I knew this season wasn’t going to be up to much once Robinson said we should be happy to be in league one with big clubs like Charlton and Fleetwood (or whoever it was), really seemed to be trying to lower expectations. Scotchegg went missing as well so if the positivity fairy can’t find anything good to say then it must have turned to s**t.
After all the promises this window has fallen flat and left is in a worse position, lost good, athletic players in McNally, Williams, Whyte, Sykes and Hanson (can you spot the odd one out there) and have bought in players who don’t actually seem to play much football, which doesn’t seem a good thing when that’s the most important thing.
Overall Robinsons weakness with squad balance has been balanced out with having good players over the last few years, not certain we have enough fit ones for that to work now, this season will be a lower mid table slog at best.
Robinson has finally done for himself though with his obsession with project players, always wasted time and money on them before but not in this number, must have 5/6 players on good money in a small squad who can’t be relied upon. They have never worked out in the past and they won’t work out now, there is a reason the crocks end up here.
The next manager, personally I reckon we will be replacing Robinson about late November, will have a hell of a job overhauling this squad that Robinson has jumbled together to make a cogent one, it will take him a year and a half or more, that’s how badly this window, which was a huge opportunity has been handled.
It’s like we are in limbo now, most sensible people know it’s the end for Karl Robinson here, just waiting for a tough run of fixtures to expose what has happened and for the owners to cotton onto the mess that has been made of it all. Fingers crossed and we get lucky and some one wants to take Robinson off our hands, I think for us and him that would be the ideal scenario but it seems unlikely.
