Maguire Everyone who posted on here about how progressive Adkins' appointment was and how his "brand of football" was going to take us to the next level please raise your hand now and admit you were wrong.
My prediction: we make a supremely underwhelming appointment and struggle for the rest of the season.
winchester_royalMaguire Everyone who posted on here about how progressive Adkins' appointment was and how his "brand of football" was going to take us to the next level please raise your hand now and admit you were wrong.
My prediction: we make a supremely underwhelming appointment and struggle for the rest of the season.
PieEater Not being a Facebook user, can someone please post what Samrit said about the sacking before it happened?
Big FootPieEater Not being a Facebook user, can someone please post what Samrit said about the sacking before it happened?
About 9am yesterday, he simply posted "Goodbye...and good luck"
Uke When will the inevitable "Nigel: The right decision? " Thread be started?
Mr.Swainey At least I'll be able to return to the Madejski now.
SCIAGMr.Swaineywinchester_royal
there hasn't been the development of youngsters we were hoping to see
Rightly so, they've looked woefully out of their depth. People crack on like the academy system is one of the best, the likes of Jake Taylor and Craig Tanner have proven otherwise.
This post will be embarrassing in a couple of years... I can understand being underwhelmed by Taylor (though he's been quietly effective) but not Tanner.
Maguire Everyone who posted on here about how progressive Adkins' appointment was and how his "brand of football" was going to take us to the next level please raise your hand now and admit you were wrong.
My prediction: we make a supremely underwhelming appointment and struggle for the rest of the season.
mambo3 Did you notice that whole squad paid tribute to him.......not!
RoyallyFcukedsandman His sacking was undeserved and today's news actually reinforces that.
It really does amaze me how people like yourself were so quick to defend Adkins citing ownership issues and the like yet McDermott is accused of lying about transfer budgets and interference from above. Admit it, you and your ilk chased after the oft quoted myth of "more attractive football" and it was just a pipedream dreamt up by a young owner whose real reason was he got desperate and panicked in the hope of keeping the glitz, glamour, prestige, spotlight and most of all money of the PL.
Yeah I did think the football would improve under Adkins. The evidence we had at the time suggested it would. I don't mind admitting I was wrong about that, but having said that I don't think he is a bad manager and he could go somewhere else and do well. I think the quality of the players he had at Southampton was a main difference though. He inherited a shit state of affairs here and had to put up with them since after being shafted by the owner. Whatever the other reasons, the bottom line is it just didnt work for him here.
To be fair we did see the basic football improve in terms of possession etc, but we were still just as clueless as what to do with it as we were under McDermott in the Premier League. IMO it's hard to say how much is down to the manager and how much is down to the players. Adkins just didnt see to be able to train them out of their bad habits and improve them. I think half the problem is that a lot of the players are just limited.
I did think for a while that the one positive to come from AZ's ownership was Adkins, but a couple on here predicted that his (AZ's) reign could end in tears and I agreed that it could well do.
McDermott's sacking WAS justified though. He lost his way in the PL, ran out of ideas and made some poor decisions. Kept playing the same out of form players week in week out and spent his post match interviews moaning about 50/50 decisions rather than addressing the fact we'd underperformed and been outplayed in nearly every game. We wernt seeing any improvement, in fact we were getting worse. If you think Adkins sacking was deserved for those two reasons at least, then so was McDermott's.
Ukemambo3 Did you notice that whole squad paid tribute to him.......not!
Were there any tweets?
Ukemambo3 Did you notice that whole squad paid tribute to him.......not!
Were there any tweets?
RoyallyFcukedRoyallyFcukedsandman His sacking was undeserved and today's news actually reinforces that.
It really does amaze me how people like yourself were so quick to defend Adkins citing ownership issues and the like yet McDermott is accused of lying about transfer budgets and interference from above. Admit it, you and your ilk chased after the oft quoted myth of "more attractive football" and it was just a pipedream dreamt up by a young owner whose real reason was he got desperate and panicked in the hope of keeping the glitz, glamour, prestige, spotlight and most of all money of the PL.
Yeah I did think the football would improve under Adkins. The evidence we had at the time suggested it would. I don't mind admitting I was wrong about that, but having said that I don't think he is a bad manager and he could go somewhere else and do well. I think the quality of the players he had at Southampton was a main difference though. He inherited a shit state of affairs here and had to put up with them since after being shafted by the owner. Whatever the other reasons, the bottom line is it just didnt work for him here.
To be fair we did see the basic football improve in terms of possession etc, but we were still just as clueless as what to do with it as we were under McDermott in the Premier League. IMO it's hard to say how much is down to the manager and how much is down to the players. Adkins just didnt see to be able to train them out of their bad habits and improve them. I think half the problem is that a lot of the players are just limited.
I did think for a while that the one positive to come from AZ's ownership was Adkins, but a couple on here predicted that his (AZ's) reign could end in tears and I agreed that it could well do.
McDermott's sacking WAS justified though. He lost his way in the PL, ran out of ideas and made some poor decisions. Kept playing the same out of form players week in week out and spent his post match interviews moaning about 50/50 decisions rather than addressing the fact we'd underperformed and been outplayed in nearly every game. We wernt seeing any improvement, in fact we were getting worse. If you think Adkins sacking was deserved for those two reasons at least, then so was McDermott's.
Anything to reply SADman? Or have you ran out of ideas like your beloved McDonut?
sandman Think I'll let you continue to hang yourself RF.
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