Langley
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Saints new manager has brought in 3 Spanish backroom staff to replace the 3 above. Be interesting to see what happens to them.
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Dean Wilkins Andy Crosby & Jim Stannard outed by Southampton
- Thread starter Langley
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Tricky Dicky
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They were gone last Friday the same time as Adkins.
GingerBeerMan
3-0
- Dec 29, 2011
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Always rated Wilkins, did a good job at S'ton and was sad to see him leave Brighton.
brightn'ove
cringe
Can't believe southampton would reveal such personal info about them. Im sure whoever they told, it was probably in confidence!
downham seagull
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The More I think it must be the 2 did not get on! Happens in life,
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,289
not the best turn of phrase in the title was it?mind you anythings possible at Southampton having sacked Atkins in the first place.
maltaseagull
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Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
We have an Academy to get up and running. Bring him back.
seagullsovergrimsby
#cpfctinpotclub
Deano to become an Albion scout ?
Pevenseagull
Anti-greed coalition
- Jul 20, 2003
- 19,609
Wilkins IN
Boris Yeltsin
MR PRESIDENT to you, mate
After the way he was treated by us?
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
- 23,033
Blue and white olive branch. Get him back here.
Philzo-93
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I really feel sorry for him. Saw a sports journalist tweet about the sacking saying how he feels sorry for Wilkins and that how excited they were for the season ahead post-Chelski.
Our Academy NEEDS Dean Wilkins.
Our Academy NEEDS Dean Wilkins.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
After the way he was treated by DK? Although I imagine TB may have had some input?
Outed?
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Martin Perry was the only one to vote FOR Wilkins when the rest of the board wanted him sacked. He was offered his old job as youth coach but turned it down.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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Fair enough, can't imagine he'd want to come back then. Shame, shoddy treatment, even if he struggled to cope with senior players, and replaced by a man who completely lost the plot over the next few months.
- Jul 7, 2003
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Am I the only one who wouldn't want Wilkins back? I can't help feeling some people are in danger of overstating his role a little.
Yes, Wendy picked a few youngsters for the first team, but much of that would have been out of necessity, and none of them have exactly gone on to set the world on fire. El Abd, Hammond and Harding are probably the best of the bunch: Hammond has done OK as an average level Championship midfielder, Harding is embarrassing at this level, while El Abd only started to develop as a defender long after Wilkins was gone.
And not one of those players- let alone the likes of Virgo, Robinson and Cox- would have had a sniff of a professional contract at clubs with genuinely successful youth policies like Crewe, Southampton, West Ham or- dare I say it- the tools up the road. Wilkins did OK, but I refuse to accept that he's some kind of guru when it comes to developing young players.
Yes, Wendy picked a few youngsters for the first team, but much of that would have been out of necessity, and none of them have exactly gone on to set the world on fire. El Abd, Hammond and Harding are probably the best of the bunch: Hammond has done OK as an average level Championship midfielder, Harding is embarrassing at this level, while El Abd only started to develop as a defender long after Wilkins was gone.
And not one of those players- let alone the likes of Virgo, Robinson and Cox- would have had a sniff of a professional contract at clubs with genuinely successful youth policies like Crewe, Southampton, West Ham or- dare I say it- the tools up the road. Wilkins did OK, but I refuse to accept that he's some kind of guru when it comes to developing young players.
That sounds a good idea.