Bennets Afro
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Anyone think he could of kept us up???
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lordsummerisle
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Yes, he's a football manager.
skybluegod
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Imo no, we didn't have anyone that could score last season and he wouldn't have been able to bring anyone in.
Evans020
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I believe I was one...was in a dark place though lol
TheHellion
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We had some very fundamental problems last year. We had an incredible knack of throwing away leads, and conceding late goals as well. Combine this with the fact that we didn't score many, it was instantly a recipe for disaster. Our playing style last year wasn't really that effective either, it provided little in the way of forward momentum, and often left us under more pressure because we were not able to attack with pace. I do believe, however, we may have had a better chance of staying up with a manager who had more experience. It is widely accepted that Thorn did not make good use of the subs bench, often we found ourselves reacting to things that had already happened, by which time, of course, it was too late. If we'd have had a manager who could sense the time was needed for a change during a game, maybe we'd have conceded fewer late goals. I think it would still have been tight, but just on the basis of having more experience alone I think would have given us a better chance.
CarpyCov84
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Yes to a certain extent who ever it maybe sell ya best players and don't replace them is asking for trouble
Bennets Afro
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I think he would. We had players to do it. We lost games in the last 15 mins and he seems to of sorted that out. Would of saved us a few points
covcity4life
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Robins wouldn't need backing to keep us up
Murphy, wood, baker, mcsheffrey, Clarke, Christie all play better under him
What makes u think robins wouldn't have got best of bigi, nor wood and nimiley etc?
Thorn neatly kept us up, robins would have done it at a canter
stupot07
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** In a lower league.
covcity4life
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Very true but they played same in l1 as they did in championship until robins joined
stupot07
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Problem is you look at the strikers, juke apart:
Eastwood and platt are playing league two, ROD and Cody can't get in our first 11 now in league one, and nimely is rotting in man city reserves.
Christie, bigi and Thomas were in their first season of first team football.
And we were only able to bring in 4 outfield players all season and one of those only played 4/5 games.
Although we conceded a lot in the last 15 minutes, overall we weret that bad defensively (6 teams conceded more than us) however we were the lowest scorera in the league. That was our problem, lack of goals.
Robins would have improved us, but I'm not convinced he would have kept us up, we finished 8 points from safety in the end, that's a huge gap. It would all depend on whether he would have been able to bring in the right players and as much as i liked them we needed know how in January not young talents.
covcity4life
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I get your points , but when we beat hull we were out of relegation zone with 4 games left or something, 8pt gap but misleading
All those last min goals too!
stupot07
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They did cost us but mainly because we never scored the second to kill a game off.
We did go on a good run but ultimately ran out of steam. Like I said I think robins would have improved us last season, I'm just not convinced we'd have avoided the drop, although I'm sure the points gap would have been smaller - he has worked wonders since he's been here but we have to remember that he has a squad which is one of the top 3-4 wage bills in league one, compared to last season when we had one of the lowest wage bills in the league.
Did we come out of the relegation zone before or after Portsmouth went into admin? I honestly can't remember.
