m20gull
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the thread should stop here really.
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why was wilkins sacked
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the thread should stop here really.
Steve Foster
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I have always thought it was because the crowds were falling away. Whilst we ground out results the performances were not great. Knight brought in the 'saviour' Adams to put an extra 1000 bums on seats. This of course worked for a very short while, until results turned south.
If the club would have put more funds into the club during Wilkins tenure, then they wouldn't have had to sack him. By bringing in Adams it entailed the Board not having to find further funds at that time
If the club would have put more funds into the club during Wilkins tenure, then they wouldn't have had to sack him. By bringing in Adams it entailed the Board not having to find further funds at that time
Mrs Coach
aka Jesus H. Woman
Simply because Adams said he wanted a job and the Chairman did a little wee with excitement. There you go.
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Because certain senior players confided in the Chairman that he (Wilkins) had appalling and completely unprofessional man management skills and because at the time (like now in fact) MA was kicking heels and was seen by DK as the golden goose............sadly now overcooked!!
m20gull
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See. Lots of people have an opinion but only a small group of people can know all of the facts and they certainly do not post on here.
dougdeep
New member
Of course you do my dear.
sir albion
New member
The truth will crop up one day
Guy Fawkes
The voice of treason
- Sep 29, 2007
- 8,297
Does it really concern the fans - no, both parties decided not to make it public so you should respect their wishes
will it make any difference to you if you found out why? - not really, knowing the reason will not change anything that has happened their will it.
It's about time people moved on and stop going on about this
- Aug 8, 2005
- 27,231
Correct answer
Don Tmatter
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Hart, Mayo & Chairman's friend(Reid) or Forster & Butters?
I'd know whose opinion i'd go by.
jessiejames
Never late in a V8
be cause knight felt sorry for adams, as he did not have a job and with the credit crunch about to kick in wanted to help his good mate out,no other reason truth
Dandyman
In London village.
I'd love to know who those "senior players" were. Wilkins took us to 7th place before getting shafted - not much evidence of poor management IMO.
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
Why do people have such blinkered views of the Wilkins reign. He got us to 7th but it was obvious towards the end that he was never going to take us any further as manager. DK made the right decision to get rid of DW and only made the wrong decision to bring back MA because he didn't have the benefit of hindsight.
I think he tried to do the right thing but it just didn't work out
I think he tried to do the right thing but it just didn't work out
judewri
Member
never going to take us any further
? sorry couldn't disagree with you more.... wilkins was just the man to take us on......................
? sorry couldn't disagree with you more.... wilkins was just the man to take us on......................
never going to take us any further
No, sorry. We'll never know of course what would have happened if he hadn't gone but last season was one of the dullest on record. 7th flattered us, Wilkins had lost the dressing room and the Chairman, he was clearly under immense personal strain towards the end of the season and the division was of a poorer overall standard. We were skirting with relegation at one point and just at the right time we bought well and hit form.
This doesn't excuse the disaster that has been this season of course but I firmly believe if Wilkins had still been at the helm we'd have been exactly in the same situation. Whilst not defending any of the managerial, boardroom and playing ineptitude we have seen this season I have never known an injury crisis like the one we've had this season. We would NEVER have gone down with a fit Murray and Forster or even if we'd been able to play the same team for a few games in a row.
Albion Dan
Banned
What complete bollocks. We are going down because Micky Adams was a complete and utter f***ing disaster and bought in loanee after loanee and disrupted half the team that had done so well last season.
Wilkins, who wasnt even give a quarter of the resources Adams was would have had us midtable minimum and to be honest Id rather have dull football than play in that AWFUL division we are headed toward. Lost the dressing room or lost the dead wood that had been hanging around for far too long but Knight kept season after season?
Dick Knight has f***ed us all over for his ego good and proper.
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Don Quixote
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- Nov 4, 2008
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Do share please.
Skaville
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What a load of utter shite. Have you been on the crack all weekend?
Agree that Adams has been a disaster and if you read my post you'll see that I don't excuse the managerial or boardroom ineptitude but PART of the reason why we had so many loanees was the crippling injury crisis, hell even our loanees got injured and even the players we loaned OUT got injured!!! Of course I'd rather have dull football than going down but, and be honest now, if we'd have been mid-table at Christmas under Wilkins playing dull football would you have called for his head? I suspect so and knowing NSC, it would have been going crazy.
Knight (and let's face it the unanimous Board) made a mistake, pure and simple. Nothing to do with ego. He did what he thought was best, it backfired (terribly). I think he's earned the right to make a few mistakes. No one, absolutely no one could have foreseen how this season would pan out. With hindsight he would probably do it very differently but I still think he would sack Wilkins or ideally move him sideways back to the coaching role he was most suited to.