Nicked this from JA (thanks Jonty) Nice to see other people giving us credit rather than getting on our back http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/21539-robins-open-letter-to-the-fans I want to say a big thank you to everyone who supported us at the Emirates Stadium last week and to everyone who has followed us throughout the season, your support so far has been phenomenal. Although we got beat 6 â 1 there were some really good things in that performance a) Their heads didnât go down b) They tried to keep playing the right way There will be times when we get slapped round the face but weâve got to stick to our plan over a long period of time to get results. Itâs easy as a manager to say weâve got to get results, I know how to get results, but I want to do it the right way. I wanted to see if we could do it in front of 60,000 people, against one of the top sides in Europe, and we can. Supporters are fundamental to what we want to do. We can put a team on the pitch, but without supporters we havenât got a Football Club. We want to develop as a community club, where around our games and training schedule, we want to interact with the community more and create role models for the next generation of supporters and we have to come up with a way of facilitating that. To engage with supporters and for those supporters to engage with us when watching the team, they need to have an affinity with the players, to really be our 12th man. Any negativity that currently surrounds the place doesnât bother me, I canât control what other people say or do. We have to be as one. We will only move forward together. I want to put something on the pitch to be proud of, to enjoy watching and to get enthusiastic over. Please donât underestimate the power that supporters have. If we take Leeds United as an example, their play at Elland Road is dictated by the fans. They really are one of the loudest sets of fans I have ever heard. They really get behind the team and the volume and support, at all times, is unwavering and demands a performance from the team. If we can do our part, the players will replicate. We can do this together. Finally, thank you for welcoming and accepting me. The first week at any football club is different to any other time. There were some things I wanted to do quickly and the club have enabled me to do that. Everything I do will be in the best interest of the Football Club but we have to do it sensibly and within our parameters. We have a structure and a strategy to move forward but we need our 12th man. Yours sincerely Mark Robins Manager
Great to hear us get some credit. I think managers etc. appreciate our support more than opposition fans. Even Ferguson can't resist talking about us at every available opportunity.
But dire to us is still pretty good for most clubs. +------------------------------------------------------------ Not good enough for me and it shouldnt be for anyone
Ive already started to worry about when Ken bates dies and the game after the minutes silence how the Leeds fans are guaranteed to get a bad name, Should I be thinking these thoughts? haha
I've thought up a challenge chippy. You start living over 200 miles away from Elland Road on £50 a week and let's see how many games you get to.
You've done well there then! I took great pride in not going into my overdraft at all in first year...I somehow doubt it's going to remain that way this year
