Hackney Jack
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I will pay for his train fare for the interview. A single please ticket officer.
I would have Mapp back in a heartbeat, I think he’s that good.That would be MApp
‘Get the Oxford bloke, the one who did well’
I’m not sure I agree.I'd be pretty delighted if Robbo left and we got paid a comp for him to be honest. I don't think he is the man to take us to the next level.
*Denis Smith waits by phone*
Losing playoffs isn't success. He's lost four playoff campaigns as a manager now - he needs to learn to win them. He's had one promotion in 11 years and that ended with an immediate relegation. As it stands he's becoming a specialist in glorious defeat. Losing playoffs on repeat just means that you have a bit of extra excitement before you go back to the start of the ride. There is a huge difference between success and performing well. They are not the same thing.He’s got us to 2 consecutive playoffs, so he’s obviously capable of having success at this level.
Yes you are probably right, though playoffs twice in a row plus players signed then sold for lots of profit and general profile raising of the club add up to a job pretty well done. I'm haunted by the spectacle of Bristol Rovers - about five managers in a year and now they're in Div 4 with Joey Barton in charge.Brilliant post. Im not going to spend time analysing Robbo but the playoff balls up has once again identified him as an upper level league 1 manager. He doesnt have that extra bit to get us over the line.
Appy will manage in the Championship again. before Robbo. Wilder is in a different universe.
I was referring to Robbo being the league one equivalent of Neil Warnock!Losing playoffs isn't success. He's lost four playoff campaigns as a manager now - he needs to learn to win them. He's had one promotion in 11 years and that ended with an immediate relegation. As it stands he's becoming a specialist in glorious defeat. Losing playoffs on repeat just means that you have a bit of extra excitement before you go back to the start of the ride. There is a huge difference between success and performing well. They are not the same thing.
This is probably why despite being such a well-known manager with a decent media profile, he's still managing in League One and has never been whisked away. The people whose money it is, or at least whose job it is to spend people's money, probably look at him and see someone who can get a bronze, MAYBE a silver at a push, but not a gold. Very stylishly won medals, granted, but the wrong colour. Clubs want gold medals - managers like Warnock get you those, even if you have to move him on afterwards. That's why he keeps getting jobs, because he's successful. He doesn't merely perform well: he wins.
Robinson needs to learn to win before he's a real contender for jobs above this level. If he gets us promoted in the next year or two then he would be best moving on while his stock is high on a selfish level. He didn't do that with MK and I think it was a mistake in terms of moving himself into the next bracket.
A middle of the road lower league manager who got us into the playoffs twice in a row ahead of bigger teams like Charlton, Ipswich, and Sunderland last year? That's a bit churlish. Aren't you the one who doesn't like people from Liverpool, for some reason?Whatever Blackpool are - they beat us with ease.
Robinson is a middle of the road lower league manager.
Nothing more nothing less.
Credit for his doings away from the first team, he’s gone beyond his job title in that respect but that shouldn’t hold him ground on the main thing he’s employed for.
Also I don’t get why he’s invited to speak on the first fans council meeting this week.
Again, above his remit that is first team head coach - manager.
Eh, because he is the manager of the first team for the club that council is representing. I'm sure board members will also come at some point too but seems entirely appropriate for the manager to speak. Who do you want to come and speak, the kit man?Also I don’t get why he’s invited to speak on the first fans council meeting this week.
Again, above his remit that is first team head coach - manager.
A middle of the road manager? What a load of old pony.
He's been more than a manager at this football club. He has been the only person to converse with the supporters when things were going financially pear shaped. He was the only person to converse with the fan base when we were having a fortnightly HMRC crisis. He has changed the ethos of the club and has a huge significant influence on mental health across all areas of the football club. He is genuinely interested and promotes youth, we have had a decent conveyor belt of youth coming through into this first team squad over a period of time. He has got this club into the play-offs, twice. He has nurtured players to turn healthy profits for a loss making football club.
He's a little more than a middle of the road lower league manager.
He is genuinely interested and promotes youth, we have had a decent conveyor belt of youth coming through into this first team squad over a period of time.