Dig Dig Posted 18 January, 2013 Share Posted 18 January, 2013 I didn't want Adkins to go 24 hours ago but I'm equally "excited" about what yhis new chap might achieve. Not sure what's inconsistent there? Back to back promotions, highest win % of ANY Southampton manager who had a whole stadium singing his name when he needed it most. All gone just like that. What we as fans had here with Adkins was special IMO. It doesn't make people irrational or not sensible when they base their reaction on feelings which last longer than a 24 hour window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revolution saint Posted 18 January, 2013 Share Posted 18 January, 2013 Not sure you understood what he was saying. I think I did, but happy for you to enlighten me. Last post from me though - i don't miss the days of unlimited posts.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 18 January, 2013 Share Posted 18 January, 2013 I would say worrying, not exciting. I'm too old for excitement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ART Posted 18 January, 2013 Share Posted 18 January, 2013 This has been a long time coming and Nigel was not left uninformed. Th last thing Nigel will have wanted for the players and supporters wouold be a negative backlash and reaction. By ensuring that the club moves forward, that we avoid relegation will be biggest approval and support for Nigel's legacy, for what he has brought to the club and left behind. If we are heartbroken, gutted, let's spare a thought for the players, for those who shared Nigel's dream and 2 and a half years working closely together with him. We must do everything to give them all a lift and pick themselves up and continue Nigel's belief in our club and the players future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoobysaint Posted 18 January, 2013 Share Posted 18 January, 2013 (edited) So if you can't speak the language you're not fit to manage a team........ so Pep Guardiola at Bayern Munich is gonna be a disaster? Edited 18 January, 2013 by Scoobysaint Didn't quote the piece I intended! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dig Dig Posted 18 January, 2013 Share Posted 18 January, 2013 Pep Guardiola at Bayern is gonna be a disaster? What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 18 January, 2013 Share Posted 18 January, 2013 TBH I am hoping this now goes totally wrong as it would be a massive f*ck you to the poison dwarf and may dissuade other clubs from doing something so idiotic in the future. If we get some success now or stay up then it's almost validating this pathetic decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 18 January, 2013 Share Posted 18 January, 2013 reluctantly feel the same way. And sadly it means that any subsequent success we get will be tainted. Under Nigel I felt close to my club again but now I can only see a future where I feel detached from them. It must be how Chelsea fans feel the majority of the time. It's horrible... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted 18 January, 2013 Share Posted 18 January, 2013 TBH I am hoping this now goes totally wrong as it would be a massive f*ck you to the poison dwarf and may dissuade other clubs from doing something so idiotic in the future. If we get some success now or stay up then it's almost validating this pathetic decision. I couldn't give 2 f*cks what other clubs do. I also can't understand wanting the team you support to fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 18 January, 2013 Share Posted 18 January, 2013 I couldn't give 2 f*cks what other clubs do. I also can't understand wanting the team you support to fail. Your probably one of those success at all costs sort of people which is fine, but I'm not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 18 January, 2013 Share Posted 18 January, 2013 TBH I am hoping this now goes totally wrong as it would be a massive f*ck you to the poison dwarf and may dissuade other clubs from doing something so idiotic in the future. If we get some success now or stay up then it's almost validating this pathetic decision. Somehow it would make relegation easier to accept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colehillsaint Posted 18 January, 2013 Share Posted 18 January, 2013 That's how I'm trying to see the management change, so here's a new thread as an antidote to all the Daily Mail style wrist slitters on here today. Anyone else see it the same way? No. Stuff your ****ing thread up your arse. I went on the pitch, with my nipper, on the last day of the season two years running. Last summer I came home and we watched Nigel getting choked up with professional pride at what his team had achieved. We rewound it and watched it again seventeen times. It was inspiring. I was exited when we came back at Stamford Bridge the other night. I'm not going to boycott anything or protest, because I am not so one dimensional as to not be able to be sad, but still support the team, but why am I supposed to be exited about the replacement of a hero with a foreigner I've never heard of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PercyR Posted 18 January, 2013 Share Posted 18 January, 2013 Pep Guardiola at Bayern is gonna be a disaster? This new guy may "name drop" and claim to be a good friend of Mourinho and may have won the La Liga Manager title of the year for 2011 above him and Pep (may be it was based on looks or the sharpness of the creases on his suit, who knows) but he's clearly not in the same league. Time will tell how he does in the EPL... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 18 January, 2013 Share Posted 18 January, 2013 (edited) I've had few shocks in 53 years as a Saints fan, and today brought another. I am surprised (and saddened) not only by the dismissal, but also by the manner it which it appears to have taken place. I cannot say in stronger terms that, despite everything .....I AM A NIGEL ADKINS FAN....for what he's done and because I think... he is a nice guy....but what's done is done.....whatever else happens tomorrow is another day, and we must move on. I sincerely hope that our new manager is given a fair chance, and we shouldn't condemn the man because he's accepted the job he's been offered. I'm sure that most of us would say that ......it would have been an achievement for us to survive this season (even under NA) and so.... if we do so under the new manager, then nothing is lost. The big question that we are all puzzling is why this decision was taken ... Why replace the successful Nigel Adkins with an unknown, seemingly untried " foreign " manager? Of course he may have been "unknown " to 99% of Saints fans, but it seems he is held in very high esteem on the continent, (if the various reports now in the media are to be believed) and despite the sad exit from his former club seemed to have worked some sort of " footballing miracle " in a lowly club with few resources and no money....a problem he's hardly likely to endure at SMS. Without wishing to denegrate in any way NA's fantastic achievements, Nigel must have surpassed even his own wildest dreams when we were promoted to the Prem. considering he had a somewhat undistinguished career in the lower leagues and was, until 6 years ago, working as a physio in a small L1 club.. before he took his first managerial job. (No I'm nor being unjust-am I ?) His methodology and enthusiasm obviously work, but for how long?....and was he the best person to move us up to the top end of the Prem. and closer to Cortese's dream of Euro football ? On the last point? ...I have my doubts. To some people it may seem he had reached his own level of incompetence. (See the Peter Principle) ....and so what of the credentials of the new manager?....Argentine international defender with 30 caps and World Cup experience. Has played in a couple of European countries, and managed in Spain. On paper, he has international perspective and obviously Cortese's type of person...no-one can predict what will happen in the next few months, but many of this site will want to tell us, I'm sure..... I only hope that the players in the club will accept the facts (as we the fans have had to) and continue to show the professional attitude that we expect of them - despite everything. Of course, I want our club to continue to move forward and whilst I'm sure that Mr. Cortese had done what he feels is right for the club, those of us who have supported Saints in the past will forever have fond memories of Nigel Adkins' contribution to our club history to place alongside names like; Bates and Mc Menemy, Paine, Channon, Le Tissier ..and a long list of others. Meanwhile ...next game Everton.....COYR !!!! Edited 18 January, 2013 by david in sweden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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