Nigel Adkins to be offered the job

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Tooting Gull

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Jul 5, 2003
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So last weeks 'Coppell is Blooms target' tucked away in a small column doesn't count.

I think you will find that it's guesswork.

Time will tell I guess!

Eh? Coppell was Bloom's target. Have you been paying attention this week? The NoW is a weekly paper. Last week Coppell was the top target. The story was 100 per cent correct.

Who knows, maybe this week we'll offer Adkins the job, he'll accept, and then change his mind over transfer funds. And that wouldn't make this story wrong when it was written either.

And in the bigger picture, there is absolutely zero point in a tabloid running a totally untrue story about a League One club. No one really cares apart from us, it doesn't exactly sell papers.
 


Spanish Seagulls

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Nov 18, 2007
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I'd be a bit disappointed tbh. Peter Taylor has been dropping hints about the possibility of coming back if invited as a coach / assistant which would make the appointment of OGS or Poyet a much more viable proposition. This would also please me. That's reason enough, for me anyway.
 


clippedgull

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Aug 11, 2003
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Eh? Coppell was Bloom's target. Have you been paying attention this week? The NoW is a weekly paper. Last week Coppell was the top target. The story was 100 per cent correct.

Who knows, maybe this week we'll offer Adkins the job, he'll accept, and then change his mind over transfer funds. And that wouldn't make this story wrong when it was written either.

And in the bigger picture, there is absolutely zero point in a tabloid running a totally untrue story about a League One club. No one really cares apart from us, it doesn't exactly sell papers.

:blush: oh well.

Maybe my hatred of the rag got the better of me!
 


Superphil

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Jul 7, 2003
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I'd be a bit disappointed tbh. Peter Taylor has been dropping hints about the possibility of coming back if invited as a coach / assistant which would make the appointment of OGS or Poyet a much more viable proposition. This would also please me. That's reason enough, for me anyway.

PGA and PT, now there is something I like the sound of, a lot. Do it Tony
 








Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
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Very disappointing if true, not the name that will get bums back on seats at Withdean.

A winning streak will though and although OGS would get bums on seats instantly he really is unproven and a big gamble imo. I guarantee a rapid climb up the table with the sort of football we are playing going forward with a tight defence would bring the crowds flocking back and I reckon Adkins has as good a chance of any of the realistic targets of doing that :thumbsup:
 






beorhthelm

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Jul 21, 2003
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not a bad choice to be fair. but why would he be willing to drop a league? and, do we want a manager willing to drop a division?
 


Northstander

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Oct 13, 2003
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A winning streak will though and although OGS would get bums on seats instantly he really is unproven and a big gamble imo. I guarantee a rapid climb up the table with the sort of football we are playing going forward with a tight defence would bring the crowds flocking back and I reckon Adkins has as good a chance of any of the realistic targets of doing that :thumbsup:

Spot on!

You could get Timmy Mallett in, if on arrival to the club, we started winning well and moving up the table, I guarantee the fans would start to come to the matches....Fickle...yes....but FACT
 








BUTTERBALL

East Stand Brighton Boyz
Jul 31, 2003
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Hmmm, wonder if it could be Adkins with Poyet as coach?

Nigel Adkins said this on Friday in the local paper:

Adkins linked to Brighton job


SCUNTHORPE United boss Nigel Adkins has been linked to the vacant managerial role at Brighton.

The Seagulls had hoped to land former Reading boss Steve Coppell, but he has ruled himself out of the running to replace Russell Slade, who was dismissed earlier this month.

Albion chairman Tony Bloom thinks highly of Adkins after seeing him twice lead Scunthorpe to the Championship.

But it is a job the United boss would be unlikely to plump for.
It would involve dropping down a division and only last week Adkins told the Telegraph just how ambitious he is.

"I have said from day one of getting this job that I am a very ambitious person," he said.
"We are surrounded in life by opportunities. It is then about choosing whether you want to take them or not if it is right for your family.
 




Wardy

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Oct 9, 2003
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Hmmm, wonder if it could be Adkins with Poyet as coach?

Nigel Adkins said this on Friday in the local paper:

Adkins linked to Brighton job


SCUNTHORPE United boss Nigel Adkins has been linked to the vacant managerial role at Brighton.

The Seagulls had hoped to land former Reading boss Steve Coppell, but he has ruled himself out of the running to replace Russell Slade, who was dismissed earlier this month.

Albion chairman Tony Bloom thinks highly of Adkins after seeing him twice lead Scunthorpe to the Championship.

But it is a job the United boss would be unlikely to plump for.
It would involve dropping down a division and only last week Adkins told the Telegraph just how ambitious he is.

"I have said from day one of getting this job that I am a very ambitious person," he said.
"We are surrounded in life by opportunities. It is then about choosing whether you want to take them or not if it is right for your family.

I guess it depends on how long he is willing to wait to realise those ambitions. I would say that given our catchment area there is more chance of us making the Premiership then Scunthorpe.
 


Husty

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Oct 18, 2008
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If poyets also in the running and if he will work with peter taylor then that sounds like a potentially great mix, if not im sure poyet knows who he wants to bring in
 








Scoffers

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Jan 13, 2004
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Burgess Hill
Adkins looks like he has something about him
BUT, he has only properly managed one club, and does he have a strong enough character to handle our players. What is his transfer record? Backroom staff?

I'm sure Bloom has all this covered, but doesn't stop me being nervous about it.
 




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