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You can do whatever you like but I believe that if you're in St Mary's, you should be there to support the team. It's not their fault and recent examples of Blackburn and Chelsea show how a toxic atmosphere at home impacts the team.

After banging the Adkins drum for so long, club mascot MLG is very quick off the mark in suggesting that this is a fantastic decision by the club

Only half a select story there. They were in the bottom 3 when he took over there and he guided them to a 10 placed finish, followed by a top 6 finish the next season (winning La Liga manager of the year) before struggling at the start if this season having sold their best players due to financial troubles. Don't get me wrong, I would rather have Adkins here ut lets not start kicking MP based in carefully selected "facts"

What would be the difference if they had approached a random Saints fan?

Davie loved Adkins and is sad to him go

About right! This guy seems to be very astute!

Most definitely. His statement re Adkins was very poor on the OS was particularly poor as well.

Yes he was

If this happens and happens soon I suspect that this has been known by all parties for some time. Especially when you consider the strangeness of Appleton to Blackburn. I think Adkins is far too good for Blackpool.

Seems like this is a complete club restructure. Midway through the season, midway through the transfer window

Some reports suggest the ex DOF of Espanyol who worked with Pochettino will also join. Where would this leave Les Reed? Surely you can't have a DOF and someone in charge of football development? It's the same thing.

Agree

Was thinking the same

It will be announced later but hard for me to really give a sh!te

Yea look, I'm not disrespecting the the new guy and haven't said anything derogatory about him. I think at this moment in time, people are just gutted for Adkins

Football isn't about pragmatism. Sorry if my first reaction is that of anger at the treatment of a man who has delivered everything he was expected to and more.

Just strange how your first priority is putting a shiny gloss on this new guy when we have just lost our best manager in a long long time. Especially coming from you who have always backed Adkins from what I can recall.

So what? No one cares at the moment, what he did in Spain doesn't really mean anything. Especially as his achievements were at a club which he played at for 10 years and helpfully could speak with his players in the same ****ing language.

Exactly......not interested in hearing anything about this this new guy at the moment. You can't put a price on having a squad and fan base all behind the manager. It's not all that common these days.

Obviously not this guys fault and you have to feel a little sorry for him as his he's coming into a club where 99% of the fans don't want him. Just goes to show what an absolutely awful decision this is.

Absolutely ****ing gutted. Usually we lose our best managers, but to sack one for no apparent reason? This is the start of another managerial merry go round I feel.

No, I've always judged things on a case by case basis and this decision would be absolutely diabolical

looks like Adkins has gone, mainstream media all over it now. CORTESE WHAT THE **** HAVE YOU DONE!!??

Not mine

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