SkyBlueSwiss
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Now about that guy I didn't want called Robins............... (1 Viewer)
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SkyblueBazza
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Oh no...you start doing it & all the threads will be blocked up ;-p
Otis
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Yep. Fair play to you.
I was very happy when we got him myself. Out of the names on the final apparent shortlist he was the best candidate.
I didn't want Adams and I didn't want Coleman and I didn't want Boothroyd and I didn't want Thorn, so this is the happiest I have been in quite some time on the manager front.
I was very happy when we got him myself. Out of the names on the final apparent shortlist he was the best candidate.
I didn't want Adams and I didn't want Coleman and I didn't want Boothroyd and I didn't want Thorn, so this is the happiest I have been in quite some time on the manager front.
SkyblueBazza
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I wanted Wise but was okay with Robins...now I am ecstatic with his manner & results.
ccfchandsy
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I can't remember the last time we all got excited about a manager
Well done mr robins
Well done mr robins
Don't think posting that will entitle you to a JPT or play off ticket for Wembley. I'm just sick to death of these glory fans
SkyBlue_Bear83
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I thought you wanted Chris Wilder
You wouldn't stop quoting his win % at us when he was linked that is for sure
stupot07
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I thought you wanted Chris Wilder
You wouldn't stop quoting his win % at us when he was linked that is for sure
To be fair Robins wasn't even in the frame when wilder was banded about, I think it was dicky shaw and Kevin Blackwell.
ccfchandsy
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Tbh I don't care who's name was branded about I'm just glad the club choose robins ( the saviour of ccfc )
Otis
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I thought you wanted Chris Wilder
You wouldn't stop quoting his win % at us when he was linked that is for sure
Chris Wilder was on the final shortlist? You sure? :thinking about:
Pretty certain he wasn't.
I wanted Chris Wilder when the only others we seemed to be linked with were Phil Brown, Kevin Blackwell and Paul Ince.
Robins wasn't even in the picture then.
My post here says he was the best candidate in the final shortlist. Sure Wilder had been ruled out well, well before that.
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Don't think many of us knew much about Robins when he was appointed, he said the right things but so did Coleman, Dowie etc... Always believed we had the base of a good squad but little discipline and poor attitudes halted progress. My only worry is that sisu keep dicking about and dont deliver whatever they have promised Robins, cant see him taking any sh*t and will happily walk if he feels hes been let down. He certainly wouldn't struggle for a job..Anyway positive thoughts...
Otis
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I knew of him and he was always a manager I had quite admired. Didn't even know he wasn't in a job though or indeed, was looking for one, or indeed, was available.
Could have jacked the whole manager thing in for all I knew. He simply wasn't even mentioned by the bookies or suggested by the media.
As soon as he was on the shortlist for us though he was the best choice I felt by a country mile.
Could have jacked the whole manager thing in for all I knew. He simply wasn't even mentioned by the bookies or suggested by the media.
As soon as he was on the shortlist for us though he was the best choice I felt by a country mile.
I did'nt know he was in the frame at all .
I was a little underwhelmed and certainly not overwhelmed when he got the job ,did'nt jump around in a frenzy when he got appointed .
However as usual fully prepared to back the manger of CCFC,well ,to say I've been seduced would be an understatement.:facepalm:
I was a little underwhelmed and certainly not overwhelmed when he got the job ,did'nt jump around in a frenzy when he got appointed .
However as usual fully prepared to back the manger of CCFC,well ,to say I've been seduced would be an understatement.:facepalm:
The Reverend Skyblue
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I wanted Wise as first choice and Robins as second.
I am so happy they went for the latter. He has brought back some pride in the club and disapline on and off the pitch is better also.
He somehow got a team most thought was average playing some great attacking football, and defensively we are much stronger, and that word again, disaplined and organised.
Well done Mr Robins and i hope you have a very fruitful year at work in 2013.
