What's Adkins going to say after the Arsenal debacle

[Gobsheik]

It 's gonna take us a long time to learn how to pass the ball properly!!!!!!!!!!

[M27Royal]

There's only one way we can go and that's up.

Nice to see he fully understands how the English league system works!

[Percy's Rocket]

"Very Soon I will be more than half way up the longest serving list of current premiership managers"

[Biscuit_Boy]

"Nobody told me they were that bad"

[peeping bernal]

After today I think I want to emulate your finest ever manager, Sir Steve and walk out after 16 days as this squad is dire. On the plus side you will get some money in for me as I am off to Sunderland.

[Ouroboros]

We're probably at the wrong end of the table.

Hmm.

[St. Brynjar]

I thought he spoke quite well tbh, still doesn't feel like our man though. Heart will always be with Southampton.

[MmmMonsterMunch]

I thought he spoke quite well tbh, still doesn't feel like our man though. Heart will always be with Southampton.

I sensed that too but this has been a bit of a whirlwind for him & a bit weird for everyone concerned TBH. Once he settles in & gets his team together, I reckon he'll be right up for it in August.

Always weird starting a new job whoever you are. He'll settle soon enough. RFC have generally been a good club in that respect.

[SLAMMED]

"Listen" followed by something he wants us to listen to.

Always used to get on my nerves

[St. Brynjar]

I thought he spoke quite well tbh, still doesn't feel like our man though. Heart will always be with Southampton.

I sensed that too but this has been a bit of a whirlwind for him & a bit weird for everyone concerned TBH. Once he settles in & gets his team together, I reckon he'll be right up for it in August.

Always weird starting a new job whoever you are. He'll settle soon enough. RFC have generally been a good club in that respect.

I do hope you're right but a part of me feels he took the job for the guarrantee of funds & job security, and the location. Surely as a man who lived and breathed Southampton he must harbor some resentment for the team that robbed him of the title. Maybe I'm just reading too much into it, I guess we've usually had managers coming from below or from within.

[leon]

I thought he spoke quite well tbh, still doesn't feel like our man though. Heart will always be with Southampton.

I sensed that too but this has been a bit of a whirlwind for him & a bit weird for everyone concerned TBH. Once he settles in & gets his team together, I reckon he'll be right up for it in August.

Always weird starting a new job whoever you are. He'll settle soon enough. RFC have generally been a good club in that respect.

I do hope you're right but a part of me feels he took the job for the guarrantee of funds & job security, and the location. Surely as a man who lived and breathed Southampton he must harbor some resentment for the team that robbed him of the title. Maybe I'm just reading too much into it, I guess we've usually had managers coming from below or from within.

Like Coppell did ?

[St. Brynjar]

I sensed that too but this has been a bit of a whirlwind for him & a bit weird for everyone concerned TBH. Once he settles in & gets his team together, I reckon he'll be right up for it in August.

Always weird starting a new job whoever you are. He'll settle soon enough. RFC have generally been a good club in that respect.

I do hope you're right but a part of me feels he took the job for the guarrantee of funds & job security, and the location. Surely as a man who lived and breathed Southampton he must harbor some resentment for the team that robbed him of the title. Maybe I'm just reading too much into it, I guess we've usually had managers coming from below or from within.

Like Coppell did ?

Coppell came from the league below.

[Ouroboros]

...because we stopped his team winning promotion. So what was your point again?

[St. Brynjar]

IIRC Brighton & Reading were not involved in a promotion battle the year before Coppell came. We weren't his first club after Brentford. I didn't realise people on this forum hated each other so much!

[leon]

IIRC Brighton & Reading were not involved in a promotion battle the year before Coppell came. We weren't his first club after Brentford. I didn't realise people on this forum hated each other so much!

Relax son. All I'm saying is that we've been in this position - ie a manager who'd been up against us in the past, and it all turned out OK.

[percyisfreeman]

He will say, Can't wait till Reading play my real team next Saturday.Lambert goal scoring fest.

[SaintNoddy]

Hi.

Feel free to tell me to Oxf*rd off at your leisure.

Another Soton fan here, I'm afraid. Nigel Adkins does tend to breed a great deal of goodwill from those whose clubs he has managed, but I've lurked here for a while anyway and you do seem more intelligent than many other message boards so thought I'd just add a little to how to interpret NA's press conferences.

Firstly, you'll have picked up on his continual reinforcement of message and positivity. You'll be sick of it in about 3 weeks or so. What you do have to do is listen for other things.

