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I've not said he wouldn't be but I don't think we have been "woeful" and believe that once we have everyone back fit and get some continuity going again, there are worst sides than us in this division. Our fully fit midfield and attack is actually very good I think.

No point continuing a discussion based on what you believe WILL happen vs what actually MIGHT happen. What if we get 3 points from those games. Should Adkins still go?

I answered before you replied to this

Yes he'd get sacked but why are you so sure that this will happen? Look at our fixtures between now and January.

Don't think they are all WUMS. Some just love their opinions a little too much, I bet they love sniffing their own **** and think it smells amazing.

What are you on about? We were outclassed by City for much of the game but Adkins made changes which gave us a chance of winning the game. The momentum in the Utd game had firmly swung in Utd's favour before he made the subs, we were simply done by a much better team at Arsenal and Everton have been one the strongest sides to play away in the Prem for a long time. On Sunday he clearly said that we made the changes to help us defend from the front better. The tatic was right but he couldn't help the individual errors which happened after.

Cheers for that. Noticed us and Utd have the same Japanese advertisments doing the rounds on the electronic boards

Agreed

Can't really say much fairer than that.

Because of people like delldays who posted no on this poll but has spent the rest of the time telling everyone how utterly terrible Adkins has been this season.

Hooiveld would never have been on the pitch had we not lost Cylne (a very good summer signing) and then Richardson. In any case, Hooiveld himself isn't as bad as that, clealy low on confidence which is effecting his concentration throughout games. Sometimes, whatever what you do in the transfer market, you have periods where certain positions become difficult to deal with. Did Man Utd get their transfer policy right considering they started the season with Carrick and Evans at CB?

I said that making this assumption at this stage of season (if you can even call it that) is stupid when you take everything into consideration. I'd be insterested to know which mistakes we are making over and over which aren't attributed to individual player error's which Adkins can't control from the touch line?

Come off it, what did you really expect this season? You yourself were saying all summer how tough this league will be and what a reality check it would be for the fans and how people would quickly start to question Adkins. Now you're all over this place with your anti-Adkins stuff. It's been 7 games FFS, mostly against team everyone would expect us to lose against. All this Adkins out of his depth stuff is complete nonsense peddle by our resident armchair managers who think they know best. Given time you could be right but we could just as easily be fine in this league. It seems you have already made your mind up though which is a shame as after what he's achieved for us. I see that you're already writing off his back to back promotions as something mediocre managers have done though so I doubt this point would make a difference anyway.

Certain players, doesn't translate to the entire squad.....particularly when were are playing with key players missing.

How popular is Yoshida over there?

Because what Adkins asks of players requires a lot of confidence and courage in their own abilities, it's not a case of not understanding. Obviously the prem is a big step up but you could see Adkins wasn't happy about the team sitting back on Sunday in the 2nd half and made subs when the team weren't doing what he wanted....like good managers do. When we went behind we started playing again and doing exactly as Adkins wanted resulting in us being able to get an equaliser.

Adkins isn't tactically inept, his communication is one of his strongest assests. People have over exaggerated the impact of his subs and have chosen to ignore where his subs have made a tangible positive difference plus convienently ignoring the injuries he has had to work around. It's clear we could have strengthened at the back more but no club can completely rebuild in one transfer window. Anyone who tries usually ends up with an unmitigated disaster.

Glad to see you have enough insight into each position within the squad and have a tangeble way of measuring each players potential improvements throughout the season to come to such a conclusion. Quite a talent. Does the new England Football Centre of Excellence know you exist?

GOOD post. ADKINS isn't out of his DEPTH as SOME on here like to TRY and peddle. MAYBE one or two of the PLAYERS are though.

Nothing new there, the guy is all over the shop. If Alpine says that we can't improve and won't finish any higher than where we are now, it probably means we'll quality for Europe.

And after 7 ****ing games!!! What the **** is the matter with people?

This is the most positive thing I've read on here in days

And Ramirez played in Italy so clearly an NC signing.

I think Krackers is indicating that this is perhaps proof that we need a bigger stadium?

Do we have to have an inquest into the same topics everytime we don't win? Have a look at the threads on the main board. Mainly the same depressing **** being churned out over and over.