Ian Royal Adkins strikes me as an attempt to go back to a more Coppellesque way of playing. Perhaps less width from the wingers, but pacy attacking football with llenty of ability to pass the ball and retain possession where needed. Fingers crossed that's the case and it works.
I absolutely hope that the type of football does turn out to be similar in a way to the Coppell era, though at Premiership level hopefully with decent defensive midfielders to stop us getting caught on the counter as we did regularily during 07/08. However i cant really see the link between Coppell and narrow wing play that is suggested above? In fact it was Coppell's detail as a former winger which helped our success in this area by playing his wingers out wide either using direct speed (Convey/Hunt) or skill (Little, Seol) to beat players and cross, with the rb/lb pushing on to help as required. During Brian's tenure it became clear that the wingers were less expressive when they had the ball and attacked (Kebe's lack of runs or pushing the ball bast players and Jobi being employed in field) and the wingers were also not helped by the lack of support from lb/rb who would stick to their positions like glue when we attacked.
