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If there is a disciplinary reason then that wouldn’t be leaving him out of the squad for no reason? There were murmuring on social media yesterday morning, prior to Robins being sacked, that Simms wasn’t injured and had been dropped for non-footballing reasons. I don’t personally believe it...

Very interested to see if Simms starts.

To some people being proved right is the most important thing in their life.

We need to storm Ryton and smash all the iPads, it’s the only way this club will ever get promoted

Yeah I do feel for him a bit tbf. Thrown to the wolves a bit. Fingers crossed for a good performance on Saturday.

Why would Robins want to come back to work for an owner who’d just sacked him?

I would prefer a foreign coach. Standard of coaching education is much better on the continent and none of the British candidates look at all appealing. Main concern however is that King is a clown and I have zero faith that he knows what he’s doing or what to look for in a football manager.

Most independent outlets had us finishing between 6th and 3rd tbf.

Still complete silence from the players? I haven’t seen anything from any of them yet

You’d think people would be able to spell his name after managing us for 7 years

If you have a manager who does everything you had to start again when they leave. If you have a head coach and hire the right people in the other areas of the club then it shouldn’t matter as much when the head coach (see Liverpool literally right now). Really not that difficult to figure...

It’s really not that hard to figure out. There is a reason pretty much every top club in the world has the same approach.

Same guy who a few weeks ago said Robins was under zero pressure?

I said to my brother immediately as the new broke that it was odd that it was announced as a sacking. Don’t often see that these days, especially for managers with as much credit in the bank as Robins. Would suggest to me a disharmonious ending with either King wanting to send a message about...

Fair point, although I don’t know if King is competent enough to have that in place. We did, after all, announce we were looking to bring in a new assistant manager in summer, posted a job advertisement and then promoted two coaches from within and said we weren’t going to appoint an assistant...

The timing is bizarre when we’d just won two games well. Would definitely suggest he’s been looking to do it for a while or that something happened last night that pushed it to breaking point.

Only 8.6% voted Robins out in the previous poll.l tbf. It was always a vocal minority and everyone I know is gutted he’s gone.

What are his motivations for owning this football club when he himself has confessed he’s not much of a football fan?

Do you seriously believe that King has sacked Robins because he had a scroll through here? Even though all the polls had a vast majority of people saying Robisn should say and ‘Mark Robins Sky Blue Army’ and ‘there is only one Mark Robins’ get sung at every game?

I do think more has gone on behind the scenes than just ‘results aren’t good enough so you’ve been sacked’ based on the murmurings and what can be gleaned from the official statements. I’m surprised none of the players seem to have said anything yet given the news has been out for 4 or so hours.