edmonds200":2mmnfykj said:
Despite having Donaldson, Slew, Miller, Bulvitis, Sawyer, Spencer due to budgetary constraints
He signed them. I wouldn't say he had any more budgetary constraints than any other manager. They all want more regardless of what they have.
edmonds200":2mmnfykj said:
Derek Adams still managed to finish joint top of League 2 with portsmouth with 86 points!
We were top heading into the last day of the season and a win would have seen us Champions. Portsmouth and ourselves finishing first and second respectively had as much to do with Doncaster coming third in a one horse race. We would have finished Champions had even got a single point in any of our Tuesday night fixtures at home. We lost to Leyton Orient at home despite taking the lead twice and they finished 92nd out of 92.
edmonds200":2mmnfykj said:
A manager that knew that you needed to be able to defend and attack set plays and play second ball Football to do something in this League. After both seasons in League 2 after 7 games we were top with 15 points even though the second season could have taken a while to get going due to wembley disappointment and the construction of a whole new team!
Our first season we weren't top, we were second after 7 games. I don't buy this Wembley disappointment argument either for many reasons.
1)We bottled automatic promotion that season. Middle of January we were top. 11 points clear of the playoffs. We finished 5th.
2)We bottled it on the day. Wimbledon didn't out play us, we gifted it to them.
The poor start the season after was down to wholesale changes in the playing team - something he repeated each summer afterwards. 3 terrible starts to seasons in a row is inexcusable.
edmonds200":2mmnfykj said:
As time goes on we will look back and maybe realise we should have treated the old manager with a little more respect.
We did. We treated him with more respect than he treated us. His third season many, many clubs would have done away with him but we didn't nor did we call for his head. We stuck by him and we got through it. But you can't keep repeating the same mistakes and expect to get away with it in whatever line of work you happen to be in.
edmonds200":2mmnfykj said:
He is nowhere near as good a salesman as this current manager but when we are still trying to play out from the back on mud baths in January lets hope our fanbase shows a little more loyalty although judging by yesterdays comments around me patience is already wearing thin...
Derek Adams was a very good salesman in promoting Derek Adams. His CV will show what he has achieved in his career and that doesn't come without a certain degree of aptitude. Derek Adams could be a very good manager but the problem Derek Adams has is he is Derek Adams. As much good as he did there are just as many if not more flaws to him.
If he's half as good as his remaining supporters think he is then we wouldn't have been relegated last season. For all the good he achieved here, it was all out done from mid March onwards last season.