Fan's View Karl Robinson

I can’t agree.

He’s been our best manager in my lifetime in terms of off the field issues.

But in terms of on it, he needs a promotion.

Till then he can’t out do Appleton & Wilder.

Considering the size of the teams we are up against, it seems season after season, I think three successive play offs in L1 would outstrip both a L2 and Conference promotion. Remember too that he also saved us from relegation when he first arrived. I think his recruitment has generally been excellent and probably no more than a handful of poor signings. He’s also given us a very clear identity, something you’d probably expect given the length of his tenure so far, and it feels like everything is primed for that final piece of the jigsaw to fall into place this season or next.
 
Considering the size of the teams we are up against, it seems season after season, I think three successive play offs in L1 would outstrip both a L2 and Conference promotion. Remember too that he also saved us from relegation when he first arrived. I think his recruitment has generally been excellent and probably no more than a handful of poor signings. He’s also given us a very clear identity, something you’d probably expect given the length of his tenure so far, and it feels like everything is primed for that final piece of the jigsaw to fall into place this season or next.

Whilst a lot of that is true he will need a promotion to cement his legacy otherwise there will become a point in the next few years it becomes very stale.

Similar to how it ended for C.Wilder.
 
I can’t agree.

He’s been our best manager in my lifetime in terms of off the field issues.

But in terms of on it, he needs a promotion.

Till then he can’t out do Appleton & Wilder.

I think he has outdone Appleton.
Look - I loved watching his teams play, and we were amazing in 2015/16.
But although we had stagnated, we were already an upper midtable League Two team when MApp took over (we actually finished 8th the year before he took the reigns).
And League Two is the easiest league to get promoted from - four spots, and in 2015/16, there was only one team (Pompey) that was clearly financially bigger than us, with greater resources.....and they were still trying to dig themselves out of a deep financial hole.

League One is a much tougher league, with fewer promotion spots, and we are competing with some teams with serious financial muscle. If we can hold on this year, then Top 6 in that league for three years running is an outstanding achievement.


I can see the argument that he needs a promotion to outstrip Wilder's legacy though......simply because of the incredibly low ebb we were at when CW took over. Plus how tough it is to get out of the conference when there's only one automatic spot, and how damned important it was to get back into the football league.
 
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