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Sky bet have nigel adkins and paolo di canio has front runners if nige is sacked

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Emailed sky bet asked them could i bet on the next leicester manager who were the favourites, and they said they wete setting up a market and nigel adkins and paolo di canio would be there frontrunners, i think both would do a good job

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No to di canio. IF the axe falls we must appoint someone with experience of getting promotion from this league.

Why?

Did Adkins have experience before last season?

McDermott?

Lambert?

Rodgers?

Di Matteo?

Hughton?

Holloway?

It's a complete myth that you need proven promotion winners.

For me the only real argument I can sympathise with against Di Canio is his politics. I can't say it would bother me, but I understand why it might bother some.

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Happy Fox

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Paulo Di Canio would be a gamble but who knows how it would work out until we give him a chance I bet the Swindon fans were saying the same thing (that he fascist etc) and didn't expect within 2 seasons to be challenging for a place in the championship that was all down to Di Canio.

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I wouldn't gamble on DiCanio.

What the club need is stability with the right bloke in charge. Whether that's Pearson or not, you be the judge.

DiCanio is a ticking time-bomb... He could come in and get us straight up, or he could fall out with literally anyone, Filbert the Fox even and Fook off after the poor fox has had it both barrels.

Adkins for me, would be the right choice, if any choosing is to occur.

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I'd hate to see Pearson sacked but it seems to be becoming something of a possibility. Wouldn't mind Adkins or RDM in charge should the worst happen - both good managers and thoroughly nice blokes

Sounds alright to me unless they're closet socialists! :whistle: .

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I wouldn't gamble on DiCanio.

What the club need is stability with the right bloke in charge. Whether that's Pearson or not, you be the judge.

DiCanio is a ticking time-bomb... He could come in and get us straight up, or he could fall out with literally anyone, Filbert the Fox even and Fook off after the poor fox has had it both barrels.

Adkins for me, would be the right choice, if any choosing is to occur.

I agree that we need stability, but how is sacking Pearson after 18 months or so stability? New manager will take a few months to gel with the players, stamp his own mark on the team and get the confidence back. We will then have a summer with a revolving door. We don't have a bad side now, strengthen in the summer and we'd have a very good squad.

Di Canio can stay as far away from City for me. If it has to be that the club feels that sacking Pearson, after our most successful season in 10 years, a month after we won 5 in a row, a month after Pearson got manager of the month, then it has to be Adkins for me, due to what he did at Southampton.

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I'd hate to see Pearson sacked but it seems to be becoming something of a possibility. Wouldn't mind Adkins or RDM in charge should the worst happen - both good managers and thoroughly nice blokes

Totally agree although RDM isn't very likely imo
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http://www.itsbeautifuloutside.co.uk/blog/files/why-was-Nigel-Adkins-sacked.html

Good points about Adkins

Adkins also spoke often of “the Southampton Wayâ€, yet he had guided the club to successive promotions largely using a 4-4-2 formation. His favoured variant was a 4-4-2 diamond formation (which many fans were suspicious of). A brief flirtation with 4-2-3-1 around Christmas 2011 ended when the striker Billy Sharp was signed from Doncaster Rovers and paired with Rickie Lambert. Although the talismanic Lambert was occasionally used in a slightly deeper role thereafter, it was 4-4-2 that was Adkins’ default tactic, and it was to 4-4-2 that he returned after a chastening 4-1 defeat to West Ham at Upton Park. The Saints had enjoyed the better of the first half without really threatening, and after the match Adkins was asked by local radio whether he had considered a switch to 4-4-2, amid strong rumours that the manager was being told which players to pick and how the team should be set up (Lambert had surprisingly been missing from the starting XI). “We’re gonna play 4-3-3†Adkins repeated several times in response, almost as though reciting a mantra. Then came “The Man in the Glassâ€. In a slightly surreal press conference in the lead-up to the following game, at home to Tottenham, Adkins recited - in its entirety - The Guy In The Glass, a Dale Wimbrow poem which emphasises the importance of being “true to yourselfâ€. Saints lined up in a 4-4-2 against Tottenham - and chased shadows until a switch to 4-2-3-1 in the second half. By that point, they were already 2-0 down.

Undeterred, Adkins against went with 4-4-2 in the next game against West Brom at The Hawthorns. “It’s not about formations,†he told the media “it’s about getting the better players on the ballâ€. His team were comprehensively outplayed in a 2-0 defeat, and what were referred to as “crisis talks†with Cortese followed.

Having survived that meeting, Adkins reverted to 4-2-3-1 and the team embarked on a good run, beating QPR and Newcastle and having the better of draws against Swansea and Norwich. Marquee signing Gaston Ramirez became increasingly influential, playing behind Lambert in the “number ten†position. After a 1-0 defeat at Anfield though (incidentally the only defeat the team have suffered thus far this season when playing Ramirez through the middle of a 4-2-3-1), Adkins went back to 4-4-2. This brought a win over a wretched Reading (who also played 4-4-2), but also an insipid defeat against Sunderland. Suddenly Ramirez - comfortably the club’s record signing - was being deployed on the left wing and becoming peripheral. Even a return to 4-2-3-1 at Fulham on Boxing Day didn’t see Ramirez return to the middle of the pitch until the second half. Steven Davis - a neat and tidy box-to-box midfielder - surprisingly started as the ten. Cortese spent weeks agreeing the deal for Ramirez, which was considered a huge coup for Southampton. He cannot have been happy to see his crown jewel marginalised. Another, less expensive signing was that of Zambian forward Emmanuel Mayuka. Mayuka was recently (perhaps spuriously) voted the world’s 85th best player in a newspaper poll, but has hardly played since arriving from Swiss side Young Boys.

