• *** Guest, YF World Cup prediction league launched, Click here *****
  • Further New Features Are Available - Click To Update

  • Join OxVox

    The forum would encourage all members to consider joining OxVox during this important moment in our history. See here for more information.

Ex-Staff Karl Robinson

Steve Gilbert said:
Have you never made mistakes then and learnt from them? As I said previously, he sounds like the Robinson that we had when we were at our best under him. He has clearly learnt from his mistakes, rebuilt his life and is in a much better place. For that I give him credit as I know, from personal experience it isn’t easy to be rock bottom and then rebuild your life again.
Click to expand...

Rock bottom? He was a professional football manager that repeatedly made bad decisions, and subsequently got the sack and a very healthy pay off!

Try telling people that have nothing or are homeless that Karl hit ‘rock bottom’.

I’m just not having the sob story. It’s a crock of shite. You reap what you sow.

As for never feeling like we’d get promoted under him. Never mind Wembley, I walked away from Shrewsbury after we beat them, just before Covid and thought we were going to get promoted automatically that year. To his credit, the football was scintillating in that spell.
 
ECYellow said:
Rock bottom? He was a professional football manager that repeatedly made bad decisions, and subsequently got the sack and a very healthy pay off!

Try telling people that have nothing or are homeless that Karl hit ‘rock bottom’.

I’m just not having the sob story. It’s a crock of shite. You reap what you sow.

As for never feeling like we’d get promoted under him. Never mind Wembley, I walked away from Shrewsbury after we beat them, just before Covid and thought we were going to get promoted automatically that year. To his credit, the football was scintillating in that spell.
Click to expand...
Not to mention that he instigated his own personal problems.

No particular disdain for the guy, but let’s not rewrite history either.
 
The bloke has never been a nice bloke.
He thinks if he opens his mouth, everyone will and should hang on to whatever he churns out.
Was over the top and obviously trying to embellish and clean a slate, with players he had problems with, and who’d proved him wrong elsewhere..
Have to say, he has always been a good coach, and can talk a good game.
 
Thought he was good value as co-commentator, a step up from most as he was able to explain why things were happening rather than just what had happened.

He recognised our safety first, stay in the game approach that Rowett had brought in.

One match as co-comms was probably enough though.
 
Foley said:
800th game as manager yesterday apparently.
And a win at Sw*****.
Click to expand...
What percentage of those were with us?

That win takes his Salford equal on points with the scum, though they are quite behind on goal difference. Still, plenty of time to nip ahead of them in the promotion race. Come on Karl, keep the scum down!
 
Emilio said:
What percentage of those were with us?

That win takes his Salford equal on points with the scum, though they are quite behind on goal difference. Still, plenty of time to nip ahead of them in the promotion race. Come on Karl, keep the scum down!
Click to expand...

~34%. Wiki says he played for Swindon as a kid. Didn't know that.
 
Jaboysmith said:
On GhanaWeb no less. We really are a global force
Click to expand...
I'm sure all of Ghana will have been fascinated by this anecdote of a third tier English football team not getting a throw-in vs Manchester City in a cup game from seven / eight years ago.
 
holdsteady said:
Holloway continues his bad run on from the end of the season and Robinson is still out of a job then I could see him ending up there.
Click to expand...
Not a chance. He's made comments about the scum many a time, not a chance their fans would accept him even if he were that desperate to go there. Robbo will land on his feet somewhere.
 
So he took over a perennially top half, regularly play-off flirting side and kept them on a similarly trajectory but ultimately (repeatedly) failed to actually achieve a promotion because he couldn't outperform what was a very healthy budget for the level?

Sounds about right.
 
Emilio said:
Not a chance. He's made comments about the scum many a time, not a chance their fans would accept him even if he were that desperate to go there. Robbo will land on his feet somewhere.
Click to expand...

They won’t get a say in it. He is on a downwards slide, not many places to go down in the football league after Salford but that is one of them.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar Threads

Mellowyellow
  • Poll Poll
Current Staff The future of Karl Robinson
Replies
21
Views
5K
Basham Wonderland
Basham Wonderland
Orkney Islands Yellow
General 20/10/22 fans forum - Karl Robinson
2
Replies
32
Views
6K
The Mighty Aldo
The Mighty Aldo
Paul Cannell
Current Staff Karl Robinson ate my hamster
Replies
8
Views
3K
Paul Cannell
Paul Cannell
Maurice Earp
Current Staff Karl Robinson to QPR.
Replies
28
Views
6K
Isle of Wight Yellow
Isle of Wight Yellow
Royalstandard74
Current Staff Karl Robinson.
17 18 19
Replies
560
Views
93K
Leysboy
Leysboy
Back
Top Bottom