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Are you happy with the appointment of Nigel Adkins?  

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  1. 1. Are you happy with the appointment of Nigel Adkins?

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doddisalegend

doddisalegend

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Good a manager (quite frankly anyone other than wilkins is a relief). Welcome Nigel lets see what you can do, be prepared for a bumpy ride the SMS faithful are in a foul mood at the moment give them something to cheer about.

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Viking Saint

Viking Saint

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Yep, it is terrible that a League One club has appointed a man that has been a League One manager in 2006/07 and 2008/09 and got promoted both times with a tiny budget and crowds 1/4 the size of Saints.

 

ffs :D

 

yeah, but is he really an improvement on Pardew??? monumentally underwhelmed I'm afraid, but sincerely hope to be proved wrong....

kpturner

kpturner

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To those ****s Badger and Buc****im who doubted my brother earlier on -****ing have some of that you ****s!

 

Welcome Nigel, I hope you go ahead and severely prove me wrong!

Are you gloating?
Badger

Badger

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To those ****s Badger and Buc****im who doubted my brother earlier on -****ing have some of that you ****s!

 

Welcome Nigel, I hope you go ahead and severely prove me wrong!

 

kk you were right- well done.

 

BUT, there is so much **** posted on this forum how am I supposed to know what is true and what isn't?

Topcat

Topcat

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To those ****s Badger and Buc****im who doubted my brother earlier on -****ing have some of that you ****s!

 

Welcome Nigel, I hope you go ahead and severely prove me wrong!

 

Thorpe you were right and I posted it in a few places. It convinced me that the deal was on for tonight.

doddisalegend

doddisalegend

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Very happy and relieved by the appointment.

 

Nicola Cortese is bigging up the club in his announcement and quite right too. We all want to be proud of our club. A 3 year contract shows intent on the clubs part. As for the Howe situation. Looks like he was interviewd like a few other candidates. He clearly withdrew after he considered the situation. Bit different that turning down an offer which did not sem to have ocurred.

 

Onward and upwards. Come on you Saints.

 

Hardly football contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on, I imagine he's got until the end of the season to prove himself.

CWD

CWD

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To those ****s Badger and Buc****im who doubted my brother earlier on -****ing have some of that you ****s!

 

Welcome Nigel, I hope you go ahead and severely prove me wrong!

 

Oh well there goes a nice happy, positive thread - we all got along for one page!

dune

dune

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yeah, but is he really an improvement on Pardew??? monumentally underwhelmed I'm afraid, but sincerely hope to be proved wrong....

 

I never rated Pardew so as far as i'm concerned he hasn't got a lot to live up to in that respect.

David Strover

David Strover

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"With a sport psychology diploma, a business and finance diploma, a UEFA Pro coaching badge, a diploma in 'applied management in professional football' from Warwick Business School, and an honours degree in physiotherapy"

 

I'd say that makes him more ambitous and more qualified to run this team than any of the whinging ninnies on this forum.

SNSUN

SNSUN

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3 year deal could mean expensive compo at the end of the season! (Joke, don't get tetchy)

 

I'm in full support of this appointment. I don't know too much about Adkins, askide from his obvious managerial achievements, but it's clear our first team need a captain to steer the ship - we MUST get the team performing again, to a level we all know they can. We need to pick up the few remaining good freebies and/or utilise the loan window to bolster the attack. I hope, and trust, Adkins can see the flaws in our squad and does something about it. Cortese must back his choice with whatever is needed.

 

We're a working progress, I don't expect immediate results on Wednesday, but I would appreciate the team upping their performance in support of their new gaffer. Fingers crossed we can stop the rot that has taken over this club in recent weeks, and move up the table to where we all feel we should be.

saint1977

saint1977

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Welcome to Saints Nigel. Now we've got this out of the way at last a quick viewing of this season's matches (bar Bristol Rovers where I was ill and couldn't go...) will reveal that we are lost without Lallana and that Jaidi, Lambert and Puncheon need to be put on a diet and that the captain is probably the worst midfielder that he's ever seen (unless he's seen Paul Wotton). Hopefully he'll get on the phone to all of these Premier League and NPC managers that all say they admire him and produce four loan players with pace, steel and a will to win (sadly lacking this season). I want him to remind our overpaid failures that they are lucky to be at our club and this honuor now has to be earned along with the fans respect. A ban on player comment bar Fonte as first team captain on the OS would be helpful, all comment is to be in goals and wins. "Unlucky" is a banned word. Forget the favourites tag, the players have to show NA and the fans they deserve to be here and once they do that, the season will start proper.

Foxstone

Foxstone

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A very warm welcome Nigel !

 

A very big task awaits you when you commence training tomorrow, but I am sure you have all the right qualities to get our season on track.

sadoldgit

sadoldgit

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Welcome Nigel, and good luck.

 

I note that he is the only person to have been offered the job, so the Howe stuff is b*ll*cks.

 

So now you believe all you read Alps???

sadoldgit

sadoldgit

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I never rated Pardew so as far as i'm concerned he hasn't got a lot to live up to in that respect.

