Robins to Stoke ? (24 Viewers)

[Evo1883]

I wish him all the best , a good appointment for stoke and wasn't out of work long after a very brilliant 7.5 years here .

I wonder how stokes finances stack up against ours in terms of wage bill etc ?

 

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[clint van damme]

At what point did he want Nevin? I’m sure this info would’ve been available in the summer.

Him not going for any of the other coaches he brought in could be an admission that he got that restructure wrong. If MR could see that and the. Asked for Nevin and/or Ramsey, it could’ve been too late in the day.

After all, October 19th was well after the season started there’d already been 2-3 ‘MR out threads on here’. Both Austin and King had a pre-conceived belief that MR would be exposed without a top class coach alongside him so it’s probably MR asked too late.

I don’t buy the narrative that King wanted to rid MR because he was the last vestige of the Ancien Régime which is what you/your source is peddling. If he believed MR was the man to take us to the Prem, then he’d still be at the club. What is clear is that King’s faith in Robins was fundamentally tested by AV’s exit and the season start made his position untenable.

There's been Robins out threads in here since 2017!

 

[wingy]

None of them were

Can't wait to get rid personally!
Just thinking ahead, I hope this assistant keeps it in his trousers!

 

[Evo1883]

There's been Robins out threads in here since 2017!

Should be said by the same 2 or 3 people

 

[Earlsdon-Loyal-Blue]

Nevin was who Robins wanted as his Number 2

Doug said no. There's a reason Delaney and Dempster were promoted, it saved money

Also it speaks volumes Robins hasn't tried to get any of the coaching set up 'he' put in place, even though 1 of them in Boateng is currently unemployed.

It's staring people in the face and they don't want to believe it

Doug was truthful with Robins saying he can't work with Adi anymore. Doug was truthful that he tried to work it out between them.

He wasn't truthful with the bullshit about the number 2 'not coming across his desk'. It did

Also, i was told before the Preston game on October 19th Doug wanted Lampard. As we're a few others

The second Adi went and Robins was last man standing from the old regime, Doug knew he was giving him the boot and putting in who he wanted

Finally a post that is of some value. Dickhead Doug lied about what went on this summer, thinking the compensation and NDA with Robins meant he could come up with whatever lie he wanted.

Robins has got two assistants that are significantly better than any of the bags of shit that walked in the door following AV’s exit. Usually managers take their coaches with them when they leave, why didn’t Dempster, Delaney etc go with Robins and why isn’t he touching them with a shitty stick now?

The PL dream has gone. There’s more chance of us going to League 1 than the PL. We have sold out a winning formula for Doug the Cunts ego and a name.

People saying move on, we’ve gone from an Aston Martin to a Citroen Berlingo and still expect the same velocity.

Lampard has fuck all on Robins as a manager.

 

[Evo1883]

Some on here also suggested he was only good enough to be picked up by a league 1 club totally clueless

 

[jas365]

Good luck to him, but hope we give them a real caning in March

 

[Saddlebrains]

Why did Robins say he appointed them though and it was his choice. Appreciate the info

It's like me or you can't say at work ' all the changes brought in by upper management are a load of shit, i don't like it, never wanted it and the new computer system is a pile of wank, they dont know what theyre doing'

What would happen then?

 

[AJB1983]

Carr was clearly a King/Roberts/Austin appointment (hence him being the caretaker and still here now).
Boateng a weird one really.

 

[clint van damme]

Carr was clearly a King/Roberts/Austin appointment (hence him being the caretaker and still here now).
Boateng a weird one really.

Spot on.

 

[Para1140]

my God is this a joke

I know cant believe Stoke have signed a manager who took a club in a mess from league two to the championship and a pen kick away from the premiership when they could have signed Kenny Jacket

 

[Matt smith]

Seems like he’s always wanted that job based on @rob9872 (i think right poster) comments re a couple years ago

hope we smash them in march but it will probably be the exact opposite

 

[Nick]

Same handful of people still fighting their hardest that robins was hard done by? Fucking hell.

 

[TomRad85]

Seems like he’s always wanted that job based on @rob9872 (i think right poster) comments re a couple years ago

hope we absolutely fucking smash them

Where were we when he apparently applied for the job? League 1? Same division?

 

[Para1140]

There's been Robins out threads in here since 2017!

Mainly from one person

 

[Nick]

It's like me or you can't say at work ' all the changes brought in by upper management are a load of shit, i don't like it, never wanted it and the new computer system is a pile of wank, they dont know what theyre doing'

What would happen then?

After you had openly said you had planned the new system wouldn't look great either it?

 

[Evo1883]

The thing is given the chance and their finances there is every chance stoke slowly become a top half regular in the championship now and with that also comes the chance of finishing in the playoffs .

 

[clint van damme]

The thing is given the chance and their finances there is every chance stoke slowly become a top half regular in the championship now and with that also comes the chance of finishing in the playoffs .

