Karl Robinson

[gicslater]

reported on sky sports

and no betting on skybet for next Sheff United manager anymore.

if true a happy blade and good luck to him.

 

[Bath Blade]

No experience of playing at the top level, only managed MK Dons. A slight improvement on Weir but that's it.

Didn't harm the managerial careers of Wenger, Mourinho, Sven or Hodgson (and Bryan Robson had plenty of experience of playing at the top level).

 

[gicslater]

happy if true

 

[bartman]

reported on sky sports

and no betting on skybet for next Sheff United manager anymore.

if true a happy blade and good luck to him.

Paul Walker reporting on Twitter saying that the MK Dons chairman unaware of any talks

 

[Jehovah]

I've said before, he always speaks highly of us. Whenever they beat us he always seems to intimate they shouldn't have and pays a lot of respect. Think he's fancied the job for a while. Perhaps funds were an issue last time?

Id be reasonably happy. Semi at most.

 

[madeinsheffield]

I thought he was rubbish when he was in Neighbours

 

[1889]

Id be reasonably happy. Semi at most.

Go and see your Doctor it's not something to be embarrassed about and there's been great progress in pharmaceutical solutions for this sort of thing.
It's possibly connected to the stress of the new manager situation.

 

[Torrix1889]

Paul Walker has tweeted that the Dons chairman is unaware of any approach for Robinson...

 

[yuley82]

Didn't want him first time don't want him now especially after he turned us down because there was no money at the club!! But I'll give anyone a fair chance to turn our fortunes around...

 

[bladesadviser]

Not excited at all , thought that we new investment we could look a bit further than people who had turned us down in the summer. Not won anything finished last season badly.

 

[Reedy1889]

Happy with this, he'll become a quick fans fave if he drops Doyle for the Coady/McGinn partnership and tbh i can see that happening as those as pretty similar to the midfield he has at MK in Potter & Gleeson. Was also reported he was interested in signing Brandy & Baxter (?) in the summer so now he'll have the chance to use those two in the way he'd have played them had he signed them.

All in all it's a good appointment... for me anyways

 

[mattbianco1]

No experience of playing at the top level, only managed MK Dons. A slight improvement on Weir but that's it.

Not exactly what I'd call ambitious. And we think Wednesday are deluded.

Born in Liverpool, England, Robinson played for Caernarfon Town, Bamber Bridge, Marine, Oswestry Town, Rhyl, Kidsgrove Athletic, Prescot Cables, St Helens Town, Alsager Town and Warrington Town.

Have you seen Roy Hodgsons playing CV?

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Breaking News now on sky sports news MK dons Manager in talks with the Blades, bad move for him he done nothing must at MK DONS.

I'm underwhelmed

 

[hoylandblade]

I was disappointed when he didn't get the job in summer but what's changed his mind, is it the princes money, if so not too keen on him taking the job for that reason, but I've always given a new manger a chance to prove himself so if he gets the he will get my initial support.

 

[stringjunior]

Can't quite manage a lazy lob about this appointment, but then I was happy to see Weir get the job, so feel free to ignore my opinion - my wife has for years.....

 

[Selly]

I was disappointed when he didn't get the job in summer but what's changed his mind, is it the princes money, if so not too keen on him taking the job for that reason, but I've always given a new manger a chance to prove himself so if he gets the he will get my initial support.

If thats the reason he is now happy to come to BDTBL, I don`t have a problem with it.

Clearly if he was told in the summer that he had to sell to buy, reduce the wage bill, buy cheap, that is a vastly different poposition to the constraints or otherwise of the job now.

To a certain extent, no-one in their right mind would take the job given the constraints we had in the summer...

 

[oldblade]

Tries to impose a certain system of play but unlike Weir has arguably shown he can be pragmatic when he needs to be - grinding out results at Bramall Lane in the last two seasons. Whether he has the capability to turn around this season, I'm not sure.

That is not really much of a recommendation. Last season only 8 sides failed to grind out a result at Bramall Lane, and this season only one side has failed to do so.

 

[StarBlade]

A very average manager who has achieved little despite quite a good budget at MK Dons. The only thing that he has going for him is that he's a play-off failure so will fit in well at United.

 

[Bergen Blade]

A very average manager who has achieved little despite quite a good budget at MK Dons. The only thing that he has going for him is that he's a play-off failure so will fit in well at United.

MK Dons have four defeats in their last five matches. Are they heading for another mid table finish under him? I've seen him talk about how many passes they've had in games, is his philosophy identical to Weir's?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

MK Dons have four defeats in their last five matches. Are they heading for another mid table finish under him? I've seen him talk about how many passes they've had in games, is his philosophy identical to Weir's?

