Brighton Breezy
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A lot of people on here going on about how he would take us up again etc.
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In HINDSIGHT do you wish Adams hadn't come back?
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Soul Finger
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- May 12, 2004
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Have a day off will you.
Nemesis
SERIOUSLY!
Same old shite from you then...
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Knight should have taken a leaf out of Mickeys book "if they are playing well they keep the shirt".
Wilkins was doing the business - FACT.
Wilkins was doing the business - FACT.
Brighton Breezy
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Not at all.
I think the problem is we are seeing the SAME OLD SHIT from Brighton...
I think the problem is we are seeing the SAME OLD SHIT from Brighton...
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
If Wilkins had to be sacked for whatever reason then the job should have been advertised and the best applicant given the job not Dickie and Mickeys old boys club reunited.
Da Man Clay
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- Dec 16, 2004
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Ain't that the truth. I was pleased when Adams came back, however in hindsight it should have been dealt with like this.
dougdeep
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I'd have expected this thread from Vulture, but not from a respected journalist.
Icy Gull
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You and other Adams fans may not like it but it is a reasonable enough thread on the board of a team who are mostly a shambles this season.
Most DID welcome him back like the Messiah, like it or not it's not shaping up well yet.
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It's because Knight is a control freak and he needs bringing down off his pedestal.
Mackenzie
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It was DK giving us what was percieved we wanted...every time we played a MA team, he got the biggest cheer of the day. DK wanted extra bums on seats and saw the appointment as a means in which to do it. MA has proven himself a good manager, we need to be patient.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
When was he a good manager ?
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To get extra bums on seats would have been let Deano have some extra cash to spend.
Brighton Breezy
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GK Kuipers
LB Richards
RB Whing
CB Lynch
CB Elphick
LW Thornton
CM O'Callaghan
CM Hammond
RW Cox
F Murray
F Forster
Manager: Dean Wilkins.
Would get bums on seats.
LB Richards
RB Whing
CB Lynch
CB Elphick
LW Thornton
CM O'Callaghan
CM Hammond
RW Cox
F Murray
F Forster
Manager: Dean Wilkins.
Would get bums on seats.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Have a read:
[edit] Fulham
Adams moved into management with Fulham, taking over from Ian Branfoot in March 1996 with the London club languishing in 91st place in the league pyramid. After he had help the club avoid non-league football, Fulham were promoted to Division Two as runners-up in the following season's final table.
Following the takeover of Fulham by Mohammed Al Fayed, Adams was dismissed as manager in September 1997 in favour of Kevin Keegan (director of football) and Ray Wilkins (head coach).
[edit] Swansea City
Shortly after his dismissal from Fulham, Adams made a quick return to management with Swansea City in Division Three but left after 13 days. Adams claimed that the money he had been promised to strengthen the team had not been forthcoming, but within days he had joined Brentford.
It was subsequently alleged that he had been engaged in discussions with at least one London club at the same time as his negotiations with Swansea.
[edit] Brentford
Before 1997 was out, Adams took his third job of the 1997–98 season when he was named manager of Brentford in place of Eddie May who had been appointed in the Summer of 1997 following the purchase of the Club by previous manager David Webb. Brentford had suffered a slump in league form after losing the previous season's Division Two playoff final, and were struggling near the foot of the table. Brentford were relegated to Division Three on the last day of the season, and the club was bought out by Ron Noades who installed himself as the new Brentford manager.
Adams was the caretaker manager for Nottingham Forest for a single Premiership game in 1998–99, which he lost.
[edit] Brighton
Adams returned to management in April 1999 with Division Three underdogs Brighton & Hove Albion. In his second full season as manager, 2000–01, Adams guided Brighton to promotion as Division Three champions after the club had spent five seasons in the league's basement division. He set the foundations for Brighton to achieve a second successive promotion as Division Two champions in 2001–02.
[edit] Leicester
In October 2001, Adams left Brighton to become assistant manager to Dave Bassett at Leicester City.[1][2] Peter Taylor, the former Leicester manager, was drafted in to complete Brighton's promotion campaign.
Adams, meanwhile, spent six months working under Bassett and during that time Leicester were almost permanently stuck to the bottom of the Premiership. In April 2002, just before relegation was confirmed, Adams was promoted to the manager's seat while Bassett became Director of Football.[3]
Despite Leicester going into receivership with debts of £30million and being banned from the transfer market until a takeover was completed, Adams was able to guide them to promotion back to the Premiership at the first attempt - they ended the 2002–03 season as Division One runners-up behind champions Portsmouth.
Leicester slipped back down again in 2003–04 in 18th place, bracketed together with the two other relegated sides - Leeds United and Wolverhampton Wanderers - whose goal difference was inferior to Leicester's.
Adams resigned as Leicester manager in October 2004 after a poor start to the Coca Cola League Championship campaign dashed the club's hopes of an instant return to the Premiership.[4]
[edit] Coventry City
In January 2005, Adams made a return to management in the Coca Cola Championship with struggling Coventry City, a club he had been at during his playing career.[5] Adams managed to save the club from relegation that year. He was expected by some to mount a challenge for promotion to the Premiership in 2005–06, which was the club's first season in the new Ricoh Arena. The team started out poorly, but improved in the second half of the season to rise up the table. However despite excellent home form, he could only guide Coventry as high as 8th, missing out on a play-off place by only two league places, though several points adrift of that year's standard.
Midway through the following season however, following a run of five games without defeat, Coventry suddenly and unexpectedly hit a bad run of form. A 5–0 defeat at West Bromwich Albion began a sequence of eight games without a win, including six defeats. This culminated in a 2–0 home defeat to Bristol City in the FA Cup, a game which also saw a record low attendance at the Ricoh Arena.
On 17 January 2007, the day after the cup exit, the club parted company with Adams, with Coventry lying 16th in the Championship. Adams stated that he intended to return to management as soon as possible.[6] He admitted that the sale of Gary McSheffrey to Birmingham City had been a turning point in the club's season.
[edit] Colchester
In July 2007, Adams was appointed by Colchester United as assistant manager to Geraint Williams replacing Mick Harford who had left the previous month.[7]He subsequently left this role in January 2008, stating that he wanted to return to management.
[edit] Back to Brighton
In May 2008, Adams returned to helm Brighton & Hove Albion[8], supplanting then-current manager Dean Wilkins
Da Man Clay
T'Blades
- Dec 16, 2004
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To be totally honest im fairly happy with him much of a control freak Knight is. He only wants best for the club and saw the return of one of our most successful managers as a positive step forward from the "dour" McGhee and Wilkins.
The fact is that without him we wouldn't have a club, wouldn't be looking forward to goin to Falmer in a few years and wouldn't have expeirience the good times we have had since 97. If he wants to sack a manager who brought us 7th with a manager he thought would do better, then fine.
Though if it happens many more times I may well change my mind!
dougdeep
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chez
Johnny Byrne-The Greatest
With the exception of Kipper and Wilkins you're probably right.