Nigel Adkins - new manager

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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by Only one Trevor Morley » 21 Mar 2013 00:41

Ian Royal Presumably you'd prefer someone like Casanova or maybe Hitler to manage us.


66-1 and 150-1 respectively on oddschecker.

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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by Bandini » 21 Mar 2013 06:11

Ian Royal I didn't say it was fluke. I said it was a near perfectly executed way for a slightly inferior team to win the league. Which is totally different.


But obviously we weren't inferior, because defensive solidity and mental strength are two of the factors which one would use when assessing the quality of a team, rather than minor matters to which one might refer when seeking to explain why a team perceived to be "better" was as a matter of fact not better.

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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by Royalwaster » 21 Mar 2013 10:02

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Ian Royal Presumably you'd prefer someone like Hitler to manage us.


He would know how to organize a proper attack!


Yep but it would stall in winter ...

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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by TTC » 21 Mar 2013 17:04

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Ian Royal Presumably you'd prefer someone like Hitler to manage us.


He would know how to organize a proper attack!


Yep but it would stall in winter ...


End up shooting himself in injury time too.

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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by Royalwaster » 21 Mar 2013 19:39

:D


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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by peterroyal76 » 21 Mar 2013 19:51

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Ian Royal Presumably you'd prefer someone like Hitler to manage us.


He would know how to organize a proper attack!


Yep but it would stall in winter ...


Yes with his record in the east I would fear for us when we travel to Norwich.

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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by Royalwaster » 21 Mar 2013 20:14

Also McA would have to fear the worst - didn't he regularly kill off his generals?

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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by Royalwaster » 21 Mar 2013 20:15

On the other hand if we won the Champ next season, he could be trusted to organise a great procession around Reading ...

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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by Ian Royal » 21 Mar 2013 20:53

Likes a lightning quick attack, but for some reason he thinks old men and boys make a good rear guard.


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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by melonhead » 22 Mar 2013 10:35

goebbels in for PR and marketing

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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by TTC » 22 Mar 2013 10:54

melonhead goebbels in for PR and marketing


Rommel could be head scout for Africa.

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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by Maguire » 22 Mar 2013 11:01

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Ian Royal I didn't say it was fluke. I said it was a near perfectly executed way for a slightly inferior team to win the league. Which is totally different.


But obviously we weren't inferior, because defensive solidity and mental strength are two of the factors which one would use when assessing the quality of a team, rather than minor matters to which one might refer when seeking to explain why a team perceived to be "better" was as a matter of fact not better.


Precisely.

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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by Royalwaster » 22 Mar 2013 13:12

melonhead goebbels in for PR and marketing


Bring in some tall strikers for our aerial bombardment. Peter Crouch or that German centre forward Hermann Goering!


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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by melonhead » 22 Mar 2013 16:09

get mengele in to try and create some superfootballers using questionable genetic experimentation

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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by TTC » 22 Mar 2013 17:26

melonhead get mengele in to try and create some superfootballers using questionable genetic experimentation


When they do badly they can all sail off to Argentina under new identities and pretend nothing happened

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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by Maguire » 25 Mar 2013 17:17

It's Adkins then.

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Re: Nigel Adkins

by Gunny Fishcake » 25 Mar 2013 18:36

Gunny Fishcake I'm reliably informed , and believe Nigel Adkins will be appointed the new Reading manager in the coming days . My source is close to to rfc directors and has been told it'll happen before the Arsenal game . This is passed on with the full knowledge that it could all be bollox but I do think it will happen .If not I'll eat the humble pie in isolation during my three month self inposed exile from HNA .

For what it's worth I think it's a good appointment ........if it happens .


Looks like I'll not have to go into exile 8)

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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by grey_squirrel » 25 Mar 2013 18:40

SSN just confirmed Adkins

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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by Royal Ginger » 25 Mar 2013 19:01

@boyhunt: Home now after an eventful day!! Training was a great standard again!!Then was chatting to some girls and boys in the home dressing room!

Clue from Noel earlier?

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Re: Nigel Adkins - new manager

by paultheroyal » 25 Mar 2013 20:09

Clue being eventful day!?!? Could mean his car broke down, won on a scratchcard, encountered road rage or all them things!

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