Neil Adams

You had Kevin Langley.

You had Neil Adams.

And even players like Adrian Heath.

Adrian Heath only played... 17 games, 84-85.

Yeah, very much.

I mean, I think, you know, I know there's more travel than modern manager coach type things, person in charge these days but yeah he's incredibly young and also incredibly successful for somebody that age as well

yeah yeah yeah so as you mentioned he's obviously dealing with those with those those injuries um and i mean in terms of building a team or rebuilding a team capable of recapturing the title it's it's more of a patch-up job isn't it you know he's he bolsters the ranks with some promising youth in the form of kevin langley neil adams as you mentioned warren aspinall but then he makes one key veteran addition whose signing was a surprise to everyone, not least the player himself, the professor, as Zignev dubbed him.

Yeah, I mean, Paul Power turned out to be one of Howard Kendall's most inspirational signings.

Um, as Ryan says, seemed very popular within that group as well.

Um, what I would say, though, is he probably kept Neil Adams in a job longer than Neil Adams deserved to be in that job by an excellent run of goal scoring form, which, um, I'm gonna have to check for the Patreon special podcast after this.

But I think it, his goal scoring form sort of dropped off a bit when Alex Neil came on.

I dunno whether-- I can't really remember if his role changed slightly, but he was

wasHe was a real mo- like, when it was sort of going wrong under Neil Adams, Bradley Johnson was the one guy you'd really turn to, to add a bit of joy to, um, to any sort of performance.

So yeah, I probably look back on him more fondly than I did wh- while he was playing for us, actually, weirdly.

I, I think he, I think it did dip in terms of goal scoring, and then it picked up again as we got towards the end of the season.

Norwich, this is where it's interesting.

Uh, he played under Paul Camp- Paul Lambert, Chris Hughton, Neil Adams, Alex Neil, and Daniel Farke.

Now to me, that clutch of managers there, they'll say they're half decent.

They've all had reasonable runs at some point, so.

So there was a bit of a thought.

He applied for the Southport job when Neil Adams got the job.

and didn't get it because it's Franny Jeffers and he like

this is going on the high bliss now

So yeah, it's never nice.

I suppose on a personal level, the one that was most difficult was when it started to go a bit wrong for Neil Adams, and Brian Gunn as well, to a slightly lesser extent.

But Neil I'd spent a good few years traveling the country with, actually working with and commentating.

So I really had an idea of what it meant to him and what he put into it.