Otis
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Most definitely.
Didn't help himself either when he said we are the best team in the league.
If we don't at least make the playoffs that is indeed failure.
Most definitely.How many times have you noticed or discussed anything tactically?
If we lose a game, sadly some just rant and moan and go on about Robins having his hands tied. Pretty sure his hands are less tied then a few of the managers who have beaten us this season.
I don't want Robins sacked, but if he doesn't finish in the promotion places he would have pretty much failed.
I wouldn't bother Weeman, Italia just made shit up to justify the waffle he came out with. Nowhere in your post did you say accept mediocrity, the post was balanced and rightfully said lets not have a knee jerk reaction at the loss, at which Italia states that's you accepting a mid table finish. Sometimes I wonder what planet he is on.
(Cue mindless ramblings that I now love SISU and want us to remain in league two)
How many times have you noticed or discussed anything tactically?
If we lose a game, sadly some just rant and moan and go on about Robins having his hands tied. Pretty sure his hands are less tied then a few of the managers who have beaten us this season.
I don't want Robins sacked, but if he doesn't finish in the promotion places he would have pretty much failed.
Fish and chips are better or should I say batterReally daft to compare Blackpool with Barcelona.
Blackpool is clearly much nicer.
In Barcelona?Fish and chips are better or should I say batter
How often can the hands tied excuses be used?
I've said often I don't want him to be sacked but I want him to be more reactive and not be as stubborn. Would we be beating most of the teams at the top end and losing to teams at the bottom if it was simply because we had a shit team, or could it be something more?
How are his hands tied compared to most other League 2 clubs with a couple of exceptions?
Fish and chips are better or should I say batter
Again, it's not just down to cash, is it.How are his hands tied compared to most other League 2 clubs with a couple of exceptions?
Again, it's not just down to cash, is it.
His hands are tied because we have a bunch of mentalists in charge who wouldn't know what a football club was if it bit them on the arse, and are incapable of building any kind of foundations for a successful club even if they had eleventy billion in the bank.
We'd do better with a team of Harvey Weinstein impersonating orangutans in the boardroom, who decided Jacob Rees-Mogg was the kind of person they needed to manage the first team.
We've been through this so many times before, and you refuse to accept the culture of an oraganisation has any bearing whatsoever on its success or otherwise, so what's the point of doing it again?So how are his hands tied in a footballing sense compared to other clubs in our league?
41 not 31! Blackpool then immediately went on an unbeaten 9 game run and benefitted from an absolute implosion from Stevenage who finished the season with 2 points from their final 6 games. Blackpool ended with 70 points whereas I can see this years 7th place setting the best play off points total for several years. 70 points would mean Swindon scoring at 1.19 points per game (or someone above them even worse) - putting that into context, our away from this season is 1.2 ppg.It doesn't seem like that all Italia. You used Blackpool as a team who have had success. I'm saying they're hardly Barcelona.
And as Tony has pointed out since, they had 31 points this time last season. We're 9 points better off than one of the teams who got promoted.....
He never said it in actual words, but SWM is excessively positive on our position and it seems as that all is well.
He sees it as going well and so that when we actually finish where we are it appears accepting mediocrity.
So how are his hands tied in a footballing sense compared to other clubs in our league?
41 not 31!
Seven teams in the league have a bigger spending budget perhaps ? Probably more have a bigger actual players budget.
Jesus Italia, do you actually take in what I read?
Excessively positive? I'm hardly saying 'its ok chaps, we've lost this weekend but it's fine, we're going to romp this league'. I've not said 'it's going well' and I've certainly not intimated anywhere, that I would accept mediocrity. STOP MAKING THINGS UP...I'VE NOT SAID THAT OR INTIMATED AT IT!!!!!
Just to reconfirm, with a squad who has had an unlucky run of injuries this season to KEY players and fewer points than we would've hoped for away from home, we're STILL only two wins from the autos (depending on results). Am I happy that we've only one away once in the league in the last two months? No. Am I accepting it? Well, what can I do about it? Despite all that, we're still in with a good shot of either Autos and certainly play offs. It's not acceptance, it's just a realisation that despite the shit performances away, we're still in the mix.
I'm really not sure what you don't get. Anyway, I'm done here. Back to work....
We've been through this so many times before, and you refuse to accept the culture of an oraganisation has any bearing whatsoever on its success or otherwise, so what's the point of doing it again?
Do they? That's fact?
I'd say tactics /team setups also have a massive bearing on results.
The midfield and strikers can't hold onto the ball so the set up is always defensive by default.
Who knows with this bunch of accounting magicians ?
I'm assuming when people say we have a top 8 budget that they might know.
People on here putting down Robins as if we have a the top player budget.
The midfield and strikers can't hold onto the ball so the set up is always defensive by default.
As best as I know, the Lancastrians have never thrown donkeys off the Blackpool Tower unlike the Spanish have in whatever town it was....As an expert the donkeys are better looking.
So you have just made it up then?
I've never seen anybody say we have the top player budget on here.
Made what up ?
I Said that they seem to think we will still get promoted and criticise Robins for not achieving it with a so called top 8 budget.
The point I'm making and you don't like is that if you want to get promoted at least give him a top 3 budget to start with.
Anything less and you shouldn't expect promotion.
At some point people will realise that the team we can afford, are playing out their skins but simply are not good enough.
It's defensive by default when he puts out a defensive team and swaps a midfielder who does hold onto the ball and makes things happen with a defensive midfielder.
Made what up ?
I Said that they seem to think we will still get promoted and criticise Robins for not achieving it with a so called top 8 budget.
The point I'm making and you don't like is that if you want to get promoted at least give him a top 3 budget to start with.
Anything less and you shouldn't expect promotion.
At some point people will realise that the team we can afford, are playing out their skins but simply are not good enough.
We’ve beaten every team in the top 3
It’s bigger than one game and it’s bigger than the first team. We have owners who contribute zero to the team, they’re zombie owners, by default alone that’s a negative that Robins and everyone connected to the playing team has to overcome. Our owners through their litigation isolate everyone that the club needs to deal with to a large degree so we find ourselves in a situation where local businesses don’t want involvement in the club, fans don’t want to attend, it hampers our relationship with our landlords and it deters another potential landlord in the city from wanting to become our landlord. All have a destabilising effect at some level on the club and do not create an environment that freely promotes success. All things Robins has to overcome.
People look at Accrington in this thread and say we must have a bigger budget than them and they’re higher than us. Their owner has made a positive contribution to the club in financial and time terms, he travels to away games on the team coach, he’s a constant presence and a source of positivity that transpires through the club from him and pays dividends in them over achieving.
People look at Blackpool in this thread saying they can do it why can’t we. We’re actually 9 points better of than they were at the same point last season. They also don’t have the negativity hanging over them of where they are playing next season. They have shit owners sure, but they’re still better off than us in many ways.
As I said before the team plays better with more time and space.
That's hardly that his hands are tied though is it? It was only last week you were saying about the feel-good factor around the club and support Robins (which I still agree with while he is manager support him).
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