Squad investment

[Handsome_Devil]

The end result will be the same re: Lasley though. As with Malpas we will be handing the job to an untested manager who has basically got the job before it even becomes available. Neither of those facts sit well with me.

As for Robinson, yes he did change the team in Jan '19 when Turnbull became a regular and Hastie arrived on the scene and he does deserve some credit for that, but I'd argue that his hand was also forced in that we had just lost in the Cup to Ross County and the majority not the support had by that point lost patience with him. The Hibs game that midweek really was all or bust for him and we managed to get the result and went on a good run from then until April '19. I know you keep referring to last season, but I will keep answering the same. We were rotten last season and EXTREMELY lucky to be sitting where we were when the campaign was abandoned. The football we played for large spells last season, bar from brief spells during the Sep - Dec period was as bad as anything we had seen in the previous season and we completely fell away after New Year and only Aberdeen and others also being incredibly inconsistent kept us where we were. As far as I'm concerned anyway, 'finishing third' doesn't count because the season was not completed and we were rank rotten.

I don't claim that Robinson has been rubbish or lucky the whole time he's been here. When he came in at first he was a breath of fresh air and his work over the summer of 2017 in removing the deadwood and the 'class of 2003' from the first team, made some really good signings in Carson and Kipre and installed a much more enthusiastic feeling around the squad and the club. We started well before falling away but showed our mettle in reaching two cup finals, albeit the Scottish Cup run was slightly fortueose I thought, but we did well overall. Since then things haven't been so good. His rebuilding of the 12-18 over summer 2018 was a disaster and what we got on the park for the majority of that season reflected that. The football we have played as a spectacle has been dismal and there are no signs that will improve. His transfer record is patchy overall and woeful in terms of signing forward players and the signs are now that he has run out of ideas and him and us would be better parting company.

I don't see how accumulating more points than the rest over what, 30 games, can be put down to luck. I never thought we would finish third but even with our poor form fourth was much more likely than not.

Anyway, you and I have both been wrong in the past about his time being up, we will see if third time's a charm.

I also reckon we won't sack him if we lose to St Johnstone immediately before Coleraine but the end of the month and completing the first round of fixtures is surely do or die.

[texaco cup]

Defeat against St.Johnstone and I think he will know himself his time is up. Although I suspect he will be allowed until end of the month to turn things around