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Is that the enigma code?

If it is rvn it’s a complete punt based on his playing career and name. Surely that’s not where we want to be. King has fallen for the feelgood factor of having a big footballing name linked with his club rather than making a good football decision

Not sure Henry trialled. I know we nearly had Kevin Keegan way back.

King’s spin on midfield was that we had enough in there already. He basically said if Stamenic had arrived Sheaf was off so we were never going to boost numbers in there. I understood his point to be fair. We’d signed Torp. Kept Allen. Still had Palmer. His argument falls down with the Palmer...

Carr would be far cheaper which would appeal to King. But I think he’d know that getting rid of Robins and not essentially replacing him would be a PR disaster for him.

And will probably want it back

Why is he unlikely to come. Big wage rise. That normally does the trick. Probably still less than the novice RVN and the “name” Frank though.

I’d have prioritised Buckingham. Next on the list would be Skubala. Even Darrell Clarke. I don’t want a name for the sake of it.

Don’t get the excitement here. He’s done nowt.

That’s a huge loss.

Yes.

The most obvious captain for me is Van Ewijk. Infectious enthusiasm. As far as Austin is concerned it was obvious questions about recruitment would come up - seems logical enough.

Here’s the thing that struck me. DK was at pains to say once Viveash went we missed an elite tactician. If Viveash was the tactician and Lawrence was the coach and Austin was the scout what was Robins doing. And if that was true why didn’t DK let Robins go rather than Viveash??

Is Wilson injured?

Of course. Will always back the team. Owners, players and managers are just temporary custodians.

I’d gone to cruise ship rather than cards but fair enough if that suits.

It was interesting that they went with two up front. I didn’t think Austin would start - shows the lack of depth in the squad. Still trying to work out why our players are collectively known as a deck.

Don’t buy it. Would love to hear Robins version but never will which is more than fair as he’s got his payout to think about. Most informative answer was when asked who the Board was. Just him. It’s the DK show folks.

Alan Sheehan? John Eustace? Mentioned in press. May be nothing.

Rings a bell doesn’t it. It’s much the same argument that all Robins achievements were built on luck. Everything that went wrong was down to him.