JackFrost Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Thought he deserves a thread of his own. Picked us up after consecutive losses under the Wilkins stint and with squad morale at a season low, and turned us into a force that even Huddersfield couldn't stop. Absolutely fantastic job and well done!
saint lard Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Well done Nigel,an admirable job,now the hard work begins.
nige is a scunny fan Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 well done nige scunny fans new you would get them up
hypochondriac Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Well done Nige, did what you were brought in to do and you deserve praise for that. The championship will be the real test for you and I will watch with interest and hope that you can do a great job!
simondo Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 admire him for having the balls to make changes when his initial tactics aren't working. shows he is his own man and will do what he wants - well done all saints!
Saint Fan CaM Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Well done Nigel Adkins. It will be interesting to see how you cope in the NPC - I truly hope you are able to stay right the way through the journey and seal a place in Saints hall of legends. We'll be right behind you - I hope NC and the family are too.
musesaint Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Brilliant work Nigel !! I never had confidence in Pardew ...but I absolutely never doubted Adkins from the minute he took over .... I sincerely think he could take us all the way back to the Promised Land of the Premiership Get in!!!
derry Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Well done, 58 points in the last 25 games, promotion as good as done. Joined us with only four points after six games in 22nd place pulled us together and after Christmas really did the business.
Avenue Saint Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 A real talented manager. Flexible and creative with tactics! Thank you Nigel, Thank you mate!!
chocco boxo Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Yes congratu;ations NA a job well done. Liked him for keeping Dean Wilkins as I think this helped him have an early heads up of things.
alpine_saint Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Well done Nigel,an admirable job,now the hard work begins. But let him have a great holiday for a while. Well done Nige.
Foxstone Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Came here under a wave of expectation and delivered in style... Well done Nigel and thanks
CWD Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Cracking job done by Adkins, Wilkins and Crosby. Mention also for Pardew. Signed some quality players who have done us proud
um pahars Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Adkins has done very, very well indeed, particularly at the business end and given how hard Huddersfield have pushed us, the way he has got the team to respond has been very impressive. Well done.
locksheathslim Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Excellent manager and top bloke. Thank you Nigel!
dubai_phil Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 The way our team have come out onto the pitch in the past few games has been fantastic. It has been a very very long time since I have had real confidence that we would go out and do a job. After all the years of pain we have a bunch of players who are a TEAM again Well done to Nige And that's it fingers are going as the beer flow
aintforever Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Amazing achievement considering we were bottom when he took over, Huddersfield have been on fire and we have had a lot of key players injured. Give him a full pre-season, a bit of cash, and we could do a Norwich next year.
Fozzybear Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Fantastic job by Nige and all his staff. Very interesting to see how he moulds the team for the championship over the next few months.
WealdSaint Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Well done Nigel. You are managing a club that can finish in the top 4 of the Prem Good Luck
K,Billy's supersound Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 really good manager, very glad and lucky to have him. hope we give him the budget to go for top 6 in the championship
Jimmy_D Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Last season we missed out because of the points deduction. But thanks to Adkins we're up at the first equal opportunity, great achievement. Leeds didn't manage that, very few teams manage to bounce back up this quickly, even with the money we have.
southbourne saint Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Has still to be tested in the transfer market, but i'm glad he's in the building driving the bus. Keep chipping away Nige
braveheart1983 Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Glad all the doubters have been proved wrong. Excellent professional approach from top to bottom at the club....a please to see. WELL DONE CORTESE....for being bold and going with a perhaps unfashionable decision at the time!
hypochondriac Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Has still to be tested in the transfer market, but i'm glad he's in the building driving the bus. Keep chipping away Nige That's a good point. I think that will be a big factor in determining our success next season.
Thedelldays Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 brilliant achievement...it was good to see him really celebrate at the end....
saints-cris Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 My hero.. he came to do a job with added pressure and hes done it. Hes turned us into real winners. Theres no sign of the Saints team that I know of, we just do things so proffesionally and confidently. He deserves to really tes.t himself next season, and im nothing but behind him. Thankyouuuu nigel!
DG Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Didn't know what to expect when he joined but what a job he has done, well done Nige!
corky morris Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Being honest, I had my doubts (still do if I am being honest), but fair play for an excellent job. The recent run has shown him to be a lot more aware than I had given him credit for. Deserves manager of the season for what he inherited when he did.
Huntingdon Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 He's done an incredible job, there's no question about that However, at Scunny the only money he had in the Championship was to fight relegation, he never had a chequebook with expectations of mounting a promotion challenge. The next 6 months will show what Adkins is made of If he achieves another promotion, he'll enter the hall of fame
Special K Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 When he was appointed i thought we had missed the chance for promotion this season. I certainly didn't think he'd turn it around so quickly and was not that taken with his appointment, tbf. Glad i was so wrong. Superb effort from NA and all the staff - a cracking job, brilliantly done.