1/ What he doesn't say. E.g. he didn't say in his last interview that you have a team of honest, hardworking talented individuals. My reading of that is that he thinks there aren't too many good players among those he's inherited. He did concentrate on how good Arsenal were, but only to obviously deflect attention away from his inability to say much else. Otherwise he would have.

2/ He likes a challenge and to prove people wrong so he will bust a gut not only to bring you up (I assume you and QPR are now down) and keep you up, but have you doing well. He's very proud and extremely ambitious, too.

3/ If you catch him off-guard or at the end of an interview, sometimes he'll give something away. For example, I know he'll hate how deep you defend because he's been very critical of Saints when they used to do that. It will be interesting to see how he modifies his interview style. I think he will slightly.

4/ On a personal note, is it easy to email your club? I want to interview him about something non-football related cause he's intelligent so worth listening to on that particular subject. If it is hard, I'll just go through the LMA.

5/ One of the things that might be levelled as a criticism is that he might be a bit too much of a high-level thinker (he knows his stuff) so can't necessarily communicate with the less intelligent footballer.

[Rex]

The sharp intake of breath as we stumbled into their half of the pitch was not enough to take the ball over the line.

[Royal91]

Hi.

Feel free to tell me to Oxf*rd off at your leisure.

Another Soton fan here, I'm afraid. Nigel Adkins does tend to breed a great deal of goodwill from those whose clubs he has managed, but I've lurked here for a while anyway and you do seem more intelligent than many other message boards so thought I'd just add a little to how to interpret NA's press conferences.

Firstly, you'll have picked up on his continual reinforcement of message and positivity. You'll be sick of it in about 3 weeks or so. What you do have to do is listen for other things.

1/ What he doesn't say. E.g. he didn't say in his last interview that you have a team of honest, hardworking talented individuals. My reading of that is that he thinks there aren't too many good players among those he's inherited. He did concentrate on how good Arsenal were, but only to obviously deflect attention away from his inability to say much else. Otherwise he would have.

2/ He likes a challenge and to prove people wrong so he will bust a gut not only to bring you up (I assume you and QPR are now down) and keep you up, but have you doing well. He's very proud and extremely ambitious, too.

3/ If you catch him off-guard or at the end of an interview, sometimes he'll give something away. For example, I know he'll hate how deep you defend because he's been very critical of Saints when they used to do that. It will be interesting to see how he modifies his interview style. I think he will slightly.

4/ On a personal note, is it easy to email your club? I want to interview him about something non-football related cause he's intelligent so worth listening to on that particular subject. If it is hard, I'll just go through the LMA.

5/ One of the things that might be levelled as a criticism is that he might be a bit too much of a high-level thinker (he knows his stuff) so can't necessarily communicate with the less intelligent footballer.

What was his budget in league 1 and the championship, and how many players did he have to buy to make you play attractive football that was effective?? In addition to that how good were Saints at passing before he came in??

[Gunny Fishcake]

Hi.

Feel free to tell me to Oxf*rd off at your leisure.

Another Soton fan here, I'm afraid. Nigel Adkins does tend to breed a great deal of goodwill from those whose clubs he has managed, but I've lurked here for a while anyway and you do seem more intelligent than many other message boards so thought I'd just add a little to how to interpret NA's press conferences.

Firstly, you'll have picked up on his continual reinforcement of message and positivity. You'll be sick of it in about 3 weeks or so. What you do have to do is listen for other things.

1/ What he doesn't say. E.g. he didn't say in his last interview that you have a team of honest, hardworking talented individuals. My reading of that is that he thinks there aren't too many good players among those he's inherited. He did concentrate on how good Arsenal were, but only to obviously deflect attention away from his inability to say much else. Otherwise he would have.

2/ He likes a challenge and to prove people wrong so he will bust a gut not only to bring you up (I assume you and QPR are now down) and keep you up, but have you doing well. He's very proud and extremely ambitious, too.

3/ If you catch him off-guard or at the end of an interview, sometimes he'll give something away. For example, I know he'll hate how deep you defend because he's been very critical of Saints when they used to do that. It will be interesting to see how he modifies his interview style. I think he will slightly.

4/ On a personal note, is it easy to email your club? I want to interview him about something non-football related cause he's intelligent so worth listening to on that particular subject. If it is hard, I'll just go through the LMA.

5/ One of the things that might be levelled as a criticism is that he might be a bit too much of a high-level thinker (he knows his stuff) so can't necessarily communicate with the less intelligent footballer.

Very interesting ,he can't win at the moment ( bad pun ) what ever says gets pounced on but I feel given time he'll have a big clear out then move forward with his team , thanks for the input Saint