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Seen a few negative comments about Hill so there you go.
The general feeling I have concluded from reading forums etc. is that Robins did well in his other two jobs.
"When the Sky Blue Robins comes bob, bob, bobbing along"
You should try and start that one on the terraces NLHWC :guitar2:
Clearly some of us here not taking well to being in a lower division than a team we used to look down on. It's that kind of lack of humility that won't endear us to many folk...
But we're a 'big club'.....
We can't muster 10,000 at home games, we're second bottom of the fricking third tier, and we haven't been a big fish in the Championship for at least half a dozen years. This club has a proud history of fighting against the odds which is long gone and is now a shadow of a shadow of its former self-anyone giving it the big 'un to fans of teams in the league above needs a smack in the face.
I completely agree with you! I don't believe we are a 'big club'
The Stokes and Wigans of this world are the modern Coventrys and Derbys of yesteryear-small top flight clubs who defy the odds to stay there, and that's the best they can all ever aspire to be. Unless Robins is a miracle worker we can't even hope for those days any time soon-people point to Norwich and Southampton but both clubs were considerably better backed financially than we are likely to be under the current regime.
Your not wrong. I don't think Norwich and Southampton's recent success has helped in terms of our fans expectations.
As a Leicester fan, if our owners have the money they can buy whoever they wantNo.
We broke even (in fact, made a small profit) last season/year.
We made a loss in both of Robins' seasons here.
I'm not blaming him for that at all.
The fallout between him and our board was down to finances though. The club had had enough of overspending, and wanted to trim the wage/transfer budgets, to run the club off it's own steam, rather than relying on our owner to stem the flow of lost monies.
They put that to Mark, and he didn't like it, and they went their own ways.
Since then, Keith Hill has come in, agreed to the huge budget cuts, sold our 'better' players, reduced the wage bill, and spent nothing in transfer fees, mainly recruiting from either the lower leagues, or free agent list.
This is how we broke even last year. And to stay up whilst doing so, is testament to his ability, and the boards bravery.
We had 61% possession last night, played Blackburn off the park (with 10 inuries) but lost thanks to their £8m striker, and Nuno Gomes.
The Championship is about as fair financially as the Premier League. The clubs who do things 'properly' such as ourselves and Peterbro etc, are having to compete with those who break all the rules, such as your Blackburn's and Leicester's of this world.
Luckily, as proven over the years (Pompey, Leeds, Sheff Wed, Sheff Utd, yourselves) those 'bigger' clubs who overspend or aren't run correctly, will inevitably fail and drop through the divisions.
But they'll come back, because they have great support, who stick with them.
I wish you lot well, and I truly do hope you see the best of Mark Robins. Perhaps he'll come back to us and take a few of our fringe lads on loan...? He particularly liked young Reuben Noble-Lazarus during his tenure, and he could do with a loan spell to give him some experience in the lower leagues.
But we did have Vaz Te.
A free agent that nobody else (including you) wanted.
The period that kept us up, was a 4 game winning run, where Davies, Butterfield and Vaz Te were on form together.
Only an imbecile would suggest just one player kept us up.
The injuries to Butterfield, Perkins, O'Brien and Steele were much more of a contributory factor in our poor slump.
We weren't the worst side in the division.
You, Donny and Pompey went down.
We beat you all at Oakwell, without conceding a goal.
We are in the second tier because we deserve to be. Wheras, you're in the pub league because......
As for suggesting we'll "easily" go down this time, then fair enough, you're entitled to that opinion. However, I'm pretty satisfied with 7 points from our first 6 games, and I'm looking forward to Saturday tea time, as we go to Birmingham City live on Sky.
I'll leave you to worry about being relegated to the basement division, as you prepare to entertain Carlisle....
I've been nothing but courteous today, and have nothing against you as a club.
Good luck for the season.
Just leave it, everyone with half a brain cell knows we are a bigger club than Barnsley. They are enjoying a current high in there history whilst we are on a low, let them bask in there current success.Cheers pal, everything youve said I've agreed with, ignore some of the divs on here. But you spoilted it a bit; No need for handbag remarks such as 's we go to Birmingham City live on Sky.
I'll leave you to worry about being relegated to the basement division, as you prepare to entertain Carlisle' If i wanted to be childish, I could say it shows how small you are that youre so proud of the fact you're playing blues and its on sky:facepalm: Don't forget, you've had 8years in the champ and a decent cup run, we spent 34 years in the top flight and won the cup.
Forgive me, as I respond to some of these posts.I have nothing against you and am thankful for your input, but for me we were a goalscorer away from staying up e.g Marlon King who left from Brum in the summer. So when I see your top goalscorer leaving and then your form dipping awfully I suppose it is just too much of a coincidence.
Don 'Rowing' is not our chairman. He is general manager.That is definitely not correct.Just phoned a colleague`(barnsley fan) and he confirmed that your chairman Don Rowins stated that they had broken even under Robins 2 years there and they had no worries regarding the financial fair play.
Ok then.If they hadn't you would have gone down.
I won't have any reason to pop back and do that, pal.Don't worry Whitey, I'm sure we will see soon enough about his managerial style.
What you have said worries me.
Feel free to pop back and say 'told you so' in 6 months time.
Don 'Rowing' is not our chairman. He is general manager.
And he certainly hasn't ever stated that we broke even under Robins. Far from it.
Last season was the first year we'd broke even/made a profit, since 2008, ironically the year before Mark Robins was appointed...
But, believe what you want.
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