Taking the above into account, it seems obvious that there has been a disconnect between board and first team manager. Whether it is right or wrong that the board should influence selection and tactics, the model that Southampton have adopted involves continuity of tactics and style of play. Adkins is far from a long-ball merchant but he has been willing to abandon short passing when he has deemed it necessary to do so. The recent fixture at Stoke saw the Saints have less possession than a Stoke team that finished the game with ten men, as they adopted a more direct approach, presumably in an attempt to fight fire with fire. Even if this had been successful though (the match finished 3-3 as Saints squandered a two goal lead), it is inconsistent with the stated aims of the club as a whole. If Adkins - who, in the Southampton’s continental structure was merely a middle-manager - was defying the board and flying in the face of “The Southampton Wayâ€, his employers probably regarded him as insubordinate. Whether this mode of operation is right or wrong, Adkins was surely on borrowed time the moment he deviated from the script.

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Adkins won't come he's on gardening leave and will be going to a tribunal for unfair dismissal could take months.

Di Cano What clown he is would upset everyone down king power can't afford to have mangers like him in charge,

Pearson, fantastic manager a few poor results and then it's sack the manager Bla Bla Bla Bla. Some people need to grow up a bit and stop throwing the toys out of their pram.

Grow some backbone and get behind the manager!

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Emailed sky bet asked them could i bet on the next leicester manager who were the favourites, and they said they wete setting up a market and nigel adkins and paolo di canio would be there frontrunners, i think both would do a good job

It's fans like you that make me sick. The club is in a bit of bother and you're looking to see if you can make some money out of it.

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Adkins won't come he's on gardening leave and will be going to a tribunal for unfair dismissal could take months.

Di Cano What clown he is would upset everyone down king power can't afford to have mangers like him in charge,

Pearson, fantastic manager a few poor results and then it's sack the manager Bla Bla Bla Bla. Some people need to grow up a bit and stop throwing the toys out of their pram.

Grow some backbone and get behind the manager!

Before I ask my question - I don't think it's the right thing to do to get rid of Pearson now.

But could some of the pro-Pearson posters please explain why they think he's a "fantastic manager"?

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I agree that we need stability, but how is sacking Pearson after 18 months or so stability? New manager will take a few months to gel with the players, stamp his own mark on the team and get the confidence back. We will then have a summer with a revolving door. We don't have a bad side now, strengthen in the summer and we'd have a very good squad.

Di Canio can stay as far away from City for me. If it has to be that the club feels that sacking Pearson, after our most successful season in 10 years, a month after we won 5 in a row, a month after Pearson got manager of the month, then it has to be Adkins for me, due to what he did at Southampton.

Thracian made a very good point yesterday mate.

It's one thing to be able to sign players and then watch them play, it's another thing to be able to deploy them to the best of their ability and to shake-up the tactics when needed.

Is Pearson good ENOUGH to be able to take the squad, add to it and then get them playing to the best of their ability? You're convinced, I'm not.

Believe me, Forest and Bolton are sniffing. Brighton, I think, will fade away.

If we lose again on Tuesday, the situation is worrying.

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I wouldn't gamble on DiCanio.

What the club need is stability with the right bloke in charge. Whether that's Pearson or not, you be the judge.

DiCanio is a ticking time-bomb... He could come in and get us straight up, or he could fall out with literally anyone, Filbert the Fox even and Fook off after the poor fox has had it both barrels.

Adkins for me, would be the right choice, if any choosing is to occur.

lol

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Before I ask my question - I don't think it's the right thing to do to get rid of Pearson now.

But could some of the pro-Pearson posters please explain why they think he's a "fantastic manager"?

We are in the best position we have been for 10 years. Plus he also managed to get us out of league one a fact that people overlook because we could have stayed there for a while just like Leeds did.

We have seen what constantly sacking managers does when the form dips, lets trying sticking with one for a change.

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We are in the best position we have been for 10 years. Plus he also managed to get us out of league one a fact that people overlook because we could have stayed there for a while just like Leeds did.

We have seen what constantly sacking managers does when the form dips, lets trying sticking with one for a change.

This sort of post is all well and good but the form hasn't "dipped", it's nosedived.

This isn't mid-table or even relegation form. Given the opposition we've faced, this is bottom-of-the-table form that Bristol City, Barnsley, Posh - whoever - would be completely ashamed of.

All of the principles Pearson employed in getting us into the top 6 and then the top 2 in the first place seem to have been ditched in favour of the sort of percentage football that was successful in his first spell. It's plainly obvious to anybody watching that this is not working and hasn't been working at all since he started to implement it following Wood's arrival.

Pearson's failure to see sense after the Peterborough game was forgivable given the 5 match winning run we'd just had. But we had the same problems of failing to create any chances against Charlton and Huddersfield and still he didn't change things. At that point, automatic promotion was salvageable. Now it isn't because he hasn't learned. What's more, it worries me that I don't think he will learn. We're sliding out of the play-offs, and he's undoing all of his own good work. What is the point in that?

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