It all depends on what players we have, this time last year we couldn’t stop scoring

Seems to me Jackson's strength is his character, i.e. players seems to like him and work hard for him.

Yeah and ftr while I don’t necessarily see JJ as a clear strong character I don’t accuse him of being a weak character either 👍

Trigger - "I wouldn’t describe JJ as a particularly strong character (based on observation only". I think people get confused between being "weak" and not being old skool. Don't think JJ is the former, and the latter are pretty much dying out of the game these days.

Ardley 2.0

I wouldn’t describe JJ as a particularly strong character (based on observation only) but fair play so far he appears to have created a team ethos better than we’ve had for a fair while.

TS - DonsTV on the OS. You need to register. Typically (but not always) you get three videos. Highlights, Extended Highlights and Full Match. For Crawley (currently at least) it is Highlights only.

It's changed a bit but not that much, TF. Jackson's mantra is 'Fight, Block, Tackle, Run'. That's different different from Robinson's use of abstract nouns like 'resilience'.

If Robbo starts the season with no League wins out of 20, then I very much doubt he will be at Burton for the New Year.

Agreed KD and the definition of a strong character has changed a bit since those days. The youngsters are looking for a different set of leadership skills from the old “gaffer” approach, but still a clear and strong leader. I think Robinson probably ticked a lot of those boxes in terms of his empathy and supporting nature with the youngsters, but could he rev a team up at half time to claw back a deficit? Turned out almost the opposite.

Where do folk see extended highlights? When I google I just seem to get 2 mins or thereabouts.

Robinson's dream was to turn up and say nothing, with players coaching themselves. I think it's true that successful teams do take ownership of the boot room, they self-regulate. The 1980s/1990s Crazy Gang are a classic example. But - and it's a big but - it still needs a strong character to oversee it (Bassett, Kinnear).

Lurker- you can look at it how you like but for an academy coach the overriding objective is to develop/ improve players, while for a professional level coach the only real objective is to win matches, so the skills required are different. Robinson seemed pretty good at the former and pretty useless at the latter.

Nick it's not entirely true to say results don't matter for academy coaches. They do matter just not in the same way that they do in the adult league structures.

When all's said and done, we didn't win enough second balls and tackles in midfield under Robinson.

Sort of shows that being an academy coach, where results don’t matter, is a totally different job to being the coach/ manager of a professional team. It was our foolishness to think that the skills for one job translate to the other, and for taking so long to realise that he was out of his depth.

He's a very good technical coach (even managed to get some older players to look like pro footballers) and has a very good record with youth. But more experienced people than him fail in league management jobs. It's obviously a lot less forgiving a job (I'd be surprised if it was much better pay than Chelski had him on).

If he'd said he wasn't the only problem then I'd get it. Because the child doing recruitment seems to have been part of some problems as well. Bearing in mind Robinson was head coach not manager and didn't control some of the policies. But it wasn't working it fell off a cliff at year end.

A knee jerk reaction 17 games too late.

Association football was codified in 1863. How much more new and "revolutionary" and "exciting" can it get?

"New owners, new manager and record 23 summer arrivals have transformed Burton"

Interesting article on the BBC sport site about Burton. Some slightly delusional quotes from Mark Robinson about his time with us - apparently in his mind “so much was working” and him being fired was a “knee jerk reaction”- hmmm

Having seen the challenge, I think if he's only out for 3-4 weeks, that's a let-off.

The ref gave a yellow card,end of story. Can't be change ,nor should it be.it happens in football...

Well hopefully the club lodged a complaint CW, especially as we went on to lose the game 😒