Tony Adams is a wanker thread

[pauld]

THE EXACT QUOTES ARE...

"Swindon are not a producing club.

"a lot of lower league clubs used to be producing but all the academies have put pay to that. So there's no way you can grow your way out of trouble anymore. "

Which is even more bullshit - one of the areas that we've been best at in recent years is developing players, whether from our own youth setup (Jukebox, Morrisson) or bought in and sold on having greatly increased their value (Cox). And one of the areas we've specifically invested in is precisely bringing in such players (the two kids signed from Muff this summer).

His overall point may apply in a general sense, but STFC is a bad example of it. You can see he's trying to make a general point but just ends up displaying his ignorance of Swindon

[land_of_bo]

So know you quote the whole article it makes more sense. FFS Gazza do you work for News oif the Screws or something?

[STFC_Gazza]

So know you quote the whole article it makes more sense. FFS Gazza do you work for News oif the Screws or something?

Nope and the whole article isn't quoted.

[land_of_bo]

OK, but when you see what the article is about it puts "Not even Alex Ferguson could work miracles with Swindon Town as no one can make gold from wood”" into context.

Anyway, I couldn't give a fuck about Tony Adams or the Adver.

[RJack]

He's only bitter because we turned him down twice when he applied to be manager here 

[STFC_Gazza]

OK, but when you see what the article is about it puts "Not even Alex Ferguson could work miracles with Swindon Town as no one can make gold from wood”" into context.

Anyway, I couldn't give a fuck about Tony Adams or the Adver.

Perhaps but still says we are prone to failure and have no money, showing sheer ignorance really. It wil take a while I guess to shake this whole "skint club" image off, probably part of the reason we cannot sign players.

[Reg Smeeton]

Anyway, I couldn't give a fuck about Tony Adams or the Adver.

True...but it does raise the valid point as to whether the level of investment at which we currently operate, can do any more than maintain L1 mid table, or whether a manager of abilty can take us further...

[Dazzza]

He’s turning into an odd lost soul is Adams.

The Celtic job was uncomfortably cringe worthy and while  few comments grate in today’s piece a few of his sound bites over the past 6 months have made him sound a cross between Faith healing Hoddle at his lowest ebb and an attention seeking toddler with delusions of grandeur.

I can’t see him working in football at any management level ever again and I think he’ll end up being one of these lost odd jobs that the hacks will occasionally go to for a quote in a piece or article thinking that good old Tony will feed us something to agitate the oiks.

[RJack]

TBH the club is still recording loses on a month to month basis and until the board can find ways to bring extra revenue into the club to stabilise it we will be nothing more than a League One Club for a while.

A lot of the clubs future i fear may all hinge on the redevelopment of the club.  If that goes ahead i think things will look a little rosier for us and then maybe we can look at the bigger picture.

I believe Fitton was a little Naive with his 3 year plan to get us into the Chamionship.

[tans]

I went to a new years eve party years ago, and tony adams and ray parlour tried to put a chicken leg in a light fitting.

What a waste of a chicken leg!

[Arch Stanton]

I saw him outside WHSmiths in Cirencester a fair few months ago, his wife/girlfriend/mistress/whatever was wearing a Wycombe training sweatshirt?!?!? Odd don't you think?

[Power to people]

I think it says that Adams was at an event for Nationwide and he obviously got questioned about Swindon, Nationwide seem to get ex england players in now and again as they sponsor england.

Maybe the guys on here that work for N/Wide can enlighten us to how the conversation went as I assume this was a staff thing that the press were invited to (so only the local hacks turn up) ?

[DMR]

Have the board ever shown any real intention, spending 'big' (relatively) money on a genuinely good L1/Championship style player, or dug deep to get us a class manager? Or have they taken the least costly avenue more often than not?

Adams is right, it's about time Fitton and co used this so called mega millions. I'm not saying go nuts, but otherwise what's the point in having it anyway?

[juddie]

you're deluded DMR, we have no mega millions. That's the whole point.

[DV]

...the fact we havent even signed a bloody striker yet shows Adams is at least partly right!!!