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Wilkins leaves
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This is the second time now DK has made me feel ashamed of my club due to the treatment of a manager, both of whom, I feel will always be legends for this club.
Steve Gritt was the first and his treatment I always thought was disgraceful and now Dean Wilkins. I am also of the view, that this puts both MA and DK under enormous pressure for success next season.
Steve Gritt was the first and his treatment I always thought was disgraceful and now Dean Wilkins. I am also of the view, that this puts both MA and DK under enormous pressure for success next season.
cjd
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I would suggest that this message-board is pre-dominantly pro DK, and as a result, he is continually applauded for his good decisions etc etc. However, if he makes questionable decisions regarding the treatment of a long-standing and "successful" servant of the club I think he equally deserves all the flack going................IMHO.
The Large One
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Juan Albion
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DK comes out of this with great credit as far as I am concerned. It boggles my mind to read people who seem to think that DK just did this for no particular reason. He saw things in the way the club was being managed that he felt weren't in the best interests of the club. He then acted in the best interests of the club.
However, he has not gone public with any of the details of WHY he felt he had to make the move. He has taken all the flak from naive people who love to criticise him, when I'm sure if he wasn't so principled he could have easily leaked his reasons. But out of courtesy to Deano he has kept silent and for that he deserves absolute respect, not some of the mindless drivel that the likes of bhadeb have spewed.
However, he has not gone public with any of the details of WHY he felt he had to make the move. He has taken all the flak from naive people who love to criticise him, when I'm sure if he wasn't so principled he could have easily leaked his reasons. But out of courtesy to Deano he has kept silent and for that he deserves absolute respect, not some of the mindless drivel that the likes of bhadeb have spewed.
andybaha
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Only time will tell on this one. If we get a sniff of automatic promotion and end up in the play offs, most fans will have forgotten all about Deano and Adams and DK will be heroes.
If come Christmas we are lurking in or around a relegation place there will be massive pressure on Adams, and DK to respond. Don't forget Adams' first season was pretty indifferent until that decent run at the end. I don't think he has a season to play with this time, he will be expected to make the play offs.
As far as DW goes, yes he is a good coach and can obviously run an acadamy but I will be surprised if he gets a managers job at a comparable level.
If come Christmas we are lurking in or around a relegation place there will be massive pressure on Adams, and DK to respond. Don't forget Adams' first season was pretty indifferent until that decent run at the end. I don't think he has a season to play with this time, he will be expected to make the play offs.
As far as DW goes, yes he is a good coach and can obviously run an acadamy but I will be surprised if he gets a managers job at a comparable level.
was just gonna post summink like that myself. when he was made manager i thought...OH NO..........hes the sort of bloke i want associated with this club for life.
he may have been lacking ( allegedly) in man management skills. but he done wonders for our yoof. in short.....bloody good coach, lacking in managerial skills?
Southover Street Seagull
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It's a shame Wilkins wasn't offered the role of assistant manager, perhaps then he would have stayed.
Time will tell if this has been a good decision, the club now needs to get a good first team and youth team coach to help move us forward.
Good luck Dean and good luck with whatever you decide to do in the future.
Time will tell if this has been a good decision, the club now needs to get a good first team and youth team coach to help move us forward.
Good luck Dean and good luck with whatever you decide to do in the future.
So it was a rumour after all?
Southover Street Seagull
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Yes.You made an assumption on Wilkins health which turns out purely as a rumour.I saw what you posted with reference to the word rumour but what your forgetting is,this is a forum,any speculation,gossip etc can be classed as a rumour untill concrete evidence or proven otherwise.You even said it yourself that you and your mate discuss this issue and came up with this wonderfull solution to why Wilkins hasn't made up his mind about his future.As it turns out there was no truth to your theory.We can now officially put this to bed once and for all and that it was a rumour and nothing else.f*** i sound like a geek
Southover Street Seagull
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Yes there was no truth to my theory, we obviously have a different idea about rumours and discussing theories on NSC. I still call it a theory, you call it a rumour. Does this mean that any idea or theory that is discussed on NSC instantly becomes a rumour until it is proven?
