I do think Robins can be tactically inept at times and his stubborn refusal to change in game situations has undoubtedly cost us points this season and in seasons gone by. I think many would agree with that statement and are not completely blinkered.
I have not said the Mark Robins is inept all the time and am I happy he is our manager yes - do I think he is as good tactically and as a manager as someone like Neil Warnock no I do not ! It does not mean I do not appreciate what he has done with the club.
Max's has been portrayed as a hero which is the point of this thread opening for playing with an injury.
I like Max the injury cannot be that serious though and many players play through injuries some not that wisely so to portray him as heroic is wrong if injury not that serious.
If it is serious he should not really be playing as commendable as it is - people on this thread have said he does not look the same and he has had serious injuries in the past. I would rather play Baka as a sub coming on or Bapaga than risk Max suffer another long term injury at his age personally.
The dictionary definition for inept is 'incompetent and bungling'. You say you don't think he is inept all of the time. Presumably you think he is inept then a considerable amount of the time.
I would really struggle to think of too many times over the past 4 years that Robins has made incompetent or bungling decisions. In reality, I can't think of anything that he had done that fits that description. No doubt he has made mistakes, but to be called inept, bungling incompetent? Grossly unfair.
What amazes me is the is way that some people make pronouncements on his tactics or his substitutions with such a degree of certainty. In their minds, there is no room for doubt. Robins was wrong and they were right. This despite looking in from the outside. (The clamour from some posters for two up front for example when only those on the inside knew Biamou was carrying an injury).
Everyone has opinions and everyone is entitled to them. I think Russell Slade has been the worst manager we have had in the 54 years I have supported the club. I feel this way because of the awful football we played and the fact we played that way and still lost most games. I couldn't understand why we lumped long balls forward all of the time while playing a small forward like Bevan. Despite this I would accept that Slade knows far more about football than I will ever know. In a discussion on the merits of certain footballers or on tactics, Slade should and probably would wipe the floor with me.
I think that being a manager, particularly these days is a skilled and technical, multi facetted job. To constantly criticise what a successful bloke like Robins is doing and to do it from the outside with such absolute certainty I think borders on the delusional.
I simply don't get why the only successful manager we have had for the past 20 odd years is only ever a run of one defeat in a row from being ridiculed. We have had success, after success over the past 4 years, success achieved in the bleakest of circumstances. As I said previously, only a manager who wins almost all of the time would be acceptable to some, something a club of our stature is never going to achieve
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