A Question to Dick Knight

[S'hampton Seagull]

How much worse will you allow things to get before you fire Adams?

Set aside your pride and act before it's too late.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

It won't happen I'm affraid, we're stuck with him.

 

[Ernest]

Seems Limp Dick is letting his ego run riot now, just a good job that no one man will ever be in charge of the club again really.

 

[murraymints4brighton]

he wont for pride and financial reasons, however adams if he has any decency will quit before things get worse.

 

[S'hampton Seagull]

After today I can't see that we will stay up with him in charge. I also think a lot of people think things are some how going to magically get better and that we should be in the position we are in.

People need to realise how bad things are and make their voices heard. Knight would have to listen then, like he did when McGhee was sacked.

 

[Hoops Seagull]

After today I can't see that we will stay up with him in charge. I also think a lot of people think things are some how going to magically get better and that we should be in the position we are in.

People need to realise how bad things are and make their voices heard. Knight would have to listen then, like he did when McGhee was sacked.

That was slightly different, Dick had not just got rid of a manager who had taken us to 7th and replaced him with his man ( who we are led to belive he had wanted to appoint in January).

It takes a big man - no a very big man to admit he got it wrong - no Chairman at any other club than BHA would allow this to continue.

 

[algie]

We won't stay up with him in charge.The facts don't lie.

 

[Elder for England]

Seems Limp Dick is letting his ego run riot now, just a good job that no one man will ever be in charge of the club again really.

It's nothing to do with ego, he's hired him and should stick with him. People are so quick to sack their managers, Chelsea, Portsmouth. They hire them with the view they are the right man for the job and they should stick to it, allowing their managers at least a season to try and turn it around.

 

[clapham_gull]

It's nothing to do with ego, he's hired him and should stick with him. People are so quick to sack their managers, Chelsea, Portsmouth. They hire them with the view they are the right man for the job and they should stick to it, allowing their managers at least a season to try and turn it around.

On that basis do you think Wilkins should have been given the opportunity to improve on last season then ?

 

[MickyAdamsCluelessTactics]

A question to Dick Knight.

What is more important, us staying in this division or your ego?

 

[Elder for England]

On that basis do you think Wilkins should have been given the opportunity to improve on last season then ?

No, Wilkins had nearly 2 seasons compared to Adams' 6 months. Over the 2 years Wilkins was manager I did not rate him that highly. But he was given a lenghty amount of time to prove what type of manager he was and, in my opinion, not a great one and not the right man for the job. Why shouldn't Adams be given the same amount of time? If, after a season at least, things don't improve then there is no choice, but until then I think we should stick with the man deemed good enough for the job at the beginning of the season (just like Tony Adams and Scholari).

 

[Mr Blunt]

A question to Dick Knight, keep Adams as manager .

 

[Acker79]

A question to Dick Knight, keep Adams as manager .

That's not a question. If you wanted to make that point, you could have said:

"Can you please keep Adams as manager?"
"Would it be possible to keep Micky as manager?"

etc.

*is getting sleepy, so should really stop frivolous responses*

 

[1066familyman]

It's nothing to do with ego, he's hired him and should stick with him. People are so quick to sack their managers, Chelsea, Portsmouth. They hire them with the view they are the right man for the job and they should stick to it, allowing their managers at least a season to try and turn it around.

Well said. There's too much of a quick fix mentality in football. Changing manager at this stage of the season won't be of any use.

MA has his own players in now and let's atleast give it more than two games to see where we go from here. I hate to sound like Harty, but I still don't think we'll go down. Had we sold Murray and not got some decent players in in Jan though then I would be seriously worried.

 

[Russell Slade's hat]

He won't go this season, i've always all the time we stand a chance of walking out of wembley Adams will not go

 

[1234andcounting]

No, Wilkins had nearly 2 seasons compared to Adams' 6 months. Over the 2 years Wilkins was manager I did not rate him that highly. But he was given a lenghty amount of time to prove what type of manager he was and, in my opinion, not a great one and not the right man for the job. Why shouldn't Adams be given the same amount of time? If, after a season at least, things don't improve then there is no choice, but until then I think we should stick with the man deemed good enough for the job at the beginning of the season (just like Tony Adams and Scholari).

Wilkins had two seasons, over which time we made consistent progress. Thank you for sharing your opinion of Wilkins with us, but it does, let's be honest, fly in the face of the facts. Wilkins was making progress, irrefutably demonstrated by the League table which, after all, is the only thing that matters. From an aesthetic point of view, his teams at times played some nice football.

Adams has taken the club backwards. Even during the course of the season, things have got worse. Two (yes, two) wins in the past fourteen league games. And, even at its best (leaving aside the ninety minutes against Millwall), it has not been pretty. It is sad, but Micky is trading on past glories. There is no room for sentimentality in any walk of life these days, but even less in professional football.

 

[R. Slicker]

No, Wilkins had nearly 2 seasons compared to Adams' 6 months. Over the 2 years Wilkins was manager I did not rate him that highly. But he was given a lenghty amount of time to prove what type of manager he was and, in my opinion, not a great one and not the right man for the job. Why shouldn't Adams be given the same amount of time? If, after a season at least, things don't improve then there is no choice, but until then I think we should stick with the man deemed good enough for the job at the beginning of the season (just like Tony Adams and Scholari).

Sorry but your arguments do not seem to be based on facts, but on some sort of strange bias against Wilkins. Most of the posters expressing that Adams should go, actually like the bloke but can plainly see he is struggling, as the standard of football & league position show.

 

[itszamora]

It's nothing to do with ego, he's hired him and should stick with him. People are so quick to sack their managers, Chelsea, Portsmouth. They hire them with the view they are the right man for the job and they should stick to it, allowing their managers at least a season to try and turn it around.

The thing is things didn't need turning around until Adams f***ed them up in the first place.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Sorry but your arguments do not seem to be based on facts, but on some sort of strange bias against Wilkins. Most of the posters expressing that Adams should go, actually like the bloke but can plainly see he is struggling, as the standard of football & league position show.

To be fair to EFE she has only given her opinion on wilkins, which seemed to be quite a common onewhen Wilkins was in charge . Wilkins has become a martyr, and people seem to have forgotton the amount of stick he was getting every week, probably from some of the same people who give Adams stick.
I rated him and thought we played some very nice looking, passing football, but there always seemed to be somthing missing to make us into promotion contenders. People go on about finishing 7th, but we only just managed to scrape that with a good run at the end of the season.

 

[S'hampton Seagull]

Well said. There's too much of a quick fix mentality in football. Changing manager at this stage of the season won't be of any use.

MA has his own players in now and let's atleast give it more than two games to see where we go from here. I hate to sound like Harty, but I still don't think we'll go down. Had we sold Murray and not got some decent players in in Jan though then I would be seriously worried.

This is the kind of response I was referring to. I'm not sure why you think things are going to ge better, there isn't really any evidence to suggest this.