One game into the new Football League season and already there has been a managerial casualty. 

That being Mark Robins, who parted company with Huddersfield Town by mutual consent after an embarrassing 4-0 home defeat on the opening day to Bournemouth.

The club statement said Robins met with the board of directors and both parties agreed it would be in the best interests of the club to go their separate ways.

BBC Radio Leeds believe Robins walked because he felt he couldn't bring success within the vision of the club.

The outsiders and football pundits have all had their say but they are quick to judge without looking at the facts or talking to the fans and people who have close links with the club.

But being a Huddersfield Town fan myself, in all honesty, the tide was turning towards the end of last season with just six wins in the last 23 matches which included a period of ten games without a win.

Had it not been for the positive first half of last season the Terriers would have been in the thick of another relegation battle as they were in the 2012/13 season in which it took a last day draw with Barnsley to keep the West Yorkshire club in the Championship.

The board turned to Robins in February 2013 after Simon Grayson was sacked following 12 games without a win that included some real hidings from Leicester City and Watford. Town had started life to the Championship well following their promotion from League One but Grayson lost the plot and the board had no choice but to get rid. The ship was going down fast under his leadership.

It didn't start well for Robins as Town conceded ten goals in his first two matches but after that he managed to steady the ship, tightened the defence that had been leaking goals for fun and grabbed crucial wins against teams also fighting against the drop but it still went down to the wire in what was a rather remarkable season in the Championship.

Robins liked his side to play possession football in a 3-5-2 formation which he stuck with going into the 2013/14 season and it started well with striker James Vaughan firing on all cylinders as Town hovered around the play-offs in the first few months of the season. Robins' method of adapting the formation during games was paying dividends.

But once Vaughan began picking up injuries from November onwards (he was reduced to limited appearances from then on), the cracks began to show without their talisman. His last goal, his 12th of the season and he still finished as the club's top scorer, was in a 2-1 victory against Burnley in late November.

Three days later Town grabbed a 1-0 victory over Bolton Wanderers to give the Terriers a third straight win but after that things began to go downhill.

Robins' game plan was beginning to get found out and it was apparent he had no plan B, Town were becoming easy to play against. What started was a constant tinkering of personnel and the possession football, which worked at the start of the season, was becoming stale and lacklustre.

Nahki Wells, the club's record signing, was brought in during the January transfer window. It was an impressive acquisition but he was often played up front on his own with little service to go on.

A 5-1 win over Yeovil Town in late December and a thrashing of Barnsley at the start of March only papered over the cracks. After beating their Yorkshire rivals, Town went on a ten game run without a win and were falling down the Championship table.

Of that ten game run without a win the draw at home with Middlesbrough stands out. With the game locked at 2-2 Robins replaced Wells with Vaughan in a like-for-like substitution that only made sense to himself.

It took a last minute winner against Yeovil Town in April to keep Town away from the Championship trap door and a 4-1 win over Watford on the last day of the season saw the Terriers finish in the dizzy heights of 17th in the league.

Some fans began to lose confidence in Robins. No real progression had been made from the previous season and the performances were average at best,  but the board stuck by the manager. Four players were brought in over the close season but the defensive issues and striker options had failed to be addressed in my opinion.

So to the opening game against Bournemouth and the optimism evaporated in just 26 seconds as the Cherries took the lead. They went on to win 4-0 with relative ease and it could have been more had Bournemouth not missed a penalty.

Saying the performance was spineless in an understatement and the team selection was nothing but baffling. An academy graduate, who is a midfielder, playing in a three-man defence along with right-back who was playing in the middle of the three. The second half substitution of Radoslaw Majewski was also simply bewildering.

Rumours amongst fans continue to circle following the aftermath of Robins' departure. One being he agreed to leave after a disagreement over the budget - he left Barnsley at the end of the 2010/11 season over that same issue. But in the end the stats don't lie, since the start of 2014 Town have registered just six wins and four draws from 23 matches (24 if you want to include the Bournemouth game). That is relegation form.

But whatever the reason, Huddersfield Town chairman Dean Hoyle has gone through two managers in 18 months, both ultimately proving to be just quick fixes. Now Hoyle faces the task of bringing in someone who fits the criteria the club want but has experience of managing a club at Championship level.

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