It’s not Nigel’s fault. Fair play to him even trying. Our problems are more fundamental than a manager or even the players.
Strange things happen. It must have taken an act of genius to get relegated with the squad we had in 1980/1981 with only the Blunts below us. https://www.11v11.com/teams/hull-city/tab/players/season/1981/
So which manager do you believe could make a good side out of the players we have? I mean a manager that might agree to come here.
I don't believe sir Alex could do anything for us never mind anyone else. And our next manager would have to be foreign and never heard of us or our plight.
Bolton seem to be doing ok. **** squad, delayed salary payments. Points deduction cloud that hung over them. Sometimes adversity can galvanise a team. It is becoming all too easy to blame the ****s at the top. Whilst they are a large part of the problem, it should not be brushed under the carpet that there are managers in this division getting more from poorer squads of players.
I agree adversity can galvanise a team, and I think it has done here before, but that doesn’t work over the years as a long term thing That said while I do blame the Allams completely for the position we’re in and the attitude around the place that doesn’t mean people can’t criticise Nige for poor selections, formation and substitutions too. It doesn’t give him a free pass.
He seems to be getting a free pass off most on here at the moment. He’s a nice chap, but the stuff on the pitch is dreadful. This isn’t down to player ability - some of the very basic mistakes we are seeing are happening over and over again. At least if we made it difficult for our opponent to score. Marking at set pieces would be a good starting point.
Until Saturday I had clung to the belief that, despite the disastrous asset stripping regime of the despicable Ehab Allam, an incompetent whose name will surely be reviled by Hull City supporters for decades to come, we had a core group of players in the squad who were good enough to allow us to avoid relegation this season. Our performance at Reading, described by several on here who watched the game, either in person or on stream, as by far our worst of the season, and the incredible blindness of Nigel Adkins to the failings of his central mid-field starters and subsequent substitutions, has shattered that belief. In his defense, Ehab's unwillingness to give Adkins the funds to bring in players to strengthen mid-field, even when a key player wanted to come here and was available at a reasonable price, has hamstrung his ability to strengthen the squad. Yet what tactical madness produced a starting central mid-field of the limp Hendricksen and the overmatched Stewart, surely the worst possible choices. What madness dictated the substitution of Bowen, arguably our best player on the field, at a critical point in the game in the 60th minute. Adkins should go. But who will replace him??? What domestic Manager, familiar with the chaos that surrounds Hull City and the awful Allams, would want the job.??? So we are probably stuck with him until he resigns...probably after Christmas...with us firmly entrenched in the relegation zone. Meanwhile we face a succession of promotion chasing teams over the next few weeks. God help us!!!
I don’t go anymore so my opinion might count for **** all but here goes. From where I’m sat I can see a perfect storm brewing. Daft lad doesn’t really give a **** where we end up, he’s stripped the club down like a school of piranhas strips down the carcass of a dead cow. There’s only Bowen left to chomp through, a nice fleshy chunk to savour before swimming off. That said he won’t pay a penny in compo to get rid of Nigel, it just isn’t going to happen. Nigel might come across as a busy fool/ deluded buffoon but he’s not as daft as he makes out. He’s playing the long game. He knows he’s flogging a dead horse and hasn’t got the required skills to turn it around. He knows we’re sinking and so is his reputation, he’ll struggle to get another gig after this latest blot on his copy book. He needs his monthly pay cheque or the compensation he’d get if sacked. As such he’s going nowhere. No way he’s resigning. It’s a Mexican stand off of epic proportions as far as the club are concerned. The storm isn’t so mush as on the horizon, it’s here and we’re in the eye of the bastard. SOS. SOS. SOS.
If he was to leave Cardiff, Warnock would be great shout. He got Cardiff out of trouble at the bottom of the table and you can imagine he'd sort things out after yesterday's shambles very quickly. However, with that monumental cockwomble in charge no one worth their salt would come near us and I can't imagine Warnock, Mick McCarthy or similar managers tolerating the incompetent ****wittery which Ehab brings. Adkins is a decent bloke but we're in a hole at the moment and not sure he has got the know how to get us out of it. Every chance I'll have a free afternoon next Saturday but I really can't draw the enthusiasm to go and watch the Boro game. It's so sad where we are now and the sooner that cretinous family **** off and **** off even further the better!
The year we got to the playoffs under little and lost to orient. Was that season we’d had players not getting paid etc
I'd like to think that City being City, being abject at Reading might balance out with a surprise result or two over the next trio of games. However, the comical style of play we're demonstrating at the moment means we'd be lucky to beat a pub side let alone Boro and Leeds.