Think he'll need to hit the ground running because they're not know for their patience.

 

[TomRad85]

The thing is given the chance and their finances there is every chance stoke slowly become a top half regular in the championship now and with that also comes the chance of finishing in the playoffs .

They will feel they should be that given what they spend, hence they keep sacking managers who don't deliver it I suppose.

 

[Sick Boy]

Without being in the know, my take is that I didn’t believe much of what king said at the forum anyway about what robins wanted in the coaching structure.
just seems weird to me that if we take what Doug said as gospel, that MR wanted four ‘flat’ coaches and no assistant or head of coaching, but now he’s got two assistants with one apparently who he wanted at Cov.
I think it was very much a structure that king wanted but on his terms (which is exactly what Lampard has got) and robins was the fall guy.

i.e. robins would have had an assistant but his choice and not one forced on him.

In that case Robins would be able to batter King in court.

 

[Nick]

The thing is given the chance and their finances there is every chance stoke slowly become a top half regular in the championship now and with that also comes the chance of finishing in the playoffs .

Are they still owned by the bet365 owners or was that port vale?

 

[Matt smith]

Where were we when he apparently applied for the job? League 1? Same division?

I’m not sure mate, didn’t someon say it was when there was the pitch fiasco and we sold dom hyam

 

[Nick]

Without being in the know, my take is that I didn’t believe much of what king said at the forum anyway about what robins wanted in the coaching structure.
just seems weird to me that if we take what Doug said as gospel, that MR wanted four ‘flat’ coaches and no assistant or head of coaching, but now he’s got two assistants with one apparently who he wanted at Cov.
I think it was very much a structure that king wanted but on his terms (which is exactly what Lampard has got) and robins was the fall guy.

i.e. robins would have had an assistant but his choice and not one forced on him.

He literally said himself he planned the coaching structure

Some of the fan fiction is hilarious, it's like teenage girls writing stories about Harry styles.

 

[Matt smith]

He’ll do a good job there though, good luck to him.

have always felt he would go to stoke

 

[SBT]

Will surely be sacked within a month given that he’s an incompetent buffoon who was carried completely by Viveash

Given that some people on here have seriously suggested that Robins can only succeed with a coaching setup that doesn’t get more sophisticated than Adi Viveash and a bucket of cones, it will be interesting to see how he fares at a club with a backroom staff and infrastructure that dwarfs the one we have here.

Just imagine the iPad budget for this lot! Stoke City FC Directory

 

[Evo1883]

They will feel they should be that given what they spend, hence they keep sacking managers who don't deliver it I suppose.

I think giving a new manager like Schumacher what was it 12 games or something isn't the best model to follow ..

But considering it's another 3 5 years with a fantastic looking backroom you'd have to imagine mark asked for guarantees of this season and maybe next atleast unless they fall below a certain criteria

 

[Evo1883]

Carr was clearly a King/Roberts/Austin appointment (hence him being the caretaker and still here now).
Boateng a weird one really.

Hasn't dr roberts worked with Carr previous ?

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

Carr was clearly a King/Roberts/Austin appointment (hence him being the caretaker and still here now).
Boateng a weird one really.

Carr looked totally lost on the pitch before the Millwall game all of the men Frank brought in had jobs to do he just stood there alone and getting the balls

 

[Domo]

None of them were

Quite an ITK if true.

 

[Matt smith]

I think giving a new manager like Schumacher what was it 12 games or something isn't the best model to follow ..

But considering it's another 3 5 years with a fantastic looking backroom you'd have to imagine mark asked for guarantees of this season and maybe next atleast unless they fall below a certain criteria

He’s going to go Plymouth again ironically

 

[Evo1883]

He’s going to go Plymouth again ironically

He did a great job there so I can see why

 

[clint van damme]

In that case Robins would be able to batter King in court.

Pretty sure there wont be any legals. He'll have had a handsome payout and even if King has lied about the things some of us think he has it hardly anything scandalous.

Not sure about Viveash though, given he made his parting statement through a solicitor.

 

[TomRad85]

I think giving a new manager like Schumacher what was it 12 games or something isn't the best model to follow ..

But considering it's another 3 5 years with a fantastic looking backroom you'd have to imagine mark asked for guarantees of this season and maybe next atleast unless they fall below a certain criteria

As i said further up, I think he'd have to be bloody awful not to last until the summer and I don't see that happening. Assuming he makes it there they will make plenty of funds available to him. It is a good job for someone to get their teeth into but you have to be wary that their owners are even more trigger happy than our own Deadly Doug. If he had a similar start to what we had this season, the outcome would be the same.

 

[Evo1883]

Are they still owned by the bet365 owners or was that port vale?

Yes they are

 

[Grendel]

Mainly from one person

Im trying to work out your previous identity - it’s frustrating