Adkins Waffle - post Scunny

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BladeFisher said:
Certainly not a happy bunny. Did slag the fans off quite a bit. Implied we were always moaning.
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Rubbish, we love being 11th in League One, what's he taking about.

Apparently the weather stopped our fast football today.

Woeful, I've had my fill of him and the players.

Our board needs to be strong and clear the lot out, as many as possible and start again.
 
UnitedBlade said:
Rubbish, we love being 11th in League One, what's he taking about.

Apparently the weather stopped our fast football today.

Woeful, I've had my fill of him and the players.

Our board needs to be strong and clear the lot out, as many as possible and start again.
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We could 'merge' with Northampton and play at a new stadium near East Midlands Parkway. :)
 
UnitedBlade said:
Rubbish, we love being 11th in League One, what's he taking about.

Apparently the weather stopped our fast football today.

Woeful, I've had my fill of him and the players.

Our board needs to be strong and clear the lot out, as many as possible and start again.
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It's obvious then we need undersoil cooling
 
He wants praising when we win and a unlucky when we dont,the 100% truth we've been dogshit.
If he would have been more realistic he probably may have still had another crack nx season bcos a lot of fans were still backing him...............once the fans are lost there's no turning back.
 
Adkins sounds like Martinez at Everton.. after a while you cease to sound positive.. merely deluded.. a bit of honesty somewhere along the line would have got him a lot of mileage with the fans. it is a shame the only time he felt the need to be 'honest' was when he slagged off the fans
 
chesblade said:
Going to awards do tonight so will be interesting. Hammond didn't come out with rest of players for lap of appreciation so probably something did kick off
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The awards do is tonight?! Be interesting to see what Adkins says if he speaks. Let us know anything of interest.

Re the interview, its clear that Adkins is frustrated and I bet with hindsight he'll regret parts of this interview. He at least didn't nesh it and give it to Andy Crosby to do the interview and he's never done that.He has also just been on the receiving end of the fans singing "you're getting sacked in the morning"! It think his interview is clearly a reaction to that. Adkins does understand the frustration and he stated that in the interview. He's clearly upset today and maybe (as hard as it is to hear as fans because we are suffering as fans and we are paying are hard earned money to watch this crap) we need to give him some leeway for today's interview. That's what I think and I think you'd find him being a lot more complimentary about our fans if we'd just won promotion when all is rosy and the fans are turning up in 20,000 plus singing there's only one Nigel Adkins! I also think that Adkins has a point that too many of our fans turn on the players rather than supporting them. I think that's common at all big clubs, especially those playing below where they should be, and we need to be less moaning during games when misplaced passes happen. That's not to excuse the dross we've had to watch this season and I particularly feel for away fans that have ravelled all over the country to witness awful performances.

I look forward to the summer and also to Wednesday and Barnsley both losing in the play offs! It's hard right now as a Blade we all feel it and no doubt many of our families just don't get it. My wife can't really understand why I'm so down today. I said to her that United is like a part of my family and that didn't seem to commute either, but that;' the only way I can express it! Feeling for you all today as we're in this together, its days like oday that a forum like this is really appreciated!
 
Tbh, you need the skin of a rhino (or a higdon) to be a manager - must be upsetting & demoralising getting chanted at like that.

Even so, Adkins just sounds like a whiny, defensive bitch. And there's nothing at all there to suggest he's confident about sorting things out & somehow getting us challenging again. It all sounds too much for him after his last roll of the dice, the bright flicker of light suggested by the 3-5-2, seemingly has been thoroughly snuffed out. He just sounds overburdened.

It would be kinder to put him out of his misery.
 
He's hardly called us all a set of moaning cunts has he? He just pointed out that we aren't happy and he can understand why.

The fans have had a dig at him with the "sacked in the morning" and he has given a bit back. If you dish it out, you can't start crying if you get some back.

Anyway it'll all be forgotten next season and we'll judging him on the early results.
 
super_pig said:
Adkins sounds like Martinez at Everton.. after a while you cease to sound positive.. merely deluded.. a bit of honesty somewhere along the line would have got him a lot of mileage with the fans. it is a shame the only time he felt the need to be 'honest' was when he slagged off the fans
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Agreed, though I can just about forgive him here, just after the game.

Within the next week he needs to do a straight talking interview. Accepting that we've been and are gash, that lots of the players are not good enough, and pointing out what he's going to do about it.