Question is Bergen, has he taken them as far as he can or has he reached the limit of what he can achieve? Hopefully it is the former!

 

[oldblade]

MK Dons have four defeats in their last five matches. Are they heading for another mid table finish under him? I've seen him talk about how many passes they've had in games, is his philosophy identical to Weir's?

We are a side very much on the ropes and in decline. Our position in the league, whilst not irretrievable at the moment is very alarming.

Karl Robinson took over a side that was already a very solid third division side in no danger at all of being relegated. He was not under any real pressure there. In his three seasons in charge their position has not significantly improved. I don't feel he has shown enough to be a good candidate for us in our current position.

I think we need someone who has a proven record of success at third/fourth division level. In my opinion Robinson is not that man.

 

[sitwell]

Who would your choice be Oldblade ?

 

[cooperblade]

Pros - 'big' personality, knows the players and the division, his style of play suits the players we've recruited

Cons - CV is very average with no success yet, criticisms of Weir's approach could also be levelled at MK Dons

 

[Isiah]

A very average manager who has achieved little despite quite a good budget at MK Dons. The only thing that he has going for him is that he's a play-off failure so will fit in well at United.

He doesn't have quite a good budget SB he works with out of contract or free transfer players and youngsters and has actually had what was already a pretty modest budget cut this year.
Bamford for example is in his second season under Robinson having joined from Chelsea's youth squad as an 18 year old on loan and has been brought on in leaps and bounds.
He has several players - Gleeson, Potter,Williams, Lewington who are coveted by a number of bigger clubs but who have stayed at MK largely because of Robnson and not on big money.
He is young, ambitious, positive and knows the lower leagues very well as well as having some very good contacts within the game.
If he'll come, grab him.

 

[BladeFisher]

Have you seen Roy Hodgsons playing CV?

Have you seen Robinson's managerial CV?

I think I would rather have Paul Cox over Karl Robinson as a manager.

He has taken MK to 2 play offs and lost both, so he'll be in good company then.

My concern is this, if we were Shrewsbury I think Robinson would be fine, but we're supposed to be a PL/Chumpionship side and I think this shows poor strategic thinking again and a risk. If he'd come in the summer fine, I'd have accepted that but he turned us down last time and now sees HRH's money. Tart that's what he is a tart!

 

[Isiah]

Have you seen Robinson's managerial CV?

I think I would rather have Paul Cox over Karl Robinson as a manager.

He has taken MK to 2 play offs and lost both, so he'll be in good company then.

My concern is this, if we were Shrewsbury I think Robinson would be fine, but we're supposed to be a PL/Chumpionship side and I think this shows poor strategic thinking again and a risk. If he'd come in the summer fine, I'd have accepted that but he turned us down last time and now sees HRH's money. Tart that's what he is a tart!

He didn't turn us down BF he wanted the job - we wouldn't pay the compo.

 

[BladeFisher]

He didn't turn us down BF he wanted the job - we wouldn't pay the compo.

Thanks for that. So it was a club to club thing then? Maybe I missed the press stuff but it was portrayed as KR turning SU down. I know McCall thought we were a basket case and turned us down because of that IIRC.

 

[mattbianco1]

He didn't turn us down BF he wanted the job - we wouldn't pay the compo.

I'm glad you beat me to it mate.

I think McCall turned us down. Thinking back Robinson was very very complimentary about SUFC in his interviews and he was also doing some sky sports stuff late last season where he was saying how "massive" we are. Sounded like he was haggling for the job back in May TBH

 

[Zanzibar]

A very average manager who has achieved little despite quite a good budget at MK Dons. The only thing that he has going for him is that he's a play-off failure so will fit in well at United.

Can you illustrate what this quite good budget was.

 

[grafikhaus]

So. Every single manager named has (generally) had bad vibes for nearly everybody on here - including me. Clough, Sven etc. etc. They all have patchy records, because that's what managers nearly always are - patchy.

I'm sure the reason Weir was welcomed by most is that he brought none of this 'previous baggage'. Now we know why. He never had previously been given the chance to fuck things up.

Some say we're not looking high enough, but when di Matteo is mentioned it's 'He wouldn't look at a team at the bottom of the Third'.

If I were the 'powers that be' at the Lane, I'd truly despair. Apart from AVB or Martinez, who would people be happy with?

The interest in our new manager is understandable, but let's keep it in perspective. As I said yesterday, I expect somebody completely out of the blue.

No need to rush. Whoever we get can't possibly influence the team for Saturday or next Tuesday.