THINK BIG!
ROBINS SALUTES COLLECTIVE OF ‘BIG HEARTS, BIG CHARACTERS AND BIG MINDS’ DRIVING SKY BLUES UP LEAGUE PYRAMID
To work with and to watch them improve and play outstanding football has been a joy. Mark Robins
COVENTRY City boss Mark Robins has paid tribute to his staff and revealed there is no way the club could have achieved promotion without them.
City’s promotion to the Championship has put a big stamp of success on the CV of Robins, making him a manager other teams have started to take notice of.
For the modest Sky Blues manager, it’s very much a team effort.
Speaking to the club website, he said: “I’ve got to say thanks to my staff, I haven’t got many. We’re a small team but we’ve got big hearts and big characters and big minds and they’ve been instrumental with what we do.
“I think it all stems from the way we play and the we go about business.
“The way they undertake training and the culture of that has improved no end and as individuals they’ve taken it on and they’ve made it really easy for me, they haven’t stepped out of line.
“To work with and to watch them improve and play outstanding football has been a joy but you can see them working and when we give them information on the pitch and in the meeting room you can see they all want to learn and get better and that’s the biggest part of it for both me and Adi Viveash. And it’s not only us two, you’ve got Paul Travis who does the analysis and more and then you’ve got Jason Farndon and Luke Tisdale. “Adam Hearn has been brilliant as well as the physiotherapy team led by Paul Godfrey. “Aled Williams came in as goalkeeping coach and took over some massive shoes and done fantastically well. Chris Badlan and Stuart Benthom in recruitment as well, the two of them have been outstanding and the scouts they’ve got as well have all been fantastic.”
But Sky Blue legend John Sillett was only too happy to focus on the one man who has been instrumental in bringing good times back to the club in recent years.
He heaped praise on the boss during a official club video call, saying: “I have never been more proud of a manager than I am of Mark.
“For me, he has had one of hell of a job on his hands and he has risen to the occasions. He’s fantastic and I have loved him from the start.
“He’s got that bit about him. You want to play for him.
“He’s got that golden touch. He’s a great fella, a class manager and a good coach who has done a wonderful job under the most difficult of circumstances. The club has been away from their own ground and he has done wonders.”