Seeing some people discussing how we'd be doing if Adkins was still in charge, which got me thinking about our previous manager: would we have been promoted from League One had we not sacked Pardew and got Adkins?
Yes . AP was IIRC sacked for Non Footballing reasons . So yes I think AP would have got us promoted .
Not a clue. I've moved on from Pardew, and now Adkins is in the past also. I prefer to leave it there and be thankful for what they did do. In this case, building a decent squad, signing Rickie, winning the JPT and then consecutive promotions to the Premier League.
Pardew's a good manager. Yeah, I think he could easily have taken us to the Championship, but then again most managers could with that squad and that money.
Yes from League One with the squad we had. Impossible to say what would have happened in the Championship.
I'm very certain he'd have managed promotion from League One. Championship, can't say, but I'd have to guess not, in the first season anyway.
As above really, I think Pardew would have gotten us to the Championship, that wasn't Adkins most notable accomplishment, the Championship was the real test and where Adkins really earned his colours. I think Pardew may well have managed it too, but in two seasons rather than one, but that is purely a hunch.
Give a League One team Davis, Fonte, Richardson, Lallana, Schneiderlin, Hammond, Puncheon and Lambert and my cat could get them promoted.
We did start poorly, but even so I still think we would have been promoted, albeit through the Play-offs, in similar fashion to West Ham.
Looking back we probably had one of the best teams league one will ever see, Lallana, Lambert, Schneiderlin, Fonte and Oxlade-Chamberlain are all proving to be good (excellent in a lot of them) Premier league players; you can see why Cortese was upset that he didn't get us into the playoffs in his first season.
I just hopped into my multiverse machine and I can tell you that if we'd kept Pards instead of sacking him, we'd have been top of the Premiership as of today. Unfortunately, I also noticed that one of the spin-off effects was that Adkins, sick of no longer progressing from Scun-thorpe ended up bitter enough to start a new anti-civilisation cult and released a strengthened bacterial culture into the population of Australia, where everyone is now dead; the bacterium is fatal, has no cure and a 100% transmission rate. It has spread across the globe and in this alternative timeline, the first cases are being found in the UK today, so everyone's going to die. Lucky escape, really. Vin
