Skyblueweeman
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I'm pretty surprised he's not been approached by other teams before.
I'm pretty surprised he's not been approached by other teams before.I think the most impressive thing about Robins is the calmness. He learned a valuable lesson when he left the first time for Huddersfield, teams need to be built rather bought. He also has humility, you have to eat humble pie to admit you were wrong to have left. The coaching set up and staff are highly thought of by the fan base, players who come recognise that they will become better under Robins and his team and buy into the whole team ethos which includes the fans. Its not very often that these things click into place, the fact that Robins has been able to achieve this under the previous regime makes it all the more remarkable. Sisu did two things right in their time here, they arguably saved us from financial oblivion and appointed Robins twice. Enjoy it while you can as there will be admirers of his talents who will be tempted to try and nick him, hopefully he will finish the job before we loose the most integral part of the team.
I'm fully with you.This always was a daft thread doomed to be full of mea culpas only weeks later.
I have supported City since 1962 and until Robins came, had only experienced one period of sustained success - 1962-67 - otherwise success was restricted to brief spasms of joy, the last one being Eric Black 20 year ago. Therefore after 6 years of winning most weeks, and two promotions, I am prepared to give Robins a colossal amount of slack to the point of sticking with him even if we had been relegated. He is 54 and with luck we will have another six years of him and his team.
If he had a stroke of luck it was that by taking over when we really were in the 'slough of despond' he had more space and time to develop the machinery you need. One wonders what his fate would have been had he been given the job say before Thorne with no time to put the building blocks in place and an owner as yet to learn how to run a football club. Probably fired within 18 months.
This year he started with:
- Minus his three best players from the previous season (add Doyle to the obvious) and also McNally.
- The recruitment team had not been able to deliver like for like replacements. We underrate how difficult that is to do.
- At least two of the key new signings - Wright and Saka - did not easily fit the well established 3-4-2-1 (or similar) we had been using
- By Oct as few as 1-2 players were in the team from the 22-23.. Again we underrate the size of the task building a team mentality
Robins' innate conservatism puts a high value on consistency. The team has definitely prospered from this. They know exactly where they stand. But that applies to selection and formation and Robins has a record of being slightly behind the curve on bringing in change. But it is a trade off and we have gained massively from that consistency of approach.
We have most probably been approached before. But what club would even tempt Robins to leave us again? He knows the grass isn't greener. Been there it went wrong. Got a second bite of the cherry with us.I'm pretty surprised he's not been approached by other teams before.
I believe at various points both Stoke and Sunderland have sounded MR out about moving on.
Yeah I think so. Seemed to remember that.Sunderland made an official approach when we were both in L1 didn't they?
I think he has a very enjoyable life style - Roundly liked by fans and team - and he has experienced how that can go wrong with one bad decision, when he jumped ship before
He is probably paid quite well, but could probably earn double if he went looking for it
But keep on doing what he has done for the last 7 years, and he has a long term role here - Move elsewhere and he maybe looking for another job come the summer
Doug kept his nerve when we were near the bottom before the international break, after spending so much - How many other clubs would have panicked at that point
COH should take note
I think he is very happy here, I also think he realises that any club coming in for him would likely be doing so to replace the manager they’ve just sacked, that club would very likely be in the midst of falling fortunes and that club would be looking for a near immediate solution to their problems and a marked improvement in form and results.I think he doesn’t go looking and it’s generally accepted he’s happy and not looking to leave. How many approaches do Man City get for Pep? Doesn’t mean he’s not a manager others would want.
We have a perfectly capable RB also LB out on loan currently?lati is a capable right back and eccles can also play there, also leeds are not going to loan us a player to be a back up we wouldn't pay the fee they would want (remember he is a leeds player on loan at blue
you need to get real with your suggestions
I believe that he has one aim yet to complete and that's taking the club into the PL. This would be an absolutely monumental achievement considering all the adversity along the way.I agree with a lot of what's been said in relation to MR.
1. He's got control of the footballing side of the club, which at some other places he would have a number of others involved in final decisions.
2. He has created 4 generations of teams to take us from L2 to being a play off team in the Championship. As a coach he has a lot of personal investment in the current team and must feel he's got a chance of fulfilling his aim of taking us back to the PL.
3. He has an element of job security here which most other clubs do not give their Manager.
Therefore, it would take some amazing offer to tempt him to leave us now.
Yep-and I certainly believe he eventually will!I believe that he has one aim yet to complete and that's taking the club into the PL. This would be an absolutely monumental achievement considering all the adversity along the way.
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