I had faith in the bloke, and f*** me, he was right. That was an order of performance that we haven't quite been capable of before. Poch on Solent now.
Adkins took us as far as he could,without him todays result would be a dream.But we needed to step up to another level.Todays result says we have.................
Indeeed, Cortese doesn't look back and neither should we. Nigel will get a good club and make it far better. And the best of luck to him.
Oh I agree 100%. I'm just more and more impressed with what Poch is doing and how quickly he's doing that. Equally the players response to him. Exciting times.
A team that wins by playing exciting football...this is a team in Cortese's image. We were all upset by losing Nigel (and he would have kept us up, I'm sure), but the lack of animosity against Nicola shows that fans felt he had earnt the benefit of the doubt. He hasn't steered us wrong yet.
Yes you can certainly, but I'll judge the decision at the end of the season when we stay up, that's then job done.
Very hard to pinpoint the difference a manager has made after only a handful of games. It does seem like we are pressing alot better now though. I don't really want to say oh look how much better Poch is etc etc. I'm just going to say Adkins was exceptional and built a great team and got some very good results and performances. Poch has come and hasn't changed too much but we look like were going in the right direction and if he can contiue to get these performances from the team he will have proven nic right. I do think managers need to be judged on a longer period though so to say Poch is a step up already is a little hasty.
It's as much about the reaction of the players and the fact there's a newfound belief there that impresses me. That's very much the doing of Poch. You can see that they *really* believe in him.
In the final 10 minutes or so, Pochettino was working so hard to motivate the players to keep pressing that he was actually on the pitch at times. It was him that brought out that extra level from the players IMO and as much as I love Adkins for everything he gave to the club, I can't say that he would have been able to do the same.