by URZZZZ »
16 Dec 2020 01:02
Snowflake Royal URZZZZ tidus_mi2 Makes me like Adkins even more and on the same token, dislike AZ even more. He did a great job in difficult circumstances and was really sacked as a kneejerk reaction to the terrible 6-1 defeat to Brum.
I supported the sacking at the time as results had been on a downward trend but in hindsight, knowing what was going on behind the scenes, I do feel he was poorly treated, would honestly welcome him back if we had a change of manager in the future.
Agreed, I'm pretty sure there was a consensus that it'd be better moving on from Adkins at the time, but obviously very few actually know what goes on behind the scenes
Although I do think he is exaggerating the "team full of youngsters" part, given his team had regular inclusions such as Federici, Gunter, Kelly, Pearce, Norwood, Williams, McCleary, Mackie, Murray, Kanu etc
Quite a few of these players were young back then.... Kanu,Pearce, Karacan, Morrison, McCarthy, Hector, Taylor, Kuhl, Cummings, all early 20s or less
Point taken but he refers to “kids” in his interview there, not sure many of them are tbh
Kuhl was, but he rarely played once we’d got our midfield options back (and ended up 5/6th choice pretty quickly)
Hector and Cooper were and I guess between them they featured a fair bit
Just think that whilst I value Adkins’ role and work with the squad, there was a slight exaggeration on the amount of academy guys we actually ended up playing, especially towards the end of his tenure here. Am surprised, however, that he hasn’t been snatched up by anyone in his 18 months out of work