Stephen Robinson

[Ajja]

Having mulled this over and looking at some of the clues;

- we triggered a clause to be able to speak to him

- he mentioned he knows Lutz well and we know Burrows link

- Lutz assertion that we need someone who knows the Scottish game

Could it be that we have been doing this dance with SR for a few months as first option and the other candidates have been courted because we didn’t want to spend whatever the ‘clause’ demands?

Could explain why St Mirren have been absolute dugshit for months if his head was gone. Just a theory. 

[Redbull74]

2 hours ago, Ajja said:

Having mulled this over and looking at some of the clues;

- we triggered a clause to be able to speak to him

- he mentioned he knows Lutz well and we know Burrows link

- Lutz assertion that we need someone who knows the Scottish game

Could it be that we have been doing this dance with SR for a few months as first option and the other candidates have been courted because we didn’t want to spend whatever the ‘clause’ demands?

Could explain why St Mirren have been absolute dugshit for months if his head was gone. Just a theory. 

A fair few St Mirren fans have been moaning about that, saying it's obviously destabilised their dressing room since January as well as affecting Robinson. Saying we didn't want to pay the compensation. 

Unless they have inside knowledge it's pure speculation but possible. Could just as easily been the case that Robinson had no clue we were going to come in for him as we were publicly speaking to Lutz's preferred choices. 

[RicoS321]

The interesting thing about the Robinson appointment is that he's not the type of guy you get in as a stop gap to inspire a poorly performing team to see out a season. He takes time to get his preferred team on the park and implement his ethic. I don't see a huge uptick in results between now and the end of the season, and I think it'll be beyond January by the time he's had a chance to rejuvenate the squad. Hopefully he'll be given the time to do so. I think there's a slight window to make this team harder to beat and squeeze some points out of them, but not much else. I assumed that's what Leven would do, but his selections have been scattergun at best. I hope Robinson just goes full pragmatism and makes us a stuffy side, in the hope that guys like Cameron, Nisbet and perhaps Armstrong (Keskinen at a real push) can sneak us goals at the top end. There isn't a lot of room for error with this squad though, one bad selection and we lose a game.

Edited 6 hours ago by RicoS321

[Radiored]

20 hours ago, dons8321 said:

Could change it so that every time the ref. stops the games for an "injury", whether or not the physios come on, the player goes off and doesn't return until next time the ball goes out of play.

How about if a player stays down for more than 30 seconds, it is deemed a serious injury, and said player is taken off the pitch ..... and subbed the next time the ball is out of play? .... Ah think that would fix it  

Oh .... and the substitution is counted as part of the 5 subs allocation.

Edited 2 hours ago by Radiored