Karl Robinson (Ed. Page 79 - GONE- Mutual Consent)

he's being coming up with non stop excuses from the moment he got here. even last season (after he had a transfer window) before the season had ended he was talking about all these players he's going to bring in and how our football was going to be. yes we needed to change things around but why not wait till the end of the season to slag off the players. no class.

he has consistently made himself look like an arse. some examples:

"basket case of a club" - he then signs for said club.
"meire has been great since I got here" - coming up with this when he knows full well how we feel about her. then she ends up leaving less than a year later.
"ive spoke to roland quite a few times" - Karl, I doubt he even knows who you are till you handed in your notice. you knew he would be problematic but yet you still signed for the club. no excuse.
"we got goals all over the pitch" - fosu scores a few then what?
"he's the next dele ali" - then he doesn't play him for months
"i'm gonna turn him into a centre forward" said about Doodo and we know how that ended up. then said about Zyro before he realised the blokes a winger.
"see 4-4-2 doesn't work" - trying it with a winger and a very seldom used striker for 30mins doesn't mean it wont work.
"ive told them that they can take the next 6 weeks off if they dont want to be here" - within a week you try to resign.
I could go on but you get the idea.

his system can only work if all the players are playing well need to create space and have lots of movement, and there is no injury's. injuries happen, form drops, is there a solution? no. why was there no contingency plan? maybe even have another forward? he's had 3 transfer windows and we are no better than where we were.
instead we get this crap about trying to sign will grigg, as if Roland would give him those type of funds. how come other clubs in this league find targets for a couple of hundred thousand at the most here and there. why? cos they're bloody realistic and know how to scout a player. also you knew what Roland was all about from the word go.

for the last few months he's been sussed out by more and more fans of how inept he is. how clueless of a tactician and a character he is. he's been blaming everyone and everything for his incompetence apart from himself. All this in probably the worst league we have ever been in. as you can see i'm far from a fan.

people can try to defend him and I doubt I will ever agree as I doubt they will ever agree with me. I dont know what will happen once he's gone, we might even get a more useless manager with no class and more bang average to crap players but for me its well worth the risk.

JamesSeed said:

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AFKABartram said:

Am I the only one really unsure where my head is with all this?

I've been quite shocked at the levels of opprobrium heaped on the man, with the excuse being 'he knew was he was getting himself into' or 'he deserves it because he worshipped Duchatelet and Meire. It's almost been a case of 'I hate Robinson more than you do', or 'I hated Robinson before you hated Robinson'. The man is a (pretty average) football manager, not a child molester. I think we've behaved like a lynch mob at times.

Personally I think you’re going OTT to magnify the opposing stand you’ve largely taken. Online views have been largely mixed, up to maybe a fortnight ago when those opposed started to escalate.

My main point though is you are confusing social media commentary with reality. Despite some holding strong anti views for some time, never once has this ever manifested itself during games, in fact I think with the exception of Saturday Robbo’s name has been chanted positively in every home game.

Some have been course in sharing their views, but there’s been no lynch mob.