The managerial sack race is over. It didn’t last very long and it makes no sense whatsoever.

Mark Robins and Huddersfield reached an agreement by “mutual consent” on Sunday and decided that it was best to part ways.

So all the planning during the summer, the hours spent training players. 

The scouting of potential signings to fit into the squad. All of that has been wasted with the sacking of Robins.

They can release a statement saying it was a mutual decision but it’s bull and everyone knows it. So it begs the question, why did they relieve him of his duties?

If they felt he wasn’t good enough they would have got rid of him at the end of last season.

The club won two of their last 13 games and ended last season badly so that would have been the perfect chance to go their separate ways and start rebuilding in the summer. But they stuck by him and they should have given him a chance.

 If they had someone else in mind, they wouldn’t have replaced him with caretaker boss Mark Lillis.

They would have brought the new man in and had him in place already.

This screams at a lack of planning at boardroom level and the club come across as not knowing what they are doing.

Fans booed the team off the pitch but they had just lost 4-0, were they expecting a standing ovation?

Bolton players received the same reaction when they walked down the tunnel at half-time, 2-0 down to Watford.

But Dougie Freedman still has his job as the club clearly have a long-term plan in place.

Huddersfield were not going to get promoted. While their form in the past 20 games screamed relegation, the club obviously felt that Robins was the man to guide them through the season and have panicked due to  a few fans acting like they are the local pantomime and voicing their anger at the villain on the stage.

You look at Premier League clubs, the season is yet to kick off but already managers are under pressure.

While it is understandable that club chairmans do not want to be relegated due to the financial advantages of being in the top division, let the manager pick his team before threatening him with the sack.

There has been an idea for a few years that a manager can only be sacked during the transfer window, which would provide them with a bit more job security as well as making those upstairs think long and hard about who they hire.

Let’s be honest, some managerial changes have made sense due to the club being on a very bad run of form or after relegation. 

Sometimes they lose the dressing room and while it is said that this was the case with Robins, the players should have spoken up a few weeks ago.

He was frank and honest when he hit back at the jeering fans after the game, while also placing blame on the players.

“The supporters having a go at me or the players are the same ones who cheer us when things go right. They want to be entertained and we have to give them that.

“The players have to grow up and take responsibility. The system we play only works when the players put a shift in and too many players decided to take a day off.

“It’s still early days and we dump this result in the waste bin and move on.”

The club have moved on. They’ve just moved on without Robins.