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Just give me your tenners. Better home than the bookies pockets. Best we can realistically hope for is that Adkins starts reconstructing something that gives us a fighting chance for next year. Even more realistically, our PL days became over for good following the Allams failed gamble on Silva and what then followed this summer. #
Average points/game for 6th place over the last few seasons has been about 1.6 - 1.7. We'd need to get over 2/game for the rest of the season to equal that. Even though I go into every game thinking we'll get something I don't think I'll be betting on a top 6 finish.
If you read the Sheffield Wednesday match thread you'll know Chazz is an expert and will be able to tell you not just their attitude or feelings but the exact words they are saying and who about
ADKINS: WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER Nigel Adkins issued a rallying call on his first morning as the Tigers’ new Head Coach as he called on everyone to unite behind the team as he looks to turn the Club’s season around. Adkins arrived at the University of Hull Training Ground on Thursday to meet his squad and staff, and he wants everybody pulling in the same direction in his mission to guide the side up the Championship table. “Where we are in the table is something that we need to address and I’m really looking forward to working with the players, getting to know the staff and engaging with our supporters,” said Adkins. “We all need to work hard together to improve the situation that we’re in at this time. When you look at the group of players that we have here we have experience, we have internationals with some of them going to the World Cup next summer, we have players that have played in the Premier League and we have some hungry, young players that have come through the Academy and have done ever so well this season. “We score a lot of goals and that is a positive that needs accentuating, but we have conceded too many goals and we have to address that collectively. “We need everybody pulling in the same direction because we all want the same thing – for Hull City to be challenging at the top end. “This football club has been through a fantastic period in its history recently with Premier League promotions, an FA Cup Final, a League Cup semi-final, playing in Europe – we have to embrace that and keep that positivity going. With everybody pulling in the same direction we can achieve success here. “Spirit and togetherness is everything. We all share a common goal – you come and support Hull City, you work for Hull City, you want Hull City to do well – and we all have a role in making that happen. “The players need to perform and we need the right environment to extract every ounce of potential that they have got. Can we make sure that when they go out onto the field, they entertain the supporters and give them something to cheer about? “Fans want to enjoy watching their team, they want to be off their seats and getting behind the team. Likewise, when you’re under pressure and giving everything you’ve got to keep the ball out of your net – that’s enjoyable as well and we need to have that grit and resolve to make that happen.”
Ehab is a **** for a lot of different reasons but this isn't one. Would you rather we be without a manager for several weeks while we try and fill the position
No matter what Driff may think 200/1 was ridiculously good value, with a new manager coming in, a squad full of internationals that the new manager will undoubtedly think he can get a tune out of, and still over half if the season to go. If Phil Brown could do it...
"ADKINS: WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER Nigel Adkins issued a rallying call on his first morning as the Tigers’ new Head Coach as he called on everyone to unite behind the team as he looks to turn the Club’s season around. Adkins arrived at the University of Hull Training Ground on Thursday to meet his squad and staff, and he wants everybody pulling in the same direction in his mission to guide the side up the Championship table. “Where we are in the table is something that we need to address and I’m really looking forward to working with the players, getting to know the staff and engaging with our supporters,” said Adkins. “We all need to work hard together to improve the situation that we’re in at this time. When you look at the group of players that we have here we have experience, we have internationals with some of them going to the World Cup next summer, we have players that have played in the Premier League and we have some hungry, young players that have come through the Academy and have done ever so well this season. “We score a lot of goals and that is a positive that needs accentuating, but we have conceded too many goals and we have to address that collectively. “We need everybody pulling in the same direction because we all want the same thing – for Hull City to be challenging at the top end. “This football club has been through a fantastic period in its history recently with Premier League promotions, an FA Cup Final, a League Cup semi-final, playing in Europe – we have to embrace that and keep that positivity going. With everybody pulling in the same direction we can achieve success here. “Spirit and togetherness is everything. We all share a common goal – you come and support Hull City, you work for Hull City, you want Hull City to do well – and we all have a role in making that happen. “The players need to perform and we need the right environment to extract every ounce of potential that they have got. Can we make sure that when they go out onto the field, they entertain the supporters and give them something to cheer about? “Fans want to enjoy watching their team, they want to be off their seats and getting behind the team. Likewise, when you’re under pressure and giving everything you’ve got to keep the ball out of your net – that’s enjoyable as well and we need to have that grit and resolve to make that happen.” Bravo sir, bravo! Expect a verbal warning from your boss on your first day though.
Great stuff Nigel. Every sentence that you have spoken is a pithy, terse apothegmatic statement...just the kind of statements that could have been spoken with equal conviction by Leonid Slutsky a week ago. So tell me something radical...e.g." I hate the owners; I think Henriksen should head for the fjords; I want these Chelsea kids sent packing; I want the following duds shifted out (long list) and the following shifted in here on January 1; I hate everyone and everything - I will use venom dripping expletives when I do my post-match interviews, even when we win. I will not be "saving" anyone Phil Brown style from the Humber Bridge, just chucking these useless twats off it if they do not deliver. Now get out of my way."
Not a bad opening speech .. the use of Hull City repeatedly makes the heart warm to the man straight away .. let's just hope he manages to get them playing as a team and organised.
