Alright, it's not our team but if you love football you have to agree that it was a sad day yesterday for the beautiful game when Adkins got shown the door.
How can it be right that he took them up from league one and was getting to grips with the Prem and his chairman shafts him?
Maybe there's more to it?, we don't know. But it looks like it's up there with what Ashley did to Houghton and Bobby Robson before him. A bit like what Abramovich did to Matteo and what has happened to other managers that have got teams to play offs and fallen short etc etc. Even the Mick McCarthy sacking looked an ungrateful act of back-stabbing and for me, I think he would have kept Wolves up.
I don't think the media help either. Almost every time I saw an interview with Adkins they would have a dig as to how long he thought he would be in a job. Similarly, the Reading manager has to hear their interfering clap-trap all the time too. Chairman seem to take poor journalistic opinion to heart.
I know that most fans of other clubs won't give a flying one about Adkins but for me it's about more than him in isolation, it's creeping in all over.
Without being melodramatic, it was a sad day for football yesterday and another little bit of love for the game died for me.
I hope we never see it at Palace.
More Managerial Madness...
posted on 19/1/13
100% agree
To sum it up it's a disgrace. Southampton are 15th have lost 2 games out of their last 12 (Or something like that?) and one of their youth players has just signed a new contract. Never mind they were 3rd from bottom in League One 2 1/2 years ago! It makes you wonder what the Southampton board expects from this new guy?
Same with Reading. What do they expect?
I was listening to the latest FYP podcast and they were saying that British managers aren't getting a proper chance. There's an idea that foreign managers are going to come in and magic something when they don't understand the league and fail eg. AVB at Chelsea.
posted on 20/1/13
Hastings and MTP have said it all. All I can add is that, as I'm currently working in Southampton (Managed to beat the snow and get up the M3 to SP yesterday), I'm naturally surrounded by Southampton fans, who are stunned by something they just can't understand. You've got to sympathise. Most of the ones I have spoken to now believe they will go down because morale is shattered among players as well as fans. That would be a tragedy for a Premiership side who have just got back where they belong.
I'm sure there will be some kind of fans protest tomorrow night.
By the way, they are still loving Clyne. What irony if we go up and they come down!
posted on 20/1/13
You have to feel and fear for the fans now. Good fans as well they are.
Obviously to install the new guy immediately means that this has all been sorted for a while.
How risky is it that the chairman puts his trust in an unknown foreign manager with no experience of this league?
I would have thought that the priority for them was to begin establishing themselves in the Prem similar to Swansea or WBA, those type of teams. Adkins would have done that I think whereas this rookie manager has got a mountain of a task.
I expect to hear plenty of vocal support for Adkins similar to what Matteo gets.
Anyway I hope they **** up now for this and it's got that written all over it.
Let's hope we take their place.
Amen
posted on 20/1/13
Southampton are similar to us that they rely on their academy and produce good players who end up being sold to the Premiership. For that reason I wanted Southampton to stay up and carry on developing their youth players (If we get promoted I hope we do the same). I saw the % of English players in the Premiership and it's crazy! I think it's 35%! I can't think of many English managers either. That can't be good for the national team
Apparently the new guy was researching Southampton 7 weeks ago?