Grendel
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He signed the guy who won us the F A Cup, Kevin Gallagher and David Speedie
No I don’t, but George was a part of a successful duo which wasn’t quite the same when it split. Not getting into great debate about it but Sill a motivator yes but pants in the transfer market, how many strikers did he sign ? When it comes to managing Dave Sexton for example never gets a mention, boring yes but had to work most of his time with fledglings fresh out of the youth team due to no money and a number of those youngsters went onto bigger and better things sadly not here.
So you're saying we appointed Pressley on the basis of him relegating Falkirk. Righto.Excellent points raised here
Pressley was appointed because of his work at Falkirk and was considered the ideal man at the club based on his record there
So you're saying we appointed Pressley on the basis of him relegating Falkirk. Righto.
Again, dress it up however you want, Mark Robins has had a much better managerial career than Stephen Pressley- backed up by whatever stat you want to produce.
He signed the guy who won us the F A Cup, Kevin Gallagher and David Speedie
He was appointed as he’d been identified as someone who could handle huge budget cuts and make youth players into saleable assets which would fund an horrendous budget gap
He also signed Kevin Drinkell, Dougie McGuire, Paul Edwards etc, and never truly rebuilt the side which was ageing- which is when Butcher came in, tried to rebuild and took a sledgehammer to the place. Fantastic coach and man manager, not so good in the transfer market.
Slash the budget and get relegated. Quite the skillset there.
All Coventry City managers have had to and will always have to sell players. The difference Robins has had is that he's been able to use some of the funds he's generated. our net transfer spend has been a negative for as long as I can remember but the club is still making a loss, the difference now is our owners are willing to plug a larger loss in order to allow the manager to adjust his squad. The losses made by other managers over the last 10 years has entirely gone to stemming losses.
This isn't a criticism of Robins, I think there are many managers out there that would be doing worse than him and few better. He's a very good fit for this club, has built a competitive young squad playing great football and invested in the future of the club. The football side of our operations being run in a more sensible fashion has also assisted him greatly. I think Dave Boddy deserves a lot of credit too.
You do realise without Pressley we’d probably now be bankrupt and that Robins transfer revenue last season was largely due to his predecessors
Nonsense- you are trying to say that Stephen Pressley was some kind of mastermind because he cut the wage bill. I could do that. Had he had some kind of coherent gameplan and showed better judgement with loanees & player selection then you might just have a case, but you don't. Robins is light years ahead. And Robins' use of those funds is part of what sets him apart.
Is that your argument? You've spoken about net spend, what Pressley did elsewhere, developing of players.And my point is that if he takes us up then thats two promotions, a cup (albeit not his side), creating an exciting style of play, uniting the fans more than any manager in many years, doing all that with no ground, never complaining about budgets, and with the owners we have- that would put him undeniably & clearly in the top three ever- based on hard achievements but also based on completely turning around a badly ailing club.
It’s slightly easier to succeed when you can sign Matt Godden rather than Josh McQuiod
Mcguire and Edwards were not strikers?
Still Terry Butcher sold Regis and signed Paul Furlong so I now to your superior knowledge
Man you’re really not letting this taxi for Robins thing go are you?
Apparently we paid a fee for Kastaneer too.
That’s 3 players Robins have paid money for who are in the 23s today and were signed as first team players - Bakayoko, Hiwula and Kastaneer.
I would say his free signings have been better than the ones he’s paid money for
Is that your argument? You've spoken about net spend, what Pressley did elsewhere, developing of players.
think he's the top three ever if you want. Nobody is stopping you but your argument is incoherent.
Man you’re really not letting this taxi for Robins thing go are you?
Who said Taxi for Robins?
It’s nothing to do with that it’s the notion he’s one if the top 3 managers in history which he isn’t
Then name the managers that, if we got promoted, would go down in history as having achieved more than him.
You are quite able to prance around finding getouts as to why Robins isn't actually doing so well, but you are unwilling to actually put your marker down and name names.
You'd be up against 2 promotions, a cup, 2 trips to Wembley, attractive style and unifying the fans more than any manager in a long time- name your names.
My god- talk about red faced.
Now it all fits in, he just feels stupid and is too pig-headed to say "I was wrong".
Then name the managers that, if we got promoted, would go down in history as having achieved more than him.
You are quite able to prance around finding getouts as to why Robins isn't actually doing so well, but you are unwilling to actually put your marker down and name names.
You'd be up against 2 promotions, a cup, 2 trips to Wembley, attractive style and unifying the fans more than any manager in a long time- name your names.
It’s nothing to do with that it’s the notion he’s one if the top 3 managers in history which he isn’t
A lot of managers never could have won those trophies or got promoted
His original post in that thread was bang on
But never played the successful if a bit unusual Regis/ Houchen partnership together again after the FA Cup final. I could say a lot about Speedie who was a terrific talent but would argue was he the right partner for big Cyrillie. Sill also signed Painter, Bannister, Drinkell, Martin Lane, Kevan Smith. But he give us our greatest moment which I doubt would have happened without his motivation skills.He signed the guy who won us the F A Cup, Kevin Gallagher and David Speedie
You're projecting mate.Then name the managers that, if we got promoted, would go down in history as having achieved more than him.
You are quite able to prance around finding getouts as to why Robins isn't actually doing so well, but you are unwilling to actually put your marker down and name names.
You'd be up against 2 promotions, a cup, 2 trips to Wembley, attractive style and unifying the fans more than any manager in a long time- name your names.
Except as history now proves, it wasn't was it?
You have no way to argue this, he was completely, totally, utterly wrong.
then name the names, put his achievements up against the others, stop avoiding the question and name your top three, if we got promoted.
Now that I know you want him sacked it casts a whole new light on things, you just can't face up to the fact that you were badly wrong.
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