Jack Robinson to Wrexham

[chesblade]

is not a DoF but I think our nieve owners will be relying on him running the ins and outs. I’m feeling sick after yesterday, imagine their wake up call watching that level of investment swirling down the pan.

Not given up on Sellés, public dressing down after game was a big mistake (I missed it) that might get a few players agents on their phones wanting away. However, handled post match well. Got a feeling he’s going to be COH fall guy.

Don't think it was a dressing down on pitch, when you watch he's not shouting at them. Wilder did it a few times last season

 

[john Mathison]

JLT move might not be their priority after Kieffer Moore injury yesterday. GLTTL, Wrexham showed how to use him, and Saints defence struggled to cope. COH, Bettis, Selles, all bear responsibility for this. 9 players out(including loans), 3 loans in, the oldest being 22!!!!!!

 

[CaptainMorgans]

Bang on. He's been a solid player, yes had his moments, but given his all for the shirt. Should be welcomed back warmly in my opinion.

As with Kieffer Moore, Jack Robinson is the wrong side of 30 and entering into the final year of his deal.
Wrexham seem quite generous with their offers, so it makes absolute sense to sell now.

However... we need to bloody reinvest the funds on an upgrade... and fast.

 

[Lower Drop Blade]

I’m guessing that Wilder gave COH a few home truths about their naivety before they sacked him. As always, he wasn’t prepared to just meekly allow the owners to undermine the team. Let’s hope Selles is strong enough to also tell them that succeeding in the Championship is a little bit more complex than playing Fantasy Football.

No chance, weak as piss this bloke bit like his defensive tactics yesterday

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

We all want it to work for Selles there's no doubting that

I wish I could believe this is the case. Hearing some of the comments in the ground, and reading others on here since the match, I think there’s a section of our support that are quite happy for him to fail.

So it goes

 

[RecordBreakers]

I wish I could believe this is the case. Hearing some of the comments in the ground, and reading others on here since the match, I think there’s a section of our support that are quite happy for him to fail.

So it goes

Can agree with that

 

[Bladey_blade]

With Wilder it felt like we had a plan. Here we’re selling players then working out what to do next.

No idea how much money they have or what their supposed grand plan is but I couldn’t be less impressed by them.

They don’t even communicate.

Did it feel like a plan because everything was leaked days and days early by an accountant sat on his arse in Spain?

 

[Bladey_blade]

So surely - if we knew last week that Wrexham wanted Robbo - why not sell him & keep Anel? They are both out of contract next summer. Or is it simply we are so strapped for cash we desperately needed the £7 million to balance the books cos COH are royally skint?

Because losing Anel on a free basically burns £7 million? Whereas losing Robinson is probably under 1.Not rocket science is it?

 

[UddersBlade]

Because losing Anel on a free basically burns £7 million? Whereas losing Robinson is probably under 1.Not rocket science is it?

But if we don't go up this season we are screwed anyway. £7 million will neither be here nor there in regard to the financial mess we may be in without the £40 million parachute payment. The decision to sell Anel tells me that me that COH are not planning to invest any significant new money. They gambled in January & that backfired. They are trying to do this on the cheap - but I feel for Selles now.

 

[FriethBlade]

Overall I mean. We’re down to the bones purely due to the Board’s own decision making. His plan was to get Dunne but the Board wouldn’t pay.

We’d have Dunne and Darling now if Wilder was here but these numpties in charge think we should only sign someone on a permanent if they’re just out of diapers.

They’ve watched a bit of moneyball and think they know how to work the transfer market, forgetting we have matches to play in the meantime.

Champagne, LOL at the last paragraph as this seems to be the plan. Signing undiscovered gems with the intention of doing a Brentford/Brighton with them is all well and good if you have a settled 'first 15'.
However we are that short after offloading first 11 players that most of us are shitting ourselves at losing a CB who wasn't good enough 2 promotions ago never mind now!

 

[Champagneblade]

He was still rubbish that season but not as rubbish as everyone else

but he also wanted Cannon so they put their eggs into the Cannon basket

Conflicting stories out there on Cannon. Wilder was linked in the summer but I’ve also read it was the Board who pushed for him in January. Don’t suppose we’ll get to know until Wilder writes a book!

 

[Nick Jansky]

Overall I mean. We’re down to the bones purely due to the Board’s own decision making. His plan was to get Dunne but the Board wouldn’t pay.

We’d have Dunne and Darling now if Wilder was here but these numpties in charge think we should only sign someone on a permanent if they’re just out of diapers.

They’ve watched a bit of moneyball and think they know how to work the transfer market, forgetting we have matches to play in the meantime.

The shocking CB situation we are in hasn’t just developed under this ownership and management. The genesis of it was a long time ago.

 

[Nick Jansky]

But if we don't go up this season we are screwed anyway. £7 million will neither be here nor there in regard to the financial mess we may be in without the £40 million parachute payment. The decision to sell Anel tells me that me that COH are not planning to invest any significant new money. They gambled in January & that backfired. They are trying to do this on the cheap - but I feel for Selles now.

£7m neither here nor there? Don’t talk such shite. Are you as crap with your own finances?

