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bigfatronssba

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  • Jan 1, 2025
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8 league games into the Robins era. He had got us 10 points

Imagine if we had got rid of him for producing such a poor return? I mean it’s obviously poor isn’t it? If we’re considering 12 points from 8 games as bad.

Have some of you learned nothing? That you can’t judge a manager on a handful of initial games.

A manager needs to be able to bring in his own players. Only then can they be judged
 
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stupot07

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #2
you can't compare he took over us bottom of league one and all bar relegated, with the worst deck in the league. We have a top 6 deck
 
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bigfatronssba

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #3
stupot07 said:
you can't compare he took over us bottom of league one and all bar relegated, with the worst deck in the league. We have a top 6 deck
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Half that team had been challenging for the play offs the previous season so that must mean it was good
 

stupot07

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #4
bigfatronssba said:
Half that team had been challenging for the play offs the previous season so that must mean it was good
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No it wasn't, we'd lost a lot of our best players including Fleck, maddison, Cole, Armstrong, Murphy, Vincelot..

This was the team that played most of the play off challenge seasons


Phillips left
Ricketts retired
Martin left
Fleck left
Vincelot left
O'Brien left
Armstrong went back after his loan
Murphy went back after his loan

Only Lameries, Charles-Cook and Stokes stayed out of that 11
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #5
stupot07 said:
you can't compare he took over us bottom of league one and all bar relegated, with the worst deck in the league. We have a top 6 deck
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We clearly don’t have a top 6 squad, despite reinvesting 45M.
 
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bigfatronssba

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #6
stupot07 said:
No it wasn't, we'd lost a lot of our best players including Fleck, maddison, Cole, Armstrong, Murphy, Vincelot..
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Around 20 players remained from the previous season.

Regardless you’ve completely missed the point about giving managers time. I suspect it’s deliberate
 

shmmeee

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #7
CCFC position Robins first 8: 24th
Average opponent position Robins first 8: 10th
Diff: +14

CCFC position Lampard first 8: 14th
Average opponent position Lampards first 8: 18th
Diff: -4

Hope this helps.
 

stupot07

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #8
bigfatronssba said:
Around 20 players remained from the previous season.

Regardless you’ve completely missed the point about giving managers time. I suspect it’s deliberate
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Around 20 of a 24 man squad remained?

It's a rubbish example because we were already relegated in bar name, and we all knew that and we all knew Robins had been brought in to lead a League Two promotion campaign.
 
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covcity4life

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #9
Sick Boy said:
We clearly don’t have a top 6 squad, despite reinvesting 45M.
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They pick and choose when it's top 6.

" But but king said "

I mean me personally I still don't think it's that bad and fact we're midtable without even getting going all season kinda shows that
 

bigfatronssba

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #10
shmmeee said:
CCFC position Robins first 8: 24th
Average opponent position Robins first 8: 10th
Diff: +14

CCFC position Lampard first 8: 14th
Average opponent position Lampards first 8: 18th
Diff: -4

Hope this helps.
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And Lampard has done better. So your league position argument is meaningless
 

shmmeee

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #11
bigfatronssba said:
And Lampard has done better. So your league position argument is meaningless
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I give up man. I hope you were kind to your teachers at school.
 
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bigfatronssba

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #12
stupot07 said:
Around 20 of a 24 man squad remained?

It's a rubbish example because we were already relegated in bar name, and we all knew that and we all knew Robins had been brought in to lead a League Two promotion campaign.
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And we all know that Lampard has been brought in to lead a play off challenge next season.

Or were you expecting him to get us promoted this year??
 

bigfatronssba

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #13
shmmeee said:
I give up man. I hope you were kind to your teachers at school.
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I really don’t understand the point you’re making.
You’re saying that Lampard should get better results than Robins because we’re playing weaker teams. Well he HAS got better results.
I can’t comprehend what you’re trying to argue
 

Sick Boy

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #14
shmmeee said:
I give up man. I hope you were kind to your teachers at school.
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Who was your choice?
 

stupot07

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #15
bigfatronssba said:
And we all know that Lampard has been brought in to lead a play off challenge next season.

Or were you expecting him to get us promoted this year??
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No I am expecting to see some improvement in the performances and some of that elite tactical astuteness. You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.
 

Ring Of Steel

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #16
bigfatronssba said:
8 league games into the Robins era. He had got us 10 points

Imagine if we had got rid of him for producing such a poor return? I mean it’s obviously poor isn’t it? If we’re considering 12 points from 8 games as bad.

Have some of you learned nothing? That you can’t judge a manager on a handful of initial games.

A manager needs to be able to bring in his own players. Only then can they be judged
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this really is desperate
 
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bigfatronssba

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #17
Ring Of Steel said:
this really is desperate
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Facts don’t give a shit about your feelings
 

Ring Of Steel

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #18
bigfatronssba said:
Facts don’t give a shit about your feelings
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You’ve spent time coming up with this nonsense from 7 years ago, and I have no idea what point you’re trying to make apart from “Lampard has not done anything yet, but if I contort things enough I can pretend Robins was just as bad in 2017 so I win”

What’s the point in any of this, what’s your objective?
 

bigfatronssba

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #19
Ring Of Steel said:
You’ve spent time coming up with this nonsense from 7 years ago, and I have no idea what point you’re trying to make apart from “Lampard has not done anything yet, but if I contort things enough I can pretend Robins was just as bad in 2017 so I win”

What’s the point in any of this, what’s your objective?
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To support our manager and argue that he should be allowed to bring in his own players to improve the team.

