Is Micky the one that got away ?

[DEITY]

I increasingly fear that we will regret Micky Adams leaving us.

At the time I felt on balance it was probably right, but now I'm begnning to wonder.

With Micky in charge the football wasn't always pretty, but on the whole it was effective. 3 seasons, 1 promotion, 1 relegation, & the bookies made us favourites to bounce back up.

Since his departure we have gone backwards.....yes the squad is younger but we have been fighting relegation for months, & were outclassed by a very average Cov side yesterday.

Micky has got promotion with 4 different clubs all on limited funds ...... I like Kelly but it's a bit of a gamble he's got no track record at all.

I hope I'm wrong ............................

 

[joe501]

hows it going chandler? :icon_wink

 

[fosseboy83]

hows it going chandler? :icon_wink

 

[leicester_til_i_die]

I increasingly fear that we will regret Micky Adams leaving us.

At the time I felt on balance it was probably right, but now I'm begnning to wonder.

With Micky in charge the football wasn't always pretty, but on the whole it was effective. 3 seasons, 1 promotion, 1 relegation, & the bookies made us favourites to bounce back up.

Since his departure we have gone backwards.....yes the squad is younger but we have been fighting relegation for months, & were outclassed by a very average Cov side yesterday.

Micky has got promotion with 4 different clubs all on limited funds ...... I like Kelly but it's a bit of a gamble he's got no track record at all.

I hope I'm wrong ............................

Agree with some points, it wasn't pretty, but it was effective, but with Kelly we play pretty and effective football, we have players for the future, under adams, we got promoted but not many young enough to cope with fight, plus his whole sale changes at the start of every season didn't help.

Kelly is right choice and with hindsight should have been the man from the start, once adams was sacked.

 

[PFKAKTF FOX]

I increasingly fear that we will regret Micky Adams leaving us.

At the time I felt on balance it was probably right, but now I'm begnning to wonder.

With Micky in charge the football wasn't always pretty, but on the whole it was effective. 3 seasons, 1 promotion, 1 relegation, & the bookies made us favourites to bounce back up.

Since his departure we have gone backwards.....yes the squad is younger but we have been fighting relegation for months, & were outclassed by a very average Cov side yesterday.

Micky has got promotion with 4 different clubs all on limited funds ...... I like Kelly but it's a bit of a gamble he's got no track record at all.

I hope I'm wrong ............................

Micky did a great job in his first 12 months gaining promotion at the first attempt despite difficult circumstances. But please remember that when Micky left we were languishing around mid table in the championship, with an ageing, one dimensional and demotivated set of players. The football was poor, there was little in the way of long term planning or youth developement and Adams had a reputation for falling out with 'big name' players such as Dublin and Keown.

Whilst Levein produced decent results on the clubs balance sheet, whilst drastically overhauling the playing squad and bringing in players with a long term view in mind, the results on the pitch were very poor and at best Levein's time can be best described as a period of transition.

However now it appears that under Kelly we have a manager who has put the spirit back into the club, has shown the players what it should mean to pull on the blue shirt but he is doing it with a younger and more talented squad than Adams assembled in that final summer. You say we were outclassed by Cov, but they are 12 months ahead of us in their development as a team under Adams, but have a look at how old that team / squad is, I will gaurentee that next season we will finish higher than Coventry and that long term we will be in fair better hands with Kelly in charge.

I will never underestimate what Adams achieved here, but also he showed in that last season here that he wasnt the man to progress the club long term, he had found his level.

 

[alex]

What MA did for our club in the troubles we were in at that time, was phenominal....RK has pretty much just done a similar thing.....We don't need MA no more.

 

[drummindefender]

Micky did a great job in his first 12 months gaining promotion at the first attempt despite difficult circumstances. But please remember that when Micky left we were languishing around mid table in the championship, with an ageing, one dimensional and demotivated set of players. The football was poor, there was little in the way of long term planning or youth developement and Adams had a reputation for falling out with 'big name' players such as Dublin and Keown.

Whilst Levein produced decent results on the clubs balance sheet, whilst drastically overhauling the playing squad and bringing in players with a long term view in mind, the results on the pitch were very poor and at best Levein's time can be best described as a period of transition.

However now it appears that under Kelly we have a manager who has put the spirit back into the club, has shown the players what it should mean to pull on the blue shirt but he is doing it with a younger and more talented squad than Adams assembled in that final summer. You say we were outclassed by Cov, but they are 12 months ahead of us in their development as a team under Adams, but have a look at how old that team / squad is, I will gaurentee that next season we will finish higher than Coventry and that long term we will be in fair better hands with Kelly in charge.

I will never underestimate what Adams achieved here, but also he showed in that last season here that he wasnt the man to progress the club long term, he had found his level.

what stuff are you on a-z because you can always find some positivity

 

[Hazzman]

I think Adams as been lucky at Coventry, he was absolute shite at the beginning of his reign and was near to be sacked. He gambled on past-it players like Page, Wise and Hutchinson and its came off for him. It's not to be the answer in the long-run.

 

[Graz]

Nah, I think Micky going was right for us.

I think a lot of people are much too harsh on MA about his time here, he did a very good job for us. However in the season when he did leave, it was right. After La Manga I think he sort of lost his focus and it ruined him and the club. He needed to go. He is and was a good manager, things had just gone sour here and a change was needed. Levein was worse than MA, but Micky still needed to go.

