I can see what your saying about team spirit but as is mentioned on the post above - the club despite being in the lowest division were on a high, what with "coming home" and all, and this IMO was the reason there was such a harmony within the team/fans and not Micky Adams doing.
What about them? McGhee could have bought them in as well, but had he have done everyone on here would be slatting him because these exact players you mention wouldn't have made the slightest bit of difference to our final league position last season. Adams had a bit of cash to get freebies in...
Mickey Adams is nowhere near a Brighton Legend. I rate him more for what he has done for the club since he left , i.e. attendance on marches etc., than for things he did while manager. Ordinary manager that got lucky with the Zammo signing IMO.