covcity4life
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Also has to be noted that the ITK in question clearly dislikes king and has from the get go
Robins to Stoke ? (30 Viewers)
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NortonSkyBlue
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Wishing Robins well. What memories he gave us!
Excepts its not is it.It's like me or you can't say at work ' all the changes brought in by upper management are a load of shit, i don't like it, never wanted it and the new computer system is a pile of wank, they dont know what theyre doing'
What would happen then?
This isn’t an office or factory.This is a football club.
Robins has relationships with journalists who he can easily feed information to off the record. We see it all the time.
Someone within the City camp leaked that not all of the CCFC exec wanted Lampard. Man United are currently leaking Anti- Rashford stories having suppressed them for 3 years.
The idea therefore that Robins couldn’t possibly find a way of letting fans know that he was unhappy with his backroom set up is silly. Robins didn’t stay silent ( another credible option for him ) he actually openly said they were his choices and he was pleased with them.
One of the things i always liked about Robins is that he seemed a straight talker, no bullshit. Now we are to believe that’s not the case, he openly misled the fans.
So if in the next couple of weeks he comes out and throws Doug under the bus, or Adi will we write it off as more lies from Robins ? No. We will believe him, because most of us believe he’s a straight up sort of guy.
Every single leak is agenda driven. Absolutely no positive leaks, all negative.
I could possibly guess whose nose has been put out.
Sky Blue Goblin
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I do disagree with this considering he leaked the transfer news of King backing Lampard with Experience and Loans and seemingly listening to his new head coach.
Can’t keep saying it, people are human will hear things and get their own opinions on it. If you choose to take a rumor to heart or other people do that’s up to them. Grain of salt for all of them.
Although @Saddlebrains if you could leak a transfer name…
Incognitocov
Active Member
Your theory could be correct. Just as likely he, belatedly, realised that not having a decent assistant wasn’t in his best interests and he’s learnt.
It’s interesting that he is Head coach at Stoke.
Whether King made a mistake in replacing Robins with Lampard we will have to wait and see.
clint van damme
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It's been problematic for so long, going back to pre Robins.
Every time we think we've solved it it goes to shit.
Hopefully Dovin is the answer at last.
TomRad85
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He's young and he doesn't fill me with fear like the other 2 do. Also he's Scandinavian so that's a good starting point right?
torchomatic
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Joe Murphy was the last decent keeper we had.
TomRad85
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Marosi was great in our promotion season I thought. An underrated part of it.
Sick Boy
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He was coming out with stuff that could have affected Robins’ professional reputation, of course it would be worth taking legal action over.
torchomatic
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Yeah, good shout, forgot about Marco.
TomRad85
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Before him though I'd agree with you about Murphy. Although quite a few didn't like him I seem to remember?
Such a problem position over the years, I think we are all desperate for Dovin to be the answer.
clint van damme
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How low is the fucking bar for our keepers?!
clint van damme
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Which feeds in to what I said about it going to shit just when we think we've found the answer.
I appreciate it looks as though that bad injury was,a big part of his downturn.
Nick
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That's the whole mo of your account.The second Robins even gets mentioned you just know that the inane ramblings & paranoid attempts to shut it all down will soon start
clint van damme
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But he is often correct in what he posts so whether you think he's got an agenda or not it is quite often accurate.
TomRad85
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Well, you've been watching the same keepers as me right?
I think Warwick Davis would struggle to limbo under the bar.
clint van damme
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I was reading today about the Manchester bombing victims who have just successfully sued that wank stain Richard Hall for saying they were crisis actors.
Got awarded 45k but now have to go after their legal costs separately which run into hundreds of thousands (I appreciate they're very different situations).
But could you be arsed over something which let's be honest, is pretty trivial and could potentially be expensive even if you win?
Especially if its true you've just trousers £750k for your trouble, (if that figure is correct).
Sick Boy
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I 100% would do if I was being slandered and it could directly affect my professional reputation and finding future employment.
covcity4life
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clint van damme
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It hasn't affected his future employment though, he's just landed a job where if he fucks up he'll be trousering another golden handshake, nice work if you can get it.
clint van damme
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That's a fair enough comment.
Ring Of Steel
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But it didn’t did it, the guy has just walked into a new job. Let’s be honest, outside of this forum & this fanbase nobody gave a toss about what King said. He was never going to sue anybody, and had he have done it would have taken ages and cost him a fortune in legal fees. Why bother?
covcity4life
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If we got promoted this year I would definitely root for robins side to get promoted next year. Don't care if that makes me a pussy etc
Evo1883
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It hasn't effected his ability to find employment
Sick Boy
Super Moderator
It’s also possible that Robins has learnt from his mistakes from the way in which he planned the new coaching setup.
clint van damme
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If he doesn't get them promoted I doubt he'll be there!
They're not known for their patience, I doubt Robins will be afforded any more time than the previous managers.
If he doesn't hit the ground running and make real progress he'll be gone.
Evo1883
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Robins was also part of several different sets of personel coaches etc at ccfc that we had success with
Sick Boy
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Yes, I know but it doesn’t mean that he couldn’t also have made a mistake.
Evo1883
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I think for me the issue isn't robins , he's shown many times over through different variations of nonsense that he can have us playing well and improving .. be it coaches , stadia , training ground issues , financial issues , ownership issues etc etc
The fact fans can't see that is part of the reason why we all still argue so much
Ring Of Steel
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absolutely, we’ll never know who said what or who and who’s fault things were, but one thing we do know is that restructure was a disaster & ultimately cost him his job.
Sick Boy
Super Moderator
I don’t think anyone doesn’t appreciate all he did for the club. I said before that ultimately he’s a victim of his own success.
I’m trying to find where he said it that he’d instigated it himself - I found a couple of articles where he’s addressed the fact we’ve got new coaches and a new structure and is looking at how it will work etc.He literally said himself he planned the coaching structure
Some of the fan fiction is hilarious, it's like teenage girls writing stories about Harry styles.
Unless it was a spoken interview.
anyway, it’s up to me whether I believe what Doug said - and I didn’t at the time and still don’t.
Just cos he said it was the truth doesn’t mean i have to believe it. Just didn’t ring true to me.
Of course happy to be corrected if the full ‘true’ story ever comes out which it won’t.
Evo1883
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Sure but if we take the start this season as a barometer of his failure under a new coaching team , then how do we assess that we had 1 more point after 14 games than we did after 15 games last season under the lord and saviours viveash and Lawrence that apparantly robins can't work without