Steeleye Saint Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 He took over when the players were at their lowest and turned it around - has to take all the plaudits for what he's done. Well done Nigel, Captain Cliche (can't put the accent on!)
up and away Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Being honest, I had my doubts (still do if I am being honest), but fair play for an excellent job. The recent run has shown him to be a lot more aware than I had given him credit for. Deserves manager of the season for what he inherited when he did. Adkins was not my first choice, but definitely my first choice from managers I believed we could get to come to Saints, so a practical first. I would pick Adkins every time over Pardew, Adkins learns from his errors and when things are not going well and most importantly, he can actually get the players to do what he wants, whereas Pardew struggled through the whole season with that. There were a couple of things that Adkins let go on too long, exposing the flanks to easy attacks and not rotating players enough for the volume of games, but at the end of the day he sorted all that out and the resolute display we gave in grabbing that automatic spot with both hands was extremely professional. It's going to be interesting now to see how he does in the Championship but i really have to thank him for getting my belief in football back again. Under Burley I really struggled with the fact their was no empathy from the player to the fans, now the whole club is more atuned with the fans then ever, something Nigel has brought about. One other good point, he gets the manager of the month award without the curse being the last month, well done Nigel.
dune Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 I was completely in agreement with sacking Pardew and replacing him with Nigel Adkins and it's always nice to be proved right.
beatlesaint Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 No congratulations from that cheery mega fan Charlie Wayman yet i notice !!!!!
sammysaint Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Well Done Nigel DONE A GREAT JOB in league one, now we need you to turn us into a playoff championship team if the money is still there, i don't expect promotion next season but l expect to finish mid table, if given a good budget then try and sneak in to the playoffs, to do so i feel we only need 2/3 top championship players and to keep AL JF AOC RL ETC... UP THE SAINTS
Ian the Red Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 To all those who doubted him, and still doubt Cortese I hope you have changed your mind. We have the right Chairman, the right manager and we will have a chamiobship winning squad at teh start of next season!! Well done Nigel Adkins, you rightly deserved a huge pat on the back.
sadoldgit Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Cracking job done by Adkins, Wilkins and Crosby. Mention also for Pardew. Signed some quality players who have done us proud What he said. Excellent job by the manager, coaching staff and the team. We built on the solid foundations of last season this season. Hope the momentum keeps going next season.
gaz Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 I'll hold my hands up and say, I said ''who?'' when he was appointed. To me, he was fairly unknown. But, he's proven consistantly all season that he was the man for the job, and will be in the future too. Top work Nigel!
doggface Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 I think the jury was out.......... but I think they have now reached their verdict.
Thedelldays Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 isnt it nice that we have a manager who is seemingly on the up....
NickG Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 the test was the last few weeks - not next season. The way he has dealt with the pressure and expectation in the last few weeks is admirable. It has shown through the players. He was confident enough to use different tactics. He knew this squad was good enough and didn't follow the fantasy football tactics advocated but some on here in January. Top performance and wish people had been as confident as him and not given up on 2nd etc
corsacar saint Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Delighted when NA was appointed and ecstatic now.Comes across as a very decent,level headed guy as well.
spyinthesky Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Well done to Nigel and team However lets not forget who bought Fonte, Lambert, Barnard, Hammond, Jaidi etc Nigel's next test will be to manage any transfer budget he is given
doggface Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Well done to Nigel and team However lets not forget who bought Fonte, Lambert, Barnard, Hammond, Jaidi etc Nigel's next test will be to manage any transfer budget he is given Very true and credit must go to pards as well as he completely rebuilt the team last year. Hopefully NA can bring in some quality players in the summer
s0108787 Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Buying players is a collective effort from the scouting network at the club and the manager is just one person who has a say in it.
doddisalegend Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Well done Nigel and AC promotion it is. However as I have said before we have had the most expensive team in legaue one history, we have resources some PL teams would want. Second was a bare minimum this season IMO. Happy as I am at the moment (which is very). I'm waiting to see how we do next season in a league full bigger teams before I hail Nigel a genuis. He has IMO earned himself the right to a full season to have a crack at the championship and I hope the chairman agrees this time. Getting out of this league really should be the easy bit (and credit to hudders for making that harder than it should of been). Nigels test really is next season, If he can get us to do a Norwich in our first season then I well have Nigels love child. I'm really looking forward to seeing what Nigel does in the summer team wise now.
Kingsland Red Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 Top appointment, a man who plays the percentages, and has brought a calculated quality to a club that has been on a bit of a whimsical journey with the likes of Burley, Pardew, Arry and, erm the Dutch, ( I did like Pearson though). COYR
BotleySaint Posted 2 May, 2011 Posted 2 May, 2011 We could so easily have lost our nerve in these last few games. But instead we've gone into them in style, with confidence and been able to express ourselves as a footballing side. The only sad thing is we can't catch Brighton!!
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