The Rev
I am so happy they went for the latter. He has brought back some pride in the club and disapline on and off the pitch is better also.
He somehow got a team most thought was average playing some great attacking football, and defensively we are much stronger, and that word again, disaplined and organised.
Well done Mr Robins and i hope you have a very fruitful year at work in 2013.
The Rev
Skyblueweeman
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I was up for Di Canio personally. Glad that the hierachy made a good decision for once. Credit where it's due.
Good work Robins....
WM
Good work Robins....
WM
dongonzalos
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Ha ha .......
Grendel
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I've never been wrong
SkyblueBazza
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Wrong again
covcity4life
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ill give you that otis, you were one of the few who wanted him
only thing you have been right about of course.....
covcity4life
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everyone except dongon and NLHWC knew thorn wasnt a good manager!
covcity4life
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pretty sure you dismissed playoffs even after robins had taken over
actually im sure
actually im sure
Wise would have been a disaster. Why does he get so much credit for what, one cup run? Poyet was his brains at Leeds. His transfer involvement at Newcastle was basically favours to agents. With Wise we'd have ended up with worse duffers than some of AT's signings.
Robins > Wise in every way (except maybe height)
Robins > Wise in every way (except maybe height)
Otis
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You really do have a problem with your ears don't you!!!
For the eleventieth billioneth time ......
1. I said 14th in pre-season.
2. Then Robins came in.
3. We were bottom 4 when he came.
4. Robins upon his arrival said the club was in a mess.
5. Robins on his arrival said it was going to take time to sort everything out.
6. Robins said that there was a lot of work to do to put things right.
7. Robins said the whole club needed a shake-up.
8. Robins said he needed to move a few players on and that the club was in the doldrums and feeling sorry for itself.
I therefore, and quite sensibly in my book, stuck with 14th because of Mark Robins' words, as he was a man I both trusted and admired.
Sensible thing to do was to listen to the man at the helm and that is what I did.
When things started picking up I still heeded his words. With his saying it was going to take some time believed the play-offs were surely a pipe-dream and stuck with 14th because MR said it was going to take time to put things right..
I still 100% stand by what I said. I still think I was right at that time based on the information coming from our manager.
Seems to me that you are intent to keep banging on about this, but I don't believe I was wrong. If anyone was wrong it was Mark Robins, who either overestimated how difficult the task ahead was or has been some kind of genius, or was merely saying all that stuff to get a reaction from the players and squad.
Think every time you mention this about 14th I am going to just keep regurgitating this post. :claping hands:
Very happy to be proved wrong that we won't finish 14th of course, but my prediction was based on the words coming out of our manager at the time, that we were also 4th from bottom and that no other team had ever gone from 4th from bottom to 6th place in the history of League One after 15 games!
At the time it seemed very naive to think about play-offs in my book. And quite rightly so.
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SkyBlue_Bear83
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Tbf though in thorns statement after he was sacked he said he thought who ever took over would get us in the play offs or promotef (cant remember which) so does that mean thorn knew more than robins?You really do have a problem with your ears don't you!!!
For the eleventieth billioneth time ......
1. I said 14th in pre-season.
2. Then Robins came in.
3. We were bottom 4 when he came.
4. Robins upon his arrival said the club was in a mess.
5. Robins on his arrival said it was going to take time to sort everything out.
6. Robins said that there was a lot of work to do to put things right.
7. Robins said the whole club needed a shake-up.
8. Robins said he needed to move a few players on and that the club was in the doldrums and feeling sorry for itself.
I therefore, and quite sensibly in my book, stuck with 14th because of Mark Robins' words, as he was a man I both trusted and admired.
Sensible thing to do was to listen to the man at the helm and that is what I did.
When things started picking up I still heeded his words and with him saying it was going to take some time believed the play-offs were surely a pipe-dream and stuck with 14th because MR said it was going to take time to put things right..
I still 100% stand by what I said. I still think I was right at that time based on the information coming from our manager.
