'A roll of the dice - but Robins suits Stoke'
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Stoke City fan George Weaver, also known as Potterlytics, has been speaking to Lucas Yeomans on the BBC's A Cold Wet Tuesday Night podcast about the appointment of Mark Robins and his first game in charge.
The Potters drew 0-0 with bottom side Plymouth on Saturday, three days after Robins joined on New Year's Day.
Potterlytics said: "In a vacuum, the Mark Robins appointment in terms of who is available, I'm pretty excited by it. The work he did at Coventry was incredible.
"I don't think Mark Robins was part of any long-term plans at Stoke prior to the issues with Narcis Pelach and how poorly that went.
"I feel Robins has come in to implement some of his own long-term plans and that's fine, but it's more of a return to rolling the dice.
"On the positive side, this is a dice roll that's more likely to work out. I think he suits the club, I think he suits what we're looking for at this point in time but it's still a dice roll.
"There's no way this is what Stoke were looking to do when they brought in Pelach, when they brought in Jon Walters, when they brought in [Steven] Schumacher in the first place.
"Robins is a pretty decent fit and probably more likely to come off than some of the previous ones."
On the performance against Plymouth, Potterlytics added: "The big takeaway was that the vast majority of that starting XI were absolutely knackered after 45 to 50 minutes.
"The way they worked in the Burnley and Sunderland games, that was inevitable. He [Robins] said afterwards we've not got a great depth of squad to work with at the minute.
"So it very much makes sense that it was a bit of a tired performance. But I don't think there is too much we can take out of it in terms of what Robins is going to be like in the long-term."