A Personal Message To Micky Adams

[Uncle Spielberg]

Micky

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Don't let the bastards grind you down. some of us still believe in you.

Regards.

Uncle Spielberg

 

[Rookie]

at least give credit to Rudyard Kipling if you are going to copy his work

 

[Wozza]

No ifs, no buts - sling your hook.

 

[Ernest]

Just go Adams whilst you have a teeny bit of respect left or you will be remembered as a total failure who f***ed the club big time.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

at least give credit to Rudyard Kipling if you are going to copy his work

Ey, what ?.

I just made that up. It took me ages.

 

[vegster]

You'll also believe that an Elephant can fly... " Dumbo, No. 26 in my all-time Disney animations ( pre-CCG) and a damning satire on Attainment and Goal realisation" Uncle Spielberg.

 

[liam82]

Forgetting The Past, Exactley What Has He Given Us To Belive In.

19th Position And A Shed Load Of Loan Players.

Keep Beliving All The Way To League 2.

 

[clippedgull]

Speilberg backs losers remember?

 

[British Bulldog]

Serves you right Adams for stabbing a fellow manager in the back.

 

[Beach Hut]

Serves you right Adams for stabbing a fellow manager in the back.

Who ?

 

[British Bulldog]

Who ?

Wilkins.

 

[RM-Taylor]

Dear Micky,

I was 10 years old when you first got us promoted from the Nationwide Division Three, and although I mainly followed Manchester United back then, I was so happy that Brighton had been promoted, and seeing the team doing so well, something I could talk and boast about with my friends at school. And then again, we went up the following year, but you left us in October of that season, just before a game at Huddersfield when we won 2-1 before Peter Taylor got the managers job. I used to believe that you were a Brighton legend because of what you did for the club when I was younger, but since you've come back, my opinion has changed. At the minute, you're destroying whatever faith I had in you by choosing ridiculous tatics and generally having the feeling of not knowing what you're doing no more. I believe that if you decided to walk away from the club, that not only me, but several more will still have a slight feeling of legendary status towards you, but if you stay and things carry on; then you'll be a big hate figure at the club and you can only have yourself to blame.

RM-Taylor

 

[Beach Hut]

Wilkins.

I would hardly blame him, surely it was the chairmans idea ?

 

[BensGrandad]

Do not read what half of the morons on here have to say do what YOU think is right that is what you are paid for and as you tell us 'Keep the Faith' we will not be relegated and will be nearer the top of the division than the bottom come May.

 

[Ernest]

Do not read what half of the morons on here have to say do what YOU think is right that is what you are paid for and as you tell us 'Keep the Faith' we will not be relegated and will be nearer the top of the division than the bottom come May.

What exactly are you seeing that makes you say that ? Don't say that he did the job last time as that was 8 years ago, tell the rest of us what we are missing ?

 

[British Bulldog]

I would hardly blame him, surely it was the chairmans idea ?

And Adams was'nt negotiating a contract to take over from a manager who did'nt know he was going to be sacked then? Sorry but it say's something about Adams as a person to me.

 

[Ernest]

And Adams was'nt negotiating a contract to take over from a manager who did'nt know he was going to be sacked then? Sorry but it say's something about Adams as a person to me.

Exactly, he knew before Wilkins was sacked he had the job

 

[Beach Hut]

Fair comment, et tu Brute

 

[BensGrandad]

What exactly are you seeing that makes you say that ? Don't say that he did the job last time as that was 8 years ago, tell the rest of us what we are missing ?

We are 2 or 3 players and a couple of results off of a promotion side.

 

[British Bulldog]

Exactly, he knew before Wilkins was sacked he had the job

And the way they let Wilkins tell players they were being released knowing he was going next was disgusting, Giving Hart & Mayo new contracts after was just rubbing salt in the wound. The club can give all the bollocks they want about wanting Wilkins to stay on as coach but Ian Chapman resisning over the way Wilkins was treated spoke volumes.