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You’re both on the money. Chelsea have struggled under Potter and Potchettino and Everton have struggled with top class managers like Ancelotti and Benitez. Sean Dyche is perhaps the best manager in the league to have for a club fighting for Premiership survival. Lampard was just out of his...

I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion because we may consider European managers we’ve never heard of. On Lampard, he won’t be as bad people make out. We’re a Championship club.

Well, he said they need a head of coaching / player development. The coaches themselves will see Do you know anything about recruitment? It’s the same as having someone from HR/another team being present as a sense check.

It was a joke, there was an Arsenal fan who called into talksport saying England should’ve hired Robins…

You are correct. Listened to King and Austin last night should’ve given everyone an understanding of where we’re at in relation to our recruitment strategy. Pre-2023/24, we relied on loans to make up the numbers where we’d have 4-6 loans every season. The scale of the rebuild is we’ve revamped...

Which is no insult considering his predecessors at Chelsea and Everton were world class managers…

That’s over one season, we’ve got Bassette signed up for 4 years and the view is to develop him to make a profit on him. You can’t do that with loan players, we’ve got plenty of examples to draw upon.

I don’t think he presented himself as a hero. He needed to set the record straight because of the toxicity around the club brewing for a while. Specifically, on the coaching structure and Dr Roberts role in the club. The reason it was such a curveball for many on here was because they refused...

You’re right in saying just because DK grabbed hold of the narrative doesn’t make it true. Equally, to tell a bare faced lie in public is risky because Robins or even Viveash could rebuke the comments made in public. Why does anyone believe that MR would stand for DK meddling in the coaching...

This cracked me up 😂 On a serious note though, he was playing as a WB in the traditional sense. The shape was v much accounting for the fact that Rudoni was not a LWB i.e. the defence shifted across to cover for him. Against Middlesborough it was like a 4-4-2 out of possession and 3-4-1-2 in...

They were a team, Robins takes overall credit and rightly so. Viveash deserves credit too but MR didn’t become a bad manager without him and of course, his first spell without AV was going well.

Exactly, it’s an idea that never made any sense so I cannot understand why so many peddled this nonsense idea.

Seriously, where to start with it? @Paxman II please take off the tin foil hat! King literally outlined the Performance Director’s role (for people who couldn’t work it out) and Dean Austin was hired before King came in and was MR’s man. Then there’s the coaching structure, it was introduced...

I fundamentally disagree with the premise that Doug King always wanted to sack Robins. A lot of the arguments in favour of this premise was the supposed undermining of Robins position i.e. signing players without MR’s input, sacking AV, the Performance Director and ofc, the coaching structure...

We tried to loan Joe Worrall but the thing is, players like him are the kind Prem teams want to move off their books permanently. Which is why he ended up at Burnley permanently!

Well, not quite. He said it was something he was thinking about looking at in the future.

Dean Austin gave his reasons why the loan market is difficult. If you loan players they expect to play and if they don’t, it negatively impacts relationships with agents and clubs. Used Ayari as a great example, wasn’t good enough for us or Blackburn last season but is doing really well in the...

Intriguing, perhaps. Never managed in England could count against him. The stock of managers coming from Sweden/Norway isn’t exactly great i.e. Solbakken, Tommasson and Solskjær. There is not clear cut candidates out there who I’d be happy with other than Potter or Moyes. I am coming around to...

The last two winners of the Championship were Pep connections, Maresca and Kompany…

Doug King wasn’t being a helpless spectator. He let MR run the show because he’s earned the right to do so. King specifically said he didn’t want to force anything on the manager or tell MR how to his job. Which is fair enough because that would be the kind of interference King and Dr Roberts...