CONFIRMED Nigel Adkins is gone

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raul said:
You've missed Semi-Pro out Pinch, that one was always my favourite.
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You might at least show the man some respect and afford him his full title - That's "The former non-league, semi-professional, reserve goalkeeper" if you don't mind....:)
 
Pinchy said:
You might at least show the man some respect and afford him his full title - That's "The former non-league, semi-professional, reserve goalkeeper" if you don't mind....:)
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I actually played against him, obviously didn't know who the hell he was at the time, only that he couldn't save penalties ;)
 
I saw Nigel Adkins departure coming. Because as soon as many journalists "people were in the running" like yanal, wilder & mccall for a job that didn't exist. i thought adkins showed enough Oldham onwards to deserve at least til xmas to see where we were, because as bad he was at times I still feel that most of problem comes from 2/3rds of crap that was still in squad from pre season

I feel abot bad because if id known it was going to be adkins final game I would've stayed behind to thank hin for his efforts this season & say goodbye

Also what was the point was of sacking Clough as surely if we were only to give a manager 1 yr surely it wouldve been better to keep because this has turned into a waste of a yr for everyone
 
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Lord Bos of Eckington. said:
Kev carries no blame on this one . We all thought Adkins was the right man , but not to be . Too risky to let him build a side and fail . Hats off to McCabe . First decision he has got right in years . Took some bottle this one , but Adkins alienated the fans.

New dawn most definitely .
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Disagree enormously. Adkins is the first manager we’ve appointed since God was a lad that has an impressive track record and had almost unanimous backing from the fans. It seemed like McCabe had finally got one right. Then he bins him off before even giving him a chance with his own team after a season of fuck all backing and selling his best player at the start of it. God knows how long it will be before we appoint another manager of that sort of caliber. I feel pretty apathetic as to who takes over now as whoever it is will have the axe over his head from day one and the fans will probably want him out by October. Completely disillusioned now with this utter shithouse of a football club.


Nigel Adkins will manage in the championship before club retard gets there. Mark my words.
 
1danewhitehouse said:
Disagree enormously. Adkins is the first manager we’ve appointed since God was a lad that has an impressive track record and had almost unanimous backing from the fans. It seemed like McCabe had finally got one right. Then he bins him off before even giving him a chance with his own team after a season of fuck all backing and selling his best player at the start of it. God knows how long it will be before we appoint another manager of that sort of caliber. I feel pretty apathetic as to who takes over now as whoever it is will have the axe over his head from day one and the fans will probably want him out by October. Completely disillusioned now with this utter shithouse of a football club.


Nigel Adkins will manage in the championship before club retard gets there. Mark my words.
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Come on. Clough took this lot to the play offs and Adkins was allowed to add 6 players with 2nd tier experience (Sharp, Woolford, Sammon, Hammond, Edgar and Bartiste). The funds available for those players should have more than made up for the loss of Murphy. Whatever his past record, Adkins failed massively. Its his second failure with a club after the Scunthorpe and Southampton successes and maybe he has just lost it now. People do.

I would have given him the start of next season, but this sacking is not unreasonable.
 
Bladesman said:
I expect Wilder to be sacked soon enough. If bringing a few loan signings, one that was signed before you arrived and two permanent signings counts as being backed then the likes of Wilder have nowt to come. Especially when the likes of Clough were allowed to bring a ton of dross in.
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100% agree. We could get Mourinho in but if he only gets the backing Adkins did he won’t get us up in one season and the axe will fall again.
 
georgebernardshaw said:
So we've now reached a stage where we've sacked yet another manager, hoping to find a replacement who can come in at the drop of a hat, replace a squad that requires euthanasia, and do it in the shortest time available.

Absolutely fucking brilliant, Kevin.
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It’s OK though because he knows league 2 players so will hit the ground running by bringing in Marc Richards and John Joe O Toole.
 
cooperblade said:
Said it last year, might as well repeat myself. Just a 1 year contract for the next manager please.

Not angry about Adkins going like I was when Clough went, just really, really bored of it all.
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A million times this. Adkins knew it was shit or bust so went for experienced men he knew who he thought could influence the dressing room to bring them round to his way. If he’d had the relative security of knowing he would get 2-3 years he could have done more to build a team with younger players developing a way of playing etc. The constant attempt to find a quick fix just sets us further back year on year. Wilder will have the same pressure and will probably end up going down the experience route as well. Hell also have less money to do it with after paying compo for him and paying Nige off.
 
Pinchy said:
He said, quite correctly, that a significant number of our fans are complete wankers who never get behind the team and create a poisonous atmosphere at the Lane.

