Now its potentially a reality , Will mark Robins be Coventrys greatest manager if we get promoted (3 Viewers)

[Evo1883]

So if robins achieved that in the top flight?

Gordon Strachan managed to finish 5 points off the uefa Cup in 98 , is he better than Robins ?

 

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[Tommo1993]

If we get stats involved, Milne’s win % is matched/bettered by a few surprising names for the matter being discussed. He’s certainly well behind Robins.

 

[Skyblueweeman]

and here we gooo. Does this nonsense have to pollute every thread. Some posters have a bad obsession

I think you're Grendel and I claim my £5.

That said....5th? Fucking hell! Some people are just never happy! G, not you. Obvs.

 

[SBT]

Just looked on Wiki, Storer?

I’d be interested to hear the justification for putting him on the list - his last game in charge was 70 years ago so not sure how many people on here saw his teams first hand…..What was our average xG/game back then?

 

[slowpoke]

out of curiosity who is the other one.

I don't know much about Milne was he any good?

In a word no

 

[Tommo1993]

It may not happen, obviously, but we are on the cusp of escaping the most competitive league (undeniable) league on the footballing planet. Under some of the toughest constraints and bleakest of very recent histories. He blows others out of the water.

 

[Grendel]

If we get stats involved, Milne’s win % is matched/bettered by a few surprising names for the matter being discussed. He’s certainly well behind Robins.

Were you supporting the club when Milne was manager?

 

[PVA]

I think Gordon Milne ranks above robins.

Why do you think robins is better?

Took over a team in Div 1 that finished 16th and then finished

14th
14th
19th (avoiding relegation by a point)
7th
10th
15th
16th

Left the club two places lower than when he joined.

Robins has us two (possibly soon to be 3) leagues higher.

 

[Evo1883]

Were you supporting the club when Milne was manager?

My dad was and he doesn't agree with you

Just for balance

 

[Grendel]

I think you're Grendel and I claim my £5.

That said....5th? Fucking hell! Some people are just never happy! G, not you. Obvs.

Hill
Cantwell
Sillett
Milne
robins

 

[Grendel]

My dad was and he doesn't agree with you

Just for balance

He became manager at 34 - kept the club in the top division against impossible odds for 10 years and ask your dad if the 1977 78 season wasn’t the best the club had since the Hill era

 

[slowpoke]

Hill
Cantwell
Sillett
Milne
robins

Did you go when Cantwell was manager ?

 

[Tommo1993]

Were you supporting the club when Milne was manager?

I was supporting the club when Dowie was manager. Another higher win % than Milne. This debate could be taken down some hilarious roads.

 

[SBT]

Manager A - 34.4% win ratio, best league finish of 7th, worst league finish of 19th

Manager B - 33.3% win ratio, best league finish of 8th, worst league finish of 19th

Is one of these considered to be better than Robins? And if so, which one? Choose carefully!

Spoiler

Manager A is Gordon Milne
Manager B is Micky Adams

 

[Grendel]

Did you go when Cantwell was manager ?

no Rupert but statistically he got the club to the highest position in the clubs history - he didn’t and couldn’t achieve promotions but he did achieve the highest position the club will ever achieve probably

 

[Ccfcisparks]

I never got chance to see any of those managers in charge, but if they were better than Robins they must have been some pretty good years. Hopefully Robins can replicate if we go up and keep us there!

 

[Evo1883]

He became manager at 34 - kept the club in the top division against impossible odds for 10 years and ask your dad if the 1977 78 season wasn’t the best the club had since the Hill era

He said it was a great season , but still thinks what Robins has done for the club over 6 seasons trumps it.

I will say me and the old man have been home and away all the way through the last 6 years and it probably sways how we feel about it

 

[Boosh]

Manager A - 34.4% win ratio, best league finish of 7th, worst league finish of 19th

Manager B - 33.3% win ratio, best league finish of 8th, worst league finish of 19th

Is one of these considered to be better than Robins? And if so, which one? Choose carefully!

