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Aidy Boothroyd for Brighton BOSS
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beardy gull
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Icy Gull
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Not impressed with Adams this time around but I fear we are stuck with him so talk of a replacement is clutching at straws. I expect very little, even when he has rebuilt the side which it seems could take a couple of seasons, the biggest problem is going to be to convince fans that it's worth paying money to continue watching the dross being served up most of the time. There are too many managers at this level who are better tacticians than MA for us to progress much imo.
If we end the season playing well in one game and shit in five it won't bode well for season ticket sales next season.
If we end the season playing well in one game and shit in five it won't bode well for season ticket sales next season.
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1067Seagull
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Is this the same Aidy Boothroyd who was sacked by Leeds and Watford?
I'm getting a bit fed up of the moaners. It took Adams a season and a bit to rebuild last time but somehow he's expected to do it in a few months this time
I must admit to having my doubts about MA. If it was anyone else other than MA, then I would say that nearly everyone on this board would have been calling for the managers head, cos to put it bluntly the performances have been very very poor.
What is saving MA is his past record on here and I guess that is correct. However, what worries me is that last time he rebuilt the team with basically that of a championship winning team in Fulham, plus the unbelievable piece of luck in getting Zamora. He wont get that lucky again.
I'm willing to give him to the end of the season (unless by Xmas we are in real danger of going down). It'll be interesting to see if the board really back him, by giving him funds to at least get one or two loan players in (other than Richards as that is a near certainty).
I just wonder if the players have belief in MA. Once that has gone, then its time for the manager to go. Just look at Spurs, Ramos didn't turn into a bad manager overnight, its just those same players who are playing well now lost faith in him. Time will tell.
As for Boothroyd. Forget it. He wont drop to league 1.
What is saving MA is his past record on here and I guess that is correct. However, what worries me is that last time he rebuilt the team with basically that of a championship winning team in Fulham, plus the unbelievable piece of luck in getting Zamora. He wont get that lucky again.
I'm willing to give him to the end of the season (unless by Xmas we are in real danger of going down). It'll be interesting to see if the board really back him, by giving him funds to at least get one or two loan players in (other than Richards as that is a near certainty).
I just wonder if the players have belief in MA. Once that has gone, then its time for the manager to go. Just look at Spurs, Ramos didn't turn into a bad manager overnight, its just those same players who are playing well now lost faith in him. Time will tell.
As for Boothroyd. Forget it. He wont drop to league 1.
Nemesis
SERIOUSLY!
Time you stopped your witch hunt-it is very f***ing tedious, as was your previous one against McGhee.
Boothroyd. Oh yes please. I'd love to see the goalkeeper launch it constantly to the centre forward week in week, week out. We fall into the long ball trap sometimes, but at least we normally start out with the best intentions..
There really are some clueless muppets here. Have you ever actually seen one of Boothroyd's Watford sides play, except for the odd highlights on TV? Just about sums up why nobody should take seriously people calling for Adams to go.
There really are some clueless muppets here. Have you ever actually seen one of Boothroyd's Watford sides play, except for the odd highlights on TV? Just about sums up why nobody should take seriously people calling for Adams to go.
Icy Gull
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So you can, hand on heart, say that you are not concerned that MA might, just might,not be the right man for the job. I don't suggest that you should be calling for his head but I admire your faith if you're not just a teeny bit concerned about him this time around
Not concerned really. We might not get promoted this year, but we won't get relegated. We'll have some good results and some bad ones. And, if we stick with him and give him a chance to reshape the team, everything about his record suggests he'll get it right.
Chopping and changing managers may give a team a short term lift, but rarely makes much long term difference. Do you think David Moyes should have been sacked by Everton a couple of seasons back? Or that Crewe would have been better off getting rid of Dario Gradi any time he had a bad spell? Or that West Ham are really stronger now they've replaced Curbishley with Zola?
I'm getting a bit fed up of the moaners. It took Adams a season and a bit to rebuild last time but somehow he's expected to do it in a few months this time
Okay, now this isn't aimed at YOU specifically, but all those who continually trot out this piss-poor argument.
Last time, he needed a couple of years to REBUILD, because we were utter utter shit, and the squad needed to be completely rebuilt.
This time round there was no REBUILDING required, just IMPROVEMENT. We finished SEVENTH last season, not by FLUKE, or because the other teams felt sorry for us and gave us free points. That squad was a decent squad, not one in need of complete overhaul.
The board have brought in Adams and bankrolled him to recruit 4 championship players to add to that squad, which is subsequently playing WORSE than last year.
THAT is why people are rightly and understandably NOT impressed.
Good post 100% agreed
Gilliver's Travels
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Thank heavens for the voice of common sense.
I too, absolutely DEMAND that if we lose a game or, well, maybe in all fairness, a few games in the same month, then whoever the manager happens to be at the time should be SACKED, even if I thought he was doing okay a few games ago.
He should then be REPLACED by a manager whose name I shall draw at random from my favourite hat of managers I LIKE. I shall then enlist support from other TRUE FANS just like me, and ask them to pick names from their own list of favourite managers.
I shall then BOMBARD Dick Tight with random names from my new friends' list of managers, or shout them at him very loudly whenever he passes by.
If he still doesn't do anything after all that, there is only one course of action left to any reasonable person like me. I shall THCREAM and THCREAM until I am THICK.
I too, absolutely DEMAND that if we lose a game or, well, maybe in all fairness, a few games in the same month, then whoever the manager happens to be at the time should be SACKED, even if I thought he was doing okay a few games ago.
He should then be REPLACED by a manager whose name I shall draw at random from my favourite hat of managers I LIKE. I shall then enlist support from other TRUE FANS just like me, and ask them to pick names from their own list of favourite managers.
I shall then BOMBARD Dick Tight with random names from my new friends' list of managers, or shout them at him very loudly whenever he passes by.
If he still doesn't do anything after all that, there is only one course of action left to any reasonable person like me. I shall THCREAM and THCREAM until I am THICK.
The issue isn't whether or not Micky can turn things around it's does he have the time to do it? I expected us to be comfortably in the top half of the table by this time and even challenging for the top spot. Instead I see us sliding down the table and heading for an inevitable relegation battle. The players aren't delivering anywhere near what we know they are capable of and the defence is looking like a disorganised shambles when faced by anyone with the ball.
If by December 20th we're out of all the cups and 4th bottom in the league I can't see Knight having any other option but to try to save his face. He's done it in the past so I don't doubt he'll do it again.
If by December 20th we're out of all the cups and 4th bottom in the league I can't see Knight having any other option but to try to save his face. He's done it in the past so I don't doubt he'll do it again.
The same Ady Boothroyd that has just been sacked because the team he was in charge of were shit? Christ, you really do pull them out of the bag don't you?
I'm just thankful you really don't have any influence over anything because we'd be in the Blue Square by now.
Silent Bob
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Has Micky Adams never been sacked then?
Of course, but that wasn't the point the I was making. I was criticising the wannabe journo's choice of replacement for Adams, not the fact that he was suggesting one.
Silent Bob
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OK. Most managers have been sacked at some point though haven't they. Not that I would want Boothroyd here in the unlikely scenario that Adams gets the tin tack in the near future, but one sacking doesn't necessarily equal bad manager.