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Now its potentially a reality , Will mark Robins be Coventrys greatest manager if we get promoted (2 Viewers)

  • Thread starter Evo1883
  • Start date May 19, 2023
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Is mark robins Our greatest ever manager if we get promoted

  • Yes

    Votes: 140 95.2%
  • No

    Votes: 7 4.8%

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Evo1883

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  • May 19, 2023
  • #36
Grendel said:
So if robins achieved that in the top flight?
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Gordon Strachan managed to finish 5 points off the uefa Cup in 98 , is he better than Robins ?
 

Tommo1993

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #37
If we get stats involved, Milne’s win % is matched/bettered by a few surprising names for the matter being discussed. He’s certainly well behind Robins.
 
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Skyblueweeman

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  • May 19, 2023
  • #38
Boosh said:
and here we gooo. Does this nonsense have to pollute every thread. Some posters have a bad obsession
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I think you're Grendel and I claim my £5.

That said....5th? Fucking hell! Some people are just never happy! G, not you. Obvs.
 
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SBT

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  • May 19, 2023
  • #39
Ccfcisparks said:
Just looked on Wiki, Storer?
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I’d be interested to hear the justification for putting him on the list - his last game in charge was 70 years ago so not sure how many people on here saw his teams first hand…..What was our average xG/game back then?
 

slowpoke

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #40
Ccfcisparks said:
out of curiosity who is the other one.

I don't know much about Milne was he any good?
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In a word no
 
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Tommo1993

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #41
It may not happen, obviously, but we are on the cusp of escaping the most competitive league (undeniable) league on the footballing planet. Under some of the toughest constraints and bleakest of very recent histories. He blows others out of the water.
 
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Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #42
Tommo1993 said:
If we get stats involved, Milne’s win % is matched/bettered by a few surprising names for the matter being discussed. He’s certainly well behind Robins.
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Were you supporting the club when Milne was manager?
 
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PVA

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #43
Grendel said:
I think Gordon Milne ranks above robins.

Why do you think robins is better?
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Took over a team in Div 1 that finished 16th and then finished

14th
14th
19th (avoiding relegation by a point)
7th
10th
15th
16th

Left the club two places lower than when he joined.

Robins has us two (possibly soon to be 3) leagues higher.
 

Evo1883

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #44
Grendel said:
Were you supporting the club when Milne was manager?
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My dad was and he doesn't agree with you

Just for balance
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #45
Skyblueweeman said:
I think you're Grendel and I claim my £5.

That said....5th? Fucking hell! Some people are just never happy! G, not you. Obvs.
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Hill
Cantwell
Sillett
Milne
robins
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #46
Evo1883 said:
My dad was and he doesn't agree with you

Just for balance
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He became manager at 34 - kept the club in the top division against impossible odds for 10 years and ask your dad if the 1977 78 season wasn’t the best the club had since the Hill era
 

slowpoke

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #47
Grendel said:
Hill
Cantwell
Sillett
Milne
robins
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Did you go when Cantwell was manager ?
 

Tommo1993

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #48
Grendel said:
Were you supporting the club when Milne was manager?
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I was supporting the club when Dowie was manager. Another higher win % than Milne. This debate could be taken down some hilarious roads.
 
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SBT

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #49
Manager A - 34.4% win ratio, best league finish of 7th, worst league finish of 19th

Manager B - 33.3% win ratio, best league finish of 8th, worst league finish of 19th

Is one of these considered to be better than Robins? And if so, which one? Choose carefully!

Manager A is Gordon Milne
Manager B is Micky Adams
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #50
slowpoke said:
Did you go when Cantwell was manager ?
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no Rupert but statistically he got the club to the highest position in the clubs history - he didn’t and couldn’t achieve promotions but he did achieve the highest position the club will ever achieve probably
 
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Ccfcisparks

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #51
I never got chance to see any of those managers in charge, but if they were better than Robins they must have been some pretty good years. Hopefully Robins can replicate if we go up and keep us there!
 

Evo1883

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #52
Grendel said:
He became manager at 34 - kept the club in the top division against impossible odds for 10 years and ask your dad if the 1977 78 season wasn’t the best the club had since the Hill era
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He said it was a great season , but still thinks what Robins has done for the club over 6 seasons trumps it.

I will say me and the old man have been home and away all the way through the last 6 years and it probably sways how we feel about it
 

Boosh

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #53
SBT said:
Manager A - 34.4% win ratio, best league finish of 7th, worst league finish of 19th

Manager B - 33.3% win ratio, best league finish of 8th, worst league finish of 19th

Is one of these considered to be better than Robins? And if so, which one? Choose carefully!

