Match Thread Supporter's Meeting with Doug King Match Thread (1 Viewer)

[Gynnsthetonic]

You seem to be missing several people's points.

Not just this season but our short term future totally depends on our next managers appointment. Most appointments fail which is why managers don't last long. Listening to one side of a story only rarely gives you the whole picture.

Of course King wants us to succeed. Only an idiot would say differently. But the next decision is bigger than the one to let Robins go. My biggest worry is that it is to be made by someone who admits that he doesn't know much about football.

I'm sure he won't be making that decision alone, do you?

 

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[Lamps]

I'm sure he won't be making that decision alone, do you?

But with help from who?

I'm sorry if I come over as being too worried about what is about to happen. But over the years we have had some right dross as managers and rarely had a decent one. And now we're back in the market after years of stability.

The best thing we can do is wait for the next appointment to be made. I just wish I could be more hopeful for our short term future.

 

[The watchmaker]

In the end the only debate is did Robins deserve more time to turn it around

Like you I found the Talksport interview rather unconvincing. Doug realed it in a lot perhaps realising he overstepped last night. I feel yesterday and today raise an enormous number of questions but even if Robins came out and gave his own full and frank version of events we will never really have the full picture. I think we probably just need to let these threads die a natural death and move on.

I'm saying giving Doug the benefit of the doubt will be more enjoyable than not.

Strongly agree with this. Things could get really messy if we turn on Doug/the team/the new manager over the next couple of months. I just don't want to go back 'there'.

 

[shmmeee]

What does that mean?

Big Boomer energy in this post

 

[fernandopartridge]

You've missed my point.

I'm saying giving Doug the benefit of the doubt will be more enjoyable than not.

Some people seem really keen on spending the next few months/seasons waiting for us to fail so they can claim some kind of moral victory.

Fair enough and I get that

 

[TomRad85]

Morning reminder.
Robins sacked because results over a prolonged period were poor and the owner saw we were trending towards a relegation battle, which was unacceptable. Home form being particularly concerning.
People didn't like it because they thought Doug removed Adi and forced a new coaching setup on Robins, even though that was clearly not the case, start acting like babies online.
Doug comes out to speak and confirm that the exact opposite it true.
People now cry like babies because they say that's unprofessional, although the real reason of course is it's made them look stupid. Conspiracy theories start to slowly ramp up again (this will be a fun few days/weeks.)
The end.

 

[WestEndAgro]

You can choose to believe or not but I lived in West Bridgford and one mid afternoon he asleep in my front garden pissed

Sound's like you are

 

[MalcSB]

Big Boomer energy in this post

Helpful, thanks.

I was wondering what the relevance of my age is?

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Morning reminder.
Robins sacked because results over a prolonged period were poor and the owner saw we were trending towards a relegation battle, which was unacceptable. Home form being particularly concerning.
People didn't like it because they thought Doug removed Adi and forced a new coaching setup on Robins, even though that was clearly not the case, start acting like babies online.
Doug comes out to speak and confirm that the exact opposite it true.
People now cry like babies because they say that's unprofessional, although the real reason of course is it's made them look stupid. Conspiracy theories start to slowly ramp up again (this will be a fun few days/weeks.)
The end.

First paragraph isn’t what he said but he did imply it
Doesn’t help to be binary
Doug king is not an angel and robins isn’t the devil
Danger of giving all the details without a right of reply is it causes a split

 

[edgy]

Helpful, thanks.

I was wondering what the relevance of my age is?

Cheap internet points m8. Come on Granddad.

 

[shmmeee]

Helpful, thanks.

I was wondering what the relevance of my age is?

I was just making a joke because boomers don’t understand stuff. Beyond that nothing to do with me guv

 

[TomRad85]

Doug king is not an angel and robins isn’t the devil

Who said he's the devil? He's a manager who did a very good job here but given more tools at his disposal got it wrong and wasn't delivering. If people accepted the most obvious explanation that would have been it, we say thank you very much for your service, you've done great but we're stagnating, good luck for the future. That's it!
Instead we got conspiracy theory overload, grown men absolute losing their minds and we end up with the fairly embarrassing spectacle we got the other night where many people were humbled upon receiving answers they didn't like.

