Playing devils advocate

Did he strike gold with Alex Neil or was it simply that he f**ked up so badly when appointing Neil Adams that anyone with half a managerial brain coming in after Adams with the squad we had was going to get a significant uplift in performances and results?

Posted By: happy clappy hughes on October 27th 2015 at 11:37:55

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My two penneth (NCFC) - King, Oct 27, 11:18:26
- Yeah no point buying better players cos they might get injured... (NCFC) - Larry Hagman, Oct 27, 12:32:59
- Playing devils advocate (NCFC) - happy clappy hughes, Oct 27, 11:37:55
  - I think teams have seen enough of us now to know how best to (NCFC) - Mecagoenti, Oct 27, 12:38:03
    - Agree home games a worry where teams don't attack us (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 27, 12:49:45
      - the good news is that home form is often sorted out (NCFC) - Brandonio, Oct 27, 13:06:39
        
        yeah, I have faith that he will be able to sort it out (NCFC) - Mecagoenti, Oct 27, 13:18:20
  - troll (n/m) (NCFC) - Pit, Oct 27, 12:02:24
  - and so it begins... (n/m) (NCFC) - Charles21, Oct 27, 11:45:44
    - I'm not saying that's my viewpoint (NCFC) - happy clappy hughes, Oct 27, 12:12:57
      - I was thinking about this yesterday tbh (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 27, 12:29:59
    - quite (NCFC) - paulg, Oct 27, 11:51:36
      - VMT !! (n/m) (NCFC) - essexcanaryOTBC, Oct 27, 12:31:07
- Blimey deja vu from 2 years ago (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 27, 11:35:54
  - When you factor in bonus and other benefits (n/m) (NCFC) - the Tilt Man, Apr 1, 19:40:48
  - football is very much deja vuey (NCFC) - Charles21, Oct 27, 11:44:13
    - or managers (NCFC) - essexcanaryOTBC, Oct 27, 12:33:03
    - Very. Much. This. (n/m) (NCFC) - megson, Oct 27, 11:55:45
    - I'm not stressed about it at all (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 27, 11:48:37
      - thank you for your comment (n/m) (NCFC) - Charles21, Oct 27, 11:50:22
  - Not sure anyone was saying we'd struck gold with Hoots (NCFC) - King, Oct 27, 11:42:51
    - I think a few did but anyway (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 27, 11:48:13
      - Nutshell. (NCFC) - Pit, Oct 27, 12:03:59
- i could suffer a bit of that kind of 'dullness' but (NCFC) - pab, Oct 27, 11:30:44
  - It strikes me that fans only ever see a fraction of the picture when it comes to finances (NCFC) - King, Oct 27, 11:52:16
    - fans go by how Champ Manager works (n/m) (NCFC) - Charles21, Oct 27, 11:56:25
  - if targets won't come, they won't come (NCFC) - Charles21, Oct 27, 11:47:18
    - And if you go for targets above your level (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 27, 11:54:23
      - But surely that's the ambitous targets people want us to be after? (n/m) (NCFC) - megson, Oct 27, 11:56:42
        
        Fine to be ambitious if it's not preventing anyone coming (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 27, 12:00:57
        
        We did seem to run out of alternatives pretty quickly. (n/m) (NCFC) - megson, Oct 27, 12:23:53
      - and if you go for targets at your level (NCFC) - Charles21, Oct 27, 11:55:47
        
        But we keep going for names at big clubs (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 27, 12:03:22

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