 

[Bobby b]

I can't believe the amount of shit Robinson gets on here,is he franz beckenbauer, no, is he our worst defender, judging by yesterday, clearly not, he should be a back up, and i think hes a good back up, but we need 2 starters that are better than him,are we going to get them? It remains doubtful, so now, because of a lack of foresight, from the recruitment team, we have no competent centre halves, and the best one we have currently wants to piss off

 

[Champagneblade]

The shocking CB situation we are in hasn’t just developed under this ownership and management. The genesis of it was a long time ago.

Years ago. I think we’ve only bought in about 3 centre backs in 5 years or something incredible like that.

We should have got a centre back instead of getting Brewster and Ramsdale!

 

[Badger Blade]

He's a donkey and has proven it numerous times over the years. He has the odd game where nothing goes majorly wrong to redeem the mistakes he'll make in the previous one but we saw last season that we were a worse team with him in it compared to when Souttar played and is an accident waiting to happen.

Never mind yesterday's disaster, he's someone we've needed to replace for a long time and as things stand now, the club now has no choice to get some new CB's in if Wrexham are daft enough to give us money to take him off our hands. Parkinson must be having wet dreams over the long throw because there are few other redeeming features. Not very tall, fast, intelligent or very good in the air. Shouts a lot and puts in the odd hefty challenge which glosses over his shortcomings.

We do need some experience at the back though but for as long as there's a hole in my arse, he's not the experienced head we need and neither is RND whose race is well and truly run and needs sending off to L1/L2.

Robinson is the Neill Collins of the post covid era and I for one won't be sorry to see the back of him.

 

[Bobby b]

He's a donkey and has proven it numerous times over the years. He has the odd game where nothing goes majorly wrong to redeem the mistakes he'll make in the previous one but we saw last season that we were a worse team with him in it compared to when Souttar played and is an accident waiting to happen.

Never mind yesterday's disaster, he's someone we've needed to replace for a long time and as things stand now, the club now has no choice to get some new CB's in if Wrexham are daft enough to give us money to take him off our hands. Parkinson must be having wet dreams over the long throw because there are few other redeeming features. Not very tall, fast, intelligent or very good in the air. Shouts a lot and puts in the odd hefty challenge which glosses over his shortcomings.

We do need some experience at the back though but for as long as there's a hole in my arse, he's not the experienced head we need and neither is RND whose race is well and truly run and needs sending off to L1/L2.

Robinson is the Neill Collins of the post covid era and I for one won't be sorry to see the back of him.

You said that we were a worse team with Robinson in it compared to when souttar played, that says a lot more about souttar than it does about Robinson. We were worse with anel in it compared to when souttar played

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

This situation is indicative of broader concerns of our new owners' recruitment skills.

Was Wilder the long-term answer? No.
Were Souza or Anel realistically going to stay? No.
Were the returning loanees affordable? No.
Were other players, such as Brewster or Robinson ever likely to be the answer or good enough longer-term? No, of course not.

But we have zero indication as yet of the new owners' recruitment skills. Their budget, their scouting network, their ability to identify targets or to thrash out a deal. Their silence might mean their transfer business is well guarded, and I'd be all for that, but as it stands I can't help but feel that they don't have the skills or experience to navigate the transfer market and sign what we need. After all, we're now in need of 3 CBs if Robinson goes, a CDM, a CF to compete with Campbell and RB depth to support Seriki.

They're new to the EFL and to football ownership full stop.

And as it stands, I have very little faith in their ability to get what we need.

I wonder if they read this place, to gauge the temperature amongst the fan base?

 

[Wards]

The last time we signed a centre half was July 2022. That's how long we've neglected it for

 

[Frank the tank]

Get him selt

 

[Aston max]

 

[Gin&Juice]

The last time we signed a centre half was July 2022. That's how long we've neglected it for

Didn’t we sign Trusty as a CB?

 

[Bladeinleeds]

Didn’t we sign Trusty as a CB?

By my reckoning we’ve only signed 3 since pre Covid (19/20)

Trusty, anel and JLT.

Poor poor succession planning. Given we sold but never replaced one of them

 

[Pandev]

RND made Robinson seem like Van Dijk

 

[Wards]

Didn’t we sign Trusty as a CB?

Good point, forgot about that useless shite

 

[Servigliano]

The last time we signed a centre half was July 2022. That's how long we've neglected it for

And that would be Anel and despite losing Bash, Egan, J. O'C - all predictable - we've signed, as our player, er nobody?
No worries though, except that the price of all purported replacements has gone up a notch or three.

 

[Gin&Juice]

Good point, forget about that useless shite

No worries. As Pandev says Still shows a glaring lack of investment. Should’ve been the main focus of January this years. RND was bound for the PL before he joined Hecky’s cripples.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

The business model currently appears to be if someone bids for someone we sell them. So if Wrexham want another donkey to go with Moore and bid money, hes off.

 

[HOT CURRIE 10]

RND made Robinson seem like Van Dijk

Dick ? First !

 

[Bladey_blade]

The business model currently appears to be if someone bids for someone we sell them. So if Wrexham want another donkey to go with Moore and bid money, hes off.

I'd imagine someone like Robbo was looked at as no sale value given the contract and age etc, so any windfall is pure profit, it's sensible business if we replace adequately