Mark Robins?

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Robins is on gardening leave. He was on a rolling 12 month contract at Barnsley and there was a disagreement regarding his budget for next season, therefore has been give notice (12 months at that - honestly).

With that in mind, how could we (the Blades) offer him any better when we are currently looking at cutting 25% of our day-to-day staff at the club.

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Kev Gee said:
Jesus christ no.

On what basis?

What has he achieved?
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What had Nigel Spackman achieved when he was offered the United job back in 1997, yet to date he has the best win ratio of any manager we've ever had (46.51%).

You can then look at Micky Adams, he managed to get Fulham into the Premiership and was only sacked because Mohammed Al Fayed wanted to bring in someone who had a higher profile (Keegan at the time).

Let's face it, the comment "What has he achieved?" holds no weight nowadays.
 
Are you for real? What exactly would Robins give us that Adams didn't?
 
Cant see why Robins is that bad. Had Rotherham high up in the league and playing good football until he left for Barnsley. Ronnie Moore changed the style back to his old formula and they went backwards. Took over Barnsley at the bottom of the league and kept them up and has kept them up comfortably again despite the obvious restrictions they have.

Granted he's not much of a personality but I would rather have a determined S.O.B than someone who looks good in a designer suit.
 
I think someone like Mark Robins is absolutely tailor made for United.

He is the right age, has done well wherever he has been, and i think he could me exactly the man we are looking for.
 
Robins????

brownie said:
I think someone like Mark Robins is absolutely tailor made for United.

He is the right age, has done well wherever he has been, and i think he could me exactly the man we are looking for.
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But he is in dispute over transfer funds for next season so how would he be ideal?

Are you suggesting that he would have any more money to spend at United?

If you think he will they your on another planet.
 
brownie said:
I think someone like Mark Robins is absolutely tailor made for United.

He is the right age, has done well wherever he has been, and i think he could me exactly the man we are looking for.
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In the recent match against Barnsley, I felt that Robins completely tactically out-thought Adams.

We played a very naive 442 and Robins was quick to tinker with his formation to take advantage.

This is not to say I particularly want Robins, although I am not adverse to him (still burning a candle for RDM), but I certainly feel he is a considerably better manager than MA.
 
Robins is not the one. Not for me anyway. It has to be RDM or Hughton
 
brownie said:
I think someone like Mark Robins is absolutely tailor made for United.

He is the right age, has done well wherever he has been, and i think he could me exactly the man we are looking for.
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His football is very much like Blackwell's though. I think Barnsley are direct and he seems to play one up front quite regularly. I think he'd be a continuation of the last few seasons rather than a break away from it.
 
think I would rather have Pembo in charge than Robins. BUT if he does get it then I will back him from the start
 

brownie said:
I think someone like Mark Robins is absolutely tailor made for United.

He is the right age, has done well wherever he has been, and i think he could me exactly the man we are looking for.
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Don't let the fact that Robbins has a worse record than Davey cloud your judgment and what you be saying if that fat usless twat got the job?
 
No more crude direct football please. I'd take Ozzie Owl as manager if it meant a passing philosophy throughout the club.
 
You just know Robins will be appointed and KM's interview will be about the remarkable job Robins has done in establishing Barnsley as a Championship club on a tight budget and how he's the right man to take the club forward.
Just my opinion but he aint my cuppa tea!
 
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/14052011/63/robins-remains-tykes.html

Speculation broke on Thursday that Robins, who replaced Simon Davey at Oakwell in 2009, was set to leave the Tykes after a disagreement with the board over the budget for next season, with a compensation figure already agreed for his departure.

The club have moved to quash those rumours, but conceded Robins is deciding whether he can work under new financial conditions proposed by the board. A statement issued by the club read: "The Barnsley FC board has decided in principle that it supports the Football League in its efforts to require clubs to break even."

It continued: "Mark Robins attended the board meeting last week to discuss ideas for our club to break even going forward.

"His response to the proposals was that he needed time to consider the implications of the approach and whether he could work with it.

"The club felt it was necessary to mitigate its position by invoking the clause in his contract fixing the amount of compensation due to be paid should Mark leave, which appeared most likely from the discussion."

The former Rotherham manager has since been linked with a number of vacant managerial positions, including South Yorkshire rivals Sheffield United, but the Tykes are keen to retain the services of the 41-year-old.

"We are aware of the speculation in the media regarding Robins being on shortlists for other clubs," the statement continued.

