The team was just a pile of ****. Remember we got a lot worse for 10/11/12 games after Adkins took over. I think Slutsky would have turned it around, and he had more potential as a good manager to take us forward. Looking like it's turned out alright anyway.
All season I have been saying that this isnt a great squad we have, but it was better then the position we found ourselves, for me mainly due to piss poor tactics and no defensive work being put in by our previous managerial incumbent. It is a poor league, but given the way Adkins has slowly turned the ship round with some organisation we certainly would have been mid table at least.