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You’re right in saying just because DK grabbed hold of the narrative doesn’t make it true. Equally, to tell a bare faced lie in public is risky because Robins or even Viveash could rebuke the comments made in public. Why does anyone believe that MR would stand for DK meddling in the coaching...

This cracked me up 😂 On a serious note though, he was playing as a WB in the traditional sense. The shape was v much accounting for the fact that Rudoni was not a LWB i.e. the defence shifted across to cover for him. Against Middlesborough it was like a 4-4-2 out of possession and 3-4-1-2 in...

They were a team, Robins takes overall credit and rightly so. Viveash deserves credit too but MR didn’t become a bad manager without him and of course, his first spell without AV was going well.

Exactly, it’s an idea that never made any sense so I cannot understand why so many peddled this nonsense idea.

Seriously, where to start with it? @Paxman II please take off the tin foil hat! King literally outlined the Performance Director’s role (for people who couldn’t work it out) and Dean Austin was hired before King came in and was MR’s man. Then there’s the coaching structure, it was introduced...

I fundamentally disagree with the premise that Doug King always wanted to sack Robins. A lot of the arguments in favour of this premise was the supposed undermining of Robins position i.e. signing players without MR’s input, sacking AV, the Performance Director and ofc, the coaching structure...

We tried to loan Joe Worrall but the thing is, players like him are the kind Prem teams want to move off their books permanently. Which is why he ended up at Burnley permanently!

Well, not quite. He said it was something he was thinking about looking at in the future.

Dean Austin gave his reasons why the loan market is difficult. If you loan players they expect to play and if they don’t, it negatively impacts relationships with agents and clubs. Used Ayari as a great example, wasn’t good enough for us or Blackburn last season but is doing really well in the...

Intriguing, perhaps. Never managed in England could count against him. The stock of managers coming from Sweden/Norway isn’t exactly great i.e. Solbakken, Tommasson and Solskjær. There is not clear cut candidates out there who I’d be happy with other than Potter or Moyes. I am coming around to...

The last two winners of the Championship were Pep connections, Maresca and Kompany…

Doug King wasn’t being a helpless spectator. He let MR run the show because he’s earned the right to do so. King specifically said he didn’t want to force anything on the manager or tell MR how to his job. Which is fair enough because that would be the kind of interference King and Dr Roberts...

No… The owner trusted the package of MR and AV to take us forward. MR terminated that and chose a new structure of coaches that didn’t seem to have the same quality for the players. The results have slumped and without quality coaches to support MR and the team, his position became untenable...

Well, no that doesn’t work because if MR says he wants a candidate and the hierarchy says no, that’s undermining MR’s position. The points tally argument would never have been enough on its own. Especially when the majority of the fan base believed it was the hierarchy that sacked AV and was...

Well yeah, it’s not his job to sort out the coaching structure, that was MRs. Otherwise, he would be undermining him by interfering i.e. the very thing people were accusing King of in the first place!

Well, MR and AV specifically… The fans had the right instincts, that is the coaching setup not being good enough when compared to AV. What they didn’t know is that it was MR’s doing and therefore he is accountable. If the coaching setup isn’t good enough and there’s a talented ‘deck’ of...

It never crossed anyone’s mind that it could come back to Robins because of our sentiment. I believed Robins (and still do, frankly) that he’d have turned things around and that gives us all a blind spot. His success over 7 years made us believe that the changes in club as a whole was the issue...

Based on current performances, not many but that’s the point. These players need the coaches to develop them into Prem players. If the MR regime wasn’t doing that, it’s a problem. AV had an elite coaching pedigree and who’s replaced that vacuum?

If he’s told the truth, I have no problems with anything he’s said. Especially because of the narrative behind the coaching structure and who was involved in getting rid of AV. The reason it was a curveball because people had this idea that it was all Doug and Dr Roberts. You can forgive our...

I’m sure that Van Nisrelrooy has said somewhere he doesn’t want to be a number 1 from his previous experiences in the Netherlands.