He went on to say they were single-celled Neanderthals who would applaud his departure, despite his proven achievements and celebrate the arrival of a Bladey mediocrity who has taken 15 years to become an overnight sensation.

He then pointed out that, given reasonable time, he would likely have turned this wreck of a club around and given us a proper football team to be proud of, but the s2 Hoofitandhope mentality wouldn't permit that.

He advised we replace him with someone, anyone, with Bladey Blade credentials. Preferably someone from the Dinosaur Dave era. He said we should be upanatem and gerritintbox. He said we'd be more comfortable with that.

He then wished the thickest, crudest, most parochial, least sophisticated supporters in football everything they deserve. So do I. It won't involve me.
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We’ve disagreed on “bladey” issues in the past and “Dinosaur Dave” in particular but I agree with the sentiment here. Constantly appealing to the loudest moronic section of our support has set us back yet again.
 

boo radley said:
No he has not. We all know who is to blame and if you think it is another manager either past or past then some are too gullible.
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Well, plenty are delighted at the news as if Adkins was the problem that is going to be solved by this change so as far as some are concerned, responsibility has been successfully deflected whilst setting us back another year or two.
 
west_yorks_blade said:
So basically it's the fans fault

Fucking bollocks.
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Nah he basically just said the fans are vocal when they’re not happy and it’s been like that from day one and will be forevermore.


The fact that McCabe takes his advice from Brian the Blade and the numpty who sits behind me on the kop shouting “Gerrit forrud” and “Fuck off (insert player name- often a young one like Adams or Reed) you useless cunt”.
 
Ben_1982 said:
After his moronic comments on Sunday there was no way back for him. At least the board have acted quickly
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If Sunjihi was right, this has been on the cards for a while and that was just his parting shot knowing what was coming. Which makes it all the more fucking stupid to wait so the new man can’t assess the squad first hand and start to identify targets. It’ll give us another excuse when we’re behind the times on recruitment too. But never mind, there’ll be loads of good freebies knocking around at the end of the summer. Worked a treat last season when we took Woolford from the scrap heap.
 
Sky sports news have just said that northampton have recieveed an official approach for wilder and his assistant and wilder WILL be appointed in the next 48 hours. There you go.....
 
super_pig said:
no probs.. you said 'Enjoy your season with Bladey Chris'.. what's with the 'your' season mate :)
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I have bought a season ticket that will go unused mate. I'm a Blade of over 50 years long-suffering and they can gladly have the dosh but I won't be participating in the one season under Wilder any more than I would under another Bladey favourite like Morgan. I saw Wilder's Oxford team a few times. They were functional at best without any style or flair. He was on the verge of the sack there on a number of occasions and his departure was not mourned by anyone. They now play far better football. Appleton IN! No doubt Wilder had a good season with Northampton but it's been a fucking long time coming and its Division Four, for Pele's sake. From what I've seen of them, there ain't much football there, either. You can say it's been effective but one season does not make a manager and his overall record is completely underwhelming. He's no young up and comer as some people kid themselves, but rather a seasoned mediocrity who has had more than long enough to prove where he belongs. He has and it's Non-League and Division Four.

Adkins has had a very poor season. His CV suggests, however, that he would have turned it round next year. This policy of giving managers one shot or you're out is football lunacy. It's crazy, costs a fortune and is self-perpetuating.

I see nothing whatsoever in Wilder to give me any confidence that my time won't be better spent bringing down my handicap. It's a cheap option, entirely lacking in ambition and calculated to appease the simple-minded section of our support to whom "He's a Blade" is more important than ability and achievement. Remember Quickfix Micky Adams?

It's an appalling appointment, made for all the wrong reasons, and I want nothing to do with it. I'm sure you can all manage without me for a year...:)
 
1danewhitehouse said:
All the best Nigel. Some of our fans appreciated the work you were doing and the vision of how you wanted us to play. Shame you never got the chance to put it into practice with your own playing staff.


Let’s hope the academy stuff and scouting network continue in his absence.
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He's still failed miserably with the players he had though. Apathetic displays that he did nothing about because publicly at least, he was satisfied. And if behind the scenes he wasn't, he failed to do anything about it.
 