Seems to be that you are intent to keep banging on about this, but I don't believe I was wrong. If anyone was wrong it was Mark Robins, who either overestimated how difficult the task ahead was or has been some kind of genius, or was merely saying all that stuff to get a reaction from the players and squad.
Think every time you mention this about 14th I am going to just keep regurgitating this post. :claping hands:
Very happy to be proved wrong that we won't finish 14th of course, but my prediction was based on the words coming out of our manager at the time, that we were also 4th from bottom and that no other team had ever gone from 4th from bottom to 6th place in the history of League One after 15 games!
At the time it seemed very naive to think about play-offs in my book. And quite rightly so.
Mucca Mad Boys
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You really do have a problem with your ears don't you!!!
For the eleventieth billioneth time ......
1. I said 14th in pre-season.
2. Then Robins came in.
3. We were bottom 4 when he came.
4. Robins upon his arrival said the club was in a mess.
5. Robins on his arrival said it was going to take time to sort everything out.
6. Robins said that there was a lot of work to do to put things right.
7. Robins said the whole club needed a shake-up.
8. Robins said he needed to move a few players on and that the club was in the doldrums and feeling sorry for itself.
I therefore, and quite sensibly in my book, stuck with 14th because of Mark Robins' words, as he was a man I both trusted and admired.
Sensible thing to do was to listen to the man at the helm and that is what I did.
When things started picking up I still heeded his words and with him saying it was going to take some time believed the play-offs were surely a pipe-dream and stuck with 14th because MR said it was going to take time to put things right..
I still 100% stand by what I said. I still think I was right at that time based on the information coming from our manager.
Seems to be that you are intent to keep banging on about this, but I don't believe I was wrong. If anyone was wrong it was Mark Robins, who either overestimated how difficult the task ahead was or has been some kind of genius, or was merely saying all that stuff to get a reaction from the players and squad.
Think every time you mention this about 14th I am going to just keep regurgitating this post. :claping hands:
Very happy to be proved wrong that we won't finish 14th of course, but my prediction was based on the words coming out of our manager at the time, that we were also 4th from bottom and that no other team had ever gone from 4th from bottom to 6th place in the history of League One after 15 games!
At the time it seemed very naive to think about play-offs in my book.
The all important question now, where do you think we'll come now?
Also, I never doubted playoffs, looking back though, if Thorn had stayed, your prediction was on the money. You at the 'times of trouble' would've said I was naive, yes? I based my prediction on the fact we have better quality players all over the park than most, if not all teams in the division, we have more strength in depth, than most, if not all the teams in the division (as I stated in a thread I made).
One thing I'll give you, with our team at the start of the season, top 6 was possible, but with the additions of Bailey, McG, Moussa, Adams, and probably Clarke, we have a division winning squad and XI IMO, we just need to tighten up the defence, stop conceding silly goals, and sort out our home form, been too patchy for me.
Otis
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Now?
I think we can make the play-offs.
On the proviso though that we don't lose any quality players, or if we do we replace them with like for like and that we also strengthen.
I think we need to strengthen because of potential injuries and suspensions to key players that could really hurt us.
And CCFC, I took pretty much everything AT said with a pinch of salt. If I recall correctly he said that Cody McDonald was going to be the league's top goalscorer and also that we would 'hit the ground running.'
We certainly hit it hard, I'll give him that.
I think we can make the play-offs.
On the proviso though that we don't lose any quality players, or if we do we replace them with like for like and that we also strengthen.
I think we need to strengthen because of potential injuries and suspensions to key players that could really hurt us.
And CCFC, I took pretty much everything AT said with a pinch of salt. If I recall correctly he said that Cody McDonald was going to be the league's top goalscorer and also that we would 'hit the ground running.'
We certainly hit it hard, I'll give him that.
SkyBlue_Bear83
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you got to feel for all those who stuck money on McDonald to be top scorer at the start of the season
