by Stranded »
11 Dec 2017 08:44
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AthleticoSpizz Yep, Wednesday fans are probably chirping-off the same as we were a few weeks ago......Nigel missed a trick there, good start for him at Hull today.
Always thought that he was “hard done by” by the HNA massive running their mouths....and the clubs actual situation at that time of his tenure.
There's a grain of truth in what you say but spouting about how we'd actually played well and on another day would have won the match after a 6-0 drubbing at the hands of Birmingham City is never going to end well.
I was very much in the " give him time" camp but that's what turned me and it wasn't even the result but his head in the sand reaction to it
Wasn't that a game where they scored 90% of their chances? Probably not politic to say it given how popular he was, but I recall some nobbers saying they couldn't understand how everything had just flown in for Brum and that nothing had gone our way.
He's certainly the Reading Manager who got shafted the most by the owners in the last 20+ years. And he's looking like having a decent chance of still holding our second best finish in five years despite that.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/30356696Brum had 7 shots on target to our 4 that day. 6 went in.
Adkins quote on that article are hardly head in the sand:
Reading manager Nigel Adkins: "It was very, very close in terms of the game but it wasn't in terms of the scoreline.
"Goals change the complex of games, we came here to be positive, started well and their keeper made a couple of early saves. But then they scored, and from our point of view they scored goals which we like to think we should stop. We'll reflect on it.Given we had more shots and 65% possession, in hindsight those comments were probably fair.
He was a good manager, at the club at the wrong time and for many was never welcomed as he was the Russian's man and replaced Brian McD, which I think we all agreed was a harsh call at the time.
No surprise he went but unfairly maligned in my opinion.