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[Davox]

It’s very amusing how for months and years many of us have been advocating Robinson to get the boot and we’ve all been vindicated whilst Robinson fans were saying but ‘who would we get in his place that’s better?’ Well it appears that the Oxford hot seat is very popular with a lot of better managers - Richardson, McCann, Appleton, Warburton, Lennon and more! This club of ours is going places and quality managers recognise that. We persisted too long with someone who failed in three consecutive seasons! I hope the Robinson supporters do realise they and the board were completely wrong and it’s stalled us big time. Any of the above names I’d be happy with. The board now need to get this done as they are really rolling the dice with our future and their money!

 

[OX14]

But surely the board aren't going to risk the possibility of being seen to have appointed someone who subsequently is shown to have been involved in taking two teams down in one season....

That rules Appleton out aswell then?

 

[Followtheox1]

It’s very amusing how for months and years many of us have been advocating Robinson to get the boot and we’ve all been vindicated whilst Robinson fans were saying but ‘who would we get on his place that’s better?’ Well it appears that the Oxford hot seat is very popular with a lot of better managers - Richardson, McCann, Appleton, Warburton, Lennon and more! This club of ours is going places and quality managers recognise that. We persisted too long with someone who failed in three consecutive seasons! I hope the Robinson supporters do realise they and the board were completely wrong and it’s stalled us big time. Any of the above names I’d be happy with. The board now need to get this done as they are really rolling the dice with our future and their money!

Nothing amusing about this situation at all if you ask me. If you have been asking for years for him to be sacked, you have not been vindicated at all in my opinion as untill the end of last season the club have done pretty well under him. Reaching playoffs, on the verge of autos except for Covid, playing great football and some really exciting cup runs. While he has made mistakes throughout (no plan B, lack of physicality etc, injured signings), things have been decent. The end of last season and throughout the summer transfer window is where things started to go really wrong in my view. The club should have taken action a lot sooner in my view but this I told you so stuff is ridiculous.

 

[Oxford84]

I’m not so against Manning becoming our manager. His MK side that came here last season, I thought, were the best L1 side I’ve seen at The Kassam for a few seasons. They were superb and his style of football was a joy to watch - way ahead of most L1 teams. I think we somehow beat them on the night but in a footballing sense they battered us. They did the same away to Plymouth a few week later.

He coached at West Ham for a few years so has a good philosophy in trying to play the right way and that was certainly implemented at MK. Not saying I want him but if it is him I think there are worse and less capable candidates out there.

Yep they did play well but my concern is that when they were crap this season they were actually worse than us and Manning couldnt do anything to change it.

 

[MiddleBartonYellow]

How do you know that.? What proof do you have?.....and who are these "quite a few people"?

More Guesswork than anything else.

 

[Manorlounger]

Williams is like the geeky rich kid who all the popular kids let hang around with them, so that they can go in his swimming pool at the weekend.

Nowadays, folk have that stuff which turns green if you do that in their pools.

 

[tatabanya]

How do you know that.? What proof do you have?.....and who are these "quite a few people"?

If you want all internet rumours to be substantiated with proof then you might be waiting a long time. Doesn’t mean it isn’t true though

 

[Manorlounger]

How do you know that.? What proof do you have?.....and who are these "quite a few people"?

Well, quite a few of us turned up at a meeting at the training ground a week ago.
I can substantiate the relationship between Robinson and Williams, that was made plain to me at the last Fans Forum. And, at the meeting at the training ground when faced with criticism, Williams defended Robinson despite, as we are fairly certain of now, having already been given the decision to sack Robinson.

However, it's all academic now. He's gone and won't be back.

 

[Oufcrealist]

It's a basket case club that doesn't sack a manager who, having been given a top six budget (confirmed by TW himself), leads the club to it's worst run of form since an infamously bad season 20+ years ago and leaves it facing relegation and having to fight teams with a fraction of the budget. A run of form not even matched during the season we dropped down to the conference.

A game or two too far? Given the supposed ambition of the club, it isn't unfair to suggest that he was lucky to not be sacked at the end of last season after a desperately poor end to the season that many saw coming after not addressing obvious problems in the January window (problems that were highlighted by KR himself after the Blackpool play-off games and not addressed that summer). To not be sacked after we discovered by October that we weren't really any better than the likes of Morecambe and FGR was deeply concerning. To then let him get all the way to the end of Feb, all the while getting even worse, was just downright negligent and utter madness.

It's tiring reading opinions that suggest that this situation we're in has just magically appeared in the last 8 weeks or so and that nobody saw it coming. The team was in a slow decline after the Wycombe loss at Wembley until the end of last season, where we then fell off a cliff. We should have made the play-offs last season, and the only acceptable counter that KR could offer to make up for that was to start this season like a train. Yet we ended the summer window not even hitting the squad cap limit with multiple gaps to fill...

As a fan base we need to shift from the plucky little Oxford mentality that suggests we can't expect too much and should consider getting to a league one play off final as success. We should now be expecting and demanding the best given what we've been told by our esteemed board. They should have been ruthless long before this point and we're now paying for it.

Absolutely spot on.
I said on here last October that we should be doing a lot better than we were. The awful sterile performances in August and September were a sign of things to come. Should probably have been replaced after the Wycombe game at home.