 

Well if he wins a cup and gets us promoted in his first season he can say he has done better Dune.

sadoldgit

sadoldgit

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Hardly football contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on, I imagine he's got until the end of the season to prove himself.

 

I imagine that those who gave Pardew a hard time will also be expecting Adkins to get promotion in his first season. If he doesn't.........eek

ericb

ericb

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I'm really pleased with the appointment, Adkins was my main choice (since i never bought into the MON ****). He knows the league plays decent football and is young enough to build. Oh and he knows the league above should we get there. Good appointment, shame it didn't come sooner!

 

Well something not right about it.

 

I'm a graphic designer and i'd hazard a guess that it's been given a certain amount of post production, there's fairly high contrasts and black balance on it, and if you look at the sky you can see how they pushed the saturation levels up (and sharpness) slightly. Also it looks like they've used a decent compression level to me, taken it down from a very high quality nicely.

saint michael

saint michael

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who knows if he is the right man, didn't really consider him until he came on the radar. Let's all hope so. I would like him to be successful and the man that will bring us all together and stop the long slide of our club.

 

COYR looking forward to good times

dune

dune

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Well if he wins a cup and gets us promoted in his first season he can say he has done better Dune.

 

Pardew should've got us into the play-offs last year from us being 6 points adrift around December time. But this isn't the thread for this.

Gator

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Phew, big relief. After being inadvertently given the opportunity to reflect on his possible appointment, it really is obvious Nigel is man to take us forward. I have a feeling we have another McMenemy era to look forward too!

The9

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Square peg for a round hole IMHO, I hope I'm wrong - but he's going to be used to players who want to prove themselves, not established pros. Should be good for Ox-Cham and probably Mills, but he won't be used to having some of the egos some of our players seem to have unveiled in the past few months.

 

If his motivation and coaching gets them performing though, great. Top 2 is still minimum expectation for a manager with our stable, established squad and the talent they're supposed to have - let's hope he can deliver.

 

Still not wasting my time going to MK though...

CWD

CWD

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At best Adkins replicates what Pardew achieved last season. So best case scenario is playoffs. This doesn't feel like progress.

 

cheers mystic meg

The9

The9

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Pardew should've got us into the play-offs last year from us being 6 points adrift around December time. But this isn't the thread for this.

 

It might have helped if we hadn't been ten further points behind by the time we'd played 2 more league matches just due to everyone else playing league games while we were in the FA Cup and had a match postponed. But anyway, take it outside.

kpturner

kpturner

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Very very happy with this indeed. No more hoofball!!!! WOOP WOOP!

 

Interesting how cortese mentioned that NA was in fact the ONLY person they offered the job to. That little blagger Eddie Howe!!!

Eddie Howe sounded embarrassed by the questions from Solent on the subject on Saturday - very coy....as if his Chairman had dropped him in it with his bull**** press release.
dune

dune

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Square peg for a round hole IMHO, I hope I'm wrong - but he's going to be used to players who want to prove themselves, not established pros. Should be good for Ox-Cham and probably Mills, but he won't be used to having some of the egos some of our players seem to have unveiled in the past few months.

 

If his motivation and coaching gets them performing though, great. Top 2 is still minimum expectation for a manager with our stable, established squad and the talent they're supposed to have - let's hope he can deliver.

 

Still not wasting my time going to MK though...

 

The only established pro's we've got is Davis, Lambert and Connelly (who's past it). If any of the others think they're senior players they can think again.

saint63

saint63

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Thank goodness for that!! The stress and uncertainty of the last fortnight has been unbearable for three Saints fans from this part of the world!!

Turkish

Turkish

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The only established pro's we've got is Davis, Lambert and Connelly (who's past it). If any of the others think they're senior players they can think again.

 

Fonte, Harding, Jaidi, Butterfield, Barnard????

The Kraken

The Kraken

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He's perhaps just the right man for the situation we're in now. I just hope he can have an immediate impact, otherwise our promotion campaign is going to be over before it even began. A couple of loan signings and a win or two is what we need in the next couple of weeks to get back on track.

sadoldgit

sadoldgit

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How dramatic is the photo, by the way.

 

Am loving the grayscale of the photos nowadays

 

He looks like Curly Watts brother from Eastenders (if he had one that is). I don't expect Fonte will losing any sleep now ;)

dubai_phil

dubai_phil

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"we were inundated with applications from an impressive range of managers-a far cry from the position we found ourselves in when we last appointed a new manager"

Could that be a little dig at AP,the best of a bad lot? in his opinion.

 

The Questions Thread

 

He had been astonished at the number and calibre of people who applied or expressed interest via their agents or solicitors, including two “serving” premiership managers and lots from the championship. By contrast, when he arrived he had to go knocking on doors to get anyone to apply. He expected an appointment to be made “very soon”. He warned us to be ready for lots of stories from those who had never been offered the post claiming they had turned it down etc. and lots of other speculation and untrue stories in the press.

 

 

Perhaps not a dig

sadoldgit

sadoldgit

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Pardew should've got us into the play-offs last year from us being 6 points adrift around December time. But this isn't the thread for this.

 

What is your expectation of NA this season then Dune?

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