Skyblue Bangkok
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Maybe Robins thinks we have a Man City/ Liverpool type squad instead of trying to play our best 11 when available.
Match Thread West Bromwich Albion - Coventry City Match Thread - Friday 1st Mar (4 Viewers)
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Skyblue Bangkok
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Apparently 3
shepardo01
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Last couple of results been coming - it has been obvious. Here is my post from the Plymouth game.
Yeah maybe, the anger is skewing my memory
AiS86
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Who we on about again? Can't remember the subs. Surely we all know at this point no? I'm sure he'd love to, as would every manager, but that's just not how football works, you have to consider the player's morale as well. Very few would join a club to sit on the bench every week
Ccfcisparks
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We’ve lost 3 in 14 it’s embarassing.
we are as bad as the Leicester and Sunderland fans
shmmeee
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Kitching got himself sent off twice in five games for a start and Collins failed to keep a clean sheet in 8.
Otis
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That makes him a poor manager then, surely.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Again, not even close. Unless you count MR as also being entitled
Nick
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The player who missed a game through fatigue and was needlessly brought on last week.
shmmeee
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Not sure Robins half time team talk against Preston consisted of “boooooooo”
Chris1987
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Kitching hasn't been selected when not tired , ill or suspended . Collins not keeping a clean sheet in 8 means he's out of form then does it ?
Ccfcisparks
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We are. In October most were expecting us to be down in 20th, we’ve lost a few games and dropped out the playoffs and there’s hell to pay. It really is embarrassing.
AiS86
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Yeah who was it? I genuinely can't remember. Could be a number of reasons, throw them on for 45 against a weaker team to get some confidence in them, try and keep them match sharp. I'm sure with even the most fatigued players, you don't tell them to sit on the sofa for a week. We'll have the sports scientists giving Robins advice which he can then choose to act on/ignore
Brighton Sky Blue
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Can't imagine it was too kind either and the man himself called it the worst performance in years. He wanted a few loans in for January, didn't get them, Saka got his back broken and Hull/Scott Tenorman FC get the playoff spot.
Ccfcisparks
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shepardo01
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Anybody commented on Robins admitting that he set the team up wrong earlier?
Hasn't actually mentioned illness at all tonight - just that he wanted technical footballers in the side!
@Saddlebrains - were the absences of Kitching and Bidwell down to illness!?
Hasn't actually mentioned illness at all tonight - just that he wanted technical footballers in the side!
@Saddlebrains - were the absences of Kitching and Bidwell down to illness!?
Nick
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Maybe we need new analysts then if he's taking their advice and our players are all too tired?
Brighton Sky Blue
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Or is it actually just your typical fickle football fans, no more no less.
shmmeee
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I dunno, Saddle says there’s an attitude problem, someone else said he had a hand injury, Robins said he needed time out the team. All valid reasons. All certainly more valid than “the most successful manager in a generation has gone doo lally, stopped trying to win games, knows less about the fitness and form than a bunch of forum dwellers and is doing it for the bants”
Chris1987
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Not my words.
shmmeee
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He literally says “we had to make changes to key players because of injuries”
shmmeee
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Well put your words out there then and people will stop having to guess.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Lost 4 in a row at that point and MR looked like he was stuck on this 5 at the back system that was conceding plenty and scoring few. For the amount of money spent it was alarming.
And to be quite honest, we've spent an enormous sum of money to still be struggling for depth in most parts of the pitch to the point where without Sakamoto we've needed to revert to the same ineffective shape of earlier on.
The CableGuy
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Yeah, little chance of automatic, not when those relegated teams have parachute payments. We and most of the league simply can't complete with that kind of financial firepower. Burnley and Sheff Utd will go right back up and the likes of Luton/Everton/Brentford/Forest will be favourites in the play-offs.
Bugsy
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AiS86
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They'd give him advice on managing the players fitness. Fatigue can play a massive part in that, and can result in injuries. If we played the same 11 every week, the injuries would pile up and players form would dip. Do you not find it coincidental that since O'Hare has an amazing spell, then he has fatigue, and his form dips?