Fucks Sake. I've just liked a George Galloway tweet.
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!
Plenty of people have a highly positive working relationship but wouldn't be friends outside of the workplace.
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.
People can easily work with people they don't like though, it's pretty common.
They didnt get on off the field
But on they were some kind of miracle team..mental really
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.
Some people on the forum are revelling in this decision…extremely odd
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
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
To some people being proved right is the most important thing in their life.
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?
Anyone know what time the Derby match City unseen will be aired.
Seems to me that King's mind was made up a while back.
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.
Him Kitching and Thomas must be the most unlikeable players since Marlon King.
Mark Robins was more than a manager to Coventry City fans. He was family.
Driving to St George’s Park yesterday for the England squad announcement, I received a call from a distraught Coventry City-supporting friend.
www.henrywinter.football
Could not care less what some Arsenal supporting prem journalist who's probably only ever watched us at Wembley thinksMark Robins was more than a manager to Coventry City fans. He was family.
Driving to St George’s Park yesterday for the England squad announcement, I received a call from a distraught Coventry City-supporting friend.
Mark Robins was more than a manager to Coventry City fans. He was family.
Driving to St George’s Park yesterday for the England squad announcement, I received a call from a distraught Coventry City-supporting friend.
Get the popcorn in
People keep calling them the Barnsley Boys. In my mind they’re the Own Goal Gang
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.
Oh dear, cheer up, you've got your wish. Are you a little upset because everyone is having a go at Your Dougie?
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.
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.
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.
Do your research. Winter has been pretty positive about the club and has been sure to highlight it's plight during the dark days in the national media.
…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.
True, but there were 27 years between JS being sacked and MR’s second appointment, so we might have to be very patient…