Brian Deane

[The Vicar]

.....................to be the next Manager. I'm not saying when it should happen, but I think he should be groomed & nurtured to take on the role in the future.

We need to give Adkins a fair chance, but his inability to motivate this set of players & the constant swopping & changing are not encouraging for the future. How many times have we heard about when this player returns & that player returns? Well apart from Brayford they have all returned, or those of any consequence anyway, & it is still the same!
Other clubs with limited resources & low crowds are putting us to shame, not that we have a right to success, we are what we are because of our performances. Just look at Coventry, Burton, Gillingham etc.....But come on what we are seeing is very ordinary.

This is not an appeal for a manager change, but rather looking to the future so that next time we know who is taking over. Someone who I feel has a genuine link with the club & feels something of my pain every Saturday.

I am very disappointed in Mr Adkins so far, but there is along way to go! The trouble is we look more mediocre by the week & Adkins looks like someone who is unable to do anything about it!

It's Saturday but Sunday's coming!

 

[SwissBlade]

Let's try and keep a manager for more than a few months before we start sacking managers on here. As much as Adkins is doing a shit job, I'd like to see him prove that Phipps is not just making excuses about the last manager and that he will turn it around.

Personally if we get to sacking Adkins then the board need replacing before any new manager comes in.

Then give Clough a call again.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

Let's try and keep a manager for more than a few months before we start sacking managers on here. As much as Adkins is doing a shit job, I'd like to see him prove that Phipps is not just making excuses about the last manager and that he will turn it around.

Personally if we get to sacking Adkins then the board need replacing before any new manager comes in.

Then give Clough a call again.

Have to agree. Adkins needs to be given until at least Christmas 2016

 

[sheffielder]

Let's try and keep a manager for more than a few months before we start sacking managers on here. As much as Adkins is doing a shit job, I'd like to see him prove that Phipps is not just making excuses about the last manager and that he will turn it around.

Personally if we get to sacking Adkins then the board need replacing before any new manager comes in.

Then give Clough a call again.

You're like Sitwell with Baxter and Long, leave the man be and when Clough comes back in the game, I will donate £100 to a charity of your choice if he ever gets anyone promoted.

 

[JJ Sefton]

.....................to be the next Manager.

No thanks. I want him to be a big success as a manager, but we'd doom him and I don't want my hero worship spoiled.

 

[SwissBlade]

You're like Sitwell with Baxter and Long, leave the man be and when Clough comes back in the game, I will donate £100 to a charity of your choice if he ever gets anyone promoted.

Sheffield children's hospital please

 

[SwissBlade]

Have to agree. Adkins needs to be given until at least Christmas 2016

Yep, I'd be inclined to endure him until end of next season. Two full seasons

I doubt I'll be watching many games next season though

 

[alcoblade]

Let's try and keep a manager for more than a few months before we start sacking managers on here. As much as Adkins is doing a shit job, I'd like to see him prove that Phipps is not just making excuses about the last manager and that he will turn it around.

Personally if we get to sacking Adkins then the board need replacing before any new manager comes in.

Then give Clough a call again.

I nearly liked that until you mentioned Clough.

I presume it was a joke.

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[SwissBlade]

I nearly liked that until you mentioned Clough.

I presume it was a joke.

UTB

No. Completely serious. We have to break the cycle of sacking managers, but we also have to make sure the next manager knows what he's doing. Clough proved that.

 

[alcoblade]

No. Completely serious. We have to break the cycle of sacking managers, but we also have to make sure the next manager knows what he's doing. Clough proved that.

Come on Swizzler, you're trying to be controversial. Which part of his 15 years of management are you referring to?

UTB

 

[Tezza1889]

I'm sorry, we could have whoever managing us, but this board would scupper him before a ball has even been kicked, just like clough, and just like Adkins..

Is investment bs has done nothing for us whatsoever, argue all you like but a few seats and a shiny pitch, meh...

Prince arrived, macdonald is sold at the start of the season..
Next season, magure sold.....
This season, Murphy sold......

Che Adams will not be our player either this season or the next, possibly him and Baxter as well.... Selling club, and if this carries on we could go down because this squad of players are useless journeymen on the whole...

Any body who attracts interest is sold, and surprise surprise, if you're any good you attract interest..

 

[sheffielder]

Come of Swizzler, you're trying to be controversial. Which part of his 15 years of management are you referring to?

UTB

6 months in about 7 years at Burton I am guessing and even then he left before they actually got promoted.

 

[SwissBlade]

Come of Swizzler, you're trying to be controversial. Which part of his 15 years of management are you referring to?

UTB

Nothing controversial in what I've said there. The part is the 18months he spent at Sheffield United. He got more out of the bunch of players Adkins has than Adkins is doing.

Plus I'd happily pay to watch Clough walk back in at half time one game just to see Collins' face. "Collo, you're out son, you too Jam, you little pair of Tossers"

 

[alcoblade]

Nothing controversial in what I've said there. The part is the 18months he spent at Sheffield United. He got more out of the bunch of players Adkins has than Adkins is doing.

Plus I'd happily pay to watch Clough walk back in at half time one game just to see Collins' face. "Collo, you're out son, you too Jam, you little pair of Tossers"

So he got more out of a squad of players that he signed? Finishing the same points off automatic relegation to the fourth division as promotion to the second? Fuck me, you've set your sights low.

It's one thing setting out to win and failing, it's another to not even set out to win.

UTB

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Let's try and keep a manager for more than a few months before we start sacking managers on here. As much as Adkins is doing a shit job, I'd like to see him prove that Phipps is not just making excuses about the last manager and that he will turn it around.

Personally if we get to sacking Adkins then the board need replacing before any new manager comes in.

