Ex-Staff The Karl Robinson Thread

For someone with close to 700 matches as a manager, he's never managed in League 2. He may well actually be able to secure a second promotion on his CV if given the time. I reckon he may well be the manager to actually achieve that with Salford.

'Fiefdom' was used above and that's exactly the kind of job it will be. He'll be hands-on with everything (women's team included 👀), going here and there and everywhere with it, being busy but losing focus with it.

At least there will only be a couple of thousand Salford fans who will have to suffer his post-match interviews.
 
They may need patience - his first full season with us was dreadful. He did then build a very exciting, attacking team before it all went pear-shaped. But his interviews were always awful.
 
unification said:
For someone with close to 700 matches as a manager, he's never managed in League 2. He may well actually be able to secure a second promotion on his CV if given the time. I reckon he may well be the manager to actually achieve that with Salford.

'Fiefdom' was used above and that's exactly the kind of job it will be. He'll be hands-on with everything (women's team included 👀), going here and there and everywhere with it, being busy but losing focus with it.

At least there will only be a couple of thousand Salford fans who will have to suffer his post-match interviews.
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He definitely needed to drop down the league, had become stale in league one were he has managed all but 46 of his league games, was never going to get a job at a higher level so a new challenge was sensible. Whether he will learn from his mistakes after a break is the big question, I doubt his ego will allow that and he will eventually trip himself up in someway with his lack of professionalism but we shall see.

They are on a bad run but have a 5 point cushion over Sutton and Forest Green in the relegation spots so he should be able to get an early result of keeping them up, intriguing that his old sparring partners of the Cowleys have taken over at Colchester, another relegation candidate, at the same time. Robinson and them never got on during the time he was here and they were at Pompey, they have all fallen from grace to the foot of the Football League quite quickly.
 
If he has sorted out his midlife crisis he will do well there.

Let's be honest, he is a pretty decent manager with serious faults (hence why he's in league 2) who completely and utterly lost the plot here and was basically begging to be sacked.
 
Glad we can finally consign him to history (and assuming his returning to employment means we no longer have any contractual involvement with him either). I’m also pretty glad it’s not in the same league as us as KR managing a team against us will probably create and unnecessary sideshow - just the way he likes it.

All joking aside, it’s a good appointment. Their status as something of a vanity/celebrity project club gives him the kind of platform he’ll enjoy. He’s also very good at cage-rattling, ultra-passionate rhetoric; the kind that galvanises and drives a club forward positively when it’s a fresh voice in an underperforming environment (as with us in 2018). He’ll also try to instill the kind of attacking football which I’m sure will play well with his illustrious bosses.

For all that he ended VERY badly here and has certain management/personality quirks that become extremely grating after a while…he is not a bad football manager. As I’ve said multiple times he was absolutely the right appointment for us when he came in and for 2/3 of his time here he did very well. Before the final third became an abject car crash, so painful to watch and so damaging to his reputation here that it will take a while to get over.

Not that the idea of him and the Nevilles arguing isn’t hilarious. Assume he’s already on the phone to them about a mythical ‘best player in League 2’ available cheap, patchy injury record but if they can just keep him fit, what a player.
 
good luck to him

in his first game (tomorrow) he's got a home game v FGR , with Matty Taylor up front for them (if fit)?


Few 'interesting' games for him this season - 3 aways v Sw*nd*n Feb 10, v MK 9 March & V AFC Wimbledon 6 Apr

Home V the Cowleys Colchester Fri 19 Jan
 
He might take GoD on loan and would start him more than not L2 regular football might do him the world of good
 
bazzer9461 said:
He might take GoD on loan and would start him more than not L2 regular football might do him the world of good
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He won't get in a league 2 team, not near that level yet. Let the lad get a loan down the pyramid and learn the game a bit, worked for Baptiste and Goodrham, Robinson has done enough harm to O Donkors development.
 
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