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  • edited October 2018

    I see from SSN that he's done his old trick of bringing in a "name" to help his players. This time its Ian Wright to help his strikers score.

    I wonder how look it will take Mr Wright to find out that there is only 1 player to deal with as KR sticks to his rigid formation.

    He's brought in Ian Wright everywhere to help his Strikers score... Did it at MK Dons and swear he was brought in at Charlton for a few training sessions
    I think Robinson suggested it might happen but I dont think it did.

    https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/sport/15788371.charlton-boss-karl-robinson-may-turn-to-arsenal-legend-ian-wright-to-boost-strikers/

    For those who cant face clicking on the newsshopper site heres the gist:

    The Valley boss had Wright as part of his backroom team at MK Dons.

    Now he may turn to the former England and Crystal Palace striker again to help his forwards Josh Magennis and Leon Best.

    Woolwich-born Wright, 54, knows Charlton well after his son Bradley Wright-Phillips was a major part of the Addicks’ League One title-winning squad in 2012.

    Robinson told News Shopper: “Let me tell you, if it’s going to help my players, he’ll definitely do it.

    “He’s got a very busy schedule, he’s a workaholic. He’s got an amazing family who he doesn't see enough anyway.

    “But he’s got very fond memories of Charlton Athletic because of Bradley’s time here.

    “When Bradley was here, he loved playing for Charlton so it’s certainly something he [Wright] looks back on very fondly.”

    Wright, who scored 185 goals for Arsenal, retired 17 years ago.

    He worked as a first-team coach under Robinson for just one season before leaving in 2013.

    And the pair still keep in touch.

    Robinson added: “Wrighty was my first-team coach at MK Dons. He’s a personal, good friend of mine.

    “He’s someone who I speak to most weeks, and is one of the nicest people I’ve met in my life.”
  • One of my best mates supports Wimbledon and said they actually played better than Wimbledon on sat. Doesn’t bode well for KR if they had the better of it and they couldn’t pick up the win. Confidence will be low

    Pray for KR. He’s not ready for Northampton just yet. The Oxford faithful need to be treated to one more deadline day transfer warbling
  • We played some nice football under Robinson at times. The problem is opponents have a plan to stop a couple of players scoring and we become toothless. Under Robinson it was only a couple of players you had to stop.
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    He could try a new manager?
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    The chairman that hired him needs a psychologist.
  • So he is trying
    Ian Wright to coach
    Psychologists

    Ever thought about trying a different formation Karl

    No! Next question?

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  • We played some nice football under Robinson at times. The problem is opponents have a plan to stop a couple of players scoring and we become toothless. Under Robinson it was only a couple of players you had to stop.

    Always my feelings. Would have worked great as long as we agreed in advance with our opponents not to mess it up.
  • edited October 2018

    I see from SSN that he's done his old trick of bringing in a "name" to help his players. This time its Ian Wright to help his strikers score.

    I wonder how look it will take Mr Wright to find out that there is only 1 player to deal with as KR sticks to his rigid formation.

    He's brought in Ian Wright everywhere to help his Strikers score... Did it at MK Dons and swear he was brought in at Charlton for a few training sessions
    Think it was Robbie Fowler that he brought in for us. Seem to remember reading that Fowler had told Robinson that Tony Watt was the only striker he met in his career that didn't care if he scored.

    Edit:

    I can't find any reference to Fowler anywhere, so perhaps I'm making things up.
  • I see from SSN that he's done his old trick of bringing in a "name" to help his players. This time its Ian Wright to help his strikers score.

    I wonder how look it will take Mr Wright to find out that there is only 1 player to deal with as KR sticks to his rigid formation.

    He's brought in Ian Wright everywhere to help his Strikers score... Did it at MK Dons and swear he was brought in at Charlton for a few training sessions
    Think it was Robbie Fowler that he brought in for us. Seem to remember reading that Fowler had told Robinson that Tony Watt was the only striker he met in his career that didn't care if he scored.

    Edit:

    I can't find any reference to Fowler anywhere, so perhaps I'm making things up.
    I remember this occurring.
  • Dazzler21 said:

    I see from SSN that he's done his old trick of bringing in a "name" to help his players. This time its Ian Wright to help his strikers score.

    I wonder how look it will take Mr Wright to find out that there is only 1 player to deal with as KR sticks to his rigid formation.

    He's brought in Ian Wright everywhere to help his Strikers score... Did it at MK Dons and swear he was brought in at Charlton for a few training sessions
    Think it was Robbie Fowler that he brought in for us. Seem to remember reading that Fowler had told Robinson that Tony Watt was the only striker he met in his career that didn't care if he scored.

    Edit:

    I can't find any reference to Fowler anywhere, so perhaps I'm making things up.
    I remember this occurring.
    As do I, so at least we're coming up wit collective hallucinations instead of individual ones.
  • We played some nice football under Robinson at times. The problem is opponents have a plan to stop a couple of players scoring and we become toothless. Under Robinson it was only a couple of players you had to stop.

    Yeah, this echos my feelings as well. He wanted to play good football, and at times we did. But it was around this time last year where the injuries started, and we really struggled to cope. Some of that was squad size/injuries to key players, for all the talk of going two up front this time last year we had an out of form KAG and Dodoo as options for Josh. But a lot of it was his inability to tweak things both in our approach, and in game. It took him until December to bring Aribo in. Now admittedly Aribo of today is a much better player than he was this time last year, but he definitely could have been a help running at teams or making those runs into the box when we were chasing games.

    Ultimately Robinson just wasn't a good enough coach for the style of play he prefers. And it's hard, it's hard to break down packed defenses in League One. But that's what separates the sort of run of the mill League One managers from the ones who are capable of making the step up to the next level.
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  • It's a shame because I think he's a decent coach. I don't think it's a coincidence that he seems to get young promising players on loan, it's clear that people within the game rate him. But (and this is the case with a lot of managers at this level), his ego is such that he's never going to get any better until he becomes more humble. And as such I think he's hit his ceiling, and it's down hill from here.
  • Coached better than anyone in a league you are bottom of?

    Good one Karl!
    How I've missed your quirky ways
  • Didnt he bring in Sam Allardyce?
  • This is astonishing. More idiotic than...well, anything he said while with us. He's losing it
  • Curb_It said:

    Didnt he bring in Sam Allardyce?

    What for a cheese and pickle sandwich?
  • Curb_It said:

    Didnt he bring in Sam Allardyce?

    Think it’s Ian Wright he’s turned to to solve all his problems this time.
  • Yes Kyle. You have really coached the team well in passing the ball around the back before pinging it to Ricky Holmes so he can run into a void of defenders. So well in fact that it's all your team's do, so it becomes really easy to defend against.
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