The club tweeted yesterday with some stats on Robinson now he's hit the 50-game mark as manager.
46% win ratio - third best ever
1.48 goals scored per game - best since Davie Hay (81/82, which was the First Division)
1.18 goals conceded per game - best since Alex McLeish (which seems mind-boggling but there you go)
That's a truly remarkable record - even more so when you consider the absolute state of us when he took over.
I actually have a feeling that he will find the next bit even harder, though. His strengths are clearly in organisation, getting everyone working together and giving everything, which lends itself to solving defensive problems and getting a team from the relegation battle to safety. In contrast, his weaknesses seem to be a willingness to trust the 'footballers' in the squad to be good enough to win games by possession or creating, which would get us from midtable to chasing the top four.
So I suspect we may be in the middle of the pack for a bit, which is fine in itself, but the sort of football we play needs some blood and guts cup runs to keep the seasons going...if we find ourselves losing a 50-50 in the last 16 of the League Cup in summer, it could be a long, long autumn/winter and I think the grumbles about our style of play will get a lot louder.