Pinchy said:
I have bought a season ticket that will go unused mate. I'm a Blade of over 50 years long-suffering and they can gladly have the dosh but I won't be participating in the one season under Wilder any more than I would under another Bladey favourite like Morgan. I saw Wilder's Oxford team a few times. They were functional at best without any style or flair. He was on the verge of the sack there on a number of occasions and his departure was not mourned by anyone. They now play far better football. Appleton IN! No doubt Wilder had a good season with Northampton but it's been a fucking long time coming and its Division Four, for Pele's sake. From what I've seen of them, there ain't much football there, either. You can say it's been effective but one season does not make a manager and his overall record is completely underwhelming. He's no young up and comer as some people kid themselves, but rather a seasoned mediocrity who has had more than long enough to prove where he belongs. He has and it's Non-League and Division Four.

Adkins has had a very poor season. His CV suggests, however, that he would have turned it round next year. This policy of giving managers one shot or you're out is football lunacy. It's crazy, costs a fortune and is self-perpetuating.

I see nothing whatsoever in Wilder to give me any confidence that my time won't be better spent bringing down my handicap. It's a cheap option, entirely lacking in ambition and calculated to appease the simple-minded section of our support to whom "He's a Blade" is more important than ability and achievement. Remember Quickfix Micky Adams?

It's an appalling appointment, made for all the wrong reasons, and I want nothing to do with it. I'm sure you can all manage without me for a year...:)
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just bantz mate.. dont care about the style anymore tbh
 
Very disappointed but not unexpected. Alan Biggs hinted that his final interview did it for him. Adkins had just started to weed out the shit so he should have stayed. McCabe has a lot to answer for in my opinion. Talked about long term vision for a while now and we keep getting through managers again and again. Absolutely sick of it. What made Adkins the right man 11 months ago but the wrong man today? The cost of paying him off will be enormous.

Saying that, if it is Wilder (which it will be) then I wish him the best of luck and I hope he gets time to rebuild the club like Adkins should have got. In Wilder's previous jobs he needed time to turn things around. Best of luck to Adkins as well.
If what some people on here are saying is true, that Wilder doesn't like the board then I do wonder why he's coming here. In my view he should wait for a better club not run by clowns.
 
1danewhitehouse said:
Nah he basically just said the fans are vocal when they’re not happy and it’s been like that from day one and will be forevermore.


The fact that McCabe takes his advice from Brian the Blade and the numpty who sits behind me on the kop shouting “Gerrit forrud” and “Fuck off (insert player name- often a young one like Adams or Reed) you useless cunt”.
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It's a bit more of a groundswell than Brian the blade and the guy that sits behind you.

Last game of the season.
Players being booed off when substituted, chants of ' you're not fit to wear the shirt' and ' you're getting sacked in the morning'? A chant of 'we're fucking shit' in response to a scunny chant. And out of a 21k crowd a few hundred stayed for the lap of shame, over half of them out of a sense of morbid curiosity or to shout abuse.

There may be a split here on whether the manager or Mcabe's is to blame (a bit of both for me) but slagging the fans for this predicament is not only a tiny minority's view but also fucking bollocks.
 
Darren said:
Come on. Clough took this lot to the play offs and Adkins was allowed to add 6 players with 2nd tier experience (Sharp, Woolford, Sammon, Hammond, Edgar and Bartiste). The funds available for those players should have more than made up for the loss of Murphy. Whatever his past record, Adkins failed massively. Its his second failure with a club after the Scunthorpe and Southampton successes and maybe he has just lost it now. People do.

I would have given him the start of next season, but this sacking is not unreasonable.
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You make your point well, as usual. You surely agree though, that 'one-shot or you're sacked' is both a philosophy of despair and a self-perpetuating recipe for chaos and failure? If we're going to bite the bullet and actually have the bottle to stick with someone surely Adkins' credentials entitle him to be that man? If not, who?
 

Darren said:
Come on. Clough took this lot to the play offs and Adkins was allowed to add 6 players with 2nd tier experience (Sharp, Woolford, Sammon, Hammond, Edgar and Bartiste). The funds available for those players should have more than made up for the loss of Murphy. Whatever his past record, Adkins failed massively. Its his second failure with a club after the Scunthorpe and Southampton successes and maybe he has just lost it now. People do.

I would have given him the start of next season, but this sacking is not unreasonable.
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I suppose it all depends how you view it. Clough scraped a playoff place due to a very kind points spread. We then lost the best player of the team that achieved that. Clough's squad was also built with the mentality of counter-attacking football, 451, "starting with a point" etc. The antithesis of how Adkins wanted us to play (our board love going from one extreme to another in terms of playing style to further hamstring every manager that comes in). Adkins managed to outright buy one player for a third of what Murphy was sold for. He finished 6 points worse than Clough but faced numerous disadvantages compared with Clough's circumstances.
 
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