San Francisco
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Robins has a job for life according to some on here.
It's irrelevant, if we're struggling at Christmas including the end of last season you're looking at 30-35 games of poor form.
Love mark and don’t want him going anywhere but we’re not the same club we were seven years ago. He can’t just have unlimited credit. He deserves a statue when all is said and done but while he’s in the job he needs to be held to the expectations of it.The man dragged us through the leagues with some of the most neglectful owners doing their best to scupper him, all the way. Playoff final and a FA cup semi the last two years. Bet he'd be delighted that renowned bed wetter Matt Smith gives him until Christmas
People can be concerned. Let's face it he had no idea today
I think robins has also been let down by the recruitment by not adequately recruiting properly in midfield
I would say my bigger worry is Doug King’s transfer policy and the supporting staff. Robins is really not where our focus should be.
We won in the 96th minute the other week and again got a late equaliser at Bristol City, not sure Adi is much to do with it. It's personnel on the pitch. O'Hare is the one we are missing.It makes you wonder how much of an impact AV leaving has had. The team spirit and drive (particularly in latter part of games where we used to be so strong) seems to have gone.
Yes. It’s all well and good trying to buy the next Gyok money making machine, but 5/6 multi million pound attackers in 16 months can’t work. You can only play so many to put in the shop window. Hamer not replaced. COH on a free was madness. Surely a big signing in fee to extend would have sorted without creating animosity with the rest of the team about weekly wages
See above. Trying to treat players as individual hedge funds to invest and the capitalise on shows he’s a businessman not a football man.
Enthusiasm sucked out of the fan baseExpectations have to be changed due to the lack of reinforcement in midfield.
I would expect us to be around 8th-12th this season, anything less is an underperformance and anything above is an overperformance.
Pretty disappointing still when you consider the money spent that we've failed to address key areas once again. Whoever is leading the recruitment has failed.
He’s barely played for 2 seasons so it’s not COH we are missing ….We won in the 96th minute the other week and again got a late equaliser at Bristol City, not sure Adi is much to do with it. It's personnel on the pitch. O'Hare is the one we are missing.
We’re in the top 3 spenders in both the last 2 seasons. Anything under top 6 is underperformanceExpectations have to be changed due to the lack of reinforcement in midfield.
I would expect us to be around 8th-12th this season, anything less is an underperformance and anything above is an overperformance.
Pretty disappointing still when you consider the money spent that we've failed to address key areas once again. Whoever is leading the recruitment has failed.
Problem is we're playing with
MvE - Lati - Binks - Bidwell
Torp - Rudoni - Eccles
MvE is the only one that is consistently good, the two centre backs are ranked 3 & 4 out of the 4 we have, bidwell has regressed.
Based on the money spent, yesWe’re in the top 3 spenders in both the last 2 seasons. Anything under top 6 is underperformance
That’s what the management teams lives and dies by.Based on the money spent, yes
Based on the squad we've assembled with that money, no
It sounds as if there was little choice: Palmer wanted to go.All of this is on Doug king, we are fucking crying out for midfielders yet he fucking sells one on deadline day it’s laughable…….and unfortunately robins will end up paying the price for kings bullshit.
Also the 15 coaches that have come in are awful, we miss adi and Dennis massively.
I don't know the answer but if it was me I'd be getting Thomas and Kitching ready to go all international break.With the utmost respect to you, I certainly enjoy reading what you post, but then surely the question must be asked of why he is not playing the 2 better central defenders?
I have gone on and on until I’m blue in the bloody face, but why oh why are we persisting with a player who has a total of ONE clean sheet in the league in thirteen months of being here?? Why did we spaff a couple of million on him?
Is it coincidence that Bidwell’s form has dipped playing alongside him? It has been mentioned numerous times that Binks goes wandering up the field or across, as a result Bidwell comes more central to partially cover the gap vacated, creating space on the outside/blindside
I'm not sure Robins has as much influence on the recruitment as he used to.That’s what the management teams lives and dies by.
the squad has been assembled to the management’s specification. The targets don’t change
Of course Robins has influence - he’s got to manage the team.I'm not sure Robins has as much influence on the recruitment as he used to.
If he does, then yea he will need to take the responsibility for that and us being short in key areas.
Strongly disagree. The 20m Sheaf played v Oxford was our most positive and in control we’ve looked. Without him, Torp and Eccles are struggle to progress the ball through midfield and winning it back.We won in the 96th minute the other week and again got a late equaliser at Bristol City, not sure Adi is much to do with it. It's personnel on the pitch. O'Hare is the one we are missing.
I couldn’t agree more, o’hare was a little terrier in the middle and unfortunately none of our present midfield have any fight in them.We won in the 96th minute the other week and again got a late equaliser at Bristol City, not sure Adi is much to do with it. It's personnel on the pitch. O'Hare is the one we are missing.
That’s unfair on Rudoni, he looks good in that 10 role, but it is just Eccles and Torp (then Allen) who just look markedly off the pace.I couldn’t agree more, o’hare was a little terrier in the middle and unfortunately none of our present midfield have any fight in them.
Sorry didn't realise you were an itk, Robin's has implied several times his input on transfers is less than it used to be.Of course Robins has influence - he’s got to manage the team.
Never said his influence wasn’t reduced - but if you honestly think they’ve just thrown 40m worth of players at him without him knowing you’re really naive.Sorry didn't realise you were an itk, Robin's has implied several times his input on transfers is less than it used to be.
I'm sure if it was up to only him he would have utilised the loan market more to cover certain areas of the pitch.
The missing ingredient is clearly Sheaf. Even then, I remember having plenty of discussion last season about missing Hamer and apparently Eccles and Torp were good enough to step up. In fact, in preseason Allen was good enough.O’Hare wasn’t a terrier. He barely played for 18 months. Remarkable how he and Palmer have suddenly turned into Messi and Ronaldo now they’ve left. Palmer was an ineffectual faffer and O’Hare was better but rarely a factor.
It’s hard to be creative when you don’t have control of midfield. Norwich weren’t great today, there were times they would make riskier passes to strikers through defensive lines. We are too cautious and will only pass out wide and by the time those wid r players have the ball, the opposition is set.He looked dreadful in the 10 role. He looked like a defensive midfielder trying to figure out what to do. Zero creativity, just won a few tackles.
O’Hare wasn’t a terrier. He barely played for 18 months. Remarkable how he and Palmer have suddenly turned into Messi and Ronaldo now they’ve left. Palmer was an ineffectual faffer and O’Hare was better but rarely a factor.
We played about 30-35 minutes playing 4-2-4. The root cause of our issues is that Eccles and Torp partnership. Allen being a distant 2nd place tells you everything you need to know about the quality in that midfield unit.I say this desperately, DESPERATELY, fucking screaming in your face. Rudoni is not a 10.
We have Watford , Swansea , Leeds Blackburn and Middlesboro can't see us winning any of those and time for someone else to have a go if that happens.We used to play lovely little triangles in and around their box. Now we just get aimless crosses in.
I don’t think anybody doubts this to be fair but in 6 games played this season we’ve played well in 1. He can and ought to be questioned as to why we are consistently poor this seasonFuck sake lads it's 4 games into the season! Robins has done more for this club than pretty much anyone in history I think he deserves miles more runway than 4 games.
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