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TheReadingFan

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Mar 20, 2013
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Afternoon all,

I tend to visit the site when we (Reading) are involved, just to have a look at the opinions that are flying round amongst yourselves. However, it seems that Nigel Adkins doesn't seem to be quite popular among the Brighton faithful. I was just wondering why some of you are not so keen on him and whether an incident sparked this view?
 






Man of Harveys

Man of Harveys

Well-known member
Jul 9, 2003
18,734
Brighton, UK
Yes, that's entirely true. It's because he's a pr1ck.
 


Rookie

Rookie

Greetings
Feb 8, 2005
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hans kraay fan club

hans kraay fan club

The voice of reason.
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Mar 16, 2005
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TheReadingFan said:
Afternoon all,

I tend to visit the site when we (Reading) are involved, just to have a look at the opinions that are flying round amongst yourselves. However, it seems that Nigel Adkins doesn't seem to be quite popular among the Brighton faithful. I was just wondering why some of you are not so keen on him and whether an incident sparked this view?
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Its because he talks like David Brent, has a face nobody could ever tire of smacking, and specifically, because he showed a huge lack of class, in refusing to allow his Southampton team to give us a guard of honour when we played them in League One, 2 weeks after we'd beaten them to the title.
 




upthealbion1970

upthealbion1970

bring on the trumpets....
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Jan 22, 2009
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hans kraay fan club said:
Its because he talks like David Brent, has a face nobody could ever tire of smacking, and specifically, because he showed a huge lack of class, in refusing to allow his Southampton team to give us a guard of honour when we played them in League One, 2 weeks after we'd beaten them to the title.
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And I believe we kept up that season too
 


hans kraay fan club

hans kraay fan club

The voice of reason.
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Mar 16, 2005
61,256
Chandlers Ford
In fact, his lack of class, when his TRUE CHAMPIONS were beaten to the title, by undeserving Brighton, was VERY, VERY similar to Pardew's when the same thing happened between us and Reading a few years earlier.
 






Sergei's Celebration

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I've come back home.


l1final-2.jpg
 


Mackenzie

Mackenzie

Old Brightonian
Nov 7, 2003
33,532
East Wales
Does he manage Reading now? I wonder where he had disappeared to.
 


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ElectricNaz

Well-known member
Jan 23, 2013
838
Hampshire
His soundbites are terrible.

When Saints were bottom of the Prem after two or three games this season, I remember him saying after one of the games "That must make us the strongest team in the Premier League, because we're holding everyone up"

So cringeworthy!
 




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Mo Gosfield

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Aug 11, 2010
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Oh that orange face. Those soundbites. That unbounded and quite nauseating optimism. A slick salesman who can't believe his luck in life.
 




seagullsovergrimsby

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Aug 21, 2005
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Crap Town
Nadkins banged on about his precious Southampton being the best team in League 1 and how we would struggle to keep up with them although at the time we were storming the league at the top of the table.
 




Icy Gull

Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
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In fairness he knows what it takes to get out of this division and seemed to have guided Saints to relative safety in the Premier League when he was sacked. In his favour I don't recall him having a bad word to say about Saints when he had every reason to be pretty pissed off.

Still irritates the **** out of me with his smugness though.
 


Man of Harveys

Man of Harveys

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Jul 9, 2003
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There are some people who you look at and think "Not only do I know you're totally out of your depth and blagging this, YOU know it too. You show it with your eyes." He's the most shining example of this I thinkI've ever seen in football.
 




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TheReadingFan

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Mar 20, 2013
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Icy Gull said:
In fairness he knows what it takes to get out of this division and seemed to have guided Saints to relative safety in the Premier League when he was sacked. In his favour I don't recall him having a bad word to say about Saints when he had every reason to be pretty pissed off.

Still irritates the **** out of me with his smugness though.
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Can't disagree with anything you have said here. His record for getting teams out of divisions is very good, it will be put to the test to see if he can get a team to bounce straight back up, with history proving it doesn't regularly happen. NA does come across extremely smug, but when he is with your team, you put up with it (Suarez etc).

I can understand why you dislike him, it seems like he wants to be the 'winner' all the time and if he isn't, he doesn't want to know about it.
 




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gumbo43

gumbo
Jun 9, 2011
79
hove
He's a slimy toad, nothing special as a manager, thank god he not here, would rather be rudderless,
reading are welcome to him..
 


kevo

kevo

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Mar 8, 2008
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Mustafa Kemal said:
It all begun with this:



Suffice to say, we won the league that year - Southampton came second.
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Point being that when Adkins made his 'if they can keep with us' comment, we were six points ahead of them and top of the table.
 


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