Yes, we'll need a whole new defence. It's always the way with promotions, the players are all really happy until they realise that they'll be on the bench all season, if they're not sold back to where they came from to try again!
He only had 6 all year, so highly doubful. Ellis got his first at home under Lampard just last week. It's funny what you can do when you try, now he's jumping like Zebedee!
He is but it's a team job these days, nobody is a manager anymore in the old sense. The no2 is such an essential role to get right so too the head of recruitment/scouting.
Robins also has a top rated coach with him now at Stoke. Looking at Robins in the last couple of years it doesn't look like he spends a lot of effort on the training pitch that's for sure!