Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

[Janik]

It would appear he is a man with honour. Southampton FC, on the other hand, come across as being grubby as hell.

[Eggchaser]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

It's like Rupert Lowe never left...

[Kowalski]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

Why are we only dothing our caps now?

16 and a bit years ago Bangor City became Welsh Champions for the second season running. Nigel's astute methods, as goalkeeping player-manager, and glasses, led us into the promised land of a narrow defeat to Akranes. We salute you Nigel!!

[Guest]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

Despite the fact that for many years we've held Scunny at arm's length while they've swung their fists and failed to land a blow, the fact is they have a manager who a lot of us would have liked to take charge of us this summer, though we don't like letting on.

Phil Brown seems to be favourite now. As much as i love him for what he did for us, i can't help but feel him and the Saints chairman are a match made in heaven........

[IronSeaPower]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

He's presided over a particular 'Golden Age' in my time supporting Scunthorpe United. And I love him to bits for it.
However all parties will appear either foolish or naive if he doesn't end up at Southampton before today is out.

[Ray de Galles]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

Have we examined Soton's claim that two current EPL managers have applied for the job? Ferguson and Wenger would be my guess.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

Kowalski wrote:

Why are we only dothing our caps now?

16 and a bit years ago Bangor City became Welsh Champions for the second season running. Nigel's astute methods, as goalkeeping player-manager, and glasses, led us into the promised land of a narrow defeat to Akranes. We salute you Nigel!!

The same man? I remember the glasses.

[E10 Rifle]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

Scunthorpe are one of the few clubs in the top two divisions that I'm genuinely jealous of. Stuff like this confirms it.

What a car crash Southampton have been this season - shame there are no photographers there in to record it, the stupid media-manipulating tossers.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

Adkins confirmed as new Saints boss.

[Sean of the Shed]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

I get the horrible feeling that he's going to regret this move, Southampton appears to be turning in to a car crash thanks to the ego of one bloke.

[Bored Of Education]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

That prediction proved right. . As tratorello put it, 2 straight promotions, 15th place in the Prem, unbeaten in 5 matches...here's your P45

[Bizarre Löw Triangle]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

Wasn't it great when the BBC website was readable.

I miss it.

[Patrick Thistle]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

That seems a very harsh sacking.

[Borracho]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

Two successive promotions and then he gets fired midway through their first top-flight season in eight years, with them not even in the relegation placings.

They're bringing in Mauricio Pochettino, who has just been sacked by Espanyol for getting far worse results than Adkins was.

Stupid bastards. They'll go down now. Adkins meanwhile will walk into another job quickly.

[Borracho]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

Southampton took four points from their last two games (both away), suggesting that the decision was made after the home defeat by Chelsea a couple of weeks back.

[Hofzinser]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

I like Southampton and was very much hoping they'd stay up this year. I'll happily see them go down now - they deserve it.

[ad hoc]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

Exactly that

[Jimmy Bignutz]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

Yeah

[Ray de Galles]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

Let's not forget the people running the club decided they needed to play in all-red to be a serious Premier League outfit. They aren't the most logical bunch.

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[Bored Of Education]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

Southampton are cunts, aren't they? All the Dave Jones stuff, this season's red shirt, Woodward etc. I thought all this shit would stop once Lowe went but obviously not.

As an aside, they are by far the worst club for poaching young players from their junior clubs and then dumping them a year or two later

[KGR]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

What's Pochettino going to know about Ward-Prowse, Clyne and Chaplow? A lot less than Adkins does at the moment, that's for sure.

A manager needs to know everything about all of his players for a relegation battle. This new guy isn't even going to speak English in his press conference!

Getting rid of Adkins is one thing, but bringing in Pochettino is the actions of someone who has seen what has happened at Swansea and is trying too hard to be hipster.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

hold on, what?

[VTTBoscombe]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

Bored of Education wrote: Southampton are cunts, aren't they?

As a Bournemouth fan, I thought that was a given.

I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy - reflects a bit, well OK then.

[Janik]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

Kryvbas Gripper Rih wrote: What's Pochettino going to know about Ward-Prowse, Clyne and Chaplow? A lot less than Adkins does at the moment, that's for sure.

A manager needs to know everything about all of his players for a relegation battle. This new guy isn't even going to speak English in his press conference!

Former Southampton manager, and vice president of the League Managers Association, Lawrie McMenemy on new Saints manager Mauricio Pochettino: "What does he know about our game? What does know about the Premier League? What does he know about the dressing room? Does he speak English?

Kryvbas Gripper Rih is Lawrie McMenemy and I claim my five pounds.

[via vicaria]

Time to doff your cap to Nigel Adkins?

Hofzinser wrote: I like Southampton and was very much hoping they'd stay up this year. I'll happily see them go down now - they deserve it.

Yep, this.

After such a turnaround in the club's fortunes, you'd have thought he had pretty good job security (with most clubs, he would've). Given that it's the first season back at the top after two successive promotions, stability is surely the key, and with Adkins steering them from relegation, it just beggars belief that they've done this.

Adkins should, at least, find work fairly quickly.