Scunthorpe United manager Mark Robins has told the Scunthorpe Telegraph that he concedes time is running out for him as first team manager. They are on a poor run of form, but he maintains he is still the right man for the job.
45-year-old Robins was appointed to the hot seat at Glanford Park in October 2014 and is just less than two weeks away from completing a full year in charge. However eight points from their opening 10 League One games this season leaves The Iron stuck inside the relegation places. The club spent big by their standards this summer, with the likes of Jamie Ness, Luke Williams, Scott Wiseman and Jack King all coming through the door. Whilst they have mainly signed free transfers, wages certainly are of a higher standard than is usually known with the North Lincolnshire side.
With other clubs in the Football League starting to show their hands by making changes to management, Robins acknowledges that he knows results need to improve quickly, or else he’ll be unattached in the near future. However he believes chairmen Peter Swann is the type that will understand the situation and give him more time to turn it around. Swann recently told Iron-Bru, a Scunthorpe fans forum that if Robins lost the dressing room then he would most likely make a change, but Robins isn’t worried,
“I always feel the pressure but I have got a really good chairman who will give me time to turn things around.
He has been fantastic and is behind myself and the staff 100 per cent, but there is a limit to the time I have got to do things in. We need to do it as quickly as we possibly can.
The chairman can only give me limited time if things don’t turn around but I know they will and people need to get used to that.”
Their next opponents are Fleetwood Town, who yesterday fired manager Graham Alexander, but Robins believes he is fully capable of turning around their poor run of form,
“I have belief in the players but they have got to do it.
We will do it – I am 100 per cent confident we will turn it around but it is just the timing. It becomes more difficult the longer it goes on because there are more pressures from outside.”
