Gordon Strachan managed to finish 5 points off the uefa Cup in 98 , is he better than Robins ?
Now its potentially a reality , Will mark Robins be Coventrys greatest manager if we get promoted (1 Viewer)
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Gordon Strachan managed to finish 5 points off the uefa Cup in 98 , is he better than Robins ?
I think you're Grendel and I claim my £5.
That said....5th? Fucking hell! Some people are just never happy! G, not you. Obvs.
I’d be interested to hear the justification for putting him on the list - his last game in charge was 70 years ago so not sure how many people on here saw his teams first hand…..What was our average xG/game back then?
Took over a team in Div 1 that finished 16th and then finished
14th
14th
19th (avoiding relegation by a point)
7th
10th
15th
16th
Left the club two places lower than when he joined.
Robins has us two (possibly soon to be 3) leagues higher.
He became manager at 34 - kept the club in the top division against impossible odds for 10 years and ask your dad if the 1977 78 season wasn’t the best the club had since the Hill era
I was supporting the club when Dowie was manager. Another higher win % than Milne. This debate could be taken down some hilarious roads.
Manager A - 34.4% win ratio, best league finish of 7th, worst league finish of 19th
Manager B - 33.3% win ratio, best league finish of 8th, worst league finish of 19th
Is one of these considered to be better than Robins? And if so, which one? Choose carefully!
Manager B - 33.3% win ratio, best league finish of 8th, worst league finish of 19th
Is one of these considered to be better than Robins? And if so, which one? Choose carefully!
Manager A is Gordon Milne
Manager B is Micky Adams
Manager B is Micky Adams
no Rupert but statistically he got the club to the highest position in the clubs history - he didn’t and couldn’t achieve promotions but he did achieve the highest position the club will ever achieve probably
I never got chance to see any of those managers in charge, but if they were better than Robins they must have been some pretty good years. Hopefully Robins can replicate if we go up and keep us there!
He said it was a great season , but still thinks what Robins has done for the club over 6 seasons trumps it.
I will say me and the old man have been home and away all the way through the last 6 years and it probably sways how we feel about it
No it couldn’t - Dowie was rubbish and it’s embarrassing you’ve mentioned him and Milne frankly
But it didn’t last and we were soon scalping around at the bottom end, as yet Robins has not struggled in any of the three divisions he has been manager and he has changed his squad three times, bought players cheap and flogged them for a few million and turned Gyo from a million quid hopefully to a multi-million star.
He'd be top three for me - he is now. We've done the whys before mind you.
If he wins us the FA Cup he's top one, no question.
It’s a subject that doesn’t have an even playing field. Some managers got us promotions, some inherited a 1st division/Prem team with varying success.
It honestly could if it’s the route people decided to take. But you really need to cool your Bovril, you think one thing, I think another. It’s words on the Internet - though I think yours on this thread are complete bullshit just to gouge a reaction.
Robins perches nicely at the top.
Me? I can value it, but not want to diminish What Sillet did by deciding on arbitrary factors and differences. Is that so terrible?
Plus we can win the FA Cup while outside the top flight...
The FA cup was a huge competition back then.
I don't think people who weren't around for the cup in the 70s and 80s can't appreciate how big
Though to have Robins at 5 Is mind boggling, he hasn't just dragged us from L2, he's had to navigate a whole raft of non footballing issue while doing it.
Gets us to the prem and I cant separate him and Sillett for 1 and 2.
