Sky Blue Goblin
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I remember being sad that Andy Boothroyd was sacked as my first manager I followed. Gutted would be understatement.
I remember being sad that Andy Boothroyd was sacked as my first manager I followed. Gutted would be understatement.There will be kids coming home from school today only known robins as manager will be gutted
Not rightly so , the start of this season scews it , he's done enough here to be given the time to turn it around , God help the next manager with a couple of bad games if you sadistic fucks want robins out after 7 good years
I've been on my WhatsApp group with my Cov mates today . Even the few who were murmuring about Robins future on it over the past few weeks are genuinely gutted by this news .Thankfully after seeing the backlash all over social media , the robins out brigade were genuinley a minority and most of our support isn't morally bankrupt
I’d look specifically at the last 11 home games - 8 defeats in that time.Looking at league stats since start of 2024
Played 39
Won 13
Drew 6
Lost 16
45 points from a possible 105
8 of those wins came before April. That run of games (as well as at the end of 2023) and cup run has hidden reasonably poor form over the last year.
Without the FA cup semi final ??He's had time to turn it around, more than other managers would get that's for sure.
Without FA Cup SF the season wouldn't have been good enough and this season's it's been poor. He built it up alongside the club to aim for top six and promotion this season and we aren't close.
Whether you like it or not it's the right call, Since the FA Cup SF we've won four league games. It's not good enough for the squad here, it was time.
I'm also not sadistic, I'm a realist.
I've been on my WhatsApp group with my Cov mates today . Even the few who were murmuring about Robins future on it over the past few weeks are genuinely gutted by this news .
As I would hope every Coventry fan would be today
Without the FA cup semi final ??
Without my dad and mum I wouldnt be here ? What a shit argument
You're also in the minority thankfully
"Without" a lot of things there. Fact is it happened and therefore the ability was proven to be there from both the players and manager.He's had time to turn it around, more than other managers would get that's for sure.
Without FA Cup SF the season wouldn't have been good enough and this season's it's been poor. He built it up alongside the club to aim for top six and promotion this season and we aren't close.
Whether you like it or not it's the right call, Since the FA Cup SF we've won four league games. It's not good enough for the squad here, it was time.
I'm also not sadistic, I'm a realist.
There's 16 home games and a transfer window to sort out the squads frailtiesI’d look specifically at the last 11 home games - 8 defeats in that time.
away performances aside, we make our money on the ticket sales which are top priced.
Season tickets gonna be a hard sell if we keep losing at home
"Without" a lot of things there. Fact is it happened and therefore the ability was proven to be there from both the players and manager.
Yeah great come back, completely pointless in fact.
Minority or not he's gone, time to move past it.
Thanks for that stat, 7 years indeed and 7 years not bettered in my 49 years following the Sky Blues, but hey let’s pull the plug after 14 league games eh, very Watfordesque! He deserved better than that, we’re all entitled to our opinions, I think it’s a shit one.Watfordesque? He'd been there 7 years not 7 months.
Thorn was 100% the fans' choice.Right now I am thinking that we are going to regret this and look back on a halcyon era of stability. We are back to Coleman, dowie and bothroyd and that all ended up with Thorne
Holding up Jamie Allen alongside Hamer and Gyokeres is nonsense. People forget the likes of Jobello, Kastaneer, Hilssner, Waghorn, Ogogo etc.You really are an idiot
Well it's true isn't it ya fluff .. we finished 9th and reached an fa cup semi final , it was a good season.
Fact
Saying if we didn't do this and that it would have been shit is a brain dead argument because we did it
Really saddening to see him go, especially in this manner. He's done so much for the club and put us back on the footballing map. Can't say it hasn't been coming though based on the poor run of form since March.
Fingers crossed the next manager is the right appointment and regardless of who it is the whole club, fans, staff and players need to be 100% behind him.
That's a possibility. Mutual consent means no payout. But it goes to show that Doug really must've meant it to pay off a 3 year contractMaybe Robins wanted to leave and getting sacked got him a payout
So what about this season then "ya fluff" still a good season, is that a fact as well?
In league 1 yesAllen
Matty James was just the player we needed last night
not March ffs
April 6th we fell off in the league but we're still in the cup with a small knackered squad
Still, 3rd season in a row we've started poorly and I get the impression he's not suited to a modern coaching setup. People on here implying Doug's been digging Robins grave.
Even the few who were murmuring about Robins future on it over the past few weeks are genuinely gutted by this news .
As I would hope every Coventry fan would be today
Apologise don't know why I put" the turn of the year" when I was meaning from April. I blame it on my age.January 1st to April 6th
Won 13
Drew 3
Lost 4
So what’s the excuse for the start of this season?not March ffs
April 6th we fell off in the league but we're still in the cup with a small knackered squad
Allen has done more for the club than MVE and SakamotoHolding up Jamie Allen alongside Hamer and Gyokeres is nonsense. People forget the likes of Jobello, Kastaneer, Hilssner, Waghorn, Ogogo etc.
Our current recruitment team has made some very good signings, Wright, MVE, Sakamoto.
Comparing the two recruitment teams is silly, they have completely different resources and completely different targets. Plus the players recruited under the current team have been here less than a season and a half at max.
We've had a poor start , the team is lacking leadership and a bit of balance which wasn't addressed in the transfer marker , we missed out on a couple of midfielders and didn't address it .So what’s the excuse for the start of this season?
let me guess, coaches, iPads, yada yada, Doug king
There is a First World War General about I know whom quite a lot (sad, I know) called William Robertson, who coined the phrase 'War is a one man show'. Football is the same and Robins was our 'one man'. I think SISU had come to understand that, now we have to have King working his way up the learning curve to reach the same conclusionFully agree. King appears to be compling what he thinks a football club should look like. But he is forgetting, or doesn't know, the intricacies of what it means to the wider circle outside of the boardroom.
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