Phew, what a day that was. First came the club statement at 9.15am that Karl Robinson had left the club ‘by mutual consent’.

Mutual consent tends to indicate that money is not involved. Robinson will not get a pay-off, and the club will not seek recompense for him terminating his contract early.

Lee Bowyer will takeover as caretaker manager, with Johnnie Jackson as his assistant. The duo took training for the first time on Thursday.

Rumours intensified during the day that the long running takeover saga was close to completion, with an Australian consortium finally buying the club, possibly as soon as the early part of next week.

There was speculation that the group will install current Crawley boss, Harry Kewell, as manager and ‎that former Addick, Paul Elliott, will become chairman.

Finally, it was announced that Robinson had been appointed as the new head coach at Oxford.

Bowyer and Jackson’s first job is to prepare the team for Saturday’s clash with Plymouth at The Valley.

Argyle will be backed by a large travelling support and are bang in form.

Robinson has been criticised for his reliance on a 4-2-3-1 formation, but he assembled a squad to play that system.

It is probably too late for Bowyer to change shape on Saturday, and given that the team have been set up to play this way all season, he may continue with it going forward.

Robinson expressed doubts that Ben Amos would be fit for this game. But as the club have not dipped into the emergency loan window – still available for keepers – it has to be assumed that either Amos or Dillon Phillips will be fit enough to play.

The team could look something like this:

Amos; Dijksteel, Bauer, Pearce, Sarr; Aribo, Forster-Caskey, Marshall, Reeves, Fosu; Zyro.

Subs: Maynard-Brewer, Lennon, Lapslie, Jackson, Kaikai, Hackett-Fairchild, Ajose.