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Had a good game yesterday!
Pleased for the lad; hope he now sees the level of performance needed to make the 11 regularly and produces it more often.
As plenty on here have said;there's a good player hiding in there somewhere.
 
MOM contender yesterday, for me. Im one that has criticised him in the past too.
 
raefil said:
MOM contender yesterday, for me. Im one that has criticised him in the past too.
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It's so easy to critique isn't it
The thing is we have to remember in footballing terms just how less in comparison to most our players are paid
Yes it's still a lot but I do feel that our output based on the financial input simply cannot be bettered in this league ?
 
Robinson was a bit peripheral - in every sense early on - when he was stuck way out wide on the left but as he took up more central positions with just the occasional foray further out he got more into the game. I thought he was particularly prominent in the last third of the game - oddly the sort of the period when he has previously made an impact as a substitute. An aspect of his play yesterday that we have not seen before was that he made a few tackles - indeed he won the ball before sending Barkhuizen away for that chance at the end. I pointed previously that Robinson is effective when three conditions are satisfied:

*when he is played reasonably central with the freedom to move out wide occasionally but not way out wide on the touchline as a starting point.
*when we have a disruptive centre forward on the field to create space and chances in an around the opposition penalty box.
*when we have a left-back who gets up in support of the attack to distract the opposition and help create further space for Robinson to exploit.

We had the first two of those conditions satisfied yesterday - at least after about the first half hour and Robinson reacted accordingly. If we get Earl back for next Saturday then we might get even more from him.
 
I have also been critical of him, and rightly so I think. A goal mid week and a decent performance yesterday though is something for him to maintain and build on. It's up to him now. He can be extremely frustrating, that's for sure. But as others have said, there is quality in there somewhere. He needs to bulk up a bit in the gym and stop getting knocked off the ball so easily. His goal against Brizzle oddly enough was almost a carbon copy of the one he got against them a few seasons ago at Ashton Gate.
 
Dirty Harry said:
I have also been critical of him, and rightly so I think. A goal mid week and a decent performance yesterday though is something for him to maintain and build on. It's up to him now. He can be extremely frustrating, that's for sure. But as others have said, there is quality in there somewhere. He needs to bulk up a bit in the gym and stop getting knocked off the ball so easily. His goal against Brizzle oddly enough was almost a carbon copy of the one he got against them a few seasons ago at Ashton Gate.
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I think too many fans have been harsh on Robinson this season. He is only young , has not started too many games and so you would expect him to take a while to get up to full match fitness , in terms of energy and how he sees the game in front of him.
People find it so easy to criticise a player when he has an off day but they have to bear in mind the age of the player and thus his experience and also the fact that young players are media savvy and are bound to be hurt thus suffer a bit confidence wise by online criticism.
I think that if we get the best out of him for the next few years we have a fantastic player on our hands.
 
Dirty Harry said:
He needs to bulk up a bit in the gym and stop getting knocked off the ball so easily.
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I don't agree with this necessarily, there are a lot of players out there who aren't 6 foot athletic monsters. Iniesta springs to mind. What this type of player does have however is the intelligence to find space on the field, and Robbo needs to recognise he isn't the biggest or strongest, and start looking for the gaps, the space, rather than running into players or blind alleys.
 
Played his best stuff last season whilst on the left, then got moved upfront to partner Hugill and struggled a bit..
Was he on the left on Saturday or upfont?
 
edgy said:
It's so easy to critique isn't it
The thing is we have to remember in footballing terms just how less in comparison to most our players are paid
Yes it's still a lot but I do feel that our output based on the financial input simply cannot be bettered in this league ?
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Average weekly wage in the premier league has now risen above £50k for the first time. Mind boggling really.

Nice One.
 
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