Manager A is Gordon Milne
Manager B is Micky Adams
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Don’t see how that’s relevant?
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #54
Tommo1993 said:
I was supporting the club when Dowie was manager. Another higher win % than Milne. This debate could be taken down some hilarious roads.
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No it couldn’t - Dowie was rubbish and it’s embarrassing you’ve mentioned him and Milne frankly
 
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Evo1883

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #55
Tommo1993 said:
I was supporting the club when Dowie was manager. Another higher win % than Milne. This debate could be taken down some hilarious roads.
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Gordon Strachan has a similar win ratio in the top flight
 

slowpoke

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #56
Grendel said:
He became manager at 34 - kept the club in the top division against impossible odds for 10 years and ask your dad if the 1977 78 season wasn’t the best the club had since the Hill era
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But it didn’t last and we were soon scalping around at the bottom end, as yet Robins has not struggled in any of the three divisions he has been manager and he has changed his squad three times, bought players cheap and flogged them for a few million and turned Gyo from a million quid hopefully to a multi-million star.
 
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usskyblue

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  • May 19, 2023
  • #57
Evo1883 said:
We don't need to argue
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Piss off
 
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Grendel

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  • May 19, 2023
  • #58
Boosh said:
Don’t see how that’s relevant?
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it’s embarrassing from an award winning journalist
 
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Evo1883

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  • May 19, 2023
  • #59
Strachan also put together one of the best city teams for many years too didn't he .. Still don't rate him
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #60
slowpoke said:
But it didn’t last and we were soon scalping around at the bottom end, as yet Robins has not struggled in any of the three divisions he has been manager and he has changed his squad three times, bought players cheap and flogged them for a few million and turned Gyo from a million quid hopefully to a multi-million star.
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Irrelevant
 
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steve cooper

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #61
Grendel said:
Hill
Cantwell
Sillett
Milne
robins
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Agree with Cantwell being up there
 
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Deleted member 5849

Guest
  • May 19, 2023
  • #62
Evo1883 said:
he's top 3 for you right ?
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He'd be top three for me - he is now. We've done the whys before mind you.

If he wins us the FA Cup he's top one, no question.
 
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Evo1883

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #63
It's interesting to me how you don't value achievements outside the top flight...
 

usskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #64
It’s a subject that doesn’t have an even playing field. Some managers got us promotions, some inherited a 1st division/Prem team with varying success.
 
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Tommo1993

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2023
  • #65
Grendel said:
No it couldn’t - Dowie was rubbish and it’s embarrassing you’ve mentioned him and Milne frankly
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It honestly could if it’s the route people decided to take. But you really need to cool your Bovril, you think one thing, I think another. It’s words on the Internet - though I think yours on this thread are complete bullshit just to gouge a reaction.

Robins perches nicely at the top.
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • May 19, 2023
  • #66
SBT said:
I’d be interested to hear the justification for putting him on the list - his last game in charge was 70 years ago so not sure how many people on here saw his teams first hand…..What was our average xG/game back then?
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My Grandad would always say about what a transformation he made to the team. I dunno, does history have to only be the history you've seen? That would have a small group of people rating Russell Slade as our second best manager of all time!
 
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Boosh

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  • May 19, 2023
  • #67
Tommo1993 said:
It honestly could if it’s the route people decided to take. But you really need to cool your Bovril, you think one thing, I think another. It’s words on the Internet - though I think yours on this thread are complete bullshit just to gouge a reaction.

Robins perches nicely at the top.
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Was 1993 the year you were born? If so then of course Robins is top for you
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • May 19, 2023
  • #68
Evo1883 said:
It's interesting to me how you don't value achievements outside the top flight...
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Me? I can value it, but not want to diminish What Sillet did by deciding on arbitrary factors and differences. Is that so terrible?

Plus we can win the FA Cup while outside the top flight...
 

clint van damme

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  • May 19, 2023
  • #69
Evo1883 said:
For me he can't be any less than 2 .. 3 at an absolute push but I'd argue sillett FA cup triumph isn't as good as 3 promotions
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The FA cup was a huge competition back then.
I don't think people who weren't around for the cup in the 70s and 80s can't appreciate how big

Though to have Robins at 5 Is mind boggling, he hasn't just dragged us from L2, he's had to navigate a whole raft of non footballing issue while doing it.

Gets us to the prem and I cant separate him and Sillett for 1 and 2.
 
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Boosh

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  • May 19, 2023
  • #70
Deleted member 5849 said:
My Grandad would always say about what a transformation he made to the team. I dunno, does history have to only be the history you've seen? That would have a small group of people rating Russell Slade as our second best manager of all time!
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@covcity4life said Thorn plays better and more attractive football than Robins.
 
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