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.
1 – Personally, I find it much more entertaining. Instead hanging on by our fingernails to a 1-0 lead, every win this season has been by 2 clear goals. It also gives me hope and encouragement that we will improve especially as good players that have been missing like Done and Brayford get involved.
2 – You have no idea what his priorities were and are just jumping to assumptions to suit your argument. There’s a lot more than just NA involved in the recruitment process. We’ve proven time and time again that we only seem to be able to get deals over the line if the player is a mate of the manager, chairman, director etc. (Brayford, Sharp, Kitson, Sammon, Woolford, Davies, Freeman etc).
3 – The truth probably lies somewhere in between our comments. We’re certainly not where we want to be but we’re far from out of it. Another 4 game winning run like we had after Gillingham would probably see us back in the top 2.
4 – After the Bury game he said he had to question his own decisions as he put McNulty on to go for a winner and we lost the game trying to win it. After Sharp tried to blame himself for Colchester, Adkins said it wasn’t down to Sharp, it was down to him. You clearly haven’t been paying attention.
5 – Recent performances and results have been disappointing admittedly. However, anyone with a bit of realism and common sense will know you don’t judge an extremely accomplished manager with an excellent track record based on him not being able to magically fix a car crash of a club with a massive amount of deadwood, that have sold his best player and with all his other best players injured in a period of 4 months.
6 – Sorry Barny but now it is I who cannot take you seriously. Adkins talked openly about talks to bring in a centre half long before the Gills game and immediately before the game said talks were at an advanced stage but they couldn’t quite get it done in time for that game. Again, you haeven’t been paying attention or you’re just deliberately making things up to suit your argument. Which is it?
7 – I seem to recall we were on a 4 game winning run and 2nd in the league when we tried to sign the 2 in question. That doesn’t seem like panic due to shocking results at all but proactive management seeing the weaknesses even whilst things looked good and trying to do something about it. Unfortunately, those above him don’t seem to be nearly so proactive.
A fair bit of making things up that blatantly aren’t true to try to discredit our manager going on there I think.
I think the main problem is your lack of understanding of the manager’s role in recruitment and your failure to appreciate the human and man management elements of football management. It’s not like FIFA Career Mode you know.