"But to date out club has not been approached.

"We are happy with Mark Robins as our manager and hope he will decide to stay and help is implement the changes needed to move our club forward on the playing field."
 
Everything seems to be pointing towards him now. I highly suspect he will be appointed within the week.

btw.....the fat bastard symbol is genius. Hats off to you! :D
 
I thought Barnsley were under the misapprehension that they played football like Brazil. OK we all know that's not quite the case, but surely Robins can't be a hoof it man or they'd have "'ad shot of 'im" and told him "on thi bike, thaa't shit thee" ages ago.

Plus, if he did come in, maybe we'd see the best of Boggy!
 
SteelCity Blade said:
Everything seems to be pointing towards him now. I highly suspect he will be appointed within the week.

btw.....the fat bastard symbol is genius. Hats off to you! :D
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How does the following point towards him coming to the Lane?

The club have moved to quash those rumours, but conceded Robins is deciding whether he can work under new financial conditions proposed by the board.
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Are you suggesting that McCabe has decided NOT to cut our budget and has decided NOT to cut staff numbers by 25% to save money? Wouldn't Robbins just be jumping from the frying pan into the fire?
 
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SteelCity Blade said:
I'm not sure where you're coming from? What's the source of that quotation?
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Sorry only half of my original posting appeared in my response.

My point is that I would be surprised if Robbins took up the challenge at the Lane.

Robins decision to leave Barnsley came after a meeting with the chairman regarding the lack of funds available to him to strengthen the squad.

With all the chops and changes planned at the Lane over the next few weeks, I can't see how he would be in any better a position at United.
 
I suspect it may have gone like this:

Dingle Board of Directors: Mark, we are operating at a loss, so the wage bill needs cutting, and you can only spend x% of what you bring in from transfers to offset the current debt.

Robins: Thats your decision and I respect that, but it will only lead to relegation, which i refuse to be part of. I'm outta here while my reputation is still in tact.

Any cuts that may/may not happenat the lane, would still see him with one of the biggest budgets in the division. So he's going from a club who cant afford to compete to the levels which are expected of them, to one that can, and has the fan base, stadium and backing to take itself further than the one which he is leaving.

The two jobs are incomparible. We're a much better carreer proposition for Robins than Barnsley are, regardless of them being a division higher.
 
And there's no real reason to take him leaving the Dingles due to financial constraints as gospel.

More than possible that we sounded out his people and he subsequently came up with a reason to leave the club and walk into our position.

Theoretically.

(I wouldn't mind him to be honest - my fourth choice behind RDM, Tisdale and Hill)
 
Behind-The-Flag said:
Sorry only half of my original posting appeared in my response.

My point is that I would be surprised if Robbins took up the challenge at the Lane.

Robins decision to leave Barnsley came after a meeting with the chairman regarding the lack of funds available to him to strengthen the squad.

With all the chops and changes planned at the Lane over the next few weeks, I can't see how he would be in any better a position at United.
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Ok I'm following now. As I said somewhere else, he wouldnt be under similar financial constraints here IMO. We will be operating with a higher wage bill than Barnsley even in a lower division and McCabe has already said he's prepared to make money available to whom ever comes in. Whether that will actually be the case remains to be seen but from what is being indicated at both clubs United will likely be spending more money in the coming season than Barnsley.

With our fan base, stadium and inevitably larger resources.....it is simply a no brainer that the Sheffield United job is more prestigious as it is a club with more potential. Yes there will be cuts and changes but it will be across the board and I dont see how we will be able to move too many players on.....who's going to want most of them?????
 
Presty said:
I suspect it may have gone like this:

Dingle Board of Directors: Mark, we are operating at a loss, so the wage bill needs cutting, and you can only spend x% of what you bring in from transfers to offset the current debt.

Robins: Thats your decision and I respect that, but it will only lead to relegation, which i refuse to be part of. I'm outta here while my reputation is still in tact.

Any cuts that may/may not happenat the lane, would still see him with one of the biggest budgets in the division. So he's going from a club who cant afford to compete to the levels which are expected of them, to one that can, and has the fan base, stadium and backing to take itself further than the one which he is leaving.

The two jobs are incomparible. We're a much better carreer proposition for Robins than Barnsley are, regardless of them being a division higher.
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Any chance we can re enact this, but let Ollie play the part of the Dingles' B.O.D?
 

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