Coventry sack Robins

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  1. red

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    Don't think anyone else could do a better job there.
     
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    Easy to say that when you want to spend someone else's cash.
     
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    Being honest, I found that period when he was here very dull. The football was turgid too. Loads of loanees. Never felt like we were building anything. Constantly finishing 17th or whatever.

    However, I reckon the majority would snap your hand off for that now. How times change!

    Did a marvellous job for Coventry. Big boots to fill.
     
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    He’d won two and drawn one in the three games prior to a 2-1 defeat.

    Signs of turning it around; he’s a top championship manager and this will bite them on the arse.

    Ridiculous decision.
     
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    No comparison with Collins who had never achieved anything with us and had a talented team very very much underperforming with boring football.
     
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    It's never been clarified as to whether we sacked him, or told him his contract would not be renewed, and he decided to immediately walk. The latter sounds plausible, and not a strange decision from Neill.
     
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    I would have him back
     
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    I have a relative from Cov and he's seething at this' he always says we shouldn't moan about our owners with what they've had to endure for years.
     
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    Shaking my head at that decision.
    But I’m not a Coventry fan and you need to be close to decisions to try to understand what’s behind them.
     
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    Imagine if it had pushed us further up the table though and established us like Millwall in that division, the Crynes would have had a championship team to sell instead of a league one team
     
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    Not sure that's how I recall it. I think it was noted on here (at least) slightly differently.

    Along the lines of he had a budget and a target. PC then changed the budget, and MR said he couldn't work with that. He was then put on gardening leave.

    That's how I remembered it being put on here anyways....
     
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    We’re in no position to judge tbf, after the treatment of our last manager.
     
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    Equally, he could have spent more cash and seen us in a relegation battle. Money doesn't guarantee success...
     
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    Treatment of our last manager?

    Same manager that had us playing terrible negative football in the weakest league 1 for many seasons and managing to scrape 9 points from his last 11 matches, almost blowing a play off place?

    He had to go. Only now are we seeing the team showing a glimmer under Clarke with some of the so called more talented players leaving. Collins literally took the club back 10 years with his negative football, it's taken up until now to start to look like an attacking team again. Signs are that we are progressing now under Clarke. Under Collins we progressively got worse.
     
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    I'd have him.back in a heartbeat. Gave Oakwell a lift and turned us into a stable Championship side, despite the defensive football.
     
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    He's a manager tho, not a head coach, don't think he'd work within the constraints of our current set up.
     
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    I dare say if we were in a similar position, there would be posters on here saying get rid.

    It does seems a bit harsh looking from the outside.
     
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    Looks like they might be bringing in Matt Bloomfield from Wycombe.

    If so Wycombe could do a lot worse than taking Robins on. They’d probably just bring Ainsworth back though.
     
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    10 years ago didn’t we get promoted to the Championship
     
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    Wow, who do they think they are, Wensdeh?
     
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