Nigel Clough - "I Didn't Fail"

[Lane Ender]

We was living off the euphoria of 2013-2014 it ain't happened.
He wasn't worth 2m but he can still do us a great service when he returns to form

I said when he returns to form fully and he will

 

[Lane Ender]

Was he good enough for us? yes.
Was he better than Brayford when he played RB? yes.

That's why Adkins got shut .
And fucking good riddance

 

[finlaytheblade]

At the time I assumed we could afford him because of the Saudi investment. I didn't realise that a few months later we'd be crying about how much we've lost and signing no one in the JTW.
I assumed there was some kind of plan to it, not just the hope that the new signings would carry us to a promotion spot and without any consideration for what would happen if they didn't.

I think at the time BushBlade most fans were happy Brayford was coming back,but if we had realised it was at the expense of improving obvious weaknesses then most would have disa proved. Beats me what Clough was playing at,spending whatever on one player ( a fullback at that )who was not a match winner.This probably cost him his job,how a manager can go into a play off semi-final 2nd leg with 2 fullbacks
at centre back is crazy ( Collins was back from port vale ) it seems his lack of cooperation with the board and the throwing a fortune at signing a fullback was the thing that cost him is job.I was with clough most of the way but in the end his arrogance lost him a lot of support.
Ime of the opinion he was planning of going for it this season when last season was there for the taking ,that was unacceptable.

 

[Bartleby]

Are you saying the players respected Clough more than Adkins because of their achievements as players themselves? Quite possibly, yes. I'd hope that respect would be given to a man with Premier League management experience, though.

not really saying that no, Adkins record as a manager compared to Clough's already more than compensates for the difference in levels they were at as players IMO.

I just meant that if the players are not giving their all for the new manager coming in, for whatever reason, it might not simply be a case of well it's the manager's job to hit the ground running and get them playing - in some cases it might be the manager has to bide his time and shift the buggers out. That was what Warnock, a manager I respect greatly, had to do at Burton for example.

 

[PittsburghBlade]

what's your statement based on?

 

[Snowman]

Just want to register my vote as it were. I loved some of that Clough season(s), but towards the end my abiding memory will be of watching week after week of goals being conceded from set pieces as the soft centre of our Defence (where the centre backs should be) failed to meet and deal with crosses into the box. Having lost one centre back and immediately fucked off another, to then piss another one away and not replace any of them makes Clough what we all know, arrogant but equally a failure as a football manager. It could have been so different. Pity really. Just an opinion.