But as you say let's put it to bed and say good luck to Wilkins!
Deportivo Seagull
I should coco
It still surprises me that people on here think this decision was purely down to DK, let's face it he didn't want to get rid of McGhee but was effectly forced by the board to do so. It wouldn't surprise me that this was something similar .......
Nemesis
SERIOUSLY!
Look-you don't understand do you? bhadeb knows the truth about everything and she says it was all down to that nasty Dick Knight who isn't to be trusted (her libellous words-not mine). She knows exactly what happened apparently.
SO-if you want to know what really happened you only have to read the drivel she spouts and it'll be as clear as mud. But it will be 'the truth' although we are still waiting for her to tell us just what this truth is. She chooses to ignore any request for 'the truth' to be revealed.
Maybe now Wilkins has gone she'll go with him-we live in hope.
Behind Enemy Lines
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This news was sadly inevitable, confirmation of what we've all suspected for weeks now. And who can blame him?
In the long run, the real loss may be to the youth set up. Under Wilkins, we had the best youth policy the club has ever had. Effectively replacing him is going to be very difficult and I'm not convinced we've done that although it is early days. Pre-season starts in under two weeks. Knight and Adams must have some names in mind for the vacant coaching position. Let's hope when the appointments are made, they are people with intelligent, with modern, progressive ideas about football.
Good luck to Dean Wilkins.
In the long run, the real loss may be to the youth set up. Under Wilkins, we had the best youth policy the club has ever had. Effectively replacing him is going to be very difficult and I'm not convinced we've done that although it is early days. Pre-season starts in under two weeks. Knight and Adams must have some names in mind for the vacant coaching position. Let's hope when the appointments are made, they are people with intelligent, with modern, progressive ideas about football.
Good luck to Dean Wilkins.
Uncle Spielberg
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Starting at Brighton and helping us stay in the league - RESPECT
Bringing us back from Gillingham to a home in Brighton - RESPECT
Getting us a great manager in Micky Adams - RESPECT
League title - RESPECT
Getting us a great manager in Taylor - RESPECT
League title - RESPECT
Getting us a great manager in Coppell - RESPECT
Championship football - RESPECT
Getting us a great manager in McGhee - RESPECT
Promotion and the Millenium day - RESPECT
Championship football - RESPECT
Working tireless for 10 years to deliver us the Falmer verdict - RESPECT
Ploughing millions of pounds of his own money - RESPECT
Having the brave decision to bring us back a grat manager Adams -RESPECT
Finding the money for Zamora - RESPECT
Finding the money for Murray - RESPECT
Keeping the administrators away despite losing £ 3 000 000 a year - RESPECT
Standing up to greedy players and their agents RESPECT
And most of all for sticking with Brighton for 10 years and getting Falmer funded and built - RESPECT
Knotty
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I am not sure that Steve Gritt would have gone on to achieve what we have in the last ten years, but we'll never know. He certainly didn't go on to great things after us, did he?
I don't see what pressure DK and MA will be under next season, other than the normal expectations of fans to get promotion. We'll never know what DW would have done - might have been better, might have been worse, so it would simply be hypothetical to say that MA will be a failure if we do not get promoted.
I am very sad at Dean's departure, but play-offs or promotion were not guaranteed next season just because we finished 7th last season. Football simply doesn't work like that. I also believe that the board would not have made such a decision without what they considered to be good reasons.
They have not told us what those reasons were (nor are they obliged to) so I can only assume that they made the decision in the best interests of the club.
Why would they do it for fun?
How can you be ashamed of a decision when you don't know the reasons for it?
Barrel of Fun
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That6 is all very well and good Uncle, but Dick Knight personally ensured that George O'Callaghan did not get another club. 
Uncle Spielberg
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Respect