Nickles Forearm wrote:
If I'm not mistaken Adamson, Henare & Darrell Trindall who are clearly some of our worst signings in recent years, were all brought in by Ellery Hanley. Worse still were all brought in as players to stay long term
At least Howarth, as bad as he was, was always a short term fix due to lack of players.
You are mistaken. Adamson was signed by the board.
Adamson was not a bad player at all, but Hanley chose point blank not to play him after the first couple of games. I hypothesise that it was to show who was in charge of his squad.
People always call Adamson as a poor player, but he wasn't. He did okay if his 3 games before he was dropped. I went to a lot of reserve games that year and he was always head and shoulders above the rest, but NEVER ever got picked for first team duty, despite us having Paul Davison stinking up the pack (remember him, even the Saints fans booed him he was that crap).
Hanley had his plus points, but he was a bloody weirdo at times.