The best Barnsley manager of the 21st century won promotion today

Didn't we hammer them 4-1 that game

 

I liked Robins as a manager but didn’t he get backed more than the managers that followed him?

I’m pretty sure Cryne decided to cut costs as he was losing money every year as although Robins had assembled a good squad it was mainly loanees & experienced pro’s meaning no sell on fees.

I heard we had Garry O’Connor on loan under Robins who we were paying £10k a week to back then & others weren’t cheap, heard Halfreddsson wasn’t far behind him.

The main thing that pissed me off about the club back then was everything was about staying up, we’d do it & that’d be it we’d give up & stop trying for the rest of the season, it was almost counter productive to confirm safety with 10 games to go as you knew that meant our season had finished & the rest of the games were a waste of time.

 

Yeah we did. Loved that game because they'd got so cocky up to then. Even their cheesy grinning chairman used to rub it in.

 

Agree with that. There definitely seems to be shift in the type of players we go for, which dates back to Keith Hill and flickers time I suppose.

History has just repeated itself a few years later. Buy lower league players for the championship and end up a lower league club.

 

High strength glue isn't for sniffing. This thread's mental.

2016 was an incredible year and Paul Heckingbottom a huge part of that. Don't re-write history.

 

100% Robins could have led us to higher than 14th if we kept going

 

Heckingbottom did not sign the players that achieved the success. Heckingbottom won one game against lower league opposition. Heckingbottom inherited the best squad in the league after we acquired Hammill, White etc.

2016 was incredible but his credibility was far from it

 

100% agree with the original post. Robins should have been backed, he had us pushing or the play offs a couple of times and had he been backed that bit more as he wanted probably would have it us there.

He would have also kept us up last season as unlike that non entity we employed he'd have played to the strengths of the players we had instead of trying to install a stupid 4-3-3 system we didn't have the players for.