Adams for Sheffield United

[Langley]

I remember going to a game at Coventry when Micky was manager there, I think we lost 3-1. Brighton fans were singing " theres only one Micky Adams", my how times have changed. He will always rate high in my opinion. I know his 2nd term with us did not work out, but you cannot take away what he did and acheived at this club.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I'm really surprised that he appears to be in with a real shout of getting the Blades job.

Is he in with a real shout?

O'Driscoll is the clear favourite for the job.

Adams...

Sheffield lad (tick)
Doing well this season (tick)
Likely to jump ship (tick)

That doesn't mean to say that the board are considering him as a serious candidate.

 

[Deano's Invisible Pants]

He was lucky with Zamora first time round. IMO, he's never been a good manager. I was so f***ed off when he came back. Hope that clears up any confusion; we don't all love him as a manager.

Lucky with Zamora? And with Simon Morgan? Paul Rogers? Oatway & Carpenter? Kuipers? Paul Brooker?

Honestly, words fail me. Adams inherited a shit side first time around and left us at the top end of the next division. He also spotted a better striker than any subsequent manager has managed to do.

His success at Port Vale is no surprise at all - his record shows that he's a great lower league manager. That's not to say that Sheffield United should go for him.

 

[firemandan]

imo he would be quite suited to that job.... they are not a free flowing total footballing side are they? kind of his style i reckon.

 

[Caveman]

I remember going to a game at Coventry when Micky was manager there, I think we lost 3-1. Brighton fans were singing " theres only one Micky Adams", my how times have changed. He will always rate high in my opinion. I know his 2nd term with us did not work out, but you cannot take away what he did and acheived at this club.

Totally agree, he put us back on the map. Some people have small memories, yes yes he f*cked up 2nd time, but it is his first spell that got us well under way for those few decent years whilst at Withdean.

 

[Binney on acid]

Give the guy a break. I know that his 2nd reign was disasterous, but there were plenty of mitigating circumstances. The 1st time around is up there with our best footballing moments, culminating with the home Victory over Chesterfield.

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

Lucky with Zamora? And with Simon Morgan? Paul Rogers? Oatway & Carpenter? Kuipers? Paul Brooker?

Honestly, words fail me. Adams inherited a shit side first time around and left us at the top end of the next division. He also spotted a better striker than any subsequent manager has managed to do.

His success at Port Vale is no surprise at all - his record shows that he's a great lower league manager. That's not to say that Sheffield United should go for him.

He clearly did a superb job first time round, and I will always remember him fondly for what he did. Some of the players were excellent and probably over achieved thanks to a fantastic team spirt that Adams installed.

Oatway, Danny C, Kuipers, Jones, Watto, Morgan, Dodge, Freeman, Brooker etc - mostly names from his Fulham days. What a fantastic couple of years we had. But could we actually have got any worse than we were when he took over?

As for Bobby - who actually spotted him playing for Bristol Rovers? - I was told it wasn't Adams.

 

[Stat Man]

I'm sure we only signed Zamora after Brentford stole Lorenzo off us, so in that respect we were very lucky. And didn't Adams get Leicester back in the prem at the 1st attempt? Not too bad for a league two manager.

 

[zoogull]

He should stick it out with Port Vale to re-build his credentials a little first. Agreed, he did a great job with us first time round, but he did leave at the first opportunity of something better. That isn't something he wants to repeat.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Is he in with a real shout?

O'Driscoll is the clear favourite for the job.

Adams...

Sheffield lad (tick)
Doing well this season (tick)
Likely to jump ship (tick)

That doesn't mean to say that the board are considering him as a serious candidate.

He's currently 2nd favourite at 5-2. At those sort of prices the bookies clearly think he's a serious candidate.

 

[hola gus]

He was lucky with Zamora first time round. IMO, he's never been a good manager. I was so f***ed off when he came back. Hope that clears up any confusion; we don't all love him as a manager.

How was that lucky? He signed the player on loan, he liked what he saw, and signed him permently and sold him for a large profit. Sounds like good management to me.

Really dont understand these Adams haters.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

He's a lower league manager and nothing more, he succeeded with us because he raided previous clubs for players, which is fine when you're one of the worse teams in the league but is a non starter when you are in the championship! Tommy Fraser anyone!
I hope he doesn't go because I don't want to see him screw up which he will. When he was at Coventry the quality of football was appalling, as it was the second time around for us. This isn't meant to be critical of MA but his results speak for themselves when he's managed at a higher level.Btw, Leicetser fan at work didn't rate MA at all..... Tactically shite!!!!

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Give the guy a break. I know that his 2nd reign was disasterous, but there were plenty of mitigating circumstances. The 1st time around is up there with our best footballing moments, culminating with the home Victory over Chesterfield.

Mitigating circumstances? Do me a favour.

What 'circumstances' influenced his decision to play Virgo right wing, or to refuse to make any changes even if we were 2-0 down at home with 10 minutes left?

The only 'circumstance' that affected his second time here, was the fact that the standard of League One had changed completely since his first spell, and his tactics and coaching (and baffling selections) fell short.

None of this afect my fond memories of his first spell, or means that I begrudge the guy future success, but please don't pretend that he wasn't entirely responsible for those awful months we all had to endure.

 

[perth seagull]

Can all those abusing Micky just go and do one?
Yes he cocked up second time around but is it necessary to be a sheep and keep having a dig? FFS remember him for the first time around...

He was equally as arrogant expecting to be offered the Southampton job when he was with us.

 

[Simster]

Lucky with Zamora? And with Simon Morgan? Paul Rogers? Oatway & Carpenter? Kuipers? Paul Brooker? Honestly, words fail me. Adams inherited a shit side first time around and left us at the top end of the next division. He also spotted a better striker than any subsequent manager has managed to do.

