Robins has said many things since he has been here. He has said the team has quality throughout, he has said that cov aren't aone man band. Neither of these are true as can be seen by the way they played against Shrewsbury, carlisle, Spurs etc. Considering the hype surrounding him you would have thought he had turned cov into automatic promotion to the premier league!
It is notable however, that the first game for Robins, city played awfully, and still played awfully against them second time around. BOTH times without the benefit of DMc ! It is becoming more and more clear, that it was indeed DMc's ability yo provide telling balls, and ability to put the ball in the back of the net that has managed to raise city to its current position in the league. Indeed there are a bare minimum of 5 games where DMc was either the main or sole goalscorer - meaning 15 points can be directly put down to him. That means had BMc never arrived, Cov would be with a meagre 22 rather than 37 points - which would have COV deep in the relegation zone!
Had the concept of Robins turning the team around, then surely they would be able to play well without DMc. Yet the last few games not only have cov lost, but the way they have lost has been totally unacceptable.
And so he decides to put all his eggs in one basket and sign Leon Clarke. Hasn't scored in the league since 20 Nov, and only scored because the Ref missed the most glaringly obvious off-side that has been seen in a long while!
If the team had played well and lost maybe there would be a case these are just one-off bad performances, but they played as badly against carlisle this time as they did back when Robins joined.
There can be only one conclusion - the side have NOT progressed under Robins, and its only DMc that has put Cov into the falsely high position in the league!