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Robins reaction - so what’s going to change (1 Viewer)

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Major Tom

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  • Mar 20, 2021
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“We’ve created a number of clear-cut chances and should have taken them, we could have been three or four-nil up in the first half but didn’t take one.
 

cc84cov

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #2
Major Tom said:
“We’ve created a number of clear-cut chances and should have taken them, we could have been three or four-nil up in the first half but didn’t take one.
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He’s lost the plot why don’t he just pick a striker who knows how to finish
 

Nick

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #3
Almost as if it's the same every week
 
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Deleted member 2477

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  • Mar 20, 2021
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Here we go the vultures from the Robins out brigade have arrived.
Godden isnt fit ffs and he picked Max over Walker to add hight and help out against a tall team who bully defences
 
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pastythegreat

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #5
marcusp said:
Here we go the vultures from the Robins out brigade have arrived.
Godden isnt fit ffs and he picked Max over Walker to add hight and help out against a tall team who bully defences
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Why are we playing with 1 striker against the worst team in the league in the first bastard place?!?! We should have been 2 up front from the get go!

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SeaSeeEffCee

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #6
marcusp said:
Here we go the vultures from the Robins out brigade have arrived.
Godden isnt fit ffs and he picked Max over Walker to add hight and help out against a tall team who bully defences
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Personally when I’m playing the worst team in the league I’d pick the striker most likely to score goals as opposed to the one who might do a job defensively
 
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Greggs

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #7
Nick said:
Almost as if it's the same every week
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Almost as if we've had our best finishers out most of the season.
 
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SBAndy

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #8
pastythegreat said:
Why are we playing with 1 striker against the worst team in the league in the first bastard place?!?! We should have been 2 up front from the get go!

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No problem with 1 up top. After all, we’ve beaten them twice recently with 1 up top. Difference was we got midfielders into attacking areas but that was sorely missing today. Could be far better than we are showing.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Mar 20, 2021
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SBAndy said:
No problem with 1 up top. After all, we’ve beaten them twice recently with 1 up top. Difference was we got midfielders into attacking areas but that was sorely missing today. Could be far better than we are showing.
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Agreed, just do not get the Kelly / Hamer / Kelly midfield 3. You need 2 of those 3 at most one of whom is Hamer
 
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ccfc92

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #10
marcusp said:
Here we go the vultures from the Robins out brigade have arrived.
Godden isnt fit ffs and he picked Max over Walker to add hight and help out against a tall team who bully defences
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I'm definitely not Robins out, but the tactics/mentality since the Brentford win have frankly been disgusting.

Today being the worse IMO.
 

ccfc92

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #11
fernandopartridge said:
Agreed, just do not get the Kelly / Hamer / Kelly midfield 3. You need 2 of those 3 at most one of whom is Hamer
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Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #12
We should be playing on the front foot and not worrying if a bunch of cloggers like Wycombe get a free kick against us we have three big monsters at centre half who can head the bloody thing away. Don’t set up to stop the opposition put them on the back foot.
 
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SBAndy

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  • Mar 20, 2021
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fernandopartridge said:
Agreed, just do not get the Kelly / Hamer / Kelly midfield 3. You need 2 of those 3 at most one of whom is Hamer
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Guessing you mean Kelly/James/Hamer. In which case, I agree.
 
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pastythegreat

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #14
SBAndy said:
No problem with 1 up top. After all, we’ve beaten them twice recently with 1 up top. Difference was we got midfielders into attacking areas but that was sorely missing today. Could be far better than we are showing.
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When we were playing football. Not hoofing it to a lone striker stranded. Our passing has progressively got worse the longer the season has gone on! Every single player looks scared to be on the ball and just wants rid of it as quickly as possible. We're playing the extra man in midfield to "win" midfield but clearly aren't doing so. Every player all ocross the pitch is losing their individual battles. We looked better mid week with 10 men and going 2 up top than we did with 11men and 1 up top. A lone striker clearly isn't working! At what point will people (especially Robins') realise this?!?!

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Deleted member 2477

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  • Mar 20, 2021
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fernandopartridge said:
Agreed, just do not get the Kelly / Hamer / Kelly midfield 3. You need 2 of those 3 at most one of whom is Hamer
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Hamer missed the best chance of the game and has been shit for the last 6 games at least
 

fatso

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #16
He should of been asked if he wants us to score.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #17
SBAndy said:
Guessing you mean Kelly/James/Hamer. In which case, I agree.
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Yes, @ccfc92 it was obvious really mate
 
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Deleted member 9744

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  • Mar 20, 2021
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fernandopartridge said:
Agreed, just do not get the Kelly / Hamer / Kelly midfield 3. You need 2 of those 3 at most one of whom is Hamer
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Exactly this. We are left with one striker and one attacking midfielder, both if whom are not exactly prolific scorers. No wonder we are not scoring goals
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Mar 20, 2021
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marcusp said:
Hamer missed the best chance of the game and has been shit for the last 6 games at least
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The point is that he was in the opposition penalty area, making a late run into the box and providing an option. Kelly and James do not do that
 
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Deleted member 9744

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  • Mar 20, 2021
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marcusp said:
Hamer missed the best chance of the game and has been shit for the last 6 games at least
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Looked better second half today. He has to play.
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #21
marcusp said:
Here we go the vultures from the Robins out brigade have arrived.
Godden isnt fit ffs and he picked Max over Walker to add hight and help out against a tall team who bully defences
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If we’re playing a striker to defend why are we playing 3 defensive midfielders?

against a side who have scored less than us
 
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stupot07

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #22
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
If we’re playing a striker to defend why are we playing 3 defensive midfielders?

against a side who have scored less than us
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We literally attack with just 2 players 1 striker and 1 number 10, its so negative.