His success at Port Vale is no surprise at all - his record shows that he's a great lower league manager. That's not to say that Sheffield United should go for him.

He certainly brought in some quality players in his second season here, but you have to admit he got lucky with Zamora, and in so many ways. Leaving aside the fact that we only took him on loan because Lorenzo Pinnamonte ended up following Noades money to Brentford and was little more than a jobbing division 4 player anyway, we were also very lucky that Zamora had been ignored by his parent club simply because they had Ellington and Roberts leading the line in a promotion charge of their own. Since then Bristol Rovers have had one decent striker in 15 years (Lambert) who isn't a patch on either of those two at their peak, so under normal circumstances a player of Zamora's calibre would never have been left languishing in their stiffs, desperate to be rescued!

I have very mixed feelings about Adams. He had built an absolute class side once Zamora, Morgan, Cullip, Chippy, Rogers had all bedded in. But we forget that it took him far longer than everyone expected. He took on a side he was allowed to rebuild from scratch (which is expensive) and made a f***ing pigs ear of it in that first season. We were 20th in division 4 by the time Rochdale beat us 4-3 in the last home game before Christmas.

Oh, and I'm sorry that some people on here doing like hearing it, but Arthur is spot on in some ways - Adams was not a particularly nice bloke to be honest while he was here. He was arrogant, completely paranoid, and liked to fluff his own feathers when he had an audience. And the way he threw a public strop at being overlooked for the Premiership Southampton ( ) job was a disgrace. At that time, all he'd had was one mediocre/average season here and one really good one in the basement division.

 

[BLOCK F]

Mitigating circumstances? Do me a favour.

What 'circumstances' influenced his decision to play Virgo right wing, or to refuse to make any changes even if we were 2-0 down at home with 10 minutes left?

The only 'circumstance' that affected his second time here, was the fact that the standard of League One had changed completely since his first spell, and his tactics and coaching (and baffling selections) fell short.

None of this afect my fond memories of his first spell, or means that I begrudge the guy future success, but please don't pretend that he wasn't entirely responsible for those awful months we all had to endure.

Spot on!

 

[stss30]

Mitigating circumstances? Do me a favour.

What 'circumstances' influenced his decision to play Virgo right wing, or to refuse to make any changes even if we were 2-0 down at home with 10 minutes left?

The only 'circumstance' that affected his second time here, was the fact that the standard of League One had changed completely since his first spell, and his tactics and coaching (and baffling selections) fell short.

None of this afect my fond memories of his first spell, or means that I begrudge the guy future success, but please don't pretend that he wasn't entirely responsible for those awful months we all had to endure.

This. He did well the first time, but you can't defend him just because of that. He almost f***ed us right over, but Slade saved his blushes

 

[Mellotron]

Mitigating circumstances? Do me a favour.

What 'circumstances' influenced his decision to play Virgo right wing, or to refuse to make any changes even if we were 2-0 down at home with 10 minutes left?

The only 'circumstance' that affected his second time here, was the fact that the standard of League One had changed completely since his first spell, and his tactics and coaching (and baffling selections) fell short.

None of this afect my fond memories of his first spell, or means that I begrudge the guy future success, but please don't pretend that he wasn't entirely responsible for those awful months we all had to endure.

Glad someone said it.

 

[Arthur]

You sound like the sort of top 4 Premier League fan who whines because you've lost two games in a row

Why? Because I think Adams is a ****?

Adams was never liked by allot of fans at the Albion. You very rarely heard his name sung and when it was a vast majority of people wouldn't join in.

Adams got MASSIVELY lucky first time round with us. He inherited and improved a side at Fulham that was good enough to get out of the bottom division. Al Fayed then came in and wanted Fulham to go places so he got rid of the 4th division rubbish including Adams. I think it was at this point Adams grew that massive chip he has on his shoulder because he wasn't given the chance. That chip saw him got sacked from 3 jobs because he was/is an arrogant shit. When he came to us he picked up the rubbish that Fayed threw out because he knew it was good enough to get out the bottom division added Zamora and bang that side were suddenly good enough to get out of the 3rd division. But his ego got the better of him before that and after a hissy fit about not even getting considered for the Southampton job (probably because anyone with an ounce of sense and knew anything about football knew Adams wasn't a very good manager) he f***ed off to become a number 2. When Bassett f***ed off and he got his chance at a big club with big ambitions he was f***ed because all he knew was the side he had at Fulham and Brighton, the same side that had massively over-achieved and plain and simply weren't good enough to play in the second division. Adams soon got found out at Leicester and then once again at Coventry and I think then he realised what most people knew, that he wasn't actually that good which is when we stupidly gave him another chance. The bloke wasn't the same arrogant tosser that left, he was a broken man! Now he's had a little bit of success again (once again using his cast offs) he is starting to give it berty big bollocks again.

He was and always will be a massive wanker who had f*** all time for the fans or his players and was never prepared to except any responsibility for the actions of his team, it was always someone else fault.

Quite frankly f*** him, I hope he fails where ever he is.

 

[Simon Morgan]

I am utterly gobsmacked by all this Adams bashing. Second time round, fair enough - a complete failure and embarrassment. First time round - put our club on the map. Put together a double Championship winning team by himself. I don't give a flying f*** if he was lucky in getting the players he did or if he was arrogant - we were winning and playing bloody well. I also tend to think that the arrogance of Adams in his first spell with us was what made him such an effective manager for us. And for those saying he never had any time for the fans - what about when he turned up at the Falmer march whilst manager of Leicester (recently beaten by our boys)? I cannot believe that anyone can have anything but complete admiration for what Micky Adams did for our football club during his first spell here.