I have never particularly rated Nigel Adkins and think this constant appeasing of poor tactics and team selections is nauseating, he recites a poem or a book and we wonder at his vast World knowledge of the game, we hear his quotes of getting on the bus and we all want to jump on, not me not at all.
We bought ourselves out of League 1 and in the Championship season momentum carried us on from the previous season and thank the Lord the season did not go 3/4 further as we were deteriorating faster than others around us.
Now for this season, where do I start? Poor buys, panic buys, buys made of glass, poor tactics yet we still say he is learning, negative tactics, poor selections, when are we going to wake up and see that we are heading down as it stands and yet we applaud him? For what exactly? Just because he is a nice man does not mean he us any good at this level, no expected we would be this bad so far this season but we are where we are, why though?
Morning Jimmy........Lovely bright morning down here in the South....whats it like up in Liverpool?
Yes we did buy players while were were in league one.....Did we actually have a choice? It was clear that we did not have a promotion contending side at the time of relegation from the championship! Had we not done, would you have been happy then?
While in the Championship we bought a few more and all played a part in our continued momentum. In truth I would not argue if you made a point about us not being ready for the step up. We could have done with another season in the Championship to prepare us for the premier.
However we are there and need to adjust quickly. You make a point about tactics.....let us look at those for the moment.
Man City we actually should have beaten them according to all that witnessed the game from Pundits to straight forward fans including city's themselves. Defensive errors cost us not tactics!! Although there is those that would argue that it was the substitutions that cost us in those games. The consensus from the experts say not though. Same with the united game we did enough to win it.
The only game that you could say he got the tactics wrong was the Arsenal game. Now United have lost two games, Chelsea one. Are you saying that they got their tactics wrong for those games? Or would you argue that they just lost those like anyone else can on a bad day. I would say it is a combination of both. So is Adkins not allowed to make mistakes the same as the best or so called best? As for saying Saints are negative now you really are taking the pee!! I can only suggest you have a very narrow view as to what a game of football actually is in reality. It is very clear that you have not seen Saints play that often!!
We applaud him because we believe he will turn it round. If we go down then we go down.......not all managers are bad because they had a team get relegated. Strachan has had it happen to him twice yet he was good for us. Lawrie Mac did it in his first season as a manager down here yet look at his History with the club.
You say poor buys........Now do you have a magic formula whereby any player that is brought to a club is going to be a star and Guaranteed? Of the strikers he has bought is there any that have not contributed, given the time they have had on the pitch?
What about midfielders have they not contributed?
You say some are made of glass, again I presume you have a magic formula to stop a player getting injured!!
Yes NA is still learning this is his first time managing in the Premier. Yes again at the current state of affairs we are likely to be relegated.
If that is the case who better to get us back up again? You are right of course our expectancy was/is a lot higher than is being achieved at the moment......but do you know we that go regularly can see the improvements and are confident that he will get it right...So why the hell not back him??
