Majority of Reading fans when previous manager is appointed at a new club - 'Good luck Brian' Majority of Saints fans when previous manager is appointed at a new club - 'F*ck off Nigel' Difference in class. you clearly have just made that up..? :shock: Twitter and the Saints forums were full of ang...

adkins is a massive MASSIVE liverpool fan

urz13 Majority of Reading fans when previous manager is appointed at a new club - 'Good luck Brian'

Majority of Saints fans when previous manager is appointed at a new club - 'F*ck off Nigel'

Difference in class.

you clearly have just made that up..?

not once single time that I can recall did adkins line up saints with 3 at the back just saying FWIW. here is a likely saints team (or close enough) -----------------Boruc clyne-----yoshida---hooiveld---shaw ----------cork-----schneiderlin Lallana------Ramirez-------Rodriguez -------------Lambert su...

you were far more clinical with your chances, that is for sure
but it was obvious that unless you changed the way you played then an immediate returen was inevitable

As a saints fan, your run last season was amazing. but just from watching highlights and the game at St Marys I predicted that you would be immediately relegated and put money on it your style was very different to ours. Many games against the top 6-8 teams in the NPC (it seemed) you defended well, ...

we were only a few points above you lot (gap gotten bigger since he has left) Which to be fair, is as much - if not more - due to our own ineptitude! FTR, you had 22 points from 22 games when you dismissed him and that takes into accout 4 points from those first 10 games so you can't argue that NA ...

I have a sneaky you will win 2-1 to Reading adkins knows these players inside out added to the fact that you really HAVE to win this (like QPR HAVE to beat Wigan) the only thing in our favour, is that you cant sit and soak it up (which seemed to be your tactic under brian) as adkins wont let you whi...

Hi. Feel free to tell me to Oxf*rd off at your leisure. Another Soton fan here, I'm afraid. Nigel Adkins does tend to breed a great deal of goodwill from those whose clubs he has managed, but I've lurked here for a while anyway and you do seem more intelligent than many other message boards so thou...

that is true that we did lose to QPR probably one of the most weird games I have ever seen we had 21 shots on goal, scored 1. their keepers, both Ceasar and green pulled off some unbelievable saves QPR had 3 shots and scored 2 of them we were doing very much the right things. if you look at the sco...

Thanks Saints, really good input. Much appreciated. If Adkins doesn't keep us up we will call for him to be sacked. :wink: will also add, when he first came to saints, I (and some others) were concerned as he kept his family up north for a while and that can be an easy target for people when teams ...

Cheers C/Lungs

oh, he was also fortunate that alan pardew saw it fit to spend the best £1m our club has ever spent....he had Rickie Lambert at his peak age

Great read, thanks for that. How is he with younger players coming out of the academy? Obviously at Southampton you have a few very talented graduates in and around your first team atm..how much of this is down to Nige or was he just lucky with the quality of players coming through? We have a very ...

he likes a good sunbed :lol: personally, dont hate me for this, I think you will go down. however, next season, with a full pre season and addition of a couple of good players, you have a good man for the job if you get Billy Sharp, who adkins tried many times before finally getting him for us, you ...

Adkins favours a 4-2-3-1 formation. Alf is likely to remain on the fringes, sadly. he really doesnt. he is a 442 type of man was started the season really really oddly and were completely embarrassed by wigan at home in August playing 442. he was kind of forced to play a system that we are now and ...

I tend to ignore any poster who refers to leagues as the NPC or EPL etc, it just hurts my eyes to read it. As for the League 1 squad not being a League 1 squad. They got relegated to it the season before so in my book, as good as some of the players were (or are getting now after a few years of goo...

was it a league 1 squad with saints? we kept players who we went down with and in admin...luckily selling David McGodlrick and Drew Surman to keep us afloat in adkin until Markus Leibherr came in. Kelvin Davis - Easily a champ player Harding - Ditto Fonte - was linked with bolton in the prem but we ...

that is true that we did lose to QPR probably one of the most weird games I have ever seen we had 21 shots on goal, scored 1. their keepers, both Ceasar and green pulled off some unbelievable saves QPR had 3 shots and scored 2 of them we were doing very much the right things. if you look at the scor...