Mr X

You are full of crap you had no hard evidence and tried to pass it off as fact that we' d put in a bid for more than twelve million for a defender, and then say I speak cr@p pffft !

Where is your evidence of this? the words total crap seem to be more fitting to this

you are joking right? One win in nine is learning fast? The only thing he's learning is if you adapt weird formations put out under strength sides and take off your best players you get hammered!

Ramerez is a glory buy that that Cortese had to push through once he'd put his money were his mouth was. A buy designed to appease the fans if this guy was so good united and arsenal would have had him on the radar he's a decent player but one pricey buy doesn't make a team. What's most tragic is the purchase of ramerez has cost us the opportunity of buying a decent defence as the money allocated is already gone!

So basically a list of excuses for Adkins mistakes! Your right he isn't to blame for everything but some of the issues the buck clearly stops with him and its time to face up to it. It is Adkins job to get the most out of the players whoever they may be first choice transfers or not

I'm starting to believe Cortese doesn't have a replacement lined up he would have acted before now if he did, It was clear ages ago that the players were not performing in any way for Adkins and had lost faith in him.

No we are playing the poorest football in years the players look very low on morale the manager looks out of his depth and we simply aren't good enough. another we are in a relegation battle already! We need at least two defenders in January.

Agreed he has to deliver and clearly isn't wether he can change that I don't think so as the players have lost confidence in him too

here we go again!

This team/manager isn't good enough we need a change if were in the same situation at Xmas, don't know where are next points are going to come from

whats bizarre is he often never even refers to the game in question! he just generalises everything with statements that could refer to any game. Why can't he get back to basics and some simple honesty? i.e. we were awful but heres what Im going to work on to change it around next time.... might have a bit of respect for the man then. I realise its not his job to discuss tactics with the media or anything

It seems that even constuctive critisicism of adkins is shouted down on here. Personally I want him to stay till xmas to have the chance to prove himself but I'm totally fed up with his lame and wet after match interviews seems to keep repeating "we score goals" like that's all we need to do and doesn't seem to be worried by the fact we haven't kept a clean sheet this season and are still shipping the same average of goals it's like he thinks its all going to magically click!

A thirty million pound+ yo yo ?

As the club thats our closest likeness in terms of being newly promoted and a similar sized fan fanbase, Cortese will no doubt be making comparisons. They haven't spent quite as much as us but seem to have got the basics so much better than saints. What do you see is the primary reason: 1) Transfers, they built from the back and invested in the defence first with physical strong players. 2) They have solid experience in Sam, he knows whats needed in this league. 3) Their direct Style is much more effective than saints and they utilise it. 4) They can adapt formation better and have a plan B 4) you own reasons Do you think West-ham are currently in a false position and will be brought down to reality? fair play to them for their achievements so far

People seemed to confirm there was something in the fonte's mrs rumours but noone was really ITK. That makes more sense to me, would it count as gross misconduct?

I agree with the sentiment and i think we should indeed stick with him till christmas at least and fully get behind him and the team, it will be hard to though if we are humiliated again against spurs saturday, but thats life

Will we ever know the real reason he was booted out?

HP sauce?

Agreed a bit of transparency with the fans wouldn't go a miss. I'm waiting for the fateful vote of confidence in Adkins!

That is true! And will we ever? Adkins interviews are just corporate rehashings like he's primed and on autopilot he reveals nothing and that's the way Cortese likes it.

. I believe nige has the skills to keep us up problem is it would need him to stop being a yes man, ditch the ridiculous formations and taking of the best peforming players at crucial times! Also without that quality left back in jan we are a goner

there is a correlation between money spent and league position but its not as black and white as that however whichever way you look at it Adkins has been given the largest transfer kitty in the clubs history and has spent it absolutely bizarrely (little premiership experience and in totally the wrong areas when we should have built up from the back four) in Adkins defence I don't believe these our solely his signings Cortese is pulling more strings behind the stage than anyone can imagine

. Finally the real facts on paper Harry isn't some wonder manager he's only any good when he's had serious money to spend and even then it's not like he's ever took a club from relegation to the top five. Also when he decides to walk out on a club he leaves them with truly crippling wage bills like putting David James on 90k a week. There's zero chance that he'd want to come back after publicly declaring he didnt want to be here the last time! and he would just walk out on us the first opportunity he got to go to a top six club so what's the point it would be a huge step back.

A unlikely win against spurs and I will feel much more positive that we have the bottle to get out of this mess. Another tonking and the same people that are on this thread will be back to doom and gloom

http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/ex-spurs-boss-redknapp-not-interested-southampton-return-3592351