherwise. It was not all your fault. There was a lot of baggage from previous managers.
But Conor Sammon? Dean Hammond? And why couldn't you see what Blades fans always wanted. A bit of steel, hard work with skill. Not passing out of the back with has been players".
See according to experts Conor Sammon was Clough’s signing. Despite not being our manager at the time...
Well if that’s true it was the board’s decision, not a bloke who had previously been sacked.“I went in there believing there had to be change and believing that I had time. I had a three-year contract. There was 50 players and we turned it all around. I believe I was the only manager in the January window not to sign a player, we sold everyone. I signed one player in Billy Sharp and the rest were on loan. There was a couple already lined up and they came in.”
Sheffield United: Hull City manager Nigel Adkins reveals why he failed at Bramall Lane
Hull City manager Nigel Adkins has insisted he bears Sheffield United no grudges ahead of tomorrow's meeting between the two clubs at the KCOM Stadium.www.thestar.co.uk
Well if that’s true it was the board’s decision, not a bloke who had previously been sacked.
I do wonder about those comments. For a start, why did he think he had time? It should have been obvious to any manager that the expectations from both the club and the supporters was promotion. Why did he think Clough was sacked? Having time, to me, means if we’d have made a serious challenge and just missed out, he’d get another go. It doesn’t mean it’s fine to finish mid table after a series of insipid performances.“I went in there believing there had to be change and believing that I had time. I had a three-year contract. There was 50 players and we turned it all around. I believe I was the only manager in the January window not to sign a player, we sold everyone. I signed one player in Billy Sharp and the rest were on loan. There was a couple already lined up and they came in.”
Sheffield United: Hull City manager Nigel Adkins reveals why he failed at Bramall Lane
Hull City manager Nigel Adkins has insisted he bears Sheffield United no grudges ahead of tomorrow's meeting between the two clubs at the KCOM Stadium.www.thestar.co.uk
Just pointing it out there Clough wasn’t manager, can’t be his signing. Board made the decision with nobody at the helm if Adkins insists he had no say (I doubt).Of course. I’m sure his former manager, who had a habit of signing players from Derby in his 18 months in the job, had absolutely nothing to do with the deal.
His previous interest in signing Sammon for us was also an absolute coincidence.
Just pointing it out there Clough wasn’t manager, can’t be his signing. Board made the decision with nobody at the helm if Adkins insists he had no say (I doubt).
I do wonder about those comments. For a start, why did he think he had time? It should have been obvious to any manager that the expectations from both the club and the supporters was promotion. Why did he think Clough was sacked? Having time, to me, means if we’d have made a serious challenge and just missed out, he’d get another go. It doesn’t mean it’s fine to finish mid table after a series of insipid performances.
Firstly, it’s not like saying that. I never said it was definitely Adkins’ signing, I said it wasn’t solely down to Clough.That’s almost like saying that because Adkins had lined up a permanent contract for Hammond that Wilder and the club were unable to back out of, that Hammond was Wilder’s signing....
Firstly, it’s not like saying that. I never said it was definitely Adkins’ signing, I said it wasn’t solely down to Clough.
Secondly, totally different situation where the clause in Hammond‘s contract allowed him to make the final decision. Sammon didn’t play the season before and have a choice of whether he wanted to sign.
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