 

[Peterdev]

Have we seen a car with M1APP at the Kassam?

 

[Followtheox1]

Have we seen a car with M1APP at the Kassam?

No but weirdly I saw a car with that number plate going round and round the Kidlington roundabout repeatedly, just like in National Lampoon's.

 

[Peterdev]

Recently I have seen W1NES

 

[Davox]

Nothing amusing about this situation at all if you ask me. If you have been asking for years for him to be sacked, you have not been vindicated at all in my opinion as untill the end of last season the club have done pretty well under him. Reaching playoffs, on the verge of autos except for Covid, playing great football and some really exciting cup runs. While he has made mistakes throughout (no plan B, lack of physicality etc, injured signings), things have been decent. The end of last season and throughout the summer transfer window is where things started to go really wrong in my view. The club should have taken action a lot sooner in my view but this I told you so stuff is ridiculous.

I don’t expect people who have the view that’s he’s been successful to admit they were wrong. Just demonstrates the point that different fans have different viewpoints of what is successful. Two failures in the playoffs plus blowing up in the playoff race the following season to me is abject failure.

 

[tonyw]

Absolutely spot on.
I said on here last October that we should be doing a lot better than we were. The awful sterile performances in August and September were a sign of things to come. Should probably have been replaced after the Wycombe game at home.

That was exactly the time he should have gone. And there were many, many people on here saying it.

I could understand the argument that he should have gone over the summer - but after three good years in a row, I thought KR deserved the chance to show that last January and our terrible run-in was an aberration.

By the time of that Wycombe game, it was very clear to everyone watching that he had made an absolute mess of the summer window as well, and built a squad that was uneven, lacking in certain key positions and skillsets and (criminally) short on players because he'd spent too much money on a bunch of flashy, luxury signings.

Make the change then, and they could have put Mous in temporary charge, done a proper, deliberate recruitment process and the new man (assuming they didn't decide to stick with Mous - I assume they would have interviewed him) would still have had the opportunity to calmly assess the squad and then bring in their own signings in January.

Instead by waiting until KR's position was absolutely untenable (and then still giving it a couple more weeks), they lost the chance to appoint the obvious caretaker, have had to rush a new manager search and we now need that new manager to come in and turn around a sinking ship with a basketcase squad that they've inherited.

If we do get relegated this season, blame should be shared equally between KR and the Board.

 

[Chippy]

If we do get relegated this season, blame should be shared equally between KR and the Board.

Absolutely spot on. This is where a DoF or a board or CEO who understood the playing side of the game and League One football, would have ensured we recruited properly and stopped in their tracks some of the ridiculous signings, and contracts for unfit ageing crocs. They could, would and should have prevented the absolute shite unbalanced squad KR assembled.

I suspect this is why Mark Thomas left, he could see what would happen when he wasn’t taken notice of. The supposed 7 man recruitment panel is a load of absolute bollox, one man and his mobile phone more like, dialled into the number of crocs anonymous. The board have let us down equally as much as KR.

Apologies in advance if on wrong thread

 

[Notaswindonfan]

The board were over confident he could see us through to the end of the season without flirting with relegation ,there lack of judgment has left the new manager with a very difficult job,who ever it is will have to galvanise a squad that is struggling in all departments but who put in a much better performance on Saturday .

 

[werthersoriginal]

That was exactly the time he should have gone. And there were many, many people on here saying it.

I could understand the argument that he should have gone over the summer - but after three good years in a row, I thought KR deserved the chance to show that last January and our terrible run-in was an aberration.

By the time of that Wycombe game, it was very clear to everyone watching that he had made an absolute mess of the summer window as well, and built a squad that was uneven, lacking in certain key positions and skillsets and (criminally) short on players because he'd spent too much money on a bunch of flashy, luxury signings.

Make the change then, and they could have put Mous in temporary charge, done a proper, deliberate recruitment process and the new man (assuming they didn't decide to stick with Mous - I assume they would have interviewed him) would still have had the opportunity to calmly assess the squad and then bring in their own signings in January.

Instead by waiting until KR's position was absolutely untenable (and then still giving it a couple more weeks), they lost the chance to appoint the obvious caretaker, have had to rush a new manager search and we now need that new manager to come in and turn around a sinking ship with a basketcase squad that they've inherited.

If we do get relegated this season, blame should be shared equally between KR and the Board.

You can argue round and round. We were absolute rubbish at the start of the season but then got a bit better, although not in a convincing way, and it wasn’t unreasonable to imagine we might kick on a bit. But he should definitely have gone before Cambridge - if so we wouldn’t have wasted three relatively easy games before the upcoming tough fixtures.

 

[n1]

Sorry if this has already been posted. Just catching up.

Oxford want Charlton boss Dean Holden after sacking Karl Robinson

The 43-year old is on a contract until the end of the season and Charlton have been looking to offer new terms and extend his deal after an encouraging start to his tenure at The Valley.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[tatabanya]

Sorry if this has already been posted. Just catching up.

Oxford want Charlton boss Dean Holden after sacking Karl Robinson

The 43-year old is on a contract until the end of the season and Charlton have been looking to offer new terms and extend his deal after an encouraging start to his tenure at The Valley.

www.dailymail.co.uk

No thank you

 

[pidge]

No odds on BetVictor any more?