Mickey Adams

[Icy Gull]

More sophistry soaked in vinegar.
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Not at all, if MA had done the same as the Yeovil boss who turned down the Coventry job because he wants to finish what he's started at Yeovil, he'd probably be manager of a decent Premiership club and not another struggling team in the relegation zone, which is where he always ends up That is , of course assuming he had been good enough to do as well as the much maligned PT did.

 

[Binney on acid]

How fickle? Micky is a complete & utter god. We all have so much to thank him for.

 

[London Irish]

Not at all, if MA had done the same as the Yeovil boss who turned down the Coventry job because he wants to finish what he's started at Yeovil, he'd probably be manager of a decent Premiership club and not another struggling team in the relegation zone, which is where he always ends up That is , of course assuming he had been good enough to do as well as the much maligned PT did.

I agree the Yeovil guy should be applauded, but I wouldn't use that as a reason to knock Mickey Adams or any other manager (or player) who does a good job for us and then leaves to better himself.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Maybe the fact that Taylor was unemployed for over 6 months after leaving us before being snapped up by, er , Hull City, is a far more realistic assesment of the man's abilities.

Is that the er Hull City who he took up & has now taken to 2nd in Div 1 (after recently winning 9 games on the trot)??

Taylor was a cracking manager who, as Simster said, did the job he promised & left us 6 months to find a manager

 

[London Irish]

LI - did you never get the feeling that MA thought he was better than the Club ? I liked the bloke, and thought him a great manager, but he always had his eye on the exit door.

And he was a great manager for us - to qualify that - he was a great man-manager. I don't think he was all that tactically - but he mainly bought proven winners - and created the team spirit that every manager since has remarked upon.

I think Adams has his faults, I don't deny that, but I was merely defending him against the unfair allegations that he looked down on, or disrespected, the Albion in either his opinions or his behaviour.

I can't make up my mind whether he's a Premiership quality manager, the evidence is still conflicting.

His only minor fault with us I thought was that he was sometimes was a little thin-skinned with criticism, and perhaps he went down some unwise roads sometimes of pointless arguments with the South Stand boo-boy element and with the likes of Naylor too.

 

[Hunting 784561]

Is that the er Hull City who he took up & has now taken to 2nd in Div 1 (after recently winning 9 games on the trot)??

Taylor was a cracking manager who, as Simster said, did the job he promised & left us 6 months to find a manager

Yeah I guess going from England manager to Hull City via our very own Brighton & Hove Albion is the mark of a real WINNER.

 

[crasher]

Originally posted by Albion Rob [/i

So, he goes to Leicester, becomes manager the next season of a club on a high with a new ground and a board desperate to bring Premiership football to their shiny new arena. They give him an open cheque book, he signs all manner of top flight players (Ian Walker, Frank Sinclair, to name a couple) and then gets them promoted.



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Don't think that's right, Sinclair was at Leicester long before Adams got there.

I think he's a very good manager - how else would you get three promotions with three different clubs?

 

[Blackadder]

How come MA has gone from Hero to Zero all of a sudden

IMHO is still one of the best managers we have ever had!

 

[e77]

You can't fault the job he did and he was definately the man for the moment but we will never know how he would have got on with us in Division One/Championship (assuming we ever got there).

Having listened to Mark McGhee at the fan's forum a while back it is plain the two have very different techniques and I think MA came a bit unstuck when he had players he couldn't entirely trust and were in the national spotlight.

 

[Commander]

Mickey Adams. Very good motivator, lots of passion. Not great tactically but the man for the job if you want promotion from league 2. But he was brilliant for us and is a legend in my book.

 

[sydney]

good motivator,rumoured to be an excellent harbourer of grudges and not quite prem. quality at this stage , i would think he,ll keep cov. up and although he definitely did the hard yards with us ,it is difficult to show full managerial potential when your cheque book is empty..

 

[Simster]

How come MA has gone from Hero to Zero all of a sudden

IMHO is still one of the best managers we have ever had!

I don't think he has. There are very few people on here who dislike the man.

 

[ditchy]

MA is a good manager .. He's forte is to build a team for a season with loans etc ,get that team to do a job ,then rebuild it for the next season.. he did that with us and to a certain extent at Leicester. He also oversaw the transition to a new stadium etc ,which i believe will happen at Coventry.. He,s main task will be to keep ccfc in the championship and then see the influx of free,s and loans next summer and see them make a serious challenge for promotion.
watch and see

 

[CoventrySeagull]

good motivator,rumoured to be an excellent harbourer of grudges and not quite prem. quality at this stage , i would think he,ll keep cov. up and although he definitely did the hard yards with us ,it is difficult to show full managerial potential when your cheque book is empty..

I agree with Sydney's initial comment, in that he knows how to motivate a team in playing well after being in the doldrums. However, I don't believe he will be able to achieve it this time at Coventry, as they still have too many players who still believe they should be playing in the Premiership instead of knuckling down and fighting/working very hard to keep Coventry up.

There biggest millstone is clearly lack of funds, and what with the wage bill, they are going to struggle to bring in any quality players to help them stay up. There only hope is loan signings - ie. players who are not currently playing 1st team football and are keen to get stuck in.

If I'm proved wrong, fair play to MA. Hopefully not at the expense of ourselves. I'm hoping we will finish above Cov. and outside bottom three, otherwise I'm going to get quite a bit of stick from mates at work etc. If Coventry go down, I'll be laughing at their fans, but commiserations to MA. He's a Brighton legend, we wouldn't be where we are now, without what he achieved in the short time he was with us.

 

[Albion Rob]

Why did he bother to come to all the way down to march on Brighton seafront for a "two-bit" club? Not surprised you got flamed.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/the_argus...erence_falmer/labour_conference_falmer-4.html

He gave up an afternoon of his life for something that he was involved in at the start - the guy clearly has football in his heart and doesn't want to see the club go bust. That doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't think we are not 'two-bit'.

Let's be honest, Brighton and Sussex are not exactly hotbeds of football and I would imagine this is quite frustrating to a guy like Mickey.

Notwithstanding the Falmer issue, Mickey was known to have a problem with the training facilities here.

I wasn't surprised I got flamed either, but what I reported was virtually from the horse's mouth and if people don't like that then there isn't very much I can do about it.