What are you on about? for the last 3 weeks of the season before the last game DW was not at training, nor did he travel with team etc.
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Micky Adams back as manager
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What are you on about? for the last 3 weeks of the season before the last game DW was not at training, nor did he travel with team etc.
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Publius Ovidius
Well-known member
what? Guy said he hadn't been around for the last three weeks....
Just who exactly are you anyway? Someone said you are a councillor......you are Not big Steve are you?
Publius Ovidius
Well-known member
Guy has just owned Big Gully!!!!!
The Large One
Who's Next?
Yep, get rid of Knight and bring in, um, er...
'sladegull
fat boy fat
Not sure about rule by fear , but he certainly never took some of the crap that Wilkins has .... will be interesting to see how he gets on with the likes of Forster and some of the other strong charcters.........especially those with a loyalty to Dean. I am genuinely shocked by this , and whilst we dont know the full inside story I do feel sorry for him....
The Argus site has now REMOVED the Adams story!
Publius Ovidius
Well-known member
Not according to BigGully...he knows you know!!!!
pornomagboy
wake me up before you gogo who needs potter when
this might attract the big players to brighton now as the club has taken a big step foward
westlake?
racon?
richards?
westlake?
racon?
richards?
Is it possible that Deano was suffering from the pressure as well as making some poor decisions? Eventually got to the point where he couldn't face it - even staying away from tainin? DK gives him some time to get a grip but if he lost the players then DK would have to do something.
Race - does that sound like a reasonable hypothesis?
chez
Johnny Byrne-The Greatest
I'm not sure ANY of the players would have, or show any loyalty to Wilkins.
People moan when nothing happens in the off-season, now they are moaning when there is a lot.
Imho if somebody gave me the choice between DW & MA to be manager next season i would pick MA any day. DW has done extremely well and i do feel sorry for him, but i like the fact that we are obviously looking to progress and in a big way.
I also feel that from somewhere, don't have a f***ing clue, we are getting some investment to get us in, and to maintain a place in, the Championship so when we move into Falmer we will be an established Championship club.
New Sponsor
New Players
New Manager (Well old if we are getting picky)
exciting times and now it has given non Brighton fans something to talk about, i mean it is the first time i have ever seen Brighton on the breaking news bit of Sky Sports News.
Imho if somebody gave me the choice between DW & MA to be manager next season i would pick MA any day. DW has done extremely well and i do feel sorry for him, but i like the fact that we are obviously looking to progress and in a big way.
I also feel that from somewhere, don't have a f***ing clue, we are getting some investment to get us in, and to maintain a place in, the Championship so when we move into Falmer we will be an established Championship club.
New Sponsor
New Players
New Manager (Well old if we are getting picky)
exciting times and now it has given non Brighton fans something to talk about, i mean it is the first time i have ever seen Brighton on the breaking news bit of Sky Sports News.
Djmiles
Barndoor Holroyd
Mickey Adams has got a whole Summer to build a new squad...well he's done it before, and did it bloody well!
'sladegull
fat boy fat
it seems to keep coming and going..........I had to come out and go back in to the SPORT section and it returned .....thats why I thought it was a wind up
Lord Bracknell
On fire
TWO stories on the Argus site:-
Micky Adams makes sensational return to Albion
By Andy Naylor
Micky Adams is making a sensational return as Albion manager.
He has agreed a three-year contract and will be unveiled by the club at a press conference today, seven years after leaving for Leicester.
Adams, 46, takes over from Dean Wilkins who has been offered his former role as first team coach after steering the Seagulls to seventh place in League One this season.
Chairman Dick Knight said: "The board felt we need a manager with more experience to help the club make the great leap back into the Championship.
"It's vital that we get back there as quickly as possible, before we get to our new stadium at Falmer."
Knight broke the news to Wilkins last night.
"We very much want him to stay," the chairman said. "His strengths lie in coaching and the development of players.
"For obvious reasons Dean is in shock and we don't expect him to come up with an answer yet. He needs to think about it and we will do everything to persuade him to stay."
Return of the Special One
By Andy Naylor
Albion fans rejoice. Seven years after leaving, Micky Adams has been given the chance to continue what he started.
The man responsible for returning success to the club will, if all goes well, lead them into the promised land that is Falmer with the team back in the Championship.
Re-wind to April 1999, on the first day of his first spell in charge of the Seagulls. Adams was paraded in a pro-Falmer T-shirt at Hove Town Hall as plans for the new stadium were unveiled.
Two and a half years later when Leicester, then in the Premiership, wanted him to become Dave Bassett's No. 2, it was too good an opportunity to turn down.
Falmer was still a million miles away and Adams could not afford to wait. He had to capitalise on his success with Albion.
Nobody blamed him, not chairman Dick Knight or an adoring fan base. It was not so much a divorce as an amicable split.
Friendships forged during Adams' glorious stint on the South Coast have endured and now the feisty little Yorkshireman is the right man in the right place at the right time.
On the face of it, Dean Wilkins has been harshly removed from his post after only 20 months at the helm, having just guided Albion into seventh place in League One in his first full season.
Flirting with the play-offs was a vast improvement on last year's poor showing, when the Seagulls were almost sucked in to a relegation battle. The bald statistics, as some of us have appreciated for some time, do not tell the whole story.
Wilkins is a brilliant, innovative coach. His fine work over a long period as youth coach, nurturing current first team regulars like Tommy Elphick, Dean Cox and Joel Lynch, won him many friends in high places within the club.
He was briefly promoted to first team coach two summers ago to placate major shareholder Tony Bloom, when Bloom launched a bid to oust Wilkins' managerial predecessor Mark McGhee following relegation from the Championship.
Wilkins, with no managerial experience, was thrown in at the deep end a couple of months later after McGhee was sacked.
The job title has always sat uncomfortably. Being manager is a much more wide-ranging role than coach, which plays to Wilkins' strengths - out on the training ground working with the players and talking tactics. Even experienced pros have learnt from him.
He has struggled with other aspects of the role, such as dealing with players and their agents in contract negotiations, player recruitment and the media.
He has been a square peg in a round hole. Becoming coach again makes the peg round.
We must all hope that, once the understandable hurt and anger subsides, he says yes' to the challenge. Knight wants him to stay, so does Adams.
At this difficult time for him, Wilkins can take a lead from Martin Hinshelwood, who worked alongside him for many years as director of youth. Hinshelwood became manager for a very brief spell. He is still at the club, continuing his good work as director of football.
Meanwhile, Adams will immediately set about the task of restoring Albion to the Championship. A lot of water has gone under the bridge since he was last here and it will not be easy.
Sceptics will point to the old adage that you should never go back and refer to Alan Mullery's unhappy second stint at the club.
That was different. When Mullery returned Albion were on a downward spiral. Adams rejoins with the Seagulls in a healthier state than when he launched their renaissance.
There are plenty of examples, too, of managers thriving second time around. One of them is very fresh and poignant.
Adams has been scouting for the last few months for my beloved Stoke City. Tony Pulis, in his second stint in charge, has just guided them back into the top flight of English football after a 23-year gap.
After they were promoted on Sunday I sent Adams a text. It said that Stoke must have a great scouting network. "You are not wrong," he replied with his mischievous sense of humour.
Little did I know that our occasional conversations are about to become much more regular again.
It was a bumpy ride for a while first time around but he knows his stuff, knows what management is all about after a dozen years worth of experience with seven different clubs.
On behalf of Albion fans, Micky, welcome back.