 

[Evo1883]

Personally I think being a Cov fan over the next few years is going to be much more enjoyable if you give Doug the benefit of the doubt

Yes mate because I tell you what , nothing beats promotions , playoff finals , 4 wembley visits and an fa cup semi final like giving somebody the benefit of the doubt ... I'm in

 

[Macca1987]

I think we need to put a line under this

I believe people are falling into three camps here

1. Doug King has told the full truth and it was all MR's fault and he had to act
2. MR has been shafted and Doug King has no idea about football
3. We will never know the full details, but things have not been right performance wise for a long time now, the FA Cup games against Wolves and Man United have glossed over poor performances in the league

I would like to think I'm in camp 3, I will wait and see who Doug appoints and will wait and see if the team starts performing as we want them too

That's not to say I'm not pissed off with losing MR, it's like moving away and losing a close friend etc, we all get on with life and things change along the way, sometimes for the better and sometimes not, but we adapt PUSB

 

[Evo1883]

It seems that Robins has gone from hero to zero in a matter of hours after a one sided brief from the person who depends on the people he gave his story to.

I would guess he is correct with what he has said. But he has given his own spin on it. But my guess would be that a lot was missed out on. For instance we all knew we needed more players in. Loans could have made a massive difference but King didn't want to pay for someone that was a loss of money. Easily brushed over.

There's many things that could have caused bad blood between the two of them. And there was only going to be one winner.

I will be keeping an open mind and will wait for more information to come out in the weeks and months ahead before thinking I know what has happened between the two of them.

Away a few from this place that feast on absolute negativity and twitter where half the fans don't go and the other half have no idea what they're talking about ..

To the masses robins will never be zero and always a hero , to many of us that trawled all over the country with this club from rock bottom to where we are today he gave us an amazing 7 years and he helped restore this football club to one of the biggest football clubs in the championship currently.. there are kids in coventry that support coventry now not man utd and Liverpool etc

These people that have shit to say really should remember what he's helped give us all .

He's one of our greatest

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

I think we need to put a line under this

I believe people are falling into three camps here

1. Doug King has told the full truth and it was all MR's fault and he had to act
2. MR has been shafted and Doug King has no idea about football
3. We will never know the full details, but things have not been right performance wise for a long time now, the FA Cup games against Wolves and Man United have glossed over poor performances in the league

I would like to think I'm in camp 3, I will wait and see who Doug appoints and will wait and see if the team starts performing as we want them too

That's not to say I'm not pissed off with losing MR, it's like moving away and losing a close friend etc, we all get on with life and things change along the way, sometimes for the better and sometimes not, but we adapt PUSB

I think I can jump from all 3 depending on what time of day it is
I think 3 is correct
I don’t know how I’d feel if DK had just come out with results weren’t good enough and we had to act. I think I’d have said but we’ve been here before and robins has turned it round
To which dk could have said that was when he had a first team coach supporting him and we may have ended up in the same place
I think I as shocked as I’d assumed we’d never receive details about what happened with adi and suddenly despite an nds it was all laid bare

I still feel one can’t judge the decision without knowing the next 2 years. Dk is not a football man and doesn’t need to be if he has football people doing the football side of things

I also strongly feel that if robins left himself vulnerable then dk has made himself hugely vulnerable with how and when he’s taken this decision not necessarily why

The new thing that I’m nervous about now is what happens if he has a heart attack or gets knocked over. Who steps up, you have literally a single point of failure with him personally being the board

 

[Evo1883]

Also .. if things go massively wrong from here , some of us will have great fun with certain posters

 

[thekidfromstrettoncamp]

My biggest worry is that it is to be made by someone who admits that he doesn't know much about football.

It's his money that he will lose if he gets it wrong.You can be sure he will get the very best advise he possibly can.

 

[clint van damme]

Like you I found the Talksport interview rather unconvincing. Doug realed it in a lot perhaps realising he overstepped last night. I feel yesterday and today raise an enormous number of questions but even if Robins came out and gave his own full and frank version of events we will never really have the full picture. I think we probably just need to let these threads die a natural death and move on.

