OFFICIAL: Mark Robins has been sacked (6 Viewers)

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OffenhamSkyBlue

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Saddlebrains said:
Nothing other than Dougs had this in mind since the second Adi went in my view

I sound like a stuck record, but this is Dougs toy. No one else is allowed to tell him how he should play with it. There were some grubby fingerprints on it (Robins and Viveash) from the last people who owned the toy and he cant have that because he wants his new toy to be all shiny and only his, and if anyone offers advice or help on his toy or goes against how he should play with his toy then they are told to get fucked

He won't like the ego bashing he's getting at the moment put it that way. Couldn't wait to get himself on Talksport when it was going well. Hiding away like a little bitch now he's being asked by media outlets for comment now he's made this decision
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Yet BFR seemed to think that MR "didn't like AV"!! What was your take? Did they not get on but worked miracles together? Unlikely, i'd say!
 
David O'Day

David O'Day

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Cally Fedora said:
It can be run as well as you like. Take a look on the pitch.
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And why would i look at a different department? what happens on the pitch is not "sports science"

You can have poor performances on the pitch while having a brilliant sports science team, the sports science performance and the football operations performance are not mutually inclusive.
 
stay_up_skyblues

stay_up_skyblues

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Travs said:
We should probably remind ourselves that the general consensus on here was recruitment was very good and we should be making Automatic Promotion, playoffs at the very least.

In a similar way that recruitment was made out to be awful early on in the previous season, when it turned out to be pretty good.

Its easy to be critical in hindsight.... very easy.

(for the record i think yesterday was an awful decision, but there's always a huge element of risk in signing players.... this season's crop may well come good, although the signs aren't looking great)
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Yes and no. There’s a fair case that the bulk of the signings have been decent or sensible, with a few exceptions. But the majority agreed we’d been left desperately short in midfield in terms of numbers and quality and have no natural number 10. Those two issues have really come to prove problematic on the pitch.
 
Otis

Otis

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The most baffling thing for me is the timing. One more game until an international break.

Kind of makes me think King was worried that he wouldn't be able to sack him if we got a really good result at Sunderland.

Logic would say to sack him after the game tomorrow and with a break in place
 
skybluecam

skybluecam

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Otis said:
The most baffling thing for me is the timing. One more game until an international break.

Kind of makes me think King was worried that he wouldn't be able to sack him if we got a really good result at Sunderland.

Logic would say to sack him after the game tomorrow and with a break in place
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Or they wanted to be able to start openly negotiating with replacements in time to appoint them next week?

Can you imagine if it had leaked this week that King was offering the job to someone else while Robins was still in place?
 
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KenilworthSkyBlue

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Otis said:
The most baffling thing for me is the timing. One more game until an international break.

Kind of makes me think King was worried that he wouldn't be able to sack him if we got a really good result at Sunderland.

Logic would say to sack him after the game tomorrow and with a break in place
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Timing isn't really that strange. It's clearly been rumbling in King's mind for some time. The two wins probably extended Robins' tenure for longer than perhaps was intended from King's perspective.

But the international break gives the club time to speak to candidates without major disruption and I think any decision needed to be made prior to the January window anyway so the club can bring in players that align with the new Head Coach's vision, system and style etc.
 
shmmeee

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skybluecam said:
Or they wanted to be able to start openly negotiating with replacements in time to appoint them next week?

Can you imagine if it had leaked this week that King was offering the job to someone else while Robins was still in place?
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Hed probably have seen the backlash and changed his mind.
 
torchomatic

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Otis said:
Seems to me that King's mind was made up a while back.
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Yep, that's what I'm thinking. Wins over Luton and Middlesborough delayed in the inevitable. He would have gone after either of those if we had lost.
 
torchomatic

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skybluecam said:
Could not care less what some Arsenal supporting prem journalist who's probably only ever watched us at Wembley thinks
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Oh dear, cheer up, you've got your wish. Are you a little upset because everyone is having a go at Your Dougie?
 
Ring Of Steel

Ring Of Steel

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skybluecam said:
Could not care less what some Arsenal supporting prem journalist who's probably only ever watched us at Wembley thinks
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Is this not part or the problem that led to his dismissal?

Robins was indeed “more than a manager”, in the old fashioned sense of the word.

King does not want a ‘manager’, he wants a head coach that fits into the structure he has set up.

As we have seen very clearly, especially if the desire to appoint Chris Ramsey is true, Robins doesn’t really fit into that structure and arguably couldn’t work in it.
 
skybluecam

skybluecam

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torchomatic said:
Oh dear, cheer up, you've got your wish. Are you a little upset because everyone is having a go at Your Dougie?
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Nah I’m honestly baffled at the hysteria.

Not a Doug fanboy at all but the fact is he’s still at the club, Robins isn’t, so I’m prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt.
 
Otis

Otis

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torchomatic said:
Yep, that's what I'm thinking. Wins over Luton and Middlesborough delayed in the inevitable. He would have gone after either of those if we had lost.
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Yup, because the timing now seems all wrong. A 3 game unbeaten run and 2 good wins.

Think he was just waiting for the next defeat.
 
skybluecam

skybluecam

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KenilworthSkyBlue said:
Do your research. Winter has been pretty positive about the club and has been sure to highlight its plight during the dark days in the national media.
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…ok?

I very much doubt he has been watching our games or paying much attention to us this season. It’s very easy to write an emotional puff piece lamenting the state of modern football without bothering to look into context.
 
DazzleTommyDazzle

DazzleTommyDazzle

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bigfatronssba said:
But that wasn't the peak of his success

Robins built teams.

He didn't just come in and give a few rousing speeches to get crap players
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COVKIDSNEVERQUIT said:
Oh yes I remember those times, devastated when Jimmy hill was allowed to go, but life goes on, incomes Noel Cantwell and then we qualify for Europe and then he goes, then John and George arrive to give us the best day of our lives, winning the FA cup, then Mike Robins arrived for the second time gives us some fantastic days out at Wembley and now he has gone, but life goes on.

I look forward to the next chapter of this great club of ours. PUSB.
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True, but there were 27 years between JS being sacked and MR’s second appointment, so we might have to be very patient…
 
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