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ccfc92

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  • Mar 20, 2021
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fernandopartridge said:
Yes, @ccfc92 it was obvious really mate
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Went for some cheap likes.

Sorry
 
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SBAndy

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #24
pastythegreat said:
When we were playing football. Not hoofing it to a lone striker stranded. Our passing has progressively got worse the longer the season has gone on! Every single player looks scared to be on the ball and just wants rid of it as quickly as possible. We're playing the extra man in midfield to "win" midfield but clearly aren't doing so. Every player all ocross the pitch is losing their individual battles. We looked better mid week with 10 men and going 2 up top than we did with 11men and 1 up top. A lone striker clearly isn't working! At what point will people (especially Robins') realise this?!?!

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You’re right with a lot of what you say here. Our players have lost the bravery of wanting to play football in difficult areas. Kelly was quite frankly embarrassing with his use of the ball today.
 
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pastythegreat

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  • Mar 20, 2021
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SBAndy said:
You’re right with a lot of what you say here. Our players have lost the bravery of wanting to play football in difficult areas. Kelly was quite frankly embarrassing with his use of the ball today.
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Hyam has been for weeks too! He used to love coming to half way and picking a pass or drilling a 40yard diagonal for Dabo to latch on to. He seems to be getting worse as the weeks go on.

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stupot07

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  • Mar 20, 2021
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SBAndy said:
You’re right with a lot of what you say here. Our players have lost the bravery of wanting to play football in difficult areas. Kelly was quite frankly embarrassing with his use of the ball today.
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Agreed, plus we don't have the midfield runners and both wingbacks are nowhere near as effective as last season.

So last season McCallum and Dabo played the most of their games in the oppositions halves, we had Shipley and Allen (or Westbrook and O'Hare) making runs in behind the striker, and we had Walsh willing to carry the ball and break the lines.

Thats not happening this season. Our wingbacks are pinned back, we play too many defensive midfielders, the striker and o'hare are left isolated. O'Hare rarely runs in behind the striker so most of his work is done running from deep. Its a big step up in quality and too many of our players aren't up to the required standard, so their passing is off, they struggle to assert themselves, lacking composure, etc. Its so easy to defend against.

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GaryMabbuttsLeftKnee

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  • Mar 20, 2021
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SBAndy said:
You’re right with a lot of what you say here. Our players have lost the bravery of wanting to play football in difficult areas. Kelly was quite frankly embarrassing with his use of the ball today.
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Well said and won’t be popular. His use of the ball since coming back has been really woeful. Not sure if he’s been told to just lump it long every time or his composure is lacking, but he’s been poor for weeks and if his name began with S, he would have been lambasted


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Colin Steins Smile

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #28
The international break may have come at a good time for us, as we are struggling and it’s an opportunity to re-set and reflect.
I worry about going into the last nine games without Dabo & Kelly. On the plus side we have chance to get Godden and Walker closer to fitness and maybe up to 60 mins out of them.
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Mar 20, 2021
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He needs to set them up to win not try to get a draw and maybe sneak a goal as we are more likely to let one in than score one.
 
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SBAndy

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  • Mar 20, 2021
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GaryMabbuttsLeftKnee said:
Well said and won’t be popular. His use of the ball since coming back has been really woeful. Not sure if he’s been told to just lump it long every time or his composure is lacking, but he’s been poor for weeks and if his name began with S, he would have been lambasted


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I’ve made no secret of my admiration for Sheaf. His use of the ball is (mostly) streets ahead of Kelly and James. However, because we’ve only got one advanced midfielder and the wing backs are dawdling on the edge of our box, there is literally no option to pass forward about 70% of the time we are on the ball. It’s ridiculous. Feel like Sheaf being involved would lead to a more structured play but equally he doesn’t have the positional sense of Kelly or the guile of Hamer.
 
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Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #31
What else did he say after the game?

I'm curious to know, but knew if I'd have listened at the time I would have just got pissed off.
 
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Ann Proctor-Brown

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #32
Ronaldo would struggle to play up front on his own. 4 4 2 mr Robins .
 
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Ann Proctor-Brown

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #33
Is Robins losing the dressing room?
 

better days

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #34
Ann Proctor-Brown said:
Is Robins losing the dressing room?
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Extremely unlikely
 

Grendel

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  • Mar 20, 2021
  • #35
better days said:
Extremely unlikely
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I bet he’s glad he wasn’t in front of 20,000 at the Ricoh today
 
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