Nigel takes over at Hull

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i cant go along with 'he didnt have much to spend'

maybe not on transfers but the wages we would of paid absolute garbage of Hammond , Woolford and Sammon alone is probably what wilders whole squad combined was on last season if not more !

appalling manager for us and as others have said he took us to our lowest point ,

it was like the whole process of major f##k ups had completed its cycle going back to Robson up to Adkins

, thankfully CWAK broke that hideous wheel !
 



Well I have been going to BL for 40 years, but the last 2 months of his final season I stopped going, the football was atrocious, he signed players on big wages, well past there sell by date, but kept playing them and defending them, he was a very positive speaker and said all the things that fans want to hear, but under the surface appeared to be clueless and out of his depth
 
Blade for Sale said:
He led us to mid-table mediocrity in the 3rd tier with the best striker in the division by a country mile. His tenure was a utter clusterfuck.
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That's my point, mid table mediocrity is not a good thing.

Best striker Billy? Surely you mean Will Grigg on 25 goals 2015/16 season (he was on fire....)?

Unless you mean Billy was potentially the best striker but Adkins didn't get the best out of him maybe?
 
mosbolad said:
He signed Billy but also......... 'The Unseen'.........
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He also helped ensure Wilder came in with a less cluttered squad than might have been otherwise the case, moving on Alcock, Khan, Dimaio, Higdon, Collins in the 2nd half of the season, and gave first team opportunities to Whiteman and DCL that have probably aided their development. That is altogether all the positive stuff though...
 
wizadry said:
Football is the only job where you can do absolutely shite in your previous job and your next job will be higher up the ladder. Madness!
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Er, politics? The difference is that football managers - inexplicably - get a pay-off however dire their performance. Politicians fiddle their expenses and make sure a cushy number awaits them when they're found out.

Danny_Boy said:
He was poor here, but I don't understand the levels of hate aimed at him from Blades. He obviously wanted to do well here but it didn't work out, he left well over a year ago, surely we ought to be over it now, especially since his leaving opened the door for Wilder.

Good luck to him I hope it works out for him this time.
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I'm sure Weir, Adams, Clough, Wilson, Blackwell, Robson etc. 'wanted to do well here'. The slight flaw in their plan is they're fucking useless. All a manager needs to do is have a brief, purple patch in their managerial careers and the other 90% of failure is magically forgotten. Far from 'leaving opened the door for Wilder', he left a bloated squad only here for a last, big payday. Think of what CW could have done with the £1m - £1.5m that fraud Adkins walked away with.
TomJonesBlade said:
I was quite a staunch defender of his on here for a long while, but when I saw absolutely no signs of improvement and plenty of steps backwards, I saw the light and realised I'd been flogging a dead horse.

The man is an absolute charlatan. There's no better word to describe him. He didn't have a clue, commanded no respect in the dressing room because he talked so much bollocks and bullshitted decent players (see Scougall).

Did he have sod all to spend? Yes, but so did Wilder. Obviously CW is a far superior manager, but I think we can all agree that even for low fees and freebies, the man signed some of the worst players to ever grace our hallowed turf.

Don't understand the hate? Remember the performances of Conor Sammon then get back to us!

Edit: To add a little more, a lot of the hate is personal for many. I had never, ever left a game early until he was in charge, but I was fucking disgusted with what I saw from our performance against Shrewsbury at home. That feeling I had that night was nauseating. Adkins dragged us to the lowest ebb I've experienced in my time following United, so that's why I'm not his biggest fan.
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All absolutely true. A message to any chairman looking for a new manager. Do not look at a 'manager' who is out of work (Wilson, Adkins etc.) Even for a profession where the bar is set fantastically low, a football manager is unemployed for a good reason.
 
ShockingBadBuy said:
Look out for WilliamHenryFoulkes on Hull message boards. Action: Roygbiv ?

Oh, and first prize (season ticket in the best seat in the KC that faces the sea) goes to anyone who can name a Hull-playing, lard-based, Edwardian-era equivalent of our own tubby hero, for WHF's new avatar.
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How about Ken Knighton? OK he wasn't Edwardian, more like prehistoric!
 
wizadry said:
Football is the only job where you can do absolutely shite in your previous job and your next job will be higher up the ladder. Madness!
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It's not, i know of a few people in my industry that have been negligent to the point of being sued and are still working, in senior positions.

Even in football though, what has happened with Adkins is quite unusual. It's rare to do badly in the last two jobs and get one at roughly the same level. I'd have expected him to go to a smaller club and have to rebuild his career a bit.

I've always had a rule of thumb that any manager who makes a name for himself by winning promotion will get three more chances with other clubs before owners start to see them as being tainted. I guess four promotions including one to the PL still carries some weight.

I think it's a poor appointment as he's never shown he can turn a struggling club round, his best work has been when he takes over a decent squad that's already doing quite well. I'll be very surprised if he's successful.
 



Inherited a very bad situation with, I think, 16 players out of contract at the end of the season. He made things worse by adding high waged loan signings from the division above, which made things worse rather than better. He could have done better with the Murphy money and started to build a young, quality squad. The good news for Wilder was that he started with a relatively clean slate, although he had to sell Calvert-Lewin and Adams to rebuild, and Ramsdale to finish the job.For me Adkins isn't the man you need in a difficult situation.He doesn't have the strength of character required.
 
I wish him all the best to be honest.

He was a terrible fit at United, it happens. Some managers fail and some succeed. No reason to hate someone for not being up to the job, just say farewell and move on to somebody more capable.

Be more Zen.
 
Tyler Durden said:
I wish him all the best to be honest.

He was a terrible fit at United, it happens. Some managers fail and some succeed. No reason to hate someone for not being up to the job, just say farewell and move on to somebody more capable.

Be more Zen.
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hmmm.....someone hacked your login ;)

UTB
 
It didn't work out well for us but I think he could be successful.

In my opinion our owners bailed on him to early and didn't support him in January. They'd already decided he was going and it was obvious to Nigel. Hardly inspires success.

He made a mistake with Hammond and Leicester around contracts. I suspect we had penalties if we didn't play him. Hammond put the effort in but that wasn't enough as he was on the decline.

Let down by Jose Baxter who no doubt will be playing in League 1 or the Championship again in January. A player I liked to watch but who was clearly stupid.

Likely already tied into taking Conor Sammon - the deal was probably already done by Clough.

Jamie Murphy sold out from under him. This made people compare Woolford to him as no other left winger came in and though Woolford was an honest player he was always onto a loser due to that comparison.

Brought Billy Sharp back. Brought in Baptiste on loan who I thought was very good.

He was maddeningly annoying in press conferences though. Maybe McCabe just flipped after one of those. That'd be perfectly understandable. Probably use them at Guantanamo Bay.
 
I should coco said:
In an occassional series of 'phrases you never thought you'd hear', we bring you:





Coming soon:

pommpey 'praising KM for buying the desso' and Pinchy bemoaning how 'we miss Monty's energy, drive and midfield vision'
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Esablade "I was wrong"
Cerberus Blade "Never done/experienced that."
Silent Blade "Don't know who that United player is"
Alfreton Blade "car park? Suits me. Outside now"
Danny_sufc "I can't blame any one player for that"
Swiss Blade "what's it matter what forum it's in?"
 
northsomersetblade said:
Losing all my feckin family fortune as well
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Yes he's not having the best of years! In fact much like Woolfords tenure at The Blades....

However I am sure it is a dip in form rather than Woolfords terminal decline.

I am sure the lad Woodford will come good though! :)
 



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