The belief has gone - Robins

Last updated : 11 March 2007 By Bigrich.....
Speaking at the post match press conference, Robbo commented on the 5-1 defeat.

"The game was over at half time, I thought we started the game reasonably well, but the first goal killed it, because you could see the body language of the players after the mistake and from there it was a real struggle, We are conceding goals from set pieces as we have done all season, and today was no different."

"You could see that we was sort of fragile last week but we got away with it, This week they punished us at every opportunity. They were'nt 5-1 better than us apart from the set plays and getting the balls in there, if you don't defend and you don't attack the ball in both boxes you end up on a losing score line like that."

Robbo was asked if the players think as if they're already relegated, "I think that they feel that it was a mistake and they've put in as much as they can put into it, but a mistake of that nature puts everybody on the back foot, your at home and you've instilled into them all week that they can win this game. Then they start off like they did."

"You expect teams to come back and get the goal back, which we did and straight away we concede another one. Its the manner of the goals that we concede thats worrying, and its been worrying for a while so we've got to pick ourselves up and get on with it, there is still ten games to go."

"I've just asked them if there's still belief in the dressing room, and looking at that today would suggest that theres a real lack of belief there in themselves to get out of it which is a real worry."

"There's still a chance mathematically, it depends on how we react to things. Your looking on the pitch and reactions from the players and its not there, we're reacting to situations when its too late where as you've got to be lively and expecting things and reading danger."

"Last week hightened their senses a bit, there was a change of voice, a change of manager. This week we've dropped of it again and we've been punished for it, and severely so."

"It's chalk and cheese against last week, we got a bit of luck last week we didn't this week and we've been rightly punished because you can't defend like that."

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