Missed the playoffs. The club released a statement just before 9am saying that they’d parted company with him.
Where next for our Nige? Apart from SKD’s testimonial, of course.
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Sad to hear that he’s struggled after doing such a great job with us.
Going straight through the Championship without any pissing about in play-offs was a great feat.
Destined to work with us in some capacity, I can feels it in me water
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I shall have to ask my Blades mate what they thought of him to get some pespective from the other side.
then again why did we actually sack him?
if he was a right back then I could see a future for him with us
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Do we need another physio?
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Going to Reading wasnt the best career choice and I feel for the guy. Perhaps if had waited a bit longer he would have picked up a better job whilst his stock was still relatively high. Hopefully he will bounce back and get another shot at a decent club. He deserves it.
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Sad news for our Nige, a thoroughly decent man.
Originally posted by Pap
**EDIT: ** Didn’t put this in the Sack Race thread because it’s our Nige (not Barry’s one).
Don’t worry mate, I just put it in there for you, having not noticed this thread until afterwards. 
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My long suffering Blades mate has said they sacked Adkins because he took them to the lowest league finish in there history. A bit like when Lawrie Mac went to Sunderland and took them to the third division for the first time
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I think, perhaps, it’s time to finally start being realistic about Nigel. He did fantastically for us in a very good setup. When that setup has not been as good, he hasn’t flourished, and he arguably had a last bad nine months with Saints. I’ve admitted before that I cried when we got the third goal in against Coventry, but it was mostly out of relief. Saints had been listing, relative to their previously high standards, and if not for that win against Cov, we’d have faced the playoff lottery.
I don’t want to diminish the man’s achievements. He got back to back promotions, and that is not for nothing. That we managed to hold off Huddersfield in our league one promotion season was remarkable. The bunging away of the Championship title was glossed over by most fans in the delirium of promotion, but I never forgot the slump, nor the parting of the ways comment when we’d just achieved a five year plan in three,
I’ll always see Nigel as a good thing, but hand on heart, if Koeman does the offs at the end of the season, would Nige really be top of your replacement list? It sounds harsh, but all he’s really done in the last three years is make saint_lard’s comments seem kinda justified. I doubt many would take him back if they were looking to improve on this season’s position.
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I have nothing but the greatest respect and admiration for the man.
Nigel Adkins was not only a fantastic manager for us, but an inspirational man.
At a time when our Club was on the floor, he came in with his infectious enthusiam, and put a smile on everyone’s faces.
He was exactly the tonic we needed at the time. Morale was low, Pardew, great as he was for us too, was known for putting noses out of joint and having ‘favourites’ and those who would never get a look in if they’d rubbed him up the wrong way somehow.
Nigel came in and gave everyone a lift, and a clean slate. He was a breath of fresh air, and a foghorn-blast of positivity. He brought the whole Club together, and united a long divided fan-base. Essentially, what that great man has done for us, cannot simply be measured on the football pitch (although its results certainly showed on it) – but rather was integrated throughout all levels of the Club. He made us believe in ourselves again, and what he achieved was not measurable only in footballing success, but in the way he worked on people, on building characters and encouraging us all to be better human-beings. He fostered such an immense spirit of togetherness which has remained at the core of our Club to this day, and it was this that played such a vital part in our recovery, and becoming the model Premier League Football Club that we are today.
Southampton supporters (at least the vast majority of us who remain immensely grateful to him for all he has done for us) will always be “Together as One” with Nigel Adkins. He has left a lasting legacy, of which he, and we should be extremely proud.
Sure – he had everything he needed to be a success set up for him at such a well-run and ambitious Club as Southampton – but he still had to deliver that success, under the weight and pressure of expectation.
And deliver it he did.
Southampton Legend.
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To be fair Pap I didn’t say we’d have him back as manager.
Coaching the yoof ? Or some ambassadorial role ? Absolutely
I wasn’t really aiming my comments at anyone on this thread, but my point was that we’d be unlikely to have him back in his previous capacity.
Wouldn’t mind him back in some other capacity though.
We should name the bus after him
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The 70’s team had a song for him
Hurry up Nigel come on, were going down the pub
If he drinks Greene King IPA he certainly has no taste
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