Nigel Adkins Interview (Saints YouTube channel, Monday)

[The9]

Looks like the club are keeping in touch with him - nice touch. I could see him coming back to replace Ron when he leaves to go to a bigger club or Dutch national side.

 

I definitely could not.

[The9]

Blimey.......the penny has dropped.

Blessed with what he was left by Pardew.

Really should've had at least one champions trophy....either Lge 1 or Championship.

Underachieved.

Shown his true worth ever since.

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Yeah, ok.

 

Worth noting that the same team Adkins inherited was 22nd in League One after 5 matches with 4 points and the form of LDWLL when he took over. With all of the same players in the side as were "definitely going to get us promoted". Three home games, no wins, two defeats.

[The9]

When Adkins was appointed we had 4 points, Brighton already had 10. By the end of the season we were only 3 points behind with a better GD

 

Brighton also had a game in hand after Adkins sat in for his first game at MK on Weds 15th September, which we also lost. After one more game (0-0 home to Colchester) we'd played 7, had 5 points and Brighton were on 14 and joint top. After that we only lost 2 of the next 13. There was a tangible switch around in fortunes and suggesting we were definitely going to succeed is underselling it by some distance.

 

Plus the Championship season when we were 8th top spenders with a team with a fair few players who'd never been in successful sides in that Division, yet went straight up again, underlines everything he achieved. For all the hindsight in how great Schneiderlin et al were, they weren't those players when Adkins took over.

Edited 26 November, 2015 by The9

[whelk]

4 wins on the bounce now. Turned it round nicely