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correct- if you want to only talk as manager, then his legacy is 2 promotions in 6 years, and rebuilding a club with the aid of possibly our best ever owner. robins’ legacy as manager would be 3 promotions in 5 years, and rebuilding a club with the aid of probably our worst ever owner.

mentioning Tim Fisher really just reinforces what an incredible job Robins has done having to deal with all that.

if we’re including things like legacies, then Hill’s legacy includes almost bankrupting the place in the 1980s, selling off players to fund things like the Washington Diplomats, and getting to the point where enraged fans were storming onto the pitch wishing him dead. it also includes resigning...

Agreed but we are talking about the best football manager. As I said, Hill was an icon of the game and changed many things. but in terms of on field achievements, the clear facts are that if we beat Luton than Hill can’t compete with what Robins would have done. I mean- Hill was able to spend...

robins would have achieved 3 promotions in 5 years with all kinds of shit going on hill achieved 2 promotions in 6 years with big backing and a highly supportive owner Hill also never had to contend with teams coming down with parachute payments. Hill was an absolute icon, but Robins’...

97/98 was a brilliant season, felt like we really were on the verge of something, especially with the 7 wins on the trot. We looked like we’d beat anyone in front of us.

if we’re talking ‘favourite’ manager then Sillett is mine. No disparaging here, as I said I have him above Hill. Taking all emotion out of it I just see as Robins would have achieved more with less.

Oh I’m not putting him down one bit. I’d put Sillett ahead of Hill, and if he’d have had a better eye for a transfer and a bit more of a taskmaster he could have taken us even higher- I remember 89/90 when we were 4th right up until March or so (I think), but we just wilted. Sillett was a...

Thank you- long time lurker overseas, and for what it’s worth you are an excellent poster, especially in the match threads which can be a total cesspit 😂👏

If we get promoted I would say 1. Mark Robins 2. John Sillett 3. Jimmy Hill 4. Noel Cantwell 5. Harry Storer if you want to rank those who had the biggest impact on the game and the city itself then Hill is in a league of his own, but purely on field matters, he can’t compete with Robins or...

wrong- it was WW2 that scuppered us because another of our all time great managers Harry Storer had us nailed on for promotion to the top league pulling gates of 25,000 every week. to say we were an irrelevance is wrong, it was the war which took all our momentum away- know your history.

77/78 was beyond entertaining. It was amazing. But that was one season. And saying “impossible odds for 10 years” is pretty much nonsense. people tend to go for the names from when they started out, as they were their ‘magic times’, so I get why a few say Milne but to put Milne over Robins is...

so many people took weird delight in saying we’d never sell out in the Premier League (purely because we used to get 15,000 in 1995)- what a joke that is. we’ll sell all these out, and if we went up we’d average 30k+ no bother.