Then give Clough a call again.

That last sentence just made me go eeeeeereeeeeeeeeekkkkkk!!!! Otherwise I agree.

 

[SwissBlade]

So he got more out of a squad of players that he signed? Finishing the same points off automatic relegation to the fourth division as promotion to the second? Fuck me, you've set your sights low.

It's one thing setting out to win and failing, it's another to not even set out to win.

UTB

He finished 7th in his first season with somebody else's players.
He finished top six in his second season

Adkins' signings haven't been any better than the so called "shit" that Clough signed.
Adkins will do well to finish the season in a job with our hatchet board, he dreams of 7th at the moment.

At least the team spirit is great with Adkins!

 

[Living In a Fantasy World]

I do like the appeal of real ex blade players taking up coaching/ manager roles, it would certainly give me some optimism for the future that we truly have a manager who is passionate about the club.

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

Adkins should be given two seasons. Club is crap, team is crap. He's a football manager not a magician.

 

[Whiston Blade]

.....................to be the next Manager. I'm not saying when it should happen, but I think he should be groomed & nurtured to take on the role in the future.

We need to give Adkins a fair chance, but his inability to motivate this set of players & the constant swopping & changing are not encouraging for the future. How many times have we heard about when this player returns & that player returns? Well apart from Brayford they have all returned, or those of any consequence anyway, & it is still the same!
Other clubs with limited resources & low crowds are putting us to shame, not that we have a right to success, we are what we are because of our performances. Just look at Coventry, Burton, Gillingham etc.....But come on what we are seeing is very ordinary.

This is not an appeal for a manager change, but rather looking to the future so that next time we know who is taking over. Someone who I feel has a genuine link with the club & feels something of my pain every Saturday.

I am very disappointed in Mr Adkins so far, but there is along way to go! The trouble is we look more mediocre by the week & Adkins looks like someone who is unable to do anything about it!

It's Saturday but Sunday's coming!

No, because if Brian failed it would taint his "legend" status.

 

[alcoblade]

He finished 7th in his first season with somebody else's players.
He finished top six in his second season

Adkins' signings haven't been any better than the so called "shit" that Clough signed.
Adkins will do well to finish the season in a job with our hatchet board, he dreams of 7th at the moment.

At least the team spirit is great with Adkins!

I'm personally not interetsed in justifying previous crap by subsequent events.

Clough failed to get us promoted, and his crap signings are very evident. There aren't many who will argue that we are blessed with quality.

Whatever is happening, or happens in future with Adkins, it has no connection with the job done previously. Other than the reality that he inherited players who weren't good enough.

Separately, it's a relevant debate as to why we continue to sign shit players.

UTB

 

[Barney]

I'm personally not interetsed in justifying previous crap by subsequent events.

Clough failed to get us promoted, and his crap signings are very evident. There aren't many who will argue that we are blessed with quality.

Whatever is happening, or happens in future with Adkins, it has no connection with the job done previously. Other than the reality that he inherited players who weren't good enough.

Separately, it's a relevant debate as to why we continue to sign shit players.

UTB

But you wish to give Adkins the chance to extend the number of incredibly poor players he signs?

The mind boggles.

 

[SwissBlade]

I'm personally not interetsed in justifying previous crap by subsequent events.

Clough failed to get us promoted, and his crap signings are very evident. There aren't many who will argue that we are blessed with quality.

Whatever is happening, or happens in future with Adkins, it has no connection with the job done previously. Other than the reality that he inherited players who weren't good enough.

Separately, it's a relevant debate as to why we continue to sign shit players.

UTB

I don't disagree with a lot of that. The big worry is why didn't Adkins bring in more players in the summer? Similarly why didn't he make more available to get games on loan earlier? Why did he wipe the slate clean for too many so called shit players with actual shit attitudes?

And since he's found out? Why hasn't he acted to bring quality in instead of the shit that he's got us?

 

[alcoblade]

But you wish to give Adkins the chance to extend the number of incredibly poor players he signs?

The mind boggles.

Fuck off, nobhead.

UTB

 

[SwissBlade]

Fuck off, nobhead.

UTB

It was a reasonable question and I almost asked it myself.

Looks like you've yet again taken a thread down the pan

 

[sheffielder]

It was a reasonable question and I almost asked it myself.

Looks like you've yet again taken a thread down the pan

You think like Barny.. Just saying

 

[Barney]

Fuck off, nobhead.

UTB

"I'm not sure" would have sufficed.

 

[Deleted member 875]

"I'm not sure" would have sufficed.

What does sufficed mean? I've never heard that word before

 

[sheffielder]

"I'm not sure" would have sufficed.

he might be pretty sure you're a nobhead

 

[bladeinspaceandtime]

I don't disagree with a lot of that. The big worry is why didn't Adkins bring in more players in the summer? Similarly why didn't he make more available to get games on loan earlier? Why did he wipe the slate clean for too many so called shit players with actual shit attitudes?

And since he's found out? Why hasn't he acted to bring quality in instead of the shit that he's got us?

Money? Player availability?

 

[alcoblade]

I don't disagree with a lot of that. The big worry is why didn't Adkins bring in more players in the summer? Similarly why didn't he make more available to get games on loan earlier? Why did he wipe the slate clean for too many so called shit players with actual shit attitudes?

And since he's found out? Why hasn't he acted to bring quality in instead of the shit that he's got us?

I'm not sure what you don't agree with, as I haven't defended Adkins.

I'd guess he started out believing, like I did, that the players were better than they were and that it was Clough's tactics that cost us. From then, wheeling and dealing with overpaid Sheffield United players becomes really difficult when the destination is Bury, Oldham or Wycombe. But either way, I'm happy to accept that Adkins has to do much, much better.


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