Robins frustrated with home draw.

Last updated : 22 September 2007 By Bigrich.....
Speaking to the post match press conference after todays game, Robbo was upset with the teams abilty to kill a team off.

"I think we started quite brightly, but they ended up dictating to us and ended up dominating in periods of the game, but we've got to be braver than that because we're at home."

"They've tried to stick the three lads up front and we were frightend of coming out. I said the full backs would win us the game today, and to start with it looked like we could get 2, 3 or 4 goals but although they had a chance just after we scored, we never really threatened a great deal."

"We scored the goal early on to set us up and I thought we would step on the gas a bit and take the game to them and finish them off, we had one or two chances to finish them off, notably Bruce Dyer got in the box and his touch let him down a bit, Stephen Brogans had a chance, so theres a fair few chances to finish the game off and we've not done it."

Robbo also bemoaned the lack of quality at set peices, "We have to be brighter, you just cant throw the ball in there! Jason Lee must have loved it, he just stood in the same place with zonal marking and we just put the ball on his head time and time again and thats frustrating for me and frustrating for everybody watching, so we've told them about set peices, we go through it rigorously every week but if the deliverys not right then theres not much you can do about it so we'll go back to the drawing board and carry on practising."

"There were spells where we played alright, we got sucked into their game a little bit but there was only one team trying to play football in that game in my opinion."

Robbo then had a little moan about the officials and referees of late; "Again we've been done by a refereeing decision, the balls played against one of thier players and he's two yards offside, and you can see it from the bench so how the lineman can't see it I'll never know!."

"We had one the other week against Chester where the lads handballed it, everybody in the ground saw it but the referee the man that matters does'nt see it. I spoke to him at half time but he said it's gone, but it doesnt help us."

Asked what the positives from todays game was; "A point! thats it, the performance started off brightly and encouraging and at the end of it your pulling your hair out because it just wasnt our day."

"Bruce Dyer came off with a slight problem with his groin but I was always looking to get Chris O'Grady involed in the game today and really wanted to get Marc Newsham involved but the way the game panned out, they way that they played the ball just aimlessly up in the air and tried to get behind us, and I'm saying thats wrong and not having a go there, but it was the way they saw the way to a point, from my point of view we copied them!"

Robbo brough on Jamie Yates for his first appearance of the season; "We brough Jamie on to give him a bit of experiance and he made some nice runs down the right hand side, but then we're looking for final ball's from them and really it was just a frustrating day and I would imagine that everybody watching was frustrated as well. But it's back to the drawing board ahead of the game at Barnet."

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