Outgoing? Nigel

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Kev Gee said:
Be careful lads. Because if NA asks to leave then JP will let him go because he asked to leave and we cant have an unhappy employee on the books can we?
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Newbury Blade said:
The bookies still make us favourites for promotion, and for a good reason: we are going to get promoted.
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Some of us will remember we were once favourates for promotion , and we got relegated . Bookies are usually 99.99% right , but not when it comes to all things Blades.

If Adkins says we will get promoted then i would believe.

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Lord Bos of Eckington. said:
Some of us will remember we were once favourates for promotion , and we got relegated . Bookies are usually 99.99% right , but not when it comes to all things Blades.

If Adkins says we will get promoted then i would believe.
The " footballing gods" have got £50 on both Coventry & Wigan for promotion. As for the Blades, well we all know what they have lined up for them.
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Whoops, the bottom paragraph of LBoE post belongs to me. Don't know what happened there.
 
barnyblade said:
What has he done here that makes you want him to stay? If you can answer me that you might have a basis for an argument.
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1. Turned us from a turgid, rigid, watching paint dry kind of team to an attacking, entertaining one.

2. Brought in a proven goalscorer and a target man; the former has 6 goals to his name already.

3. Kept us in the hunt despite the best 3 players he inheirted being either injured or sold.

4. Accepted responsibility when things haven't gone well and shown signs of learning from mistakes such as dropping Long and McEveley.

5. Injected some positivty into some of the fanbase with both his CV and his personality.

6. Gone some way to addressing the central defence problems bringing Collins in from the cold and signing Edgar.

7. Attempted to sign more players in the positions required and of the calibre required in Burn and Hammond.


Admittedly there's still plenty that he needs to do to be successful but there is a list of 7 things he has done so far that make me want him to stay. But more than those 7 things, what makes me want him to stay is that he is the first manager since Methuselah was a lad that we've appointed who has an excellent proven track record and he's only been here 4 months. I have every faith that he is the correct appointment and won't thcweam and thcweam til I'm sick just because he hasn't fixed everything in the first 5 minutes. Honestly speaking, what manager could we possibly hope to appoint with a track record to match his?
 
1danewhitehouse said:
1. Turned us from a turgid, rigid, watching paint dry kind of team to an attacking, entertaining one.

2. Brought in a proven goalscorer and a target man; the former has 6 goals to his name already.

3. Kept us in the hunt despite the best 3 players he inheirted being either injured or sold.

4. Accepted responsibility when things haven't gone well and shown signs of learning from mistakes such as dropping Long and McEveley.

5. Injected some positivty into some of the fanbase with both his CV and his personality.

6. Gone some way to addressing the central defence problems bringing Collins in from the cold and signing Edgar.

7. Attempted to sign more players in the positions required and of the calibre required in Burn and Hammond.


Admittedly there's still plenty that he needs to do to be successful but there is a list of 7 things he has done so far that make me want him to stay. But more than those 7 things, what makes me want him to stay is that he is the first manager since Methuselah was a lad that we've appointed who has an excellent proven track record and he's only been here 4 months. I have every faith that he is the correct appointment and won't thcweam and thcweam til I'm sick just because he hasn't fixed everything in the first 5 minutes. Honestly speaking, what manager could we possibly hope to appoint with a track record to match his?
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Quite right. The only mistake you've made is giving oxygen to a ludicrous piece of attention-seeking that's best given the respect it deserves. This much:
 
barnyblade said:
I wouldn't mind at all. He's done nothing to make me want him to stay so far. In fact he's done quite a lot to make me want him shown the door.

I'd urge a Warnock-style, no-nonsense, old school manager to be appointed in the highly unlikely event he went.
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My God. You really have been judge and jury in a handful of games. Absolutely fucking pathetic.

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1danewhitehouse said:
1. Turned us from a turgid, rigid, watching paint dry kind of team to an attacking, entertaining one.

