THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

We would not have got relegated last season I am sorry to burst the bubble people like to cling onto. It was bad but we’d have turned it around and we’d have had a mediocre season but that’s to be expected in a transition period.

As for catastrophic season in the Championship grow up. What did people expect? Us to fight with teams who were spending millions? We had the smallest budget in the league that years and I felt we put in a decent effort. We got relegated with 3 games to go, I think that’s pretty good doing. Didn’t go down with a whimper all season - we just weren’t good enough. That’s better than not trying.

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Never go back, Ince MK2 proved that point.

So did managers like Eddie Howe.

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As true as this is, something had to be done after the Southend shambles last season, the manager will always take the flak, even though the players were to blame totally, and still are!
I'd take Robinson back in a heartbeat, winkelman has made his bed, now he has to lie in it!!

Lets also not forget, Robbo only had one successful season, and that was because he had a great team and even then we only scraped promotion on the last day of the season because Swindon bottled it.

He is having a better season than us, but he is still outside the playoffs at the moment.

He isn't the Messiah but he is not really a Naughty Boy either.

Didn’t want him to leave, would take him back today, even for all his irritating traits, and being a media whore.

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What are you talking about? One good season? We got in the playoffs in his first two seasons, those were good seasons. Again I wouldn’t even say the Championship season was bad.

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But Bill won’t have seen a game, right?

I was always pro Robbo right to the bitter end, but have seen enough football to know that nearly all managers have a shelf life. That’s nothing to do with “no plan b” or some other such claptrap, but eventually hearing the same voice every day at training for years will just eventually comply with the law of diminishing returns. Things needed freshening up. That doesn’t always have to be the manager, but invariably. Is.

And both times he blew it by not having a Plan B when the teams we were playing sussed him out.

That's why subsequent seasons he didn't do so well, until he got the players that could actually deliver his plan.

I don’t disagree that it was probably time to go but people seem to only look back on him the past year and a bit he was here and have it as some sort of disaster. Best manager we’ve ever had end of story. Better the devil you know maybe. We got rid of him thinking Neilson was the answerr

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