Robins walks as City end a week to forget.

Happier times for Robins, too think this was yesterday..

That feeling of bemusement and anger crops up again as a City fan. An far too familiar feeling.

Last few days I have been trying to write a blog about the last few weeks and what that means in a ‘look-ahead’ to the end of the season.

In it I was being upbeat and positive despite the ‘freak’ 3-0 defeat to Crewe last Tuesday night and despite the ever-widening gap between us at that pesky top six. My main port of call was that Robins had instilled a faith in the fans and the squad that a 3-0 and now 7 point deficit could be overturned, he’d shown at MK Dons, Hartlepool and in the JPT against Preston that there was a fight in the side we just wern’t used to seeing.

Now, it could not be further away from the point. Robins cleared his desk according to some earlier today despite his bosses standing strong and looking to keep him here for what he called just two weeks ago, the ‘long haul’.

But alas, Robins was tonight at Huddersfield watching them beat Leicester (teheehee) in the cup whilst us as Coventry City fans were again left at the altar almost, scratching our head in the search for answers.

Robins reinvigorated McGoldrick’s career.

In his five months here, Robins, to be fair to the guy, has been fantastic. The reason he is even in the conversation for the job at Huddersfield is because of Coventry City Football Club. When Andy Thorn was sacked and the Shaw/Carsley duo made a bit of a meal of the word ‘caretaker’ not many would have pegged Robins to firstly get the job and secondly take us from 23rd to 8th in such style. He was helped by the mercurial talent of David McGoldrick somewhat but he has kept us on pace despite Goldie heading to Ipswich.

Robins led us to a 5-0 win at Hartlepool, 4-1 win at Doncaster, a 3-2 win against MK Dons and two games away from Wembley. He was here for five months and he got antsy.

When I first read that he was on his way and had left SISU, often easy targets, without a choice but to take the offer from Huddersfield for Robins, I jumped on the ‘Loyalty’ bandwagon right away.

On reflection, that word is just that, a word. It doesn’t exist.

In sport or in day to day life; Jeremy Kyle has made a TV career out of the lack of loyalty in society. There would be no ‘lie detector tests’ on daytime TV if the word still mattered.

So that, is somewhat hollow with this. Robins is in a career which is amongst the most unstable and is obviously looking to clamber up the ladder quicker than he feels the vehicle he has control of is capable of doing.

He has been at 3 clubs now and has quit all three. It’s the seeds of a reputation he maybe doesn’t deserve to some, but can easily hold weight as a argument. His honesty in interviews with local media in his time here were refreshing for nearly all of us, now lets hope he shows that same honesty when fronted up in the coming days.

At the base of it though, it just stings.

Over the last few months I have had the pleasure to talk to five ex-City players from Ronnie Farmer to Paul Telfer. Talking to them, with how many view my football club in the wider public, it was refreshing and reassuring to hear the positive words these people, with no affiliation to the club they once played for, still use today.

Talking to ex players like Chris Cattlin leaves questions as to where that ‘feel’ has gone.

Ronnie Farmer left 45 years ago but still calls City ‘his club’. Chris Cattlin turned down a visit to Chelsea and signed here because ‘there was a feel about the club’. Andy Blair talked about how the club has to pick the city up and Paul Telfer talked about despite underachieving in the late 90’s, how his time at the club was a highlight, playing with the players he played for and the club he played for.

So why doesn’t Mark Robins, Marlon King or Aron Gunnarrsson have that same soft spot, that same affection for this club.

It might be just the way of the world as it is now, but still doesn’t soften the blow.

Robins, in one swift movement out the door has burned most bridges he has built, ruined his standing with City supporters and put the club, on the crest of a wave a little over a week ago, back on the desolate shores looking for a long term solution to an all too familiar ailment.

Whoever that is, it needs to be the right guy. There are people being banded about which make me shudder. But SISU made the seemingly right choice five months ago and they need to do so again.

This season is in a tailspin. The fan base is rabid after another crashing comedown.

This blow however, doesn’t lie at the feet of owners in the blame game. This is on a manager with lofty ambitions he couldn’t have reached six months ago. He might not see it that way, but theres a base of supporters who have a very valid argument to support that.

‘This club is in my blood’ was the call to arms from Mr Robins a few weeks ago, that now is alongside , the admittedly more famous,Rooney’s ‘once a blue ’ t-shirt message mere weeks before joining United all those years ago. Everton fans have never fully forgiven Mr Rooney for that departure and I doubt City fans will be too jovial towards Robins the next time we come up against him.

Tomorrow I’ll probably throw up a look at who could replace him and who I would like to see given the reigns.

But now I like most City fans this morning have an overriding feeling of anger and disapointment. Another let down. Now to correct it.

For the time being,Lee Carsley and Steve Ogrizovic- the floor is yours.

Again, as ever- PUSB!