2. Brought in a proven goalscorer and a target man; the former has 6 goals to his name already.

3. Kept us in the hunt despite the best 3 players he inheirted being either injured or sold.

4. Accepted responsibility when things haven't gone well and shown signs of learning from mistakes such as dropping Long and McEveley.

5. Injected some positivty into some of the fanbase with both his CV and his personality.

6. Gone some way to addressing the central defence problems bringing Collins in from the cold and signing Edgar.

7. Attempted to sign more players in the positions required and of the calibre required in Burn and Hammond.


Admittedly there's still plenty that he needs to do to be successful but there is a list of 7 things he has done so far that make me want him to stay. But more than those 7 things, what makes me want him to stay is that he is the first manager since Methuselah was a lad that we've appointed who has an excellent proven track record and he's only been here 4 months. I have every faith that he is the correct appointment and won't thcweam and thcweam til I'm sick just because he hasn't fixed everything in the first 5 minutes. Honestly speaking, what manager could we possibly hope to appoint with a track record to match his?
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1 - As said previously, what's the benefit of an attacking side if the same awful results are being produced? Not sure about you but i'm more concerned about results and points than anything else.

2 - Wrongly as first priority. Again that mistake has cost us just as much if not more than Billy's scoring has profited us. So that cancels out, at least.

3 - If you call 8 points from top and 5 from automatic after only 11 (12?) games then more fool you I suppose. I call it getting left behind at such an early stage by a bunch of miniatures.

4 - Has he? Correct me if I'm wrong but I haven't once heard him say "Sorry, I got it wrong" or similar.

5 - Again, isn't this supposed positivity drowned out by the failings on the pitch? I would say the dissapointment of the fans at least matches the positivity, if not surpassea it as results have been worsening. Exactly how it should be, they have that right as paying customers.

6 - You missed the 'not' in between the 'way' abd 'to'. More than 2 months and past the start of the season, being forced to sign a centre back due to an absolute demolition at the hands of Gillingham? Sorry but I can't even take this one seriously.

7 - Isn't the last ditch panic from shocking results more than cancelled out by the failure in the 2 months previous?

A fair bit of clutching at straws and wishy washiness going on there I think.
 
My "fucking idiot in proximity " radar was going off weeks ago. Fortunately, Barny has removed all doubt for those not following as closely. :)

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be careful lads, he may just really like red and white stripes and ours just don't really hit the spot.
 
Barney, just like to say I think you are absolutely spot on. It's early doors yet but thus far Adkins has been a big disappointment. 3 of his 4 signings have been poor and overall he has to do much better.
 
chipsncake said:
Barney, just like to say I think you are absolutely spot on. It's early doors yet but thus far Adkins has been a big disappointment. 3 of his 4 signings have been poor and overall he has to do much better.
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So you'd be glad if he left for Sunderland then?

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chipsncake said:
Barney, just like to say I think you are absolutely spot on. It's early doors yet but thus far Adkins has been a big disappointment. 3 of his 4 signings have been poor and overall he has to do much better.
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Barny couldn't be spot on in a polka-dot factory when it's snowing.

You may have an arguable point on signings and certainly it's been a poorer start than we all hoped. That may be more a symptom of the players not being as good as we (or Nigel) thought than anything else.

However, and this is really all that matters: Should we hang on to Nigel Adkins like grim death as ultimately far and away our best hope for taking our club out of this Godforsaken league and beyond? Too fucking right, we should. He's not the cause of years of pent-up frustration but he has a great deal more chance of being the solution than any realistic alternative. Let's not forget what we were all saying when he was appointed, eh?....
 
Pinchy said:
Barny couldn't be spot on in a polka-dot factory when it's snowing.

You may have an arguable point on signings and certainly it's been a poorer start than we all hoped. That may be more a symptom of the players not being as good as we (or Nigel) thought than anything else.