What’s your objective?
 

Ring Of Steel

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #20
bigfatronssba said:
To support our manager and argue that he should be allowed to bring in his own players to improve the team.

What’s your objective?
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Who has said that he shouldn’t be allowed to improve the team? And how does pulling stats from 2017 help your cause? You’re all over the place with this.

Nobody wants Lampard gone, everyone wants it to work. And today was rubbish. No stat from 2017 is going to change that.
 

clint van damme

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #21
covcity4life said:
They pick and choose when it's top 6.

" But but king said "

I mean me personally I still don't think it's that bad and fact we're midtable without even getting going all season kinda shows that
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Why do you think he said it?
 

bigfatronssba

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #22
Ring Of Steel said:
Who has said that he shouldn’t be allowed to improve the team? And how does pulling stats from 2017 help your cause? You’re all over the place with this.

Nobody wants Lampard gone, everyone wants it to work. And today was rubbish. No stat from 2017 is going to change that.
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If you think no one wants Lampard gone then you haven’t looked at this forum in much detail.

Also if you can’t see the relevance of pointing out that Robins had a slow start, and had to build his own team, then you must be some sort of vegetable
 

Ring Of Steel

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #23
bigfatronssba said:
If you think no one wants Lampard gone then you haven’t looked at this forum in much detail.

Also if you can’t see the relevance of pointing out that Robins had a slow start, and had to build his own team, then you must be some sort of vegetable
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jeez- ok show me who wants him gone. There must be, I dunno, 100 people chuntering away on here, tell me who has said “I want him gone”
 

fatso

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #24
stupot07 said:
you can't compare he took over us bottom of league one and all bar relegated, with the worst deck in the league. We have a top 6 deck
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The expectation of the fans is the problem.

There's no way in hell that this is a top 6 deck.
How many of today's team would get in Leeds team? Or Sheff utds, or Burnley's or even Sunderland's ffs?
 
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SeaSeeEffCee

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #25
fatso said:
The expectation of the fans is the problem.

There's no way in hell that this is a top 6 deck.
How many of today's team would get in Leeds team? Or Sheff utds, or Burnley's or even Sunderland's ffs?
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The expectation of the fans? The bloody owner is the one who said it!
 
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Evo1883

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #26
bigfatronssba said:
8 league games into the Robins era. He had got us 10 points

Imagine if we had got rid of him for producing such a poor return? I mean it’s obviously poor isn’t it? If we’re considering 12 points from 8 games as bad.

Have some of you learned nothing? That you can’t judge a manager on a handful of initial games.

A manager needs to be able to bring in his own players. Only then can they be judged
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We were 13 points adrift of safety with 10 games to go when Robins took over .

Are you suggesting frank has taken on the worst team in the league and thefore it's comparible
 

bigfatronssba

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #27
Ring Of Steel said:
jeez- ok show me who wants him gone. There must be, I dunno, 100 people chuntering away on here, tell me who has said “I want him gone”
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Ok well if no one wants him gone then you have nothing to worry about.

You, me, this whole forum are 100% behind Lampard then. Give him the money to improve the team and in the meantime, trust him
 
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Monty

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #28
I agree there is an Issue with the players. Neither Robins or Lampard can get a consistent tune from them.

However Robins pulled the squad together and therefore has to take far more responsibility than Lampard.

We need to see what Frank does during this transfer window and see if things improve on the pitch then too.
 
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Evo1883

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #29
League table when robins took over , 15 points adrift not 13
 

fatso

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #30
SeaSeeEffCee said:
The expectation of the fans? The bloody owner is the one who said it!
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And we all bought into it, hook line and sinker.

23000 season tickets is mental for us, you can't say we weren't all on board with Doug's operation Premiership.

I think MR knew it was BS, hence not recruiting a no2 and not stopping DK getting carried away with nonsence backroom appointments.
 

Ring Of Steel

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #31
Monty said:
I agree there is an Issue with the players. Neither Robins or Lampard can get a consistent tune from them.

However Robins pulled the squad together and therefore has to take far more responsibility than Lampard.

We need to see what Frank does during this transfer window and see if things improve on the pitch then too.
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people keep saying this, “it’s on Robins” but what are we supposed to do about it, write a stern letter to Stoke City? He’s long gone, he doesn’t give a shit- all we can do now is allow Lampard the time and judge him by what he does, which is what most people are doing tbh because let’s be honest, we’ve not seen much to be encouraged by so far.
 

Sick Boy

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #32
Monty said:
I agree there is an Issue with the players. Neither Robins or Lampard can get a consistent tune from them.

However Robins pulled the squad together and therefore has to take far more responsibility than Lampard.

We need to see what Frank does during this transfer window and see if things improve on the pitch then too.
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This but Austin also needs to be held accountable.
 

bigfatronssba

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #33
Ring Of Steel said:
all we can do now is allow Lampard the time and judge him by what he does
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Why have you spent the last bloody hour arguing with me and then come out with this?
 

Evo1883

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #34
bigfatronssba said:
Why have you spent the last bloody hour arguing with me and then come out with this?
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Because you're getting angry that fans are judging what he's doing
 
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bigfatronssba

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  • Jan 1, 2025
  • #35
Evo1883 said:
Because you're getting angry that fans are judging what he's doing
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I’m getting angry that some don’t want him to have time or transfer money
 
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