UTB
 
alcoblade said:
Agreed, though I can just about forgive him here, just after the game.

Within the next week he needs to do a straight talking interview. Accepting that we've been and are gash, that lots of the players are not good enough, and pointing out what he's going to do about it.

UTB
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Spot on. The retained list also needs to come out this week too.
 
alcoblade said:
Agreed, though I can just about forgive him here, just after the game.

Within the next week he needs to do a straight talking interview. Accepting that we've been and are gash, that lots of the players are not good enough, and pointing out what he's going to do about it.

UTB
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good point.. if he was to come out and say 'look i have to come out with this crap to try and motivate this shower of shit but most of them are crap and they are going and i'm not resigning hammond' then i might let him off.
 

alcoblade said:
Agreed, though I can just about forgive him here, just after the game.

Within the next week he needs to do a straight talking interview. Accepting that we've been and are gash, that lots of the players are not good enough, and pointing out what he's going to do about it.

UTB
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Fuck interviews! Actions speak louder than words, clearing out the shite will inspire more confidence than any interview could.
 
chesblade said:
Going to awards do tonight so will be interesting. Hammond didn't come out with rest of players for lap of appreciation so probably something did kick off
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Are you up for an award or just a glutton for punishment ;)
 
Guesty said:
He has a right to be pissed off with the fans today. A few years ago we got hammered 4-0 at home by Scunny and all and sundry were tripping over themselves to say how encouraging the performance was. Adkins must be thinking 'I did twice as well as that today and all we get is grief!'.
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I was in Rhodes that day and couldn't believe it when my son said we had played them off the park and lost 4-0

Eenai y zoi
 
The "one on one's" start on Monday morning in Adkins office.

Only two players safe,Sharp and Adams,Adkins says they will be a good partnership next season.
 
LoughboroBlade said:
While foolish to say, he's not wrong. I can't recall a season where our fans haven't moaned – even when we were promoted in 2006 we had a fair number.
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It is an interesting one this isn't it. I would say that it is a problem of expectation, and our expectation is greater than our ability to deliver that expectation.

I shall be bold here. As half a Yorkie, we are not known for shall we say not being honest or as some might say 'blunt' (no pun intended re Blades). Given the size of Sheffield as a place, its football history, both us and them have quite under achieved, certainly since WWII.

As described in another thread, it wasn't until the late 1970's we finished below 11th in the second tier. Yep better than Man U, Everton Man City, Wednesday. Only Arsenal could better that. But as a club we were probably like my academic skills, quite good but never finished top or won sod all, and in time I think that started to become a bit of a sore with fans.

In the 60's and early 70's when I was a kid, teams I likened us to in ability/support were West Ham, Wolves, Norwich, Stoke yet they all won things (usually the League Cup). And what did we do? Bugger all, that's what! For something like 20 bloody years we never got past the 4th round of the FA bleedin cup. For Pete's sake! It was awful. I think it was DB that broke that hoodoo. So if you build that frustration up one can see how the 'Moaning Minnie' brigade/perceptions started. We just under achieve.

And then we had the Hassall years that took us down, down, deeper and down and only Uncle Reg addressed it. I remember standing on the Kop that Spring evening when we died and got relegated to the third division. It was awful. We'd lost I think to bloody Blackburn Rovers 1-0.

So when you put our early history, the size of the city, the size of the fan base, our inability to win absolutely nothing for so long (we haven't won a knock out competition featuring non South Yorkshire sides since 1925 - a frigging disgrace) I can understand why so many fans feel the need to moan.

I'd say we are a Championship sized club that needs to make the step up. But at this rate we are in danger of becoming the Rovers, Park Avenue or County (Bristol, Bradford, Notts) to our city rivals, and that to me is not acceptable.
 
W@nker interview.

Equations, factoring in, don't have to explain my substitutions (probabley cause he can't)

Worrying thing is he talked a lot in the future sense and next season, I feckin hope not. I was over the moon when he came, thought he was the next Warnock. I can admit I was totally wrong, why can't he and the board?.

See him sellin hotdogs if he has a future at Lane
 
Sorry prick but it is your job to explain to the fans why you make substitutions ,we pay a lot of money to see you and your embarrassment of a team 'perform' and we want to know the reasons they are shit and even shitter after your inspirational half time team talks. Maybe Hammond fell asleep ,during one of your poems ,as we always always come out after half time half asleep.
 

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