It's a good start Robbo...

"If you have any fear, you will not succeed,"

Compare that to Davey who regularly shat himself in front of the likes of the mighty Swansea.

 

We have no right thinking we can compete with a team like Blackpool - I'll play 4-5-1. At home.

 

Robbo might...

but will then hopefully attack too....

 

You're going to be disappointed then

That's Robins' preferred formation.

 

I think...

he's paraphrasing what Davey "would" say.

 

I quite liked his answer to...

When asked "What sort of football can we expect under Mark Robins"

Mark's reply "Winning Football"

 

Quite! nt

 

I know what he was doing

I'm just pointing out that there's every chance that Robins will play that formation too.

 

Oh dear.

Maybe I've been watching Barnsley too long, but that might come back to haunt him.

I don't want winning football.

I want entertaining football.

If he starts hoofing it around and playing route 1 sh!te I'm going to buy sky.

I pay to be entertained. I don't care if we win.



That ought to do it.

 

You don't care if we win ???

If we play entertaining football and keep losing we go down a division and the football gets uglier. I thing entertaining, winning football is the best compromise

 

I think you will find 'winning football' is 'entertaining football'

The entertainment is in the satisfaction that the teams performance was right.

For the majority of games last season rubbish football produced rubbish results.

 

It did it

 

Wait till you hear his radio interviews ZZZZ.that dont make him a bad manager though it just means once again we dont have a manager that can "sell" the club.

 

Completely the opposite

I don't care how we play so long as we win.

 

Depends how you play the formation

And who plays.

Barcelona play 4-5-1/4-3-3 - not done them too much harm.

So have Chelsea in recent years, including under Mourinho.

 

I never said it was a bad formation

However, there is a good percentage of people on here who think the only way to play football is 4-4-2 with wingers. Davey took some right flak when he deviated away from this formation. From what I understand about how Mark Robins lines up his teams there is going to be a lot of gnashing of teeth on here.

 

what they say on the radio and what they say to a potential signing are two different things....

 

At this moment in time, I'll take winning football.

Let's worry about entertainment later.

 

Agreed. nt

 

RE: I never said it was a bad formation

I think its a bit difficult to say how he lines up his teams. He has only one managed one team, in the bottom division. He might have realised the quality of his players, and realistic targets, and set the team to maximise their strengths. Until he has had time with more resources and more skilled players we won't know. He might adapt what he has done with Rotherham to maximise the strengths of our players. There is talk of getting the ball wide and getting crosses in the box. We certainly have lots of potential in our wide players, and he might be targeting that. And although its not necessarily top quality pass and move, it isn't exactly hoof it from the back either.