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Adkins Out? - Match Thread

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  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    That woman is a legend. 
    The perfect delivery gets me every time.
    I know. Could literally listen to it for hours and still laugh. The original is one of the funiest things I've ever seen
  • So a young manager with player experience, a CAFC connection and proven at sorting out a squad near the bottom of this division? 

    There is one out there…Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank.

    I think I’m joking.
  • So a young manager with player experience, a CAFC connection and proven at sorting out a squad near the bottom of this division? 

    There is one out there…Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank.

    I think I’m joking.

    I actually think he is a good shout. 
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,458
    Would like to give him more time, as believe it or not for 70 minutes we played arguably our best stuff of the season.
    However as much as I like Adkins as a person,I think the writing is already on the wall. It was painful to see him reacting to the Adkins out and sacked in the morning chants….he was unquestionably shell shocked and looked a broken man to some extent. I felt very sorry for him.
    Just a quick comment regarding the game…..in the first half Leco stuck across three or four delicious crosses that needed someone to get their head to…..how ironic that Stockley wasn’t there to take the opportunities, I’m pretty sure he’d have snapped up at least one or maybe even two.
    Oh well…..hindsight is a wonderful thing.
     Why prolong the inevitable?
  • I’ve lost all faith if he’s not sacked today. Can only be his mate Roddy keeping him there. Effectively five points from safety if you count our goal difference with Fleetwood a must win on Saturday.
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,210
    So a young manager with player experience, a CAFC connection and proven at sorting out a squad near the bottom of this division? 

    There is one out there…Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank.

    I think I’m joking.
    Why not.

    He knows the league very well, worked wonders on a shoe string at burton, they were in a similar state as us with worse players.  Like you say, knows the club, he’s probably hungry to rebuild his managerial career.   
  • So a young manager with player experience, a CAFC connection and proven at sorting out a squad near the bottom of this division? 

    There is one out there…Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank.

    I think I’m joking.
    Why not.

    He knows the league very well, worked wonders on a shoe string at burton, they were in a similar state as us with worse players.  Like you say, knows the club, he’s probably hungry to rebuild his managerial career.   
    Always looked like he’d been hungry when he was here as a player.
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,898
    in the normal run of things, those early morning videos about walking and seize the day would be enough for him to be sacked as having zero credibility - given the one win in ten, i think he has confirmed it - take his mate roddy with him 
  • ''We have some really good players, and a strong squad, but their confidence is shot to pieces.
    In such circumstances, they don't need a happy, clappy, Mr Motivator with PowerPoint presentations, they need someone to tell them to man up, dig in and fight.''
    Quote from Queensland on page 40!

    In other words someone like Lee Bowyer (Should never have let him go).
    Is it just a coincidence people we have employed with a poor record here:
    Pardew, Parkinson, Roddy and Adkins all have a connection with Reading.
    Think this is the curse of Reading rejects!
    He wasn't let go, he left before he was kicked out the fucking door for being awful for 5 months
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  • Why do people keep positioning Adkins as Roddy’s mate?

    Where’s the connection?

    The only link I can see Is Les Reed who was at Southampton with NA and in a technical position with the FA while GR was with PL.

    Please advise


  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited September 2021
    Why do people keep positioning Adkins as Roddy’s mate?

    Where’s the connection?

    The only link I can see Is Les Reed who was at Southampton with NA and in a technical position with the FA while GR was with PL.

    Please advise


    I believe that are Jacob’s parents. 
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,898
    is roddy an acronym for rod jayne and freddy off rainbow - thats where adkins should be with his smiley positive nonsense 
  • DA9 said:
    We all know he’s a nice guy, but, so what.

    He is either so tactfully unaware for the modern game, lost the dressing room or we have a squad dominated by mercenaries who don’t give a shit and are happy to take the wages regardless of results and performance 
    Or all of those things !!!
  • LTKapal
    LTKapal Posts: 1,312
    edited September 2021
    Was it VFR4life who knew somebody training with the first team? I wonder their feelings towards the manager/general atmosphere. 
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,898
    nice guys don't often make good football managers or players for that matter - great smiley atmosphere at training - turns to shit when meet the nasty opposition - bring in John Sittens as caretaker manager for a month of good old school bullying  
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    DOUCHER said:
    nice guys don't often make good football managers or players for that matter - great smiley atmosphere at training - turns to shit when meet the nasty opposition - bring in John Sittens as caretaker manager for a month of good old school bullying  
    Who is that?
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    DOUCHER said:
    nice guys don't often make good football managers or players for that matter - great smiley atmosphere at training - turns to shit when meet the nasty opposition - bring in John Sittens as caretaker manager for a month of good old school bullying  
    Who is that?
    Former Orient manager have a listen to this;

    https://speakola.com/sports/john-sitton-leyton-orient-blackpool-1995

  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,619
    edited September 2021
    DOUCHER said:
    nice guys don't often make good football managers or players for that matter - great smiley atmosphere at training - turns to shit when meet the nasty opposition - bring in John Sittens as caretaker manager for a month of good old school bullying  
    Who is that?
    Look him up on YouTube - has to be the worst (and for an outsider looking in, the funniest) team talks ever - pure comedy gold

    Its John Sitton you need to search for
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  • DOUCHER said:
    nice guys don't often make good football managers or players for that matter - great smiley atmosphere at training - turns to shit when meet the nasty opposition - bring in John Sittens as caretaker manager for a month of good old school bullying  
    Who is that?

    You probably know that ricky means John Sitton. For those who haven't seen his brand of management:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVj45yN72uU
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    DOUCHER said:
    nice guys don't often make good football managers or players for that matter - great smiley atmosphere at training - turns to shit when meet the nasty opposition - bring in John Sittens as caretaker manager for a month of good old school bullying  
    Who is that?
    And bring your dinner
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,763
    Why do people keep positioning Adkins as Roddy’s mate?

    Where’s the connection?

    The only link I can see Is Les Reed who was at Southampton with NA and in a technical position with the FA while GR was with PL.

    Please advise


    People are getting the fact that they've both worked for Reading mixed up and believing that they were there at the same time...
  • "You can pair up if you want" is not a phrase I expect Adkins uses very often
  • On Wikipedia it says we turned him down to be a youth coach because of what was broadcast in the ‘Orient: Club for a Fiver’ programme
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    edited September 2021
    "You can pair up if you want" is not a phrase I expect Adkins uses very often
    You you little c/ and you you big c@£&. I must have watched that clip 100 times. 
  • holyjo
    holyjo Posts: 1,326
    edited September 2021
    The two most important and powerful  leadership competencies , when combined  in any walk of life are ......

    a) Inspiring and motivating others to high performance 
    b) Driving for results. 

    Adkins is failing at both and as such has fatal flaws as a leader. 

    He should go and go quickly 
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,898
    DOUCHER said:
    nice guys don't often make good football managers or players for that matter - great smiley atmosphere at training - turns to shit when meet the nasty opposition - bring in John Sittens as caretaker manager for a month of good old school bullying  
    Who is that?
    He's a close friend of John Sitton but a bit more agressive  
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,898
    "You can pair up if you want" is not a phrase I expect Adkins uses very often
    not when he's telling us how to defend down the flanks that's for sure 
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,898
    Cafc43v3r said:
    DOUCHER said:
    nice guys don't often make good football managers or players for that matter - great smiley atmosphere at training - turns to shit when meet the nasty opposition - bring in John Sittens as caretaker manager for a month of good old school bullying  
    Who is that?
    And bring your dinner
    put the canteen on standby 
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