Spoiler

Manager A is Gordon Milne
Manager B is Micky Adams

Don’t see how that’s relevant?

 

[Grendel]

I was supporting the club when Dowie was manager. Another higher win % than Milne. This debate could be taken down some hilarious roads.

No it couldn’t - Dowie was rubbish and it’s embarrassing you’ve mentioned him and Milne frankly

 

[Evo1883]

I was supporting the club when Dowie was manager. Another higher win % than Milne. This debate could be taken down some hilarious roads.

Gordon Strachan has a similar win ratio in the top flight

 

[slowpoke]

He became manager at 34 - kept the club in the top division against impossible odds for 10 years and ask your dad if the 1977 78 season wasn’t the best the club had since the Hill era

But it didn’t last and we were soon scalping around at the bottom end, as yet Robins has not struggled in any of the three divisions he has been manager and he has changed his squad three times, bought players cheap and flogged them for a few million and turned Gyo from a million quid hopefully to a multi-million star.

 

[usskyblue]

We don't need to argue

Piss off

 

[Grendel]

Don’t see how that’s relevant?

it’s embarrassing from an award winning journalist

 

[Evo1883]

Strachan also put together one of the best city teams for many years too didn't he .. Still don't rate him

 

[Grendel]

But it didn’t last and we were soon scalping around at the bottom end, as yet Robins has not struggled in any of the three divisions he has been manager and he has changed his squad three times, bought players cheap and flogged them for a few million and turned Gyo from a million quid hopefully to a multi-million star.

Irrelevant

 

[steve cooper]

Hill
Cantwell
Sillett
Milne
robins

Agree with Cantwell being up there

 

[NorthernWisdom]

he's top 3 for you right ?

He'd be top three for me - he is now. We've done the whys before mind you.

If he wins us the FA Cup he's top one, no question.

 

[Evo1883]

It's interesting to me how you don't value achievements outside the top flight...

 

[usskyblue]

It’s a subject that doesn’t have an even playing field. Some managers got us promotions, some inherited a 1st division/Prem team with varying success.

 

[Tommo1993]

No it couldn’t - Dowie was rubbish and it’s embarrassing you’ve mentioned him and Milne frankly

It honestly could if it’s the route people decided to take. But you really need to cool your Bovril, you think one thing, I think another. It’s words on the Internet - though I think yours on this thread are complete bullshit just to gouge a reaction.

Robins perches nicely at the top.

 

[NorthernWisdom]

I’d be interested to hear the justification for putting him on the list - his last game in charge was 70 years ago so not sure how many people on here saw his teams first hand…..What was our average xG/game back then?

My Grandad would always say about what a transformation he made to the team. I dunno, does history have to only be the history you've seen? That would have a small group of people rating Russell Slade as our second best manager of all time!

 

[Boosh]

It honestly could if it’s the route people decided to take. But you really need to cool your Bovril, you think one thing, I think another. It’s words on the Internet - though I think yours on this thread are complete bullshit just to gouge a reaction.

Robins perches nicely at the top.

Was 1993 the year you were born? If so then of course Robins is top for you

 

[NorthernWisdom]

It's interesting to me how you don't value achievements outside the top flight...

Me? I can value it, but not want to diminish What Sillet did by deciding on arbitrary factors and differences. Is that so terrible?

Plus we can win the FA Cup while outside the top flight...

 

[clint van damme]

For me he can't be any less than 2 .. 3 at an absolute push but I'd argue sillett FA cup triumph isn't as good as 3 promotions

The FA cup was a huge competition back then.
I don't think people who weren't around for the cup in the 70s and 80s can't appreciate how big

Though to have Robins at 5 Is mind boggling, he hasn't just dragged us from L2, he's had to navigate a whole raft of non footballing issue while doing it.

Gets us to the prem and I cant separate him and Sillett for 1 and 2.

 

[Boosh]

My Grandad would always say about what a transformation he made to the team. I dunno, does history have to only be the history you've seen? That would have a small group of people rating Russell Slade as our second best manager of all time!

@covcity4life said Thorn plays better and more attractive football than Robins.