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  1. 1. Are you happy with the appointment of Nigel Adkins?

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http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2152032,00.html

 

"Southampton Football Club is delighted to announce that it has appointed a new First Team Manager.

 

Southampton Football Club is delighted to announce that it has today appointed Nigel Adkins as the Club's new First Team Manager on a three year deal.

 

The appointment follows an intense, but thorough search, with the Club having received a very high volume and quality of applications, the majority of which came from well respected managers currently working in the top two divisions of English football and abroad."

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Press Release from Scunny

 

http://www.s****horpe-united.co.uk/page/News/0,,10442~2152040,00.html

 

Assistant manager Andy Crosby will join him at the League One club after the two clubs agreed a compensation package for the pair.

 

Speaking on Sunday evening, Adkins said: "I am delighted to be the manager of Southampton.

 

"It's a very proud honour for myself, and Andy Crosby who is joining me as assistant manager, to join a club with such a big tradition.

 

"I'm very proud to have been given the opportunity by the chairman, Nicola Cortese, and look forward to taking the football club forward.

 

"I'm really looking forward to this fresh new challenge, and I'm very optimistic of where we can take this football club."

 

It ends a 14-year association with United for Adkins, who was physiotherapist for a decade before becoming caretaker manager following the departure of Brian Laws in November 2006.

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Enjoyed the comment about being the only manager that was offered the job so either NC or the Bournemouth chairman is telling porky pies! I hope it works out, but I am not wholly convinced.

 

Yeah **** off mitchell, you dont mess with the don!

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Glad it's been sorted before we lose more games under Wilkins. Not saying we will definitely win from now on, but there is at least hope.

 

Some people may be underwhelmed. Well, he has taken Scunny up twice on a shoestring budget and done a great job of keeping them in the CCC. He knows how to get out of League 1. He may not be the man to take us to the Europa League, but that's a very distant dream at the moment.

 

He is what we need AT THE MOMENT. That's good enough.

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Very happy and relieved by the appointment.

 

Nicola Cortese is bigging up the club in his announcement and quite right too. We all want to be proud of our club. A 3 year contract shows intent on the clubs part.

 

As for the Howe situation. Looks like he was interviewd like a few other candidates. He clearly withdrew after he considered the situation. Bit different that turning down an offer which did not sem to have ocurred.

 

Onward and upwards. Come on you Saints.

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"we were inundated with applications from an impressive range of managers-a far cry from the position we found ourselves in when we last appointed a new manager"

Could that be a little dig at AP,the best of a bad lot? in his opinion.

 

Yes possibly. It's saying that the lot we were "offered" just weren't good enough so he went with Pardew either because he was the best out of the lot or because of the "big" name that had been there done it sort of thing.

 

Either way, very happy with this appointment and as others have said, hope we can begin to climb the table now asap! 3 points against our favourite club on Wednesday would be a good start. He has a strong record to keep up against the dons... :)

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