 

[OldGit]

MA has done a fantastic job at a number of clubs, mainly rescuing them from disaster with little or no money, and will be remembered with affection at all of them. Remember the reception he got fronm the Fulham fans the last time they were here? I often wonder if he might have staved off relegation if Bassett had been booted upstairs & he had taken over earlier.

However, I agree he had gone as far as he could with us - remember, he said so himself.

Good luck to him - there will always be clubs for which he can do a job.

 

[lurchio]

Gotta say that Micky did a great job here and was exactly the kind of bloke we needed in charge then. However his time was coming to an end and his teams do seem to be on the experianced/old side. I think it was the right time for him to go.
I like what levein did for the squad in reducing the age of the squad, he was just too inept at getting the good out of the side. A lot of the players in the squad were bought by Levein and now we have a coach who seems at the minute to be able to get the best out of the players.

I like the look of this squad for next season. If we can hang onto the majority of them, i can certainly see us challenging for top 6 if not top 2. Get good squad players in goalkeeper, defender, midfielder and striker area along with the kids who may not be starting line up material but good squad players then i can see us being a good side next year.

 

[Brauny Blue]

At the time of his departure, even MA admitted that he'd ran out of ideas. IMO it was in the best interests for both of us that he went. At that time most fans felt that the club was still slipping into further decline.

 

[fcukcov]

I think it was deff the right thing for MA to leave us at the time he did however the fact that he is now being linked with the Wolves job shows he has something going for him they are about to sack a manager on the basis that he has not got them a top 6 finish and they obviously believe that micky can do that for them and more importantly, Micky Adams thinks that Micky adams can do it for them.

 

[Redditch Fox]

Nah, I think Micky going was right for us.

I think a lot of people are much too harsh on MA about his time here, he did a very good job for us. {QUOTE]

I think he is a very committed individual and a good lower division manager. IMO he had a squad capable of survival in the Premiership.....I recall Fergie saying that he thought Leicester could survive because they were likely to score goals. However, Mickey was either out thought or couldn't get the team to play tactically effectively - time after time.

There will always be work for him as a manager as long as he wants it..but I cannot see him ever being successful at the highest level.

As for Levein - he is a joke as a manager, ok he made some decent signings so employ him as a chief scout then.

 

[Brauny Blue]

I think it was deff the right thing for MA to leave us at the time he did however the fact that he is now being linked with the Wolves job shows he has something going for him they are about to sack a manager on the basis that he has not got them a top 6 finish and they obviously believe that micky can do that for them and more importantly, Micky Adams thinks that Micky adams can do it for them.

Ah.........Wolves the ' sleeping giants '. Don't make me laugh, they've done nothing for nearly 50 years and theres no evidence to suggest that will change. How i loved it when Mark Magoo chased the golden goose, and look where he his now. Sleeping giant, more like feckin on life support.

 

[fcukcov]

Ah.........Wolves the ' sleeping giants '. Don't make me laugh, they've done nothing for nearly 50 years and theres no evidence to suggest that will change. How i loved it when Mark Magoo chased the golden goose, and look where he his now. Sleeping giant, more like feckin on life support.

I agree, they really wind me up how they think they have some god given right to be out of this league when they have spent longer here than most clubs (Im sure someone has some stats on this).

The point I was trying to make was that their main reason for sacking hoddle is the fact that he has not achieved a top 6 finish (also he has made some crap signings but this leads back to the other point) and if they are willing to sack him for that then look at MA then they must believe that he can take them up.

I truely believe they will really struggle next season, whoever they have in charge and my annual bet with a 'friend' that is a Wolves fan that we beat them both home and away and finish higher than them ( a tenner on each of the three bets) is looking safer next season than it has done for a very long time.

 

[Brauny Blue]

I agree, they really wind me up how they think they have some god given right to be out of this league when they have spent longer here than most clubs (Im sure someone has some stats on this).

The point I was trying to make was that their main reason for sacking hoddle is the fact that he has not achieved a top 6 finish (also he has made some crap signings but this leads back to the other point) and if they are willing to sack him for that then look at MA then they must believe that he can take them up.

I truely believe they will really struggle next season, whoever they have in charge and my annual bet with a 'friend' that is a Wolves fan that we beat them both home and away and finish higher than them ( a tenner on each of the three bets) is looking safer next season than it has done for a very long time.

It sounds to me that theres no coffers left at Wolves. They like the fact that MA got Leicester promoted and the Covscum up the table with no money. They must think he can do it for them. MA could be on a par with Brian Little, because i don't think the peek of his powers will extend any further than the lower half of the prem.

 

[highland fox]

It sounds to me that theres no coffers left at Wolves. They like the fact that MA got Leicester promoted and the Covscum up the table with no money. They must think he can do it for them. MA could be on a par with Brian Little, because i don't think the peek of his powers will extend any further than the lower half of the prem.

They are also targetting Tony Mowbray according to the Press up here.

 

[Brauny Blue]

Wheres Hoddle going in all of this .

Patron saint of the ramblers association. Feckin prick.

 

[Chrysalis]

hoddle to sunderland?