Yeah but we were working with less. The variability was higher but so was the top end of the quality.
Of the money signings only Walker didn’t really come off and a few came off in a big way.
We seem to consistently spend a lot to get not much under Austin. The window before was one we were unusually skint in, wasn’t it the window Hyam was sold for the pitch?
There’s good players in the squad and which ever way you cut it, we’re underperforming and have been Feb/Mar this year. Which Robins is ultimately accountable for and the first person to fall on his sword. We’re not Man U or another team that is churning through managers to know something is fundamentally broken across the club.
The analysis of the situation by King is that the players are good enough but the coaching isn’t. That is his final decision and I agree with him on that. We’ve looked outthought in far too many matches this year and defensively do not look organised.
King was pretty open about believing Robins would be exposed without a suitable replacement for AV and was sceptical about the flat coaching structure being. If that was Robins decision, that’s on him because he was open about the coaches needing to develop
i.e. not good enough right now.
This season, players have seemed to regress and it’s fair to look at results, MR chopping and changing the coaching set up and the team in a weekly basis and deciding the first thing to change is the manager.
There’s one thing wishing to hold Dean Austin and Dr Roberts ‘to account’ but another to suggest sacking them would somehow improve results on the pitch. That was always MR’s show.