What Mark Robins knew when he was sacked by Coventry
What Mark Robins knew when he was sacked by Coventry
Mark Robins was sure Coventry were on course to find play-off chasing form even when he was sacked in November.
Robins was controversially sacked after losing seven of the first 14 games of this season. He had been in charge for seven-and-a-half years and in three of the four previous years his side had started slowly and gone on to do well, including reaching the play-off final in 2023 and FA Cup semi-final in 2024.
He admits results were poor running up to November but he was confident that he had seen enough in performances, and was showing in underlying data, that would change. It has changed but under his successor Frank Lampard, who has won eight of the last nine games to surge up to fifth in the Championship.
Now, Robins is preparing to return to the CBS Arena as Stoke City manager and, while congratulating Lampard for the form, he knew it was coming.
He said: “They’re on a really good run. They’ve had some brilliant results, they’ve done fantastically well and there is no taking away from what Frank Lampard has done there but the data suggested when I left that this was likely to happen. It’s there for everyone to see.
“There were times in the first part of the season when it didn’t go quite right, didn’t fall this side, and at the moment they’re playing in a slightly different way, they’re getting some fortune but they’re also playing some good football with good players. That’s them and we need to try to capitalise on what we can do and build on a performance last week that we can look at and see some really good elements in.”
Robins said his concentration would be on his current Stoke side and trying to get a result for 3,000 travelling fans today (12.30pm).
He heaped praise upon the Stoke fans during last week’s draw to Watford saying their support; “really does help the players to deliver.”
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