Strongly agree with this. Things could get really messy if we turn on Doug/the team/the new manager over the next couple of months. I just don't want to go back 'there'.

Turning on King is not the same as turning on the team or the manager.
People were turning on King Saturday but they still backed the team.

 

[Old Warwickshire lad]

It's his money that he will lose if he gets it wrong.You can be sure he will get the very best advise he possibly can.

He is not spending any of his own money.

 

[Bigelvesy]

Big Boomer energy in this post

beat me to it

 

[skybluecam]

Also .. if things go massively wrong from here , some of us will have great fun with certain posters

Rubbing your hands at the thought of us doing badly so you can stick it to people on the internet

 

[Grendel]

First paragraph isn’t what he said but he did imply it
Doesn’t help to be binary
Doug king is not an angel and robins isn’t the devil
Danger of giving all the details without a right of reply is it causes a split

A split between who?

 

[Deity]

He is not spending any of his own money.

Jesus not this again.

Yes he is.

All the assets of Coventry City are his, any income that arises from them are is. Whether he then banks that income personally or reinvests it in the club is his decision. Either way it’s his money.

 

[Grendel]

Jesus not this again.

Yes he is.

All the assets of Coventry City are his, any income that arises from them are is. Whether he then banks that income personally or reinvests it in the club is his decision. Either way it’s his money.

He also has clearly injected funds into the club - at least £6 million

 

[Otis]

A split between who?

The People's Front of Judea and the Judean People's Front.

 

[JSL]

My concern is that of where DK will get advice from when appointing a new coach. It seems Dean Austin is much in favour given he accompanied him in the fans forum.Given his less than perfect recruitment track record, can he be sure a good decision can be reached?

 

[ovduk78]

My concern is that of where DK will get advice from when appointing a new coach. It seems Dean Austin is much in favour given he accompanied him in the fans forum.Given his less than perfect recruitment track record, can he be sure a good decision can be reached?

He can ask the performance director, if she's back from her holiday, as well as the other football experts at other clubs

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

A split between who?

Fan base

 

[Old Warwickshire lad]

Jesus not this again.

Yes he is.

All the assets of Coventry City are his, any income that arises from them are is. Whether he then banks that income personally or reinvests it in the club is his decision. Either way it’s his money.

Yes he owns us and can do whatever he wants with the income.. But talk about spending his own money,and people think it is from his own sources away from the club.
He may be reinvesting the income generated from transfers and season tickets etc. Good for him,he doesn’t have to.
If all this goes tits up,he walks away without any danger of losing any of his own personal wealth.
Do I trust Doug King? Mmmm the jury is out, is it better than having SISU here? I sincerely hope so.

 

[Nick]

My concern is that of where DK will get advice from when appointing a new coach. It seems Dean Austin is much in favour given he accompanied him in the fans forum.Given his less than perfect recruitment track record, can he be sure a good decision can be reached?

Didn't he answer that?

 

[peteCCFC]

As soon as it becomes a chore to watch, the mangers position must be questioned.
The next appointment is crucial for the future of the club and I hope this first thing he focuses on is restoring the amazing connection we've had with the team the last half dozen years, and the defense.

 

[Deity]

My concern is that of where DK will get advice from when appointing a new coach. It seems Dean Austin is much in favour given he accompanied him in the fans forum.Given his less than perfect recruitment track record, can he be sure a good decision can be reached?

He talked about using the CEO’s / Owners of Premier League clubs for advice too.

 

[Deity]

Didn't he answer that?

Yes he did

 

[NortonSkyBlue]

I will support the team going forward and that includes the new boss whilst wishing it hadn’t ended like this for Robins. I will be forever appreciative of what he did for the club but can see the point of view that he had run his race.
I don’t expect to hear from Robins as I don’t believe it will be in his interests to do so.
If the players have been plotting then shame on them unless the training was detrimental to their careers.
Whatever occurred King must prevail for the club to progress, otherwise we are back to square one.