Manager/Coach Karl Robinson.

[Leysboy]

Yep! Them first 8 games are just as important as the last 8.

I call it negligence of the highest order. Sackable offence imo.

 

[battman]

Is it not inconceivable that KR has been doing well enough on the budget in place that the owners have decided that until the new stadium is in place he’ll do. We may get promoted, we might not but until now we haven’t looked like we’re going down either. I doubt we will go down but I’ve thought that before……

Judging by the budget put in place this season that isn't the case, nor is the investment put into things like the training ground. Bakrie has been vocal about promotion, and the money put in matches that ambition.

But just wondering what you mean by until the new stadium's in place, does that mean when it's open? As I don't think the board will be happy to pump all this money into a 15,000-seater stadium for us to be mid-table in League One and getting attendances of around 7k. Them holding back until a spade's in the ground I could understand, but not until we're all moved in.

 

[ubermeistervonmeat]

6 games into the season and we've won one game, and the only reason we didn't lose that was because Sam Smith couldn't even finish his dinner that day!

How can Robinson think that what he's seeing is acceptable?

Well you can hardly expect him to cine out and say jeez that was s**t and its all my fault can you

Very few managers would and certainly not KR - there is always somebody else to blame for a start

 

[Gregortheox]

Can anyone imagine us coping right now with our L2 side under Mapp...

Imagine Wright, Baldock, Dunkley, Skarz, MacDonald, Lunny, Sercombe, Odowda, Roofe, Hylton, Maguire etc getting their teeth in to our sorry lot at the moment!

 

[Mellowyellow]

Can anyone imagine us coping right now with our L2 side under Mapp...

Imagine Wright, Baldock, Dunkley, Skarz, MacDonald, Lunny, Sercombe, Odowda, Roofe, Hylton, Maguire etc getting their teeth in to our sorry lot at the moment!

Frightening thought. Although no doubt robbinson would have a string of excuses ready and people to blame.

 

[brassmonkey]

Gareth ainsworth

 

[Leysboy]

Gareth ainsworth

I’d quite happily take that. I’m sure with different players he can change tactically, and play a different brand of football, and then he can’t moan about us having a big budget.

 

[tim lane]

Can anyone imagine us coping right now with our L2 side under Mapp...

Imagine Wright, Baldock, Dunkley, Skarz, MacDonald, Lunny, Sercombe, Odowda, Roofe, Hylton, Maguire etc getting their teeth in to our sorry lot at the moment!

Amazing! That squad would annihilate yesterday's outfit.

 

[horseman]

I’d quite happily take that. I’m sure with different players he can change tactically, and play a different brand of football, and then he can’t moan about us having a big budget.

Hang on, you mean he has no plan B...he's also not capable of building a squad and play a different style. well who'd have thought it.

 

[RyanioBirdio]

Graham Alexander is available.

Got Fleetwood promoted to League One, Salford to League Two and then to the final of the tinpot trophy the next season (Neville has admitted sacking him when Salford were fifth in League Two was a huge mistake that he regrets), then took Motherwell from near the bottom of the SPL to fifth and a place in Europe. They sacked him last month after they were knocked out of the ECL despite handing him a new long-term deal in January.

He is the only manager in the history of the SPL to win Manager of the Month three times in one year without being manager of Rangers or Celtic, and has a win percentage across all levels of 43% from nearly 450 games. In Fleetwood and Salford he also has experience of being in charge of large budgets and having high expectations and delivering promotion at both, so his experience is relevant to the task at hand. Robinson has a lower career win percentage and less promotions than him despite having managed more than 200 extra games.

I would expect a professional football club to hold a proper application process where they would identify the best applicants following an interview, so the whole “I want to know exactly who would be available as well as a guarantee that they will win all of the games ever ever ever” thing is a pretty pointless stance, but there’s one name off the top of my head as well as some basic reasoning and statistics as to why he might be a half decent candidate.

There would be good managers young and old who would be very interested in the Oxford United job in the event that it became available. I’m not bothered about who is “in or out” when it comes to Robinson, I’m kind of past caring at this point, but it does bother me that a decent number of people have such little faith in the club and see it as somehow incapable of attracting anybody of value.

Have a bit of pride and belief in your club.

 

[horseman]

Graham Alexander is available.

