[Albion] 12 years ago today 2009

[Lenny Rider]

Dick Knight met Micky Adams at the Little Chef, no Olympic Breakfast and Micky left the restaurant minus his job.

FWIW I still don’t believe Micky would have taken us down that year, obviously DK and perhaps more significantly Tony Bloom did, Russell Slade came in but himself was gone within 9 months.

 

[timbha]

But Slade did keep us up, validating the decision

Never go back!

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Slade was just in for a penny.

 

[Seasidesage]

i think it was distinctly likely that Mickey would have taken us down. We were very bad at the time...

 

[Poojah]

Ah Russell Slade, one of football management’s true enigmas. He holds the interesting achievement of managing all the way up from the Conference to the Championship, without winning a single promotion - at which point he appears to have stuck his career in reverse and slammed his foot on the accelerator.

The first time we had him at Grimsby (2004 - 2006) he did pretty well, taking us within a gnats hair of promotion back into League One, only bottling it and signing a deal with Yeovil before the playoff final instead.

The second time was an absolute disaster. By this time it seemed the man had truly lost his marbles, which he duly confirmed when he humiliated himself at a fans forum, after which he would fail to win a game in the two and a half months he would remain at the club.

I know he did a decent job in keeping Brighton up all those years ago, perhaps at a time when he still had something in his managerial locker, but I nevertheless find the fact that he has managed the best part of 1,000 games in league football without so much as a crumb of tangible success quite remarkable.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Ah Russell Slade, one of football management’s true enigmas. He holds the interesting achievement of managing all the way up from the Conference to the Championship, without winning a single promotion - at which point he appears to have stuck his career in reverse and slammed his foot on the accelerator.

The first time we had him at Grimsby (2004 - 2006) he did pretty well, taking us within a gnats hair of promotion back into League One, only bottling it and signing a deal with Yeovil before the playoff final instead.

The second time was an absolute disaster. By this time it seemed the man had truly lost his marbles, which he duly confirmed when he humiliated himself at a fans forum, after which he would fail to win a game in the two and a half months he would remain at the club.

I know he did a decent job in keeping Brighton up all those years ago, perhaps at a time when he still had something in his managerial locker, but I nevertheless find the fact that he has managed the best part of 1,000 games in league football without so much as a crumb of tangible success quite remarkable.

What happened at the Fan’s Forum?

 

[osgood]

Wonder if Dick got the cherry/blueberry pies in first ?

 

[Lenny Rider]

Ah Russell Slade, one of football management’s true enigmas. He holds the interesting achievement of managing all the way up from the Conference to the Championship, without winning a single promotion - at which point he appears to have stuck his career in reverse and slammed his foot on the accelerator.

The first time we had him at Grimsby (2004 - 2006) he did pretty well, taking us within a gnats hair of promotion back into League One, only bottling it and signing a deal with Yeovil before the playoff final instead.

The second time was an absolute disaster. By this time it seemed the man had truly lost his marbles, which he duly confirmed when he humiliated himself at a fans forum, after which he would fail to win a game in the two and a half months he would remain at the club.

I know he did a decent job in keeping Brighton up all those years ago, perhaps at a time when he still had something in his managerial locker, but I nevertheless find the fact that he has managed the best part of 1,000 games in league football without so much as a crumb of tangible success quite remarkable.

What did he say at the Fans Forum?

 

[Beach Hut]

Adams was an insane joke the second time, totally clueless

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

When Sanchez (or Ryan before) hit a goal kick to Dan Burn on the wing I’m always reminded of the time Micky played Virgo left midfield and deployed the same tactic.

Difference is that was Micky’s only tactic for 90 minutes.

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Does that mean we won at Milwall that afternoon? Bloody weird day that was, finding out Adams had been sacked at 11am in an early opening London Bridge pub.

Would love to know how much of a Bloom decision that was.

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[Kuipers Supporters Club]

Does that mean we won at Milwall that afternoon? Bloody weird day that was, finding out Adams had been sacked at 11am in an early opening London Bridge pub.

Would love to know how much of a Bloom decision that was.

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Yes, that was 21st February 2009

Starting lineup:

Michel Kuipers

Adam El Abd

Tommy Elphick

Jim McNulty

Adam Virgo G (73)

Andy Whing

Chris Birchall

Dean Cox

Tommy Fraser

Jason Jarrett

Nicky Forster

Sub:

Adam Hinshelwood

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

MA MKII was the pits. The only highlights were coming from two down to beat Leicester 3-2 at the Withdean. Also, the JPT Southern Section Final away to Luton was fun even though we lost (maybe that was all the ale).

 

[clapham_gull]

But Slade did keep us up, validating the decision

Never go back!

Has a linked in page where he lists his achievements as manager at various clubs.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/russell-slade-a5850a184/

I'm stuck between that's a bid odd and it's quite normal for people to accentuate the positive on their CVs.

Also appears to have branched out into protecting the personal data of footballers:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53557706

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/project-red-card-football-data

https://globalsportsdataandtechnologygroup.co.uk/

 

[Cesar Chavez]

What happened at the Fan’s Forum?

Did he have a Steve Foster Corals moment?

 

[Screaming J]

MA MKII was the pits. The only highlights were coming from two down to beat Leicester 3-2 at the Withdean. Also, the JPT Southern Section Final away to Luton was fun even though we lost (maybe that was all the ale).

Well.....that first game of the season at Crewe where we won for the first time in goodness knows how long with a late Nicky Forster winner was a good memory. Had high hopes of the season after that one.....didn't last long as per usual

 

[Frutos]

MA MKII was the pits. The only highlights were coming from two down to beat Leicester 3-2 at the Withdean. Also, the JPT Southern Section Final away to Luton was fun even though we lost (maybe that was all the ale).

Don't forget knocking Man City out of the League Cup four days after losing to the nine men of Walsall - both extremes of the Albion spectrum in the space of 96 hours.

 

[The Grockle]

I'd almost managed to erase the memory of Mickey Adam's 2nd coming, such a shambles. I remember seeing the clip of him kicking off at Nathan Jones mid interview and thinking he'd lost the plot. Have some great memories of Slades tenure and the efforts of Owusu and Gary Hart (amongst many others)

 

[vagabond]

Don't forget knocking Man City out of the League Cup four days after losing to the nine men of Walsall - both extremes of the Albion spectrum in the space of 96 hours.

Forgot about that [emoji38] classic Albion

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Dick Knight met Micky Adams at the Little Chef, no Olympic Breakfast and Micky left the restaurant minus his job.

FWIW I still don’t believe Micky would have taken us down that year, obviously DK and perhaps more significantly Tony Bloom did, Russell Slade came in but himself was gone within 9 months.

He absolutely would have taken us down. MA II was an absolute mess.

Shame he came back.