However, and this is really all that matters: Should we hang on to Nigel Adkins like grim death as ultimately far and away our best hope for taking our club out of this Godforsaken league and beyond? Too fucking right, we should. He's not the cause of years of pent-up frustration but he has a great deal more chance of being the solution than any realistic alternative. Let's not forget what we were all saying when he was appointed, eh?....
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Yes, but then again I was silly enough to presume he would sign players in the right positions, in the correct priority order. It's only one of the very basics of recruitment, I suppose.
 
Can anyone realistically say there are better options than NA out there? Seriously?
The club has to be applauded for his appointment. NA will ship out the dross and form a promotion winning team of his own.

I still feel we will be in with a very good shout of the top 2 come May.

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barnyblade said:
Yes, but then again I was silly enough to presume he would sign players in the right positions, in the correct priority order. It's only one of the very basics of recruitment, I suppose.
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Go on, against my better judgement and common sense, I'll humour your attention-seeking, just this once, enjoy it, it won't happen again, with just two simple questions:

1. Do you want Nigel Adkins, widely regarded as one of the best English managers around and with a CV to envy, out?

2. Who would you appoint to replace him?

I hope we don't get to 2 because I shall need a surgical support to keep my sides together...
 
Pinchy said:
Barny couldn't be spot on in a polka-dot factory when it's snowing.

You may have an arguable point on signings and certainly it's been a poorer start than we all hoped. That may be more a symptom of the players not being as good as we (or Nigel) thought than anything else.

However, and this is really all that matters: Should we hang on to Nigel Adkins like grim death as ultimately far and away our best hope for taking our club out of this Godforsaken league and beyond? Too fucking right, we should. He's not the cause of years of pent-up frustration but he has a great deal more chance of being the solution than any realistic alternative. Let's not forget what we were all saying when he was appointed, eh?....
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Exactly. It's really that simple.

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Pinchy said:
Go on, against my better judgement and common sense, I'll humour your attention-seeking, just this once, enjoy it, it won't happen again, with just two simple questions:

1. Do you want Nigel Adkins, widely regarded as one of the best English managers around and with a CV to envy, out?

2. Who would you appoint to replace him?

I hope we don't get to 2 because I shall need a surgical support to keep my sides together...
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1. Depends whether you mean generally or in the context of the thread. If he were to leave for Sunderland, I wouldn't lose much sleep over it, put it that way. In terms of a general dismissal, he's not there yet but it's certainly getting on towards it. All the talk of his past is completely redundant, i'll judge him on what he does for my football club and thus far he's come across as a bag of hot air that struck lucky with a team full of future England internationals sitting in the Southampton academy. What would we be saying if Parkinson had gone about things the way Adkins has? I'm pretty sure there wouldn't be posters with metaphorical pitchforks at the ready, waiting to pounce on anyone that dared criticise him, and dare I say there'd be a few calling for him out. Does the history of an individual all of a sudden swoop in and put an extra 3 points to our name every time we lose? You can consider one's achievements when selecting a manager, granted, as you'd be right to think that a more achieving manager will more than likely to go on and achieve more with your club. But when that manager does everything he can to go against that prediction, and quite shockingly makes some of the most basic of management errors, it's quite easy to conclude his supposed history has gone out the window.

2. I wouldn't put a name on the manager I'd appoint, as that's really not feasible from a hypothetical stand point, but a manager that grasps the most basic of recruitment would be a start, and better than what we have seen so far. I wouldn't say we'd have to push the boat out too far to find that attribute, and isn't that telling of how our current manager has gone about things? An old school, no-nonsense, "you're getting bollocked if you fail to show any passion or grit" type manager would do wonders for the soft-centred ethos we seemed to have imposed. A shared realisation of quite how much the squad needs to change to succeed would also be a preferred requirement. Along with a pre-agreed sense of priority positions with regards to transfers in to the club. Something the board might have missed off their interview check list perhaps?
 
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