Got Fleetwood promoted to League One, Salford to League Two and then to the final of the tinpot trophy the next season (Neville has admitted sacking him when Salford were fifth in League Two was a huge mistake that he regrets), then took Motherwell from near the bottom of the SPL to fifth and a place in Europe. They sacked him last month after they were knocked out of the ECL despite handing him a new long-term deal in January.

He is the only manager in the history of the SPL to win Manager of the Month three times in one year without being manager of Rangers or Celtic, and has a win percentage across all levels of 43% from nearly 450 games. In Fleetwood and Salford he also has experience of being in charge of large budgets and having high expectations and delivering promotion at both, so his experience is relevant to the task at hand. Robinson has a lower career win percentage and less promotions than him despite having managed more than 200 extra games.

I would expect a professional football club to hold a proper application process where they would identify the best applicants following an interview, so the whole “I want to know exactly who would be available as well as a guarantee that they will win all of the games ever ever ever” thing is a pretty pointless stance, but there’s one name off the top of my head as well as some basic reasoning and statistics as to why he might be a half decent candidate.

There would be good managers young and old who would be very interested in the Oxford United job in the event that it became available. I’m not bothered about who is “in or out” when it comes to Robinson, I’m kind of past caring at this point, but it does bother me that a decent number of people have such little faith in the club and see it as somehow incapable of attracting anybody of value.

Have a bit of pride and belief in your club.

Forgive my memory but did he not also oversee Scunthorpe through promotions on what i imagine was not a high budget.?

 

[OX14]

Graham Alexander is available.

Got Fleetwood promoted to League One, Salford to League Two and then to the final of the tinpot trophy the next season (Neville has admitted sacking him when Salford were fifth in League Two was a huge mistake that he regrets), then took Motherwell from near the bottom of the SPL to fifth and a place in Europe. They sacked him last month after they were knocked out of the ECL despite handing him a new long-term deal in January.

He is the only manager in the history of the SPL to win Manager of the Month three times in one year without being manager of Rangers or Celtic, and has a win percentage across all levels of 43% from nearly 450 games. In Fleetwood and Salford he also has experience off being in charge of large budgets and having high expectations and delivering promotion at both, so his experience is relevant to the task at hand. Robinson has a lower career win percentage and less promotions than him despite having managed more than 200 extra games.

I would expect a professional football club to hold a proper application process where they would identify the best applicants following an interview, so the whole “I want to know exactly who would be available as well as a guarantee that they will win all of the games ever ever ever” thing is a pretty pointless stance, but there’s one name off the top of my head as well as some basic reasoning and statistics as to why he might be a half decent candidate.

There would be good managers young and old who would be very interested in the Oxford United job in the event that it became available. I’m not bothered about who is “in or out” when it comes to Robinson, I’m kind of past caring at this point, but it does bother me that a decent number of people have such little faith in the club and see it as somehow incapable of attracting anybody of value.

Have a bit of pride and belief in your club.

Great shout. Didn't realise Motherwell sacked him.

 

[Joey]

Forgive my memory but did he not also oversee Scunthorpe through promotions on what i imagine was not a high budget.?

He got them to the playoffs one year then got sacked the following season while in the playoff positions, then the next year they got relegated.

 

[WokinghamYellow]

Why does he keep getting sacked when his clubs are still in good positions? [emoji848]

 

[RyanioBirdio]

Forgive my memory but did he not also oversee Scunthorpe through promotions on what i imagine was not a high budget.?

No, but he took them to the L1 playoffs twice before being sacked while they were fifth in the table. His win percentage with them in L1 was 47%

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

Well, I'm sold on Alexander! What are the board waiting for?

Have any of the shareholders actually attended a game this season?

 

[Paul Cannell]

Sarge#

No, but he took them to the L1 playoffs twice before being sacked while they were fifth in the table. His win percentage with them in L1 was 47%

He also invented the telephone, or his dad invented lightning or something.

 

[Paul Cannell]

Sorry. Different Alexander Graham-Bell. End.

 

[Scrongo]

Thomas Edison is available & Giuliano Marconi??

 

[Chippy]

Why does he keep getting sacked when his clubs are still in good positions? [emoji848]

If you look at his managerial record in detail, it looks like the first 12/18 months at all his clubs have been vg, but then during the latter part of the 2nd or early in the third season the results begin to fall away and don’t recover. Sacked at Motherwell as they lost both legs in Europa qualifying to Sligo!

Seems like he’s a Mourinho, does a job for a season or two but then early in season 3 his sides just no longer perform!