Poll - Adkins In or Out

[Ian Royal]

tbf we are all twats

corrected for you

no f uck off you're on your own, well obviously with all the other team board twats

I don't think winch is a twat. And I should be the expert.

[winchester_royal]

Cheers Ian, I don't think you're a twat either xx

[Ian Royal]

Cheers Ian, I don't think you're a twat either xx

I fear one of us may be wrong.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Cheers Ian, I don't think you're a twat either xx

I fear one of us may be wrong.

Oof. You gonna take that, winch? He's either calling you a twat or a liar.

[No Fixed Abode]

Sum of dem playaz ent good enuff but I do feel Tony Poolis wud get more out of dis squad than Atkins.

[leon]

Sum of dem playaz ent good enuff but I do feel Tony Poolis wud get more out of dis squad than Atkins.

why aren't you out and about f ucking birds?

[Cureton's Volley]

dry patch?

[paultheroyal]

Sum of dem playaz ent good enuff but I do feel Tony Poolis wud get more out of dis squad than Atkins.

[Cureton's Volley]

[leon]

that's horrific

[Woodcote Royal]

[Royal Rother]

What a deeply unpleasant human being you are.

[Silver Fox]

Worst Reading manager of my lifetime, has he done the decent thing and gone yet?

[brighton_royal]

Worst Reading manager of my lifetime, has he done the decent thing and gone yet?

Had you down as being older than 15 tbf tbh etc

Agree with the general sentiment.

[Winston Smith]

Has he gone yet?

[EarleyRoyal16]

Why are people so confident Pulis would come to us? Never gonna happen, keep dreaming.

I'm Adkins in anyway, if he has January and we're still awful in February then my head might start to turn.

[RoyalBlue]

Sum of dem playaz ent good enuff but I do feel Tony Poolis wud get more out of dis squad than Atkins.

The only thing Pulis would want to get out is the cheque book, so it would be no good him coming to the supposedly 'financially well run' Reading FC!

[Royality creeps In]

According to BBCRB Adkins and his "coaching" staff where handing notes out to the players on the pitch last night. They were reading them then throwing them on the floor. The Cardiff players then picked them up and read the instructions.
Meanwhile McCleary was continually arguing with the Reading management/staff.

WTF is going on. Its Sunday League stuff!

Our team is full of decent players however they play like a bunch of strangers, who quite obviously are not gelling with the manager.
Our failings in defence are there for all to see and have been there since August.

There is only one person responsible for this calamitous situation.

ADKINS OUT

[Millsy]

Away from HNA for a while as whilst most of you are alright, there's a big enough minority of bellends and apologists (not mutually exclusive) to ruin a great site.

After hearing the radio last night I was shocked that the general vibe was that Adkins' days are numbered.

I'm a little confused.

Adkins, who with the right financial backing won back to back promotions taking a league 1 club to the Premier League didn't want to join Reading because he could see past the apologists BS and knew the blatantly obvious truth that there have been troubles with backing for YEARS at the club, with a chairman in financial decline wishing to sell, a buyer who wasn't living up to his promises and great uncertainty, leading to year after year of selling our best, not investing enough and utterly failing to take advantage of any foothold in the PL.... So he rightly said NO.

But somehow the geniuses that are Sir John and Hammond and merry band of club apologists managed to Mikhailov him into coming here (for the new, that is 2ww speak for blatantly lying to someone to get them to join you only for the bleak truth to dawn on them when they're already here). He didn't want to come, we forced him with promises of decent investment. Oh, most people have forgotten that little fact. Ok.

Now he's here things went from awful to much much MUCH worse, in fact so bad that even the doom mangers didn't see it coming... with our best goal scorer, best defender, best keeper (or the leagues best keeper I should say) being stripped from him,.. Promises of finance for new signings not materialising, and him having to rebuild a mediocre team with transfer scraps, loans, and kids from the academy... Such that we still have no central defender cover and STILL NO F**KING LEFT BACK.

And we bizarrely have a bunch of fans who in their unfathomable delusion think that we should be anywhere near good enough to challenge for promotion with the sh*t that is going on in this huge transitionary period.

and some fans think that we're doing badly in the mayhem of a TOTAL cockup at ownership level, one of the biggest and messiest periods of transitions in the club's history for not being in a playoff spot. And they're blaming Adkins!?????

I mean, is there even a word for this level of extreme f**king stupidity??

Yes the transitionary troubles shouldn't stop him doing his job with the players he has, and yes the players he has aren't awful (but it doesn't make a full team... There's no point having a Ferrari without a gearbox for example! N point having a team of good players without a decent centre back and without ANY left back), and yes he makes bizarre tactical decisions and yes the football is frustrating to watch and yes our record is awful... and yes he is irritatingly overpositive and yes his interviews send me to sleep with his drivel and yes he doesn't know his best team etc etc etc

But the current problems are FAR deeper than just Adkins.

There are two possibilities here: either the new owners will come good with decent investments and ambition, or they won't.

If they do, then we want a manager who is proven at building (with the right funding) a team that can walk into the PL. Adkins has proven that already and is the best man for the job and we have to look past the shit were going through and stick with him for when the funding eventually comes.

If they don't, and they emulate the shit that Sir John has been serving up in the last few years, or worse, then our problems are far deeper than what manager we have and we may as well not bother caring too much wtf happens. Bring Kingsley in. Bring Dellor in, for all I care. Or gamble on someone who'll end up like McDermott who will give us a flash in the pan visit to the PL but which won't be sustainable... Nah f*** it, just stick with Adkins. Don't care. Not important.

[SPARTA]

Sad really that I don't care either way any longer. My love for the game has been on the slide since 08, and this summer it finally reached my own club. I don't like the game any more, don't like the money in it and all the corruption/shenanigans going on being the scenes at clubs. AZ did a number on us, SJM has all but stepped aside now (a real link between fans and club), and now we have new owners again who we don't know much about. I just can't connect to the club any more and one game at the start of the season was more than enough for me and sadly may well be for a very long time.

I would stick with Adkins and see what support he gets from the board in January. If none or very little, then he clearly wont be able to achieve what he wants with this squad and maybe a new approach is needed.

Bring McDermott back? No thank you! His dated tactics were leading us to an 8th-10th place finish until AZ threw some money at getting Roberts and a couple of others. Without that we would never have achieved the shock promotion we did. He was unable to adapt in the PL despite telling us weekly he was learning so much.

So if it's not Adkins, we need someone new to the club. I would usually say Dolan but his style is very much Adkins' style, so I don't really see that working for us, and I think we'd miss him at youth level. He's done a superb job here.