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Interesting to hear Swann talking about Adkins and having his phone number on his phone, get it bloody dialled man!!!
Wouldn’t confirm or deny if Adkins had applied….
Maybe he is trying to get the odds higher so his mates can all get a good price on Hill. Sky Bet are running a book on it!
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Adkins & Crozzer – we can only dream!!
( Sorry, I meant Adkins, Swann & Crozzer )2 users thanked author for this post.
Personally I’ve always liked a nice twat.
There was one on Humberside tonight pushing blame onto Iron fans for lack of attendance, not sure about the ” nice ” part of your post through.
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Ultimately, he was clearly out of depth. The budget constraints are a large mitigating factor, but that doesn’t excuse : Baffling interviews, tactical incompetence and poor man management; I don’t think he knew how to get a tune out of the modern day footballer, a bollocking on Humberside only works once in a blue moon. The negativity – especially in leading positions – cost us valuable points at Carlisle, Barrow and Sutton, the blame there for me has to lie with Cox.
Don’t wish any ill towards him and perhaps he will make a decent go of it as an assistant somewhere. Just the wrong bloke at the wrong time here.
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Remember how excited we all (most) were with the appointment of the Cox/Lillis dream team? A local boy and an imported club legend with passion. (I’ll never forget the SWansea play-off) Where did it all go wrong?
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For me, he’d be a fool to come back here.
He has nothing to prove to us.
But failure here…and does ANYONE really think that any manager could make anything of the dog’s breakfast Swann has created at this club, failure here will surely tarnish his legacy.
Stay away Nige.
You DO NOT want to work for this idiot.1 user thanked author for this post.
For me, he’d be a fool to come back here
Maybe so but apart from him and Keith Hill we may as well give up and just accept our non league fate.
There is a risk it could horribly backfire on Adkins but we need some divine inspiration and if he can supply it, we have to try.
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Just listened again to the RH interview. “He’s not the only applicant and I think it’s unfair on the other applicants” was an interesting choice of words IMO.
Swann must surely be desperate for this to happen. It pretty much guarantees the required extra numbers on the gates.
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Anyone with any credibility won’t take the job without the promise of serious money to spend in January – which will also mean paying the loan off.
It would be a remarkable sea change for Swann to suddenly reverse tactics which he has employed over the last 3 years and suddenly start spending big again.
As for Cox – I have little sympathy for him because he knew what he was letting himself in for when he came.
That said, he can’t be blamed for our league position.
If the players aren’t good enough as a whole then it doesn’t matter if you have a tactical and motivational genius in charge – you still have a sub standard side.
Any argument that it’s ‘Cox’s side’ is rubbish as well.
It’s a side assembled on the cheap, laughably no doubt with input from our ‘chief scout’.
Cox has played the cards Swann has dealt him – full stop. Whether he played them badly is irrelevant – it was a crap hand and he simply couldn’t win.
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Cox had enough chances – he was woefully woefully short of anything near competent – even his interviews, whilst refreshing (!) were just soundbites because he lacked the basic football intelligence to talk in more depth about things, my lads….. channels….. pass and move….. trained well… tired legs/leggy. It was all bollocks in the end – he just couldn’t do the job.
And I’m not absolving Swann of the shitshow we find ourselves in. Its just another bad choice from somebody equally lost in football
Today has been a refreshing move by the club by getting rid of Cox and Lillis, neither of them have shown that they have the slightest clue on football management, they might be NICE MEN as many keep saying, but in their time here they have taken the club into new depths. Many supporters will never return after the past 3 seasons of unenjoyable and so boring so called football , but for sure a few hundred will be back to see if things change, if they don’t change it will be the end of league football. How the hell does Mussa keep surviving ???????.
Swann has one more chance to get things right, and I hope that he goes through applicants, and even takes a bit of advice, and keeps away from ex-Scunthorpe Utd connections.
I hope this is a turning point for the club, a good move in getting rid of these two, but sadly it should have been taken last January, when it was so clear that it would never work, and we have fallen fast since then, to the present time of being bottom of the League, and gates down to 2,100. Saturday would be a good time for a win, it would be some change to progress in the FA Cup, or any Cup for that matter, and at home to Donny who have lost all of their seven away matches to date, a real chance for us, so go for it.
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As for Cox – I have little sympathy for him because he knew what he was letting himself in for when he came.
That said, he can’t be blamed for our league position.
Cox has played the cards Swann has dealt him – full stop. Whether he played them badly is irrelevant – it was a crap hand and he simply couldn’t win.
Well, maybe.
But if you are aware that your opponents ALSO have a crap hand, and you still insist on folding… whose fault is that?
When I played three card brag at John Leggott so many years ago, I won a fair few crap hands by bluffing.1 user thanked author for this post.
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