Also worth mentioning you can’t take anything Robins says at face value. He’s a good man manager and politician. When he speaks he’s sometimes talking to the fans, sometimes the players, and sometimes the owner. Often all three.
As others have said sometimes the players aren’t really that tired but need a bit of protection from too much criticism while they find form. Sometimes they really are tired but as he said last night at times you need to grit your teeth and find a bit more.
Just had a quick skim of the Saints board, fuck me!! those years in the Prem must have really addled their brains, cos most of them think it was a good game of footy from them!!!!
Thought they were excellent tonight, the 15 minute rendition of twist and shout was fun, I’d love Saints fans to find a catchy song instead of the monotonous oh when the saints every 5 minutes.
What I can’t get my head around is when their player scored with his elbow why were our players not surrounding the ref putting pressure on him it looked a blatant handball.
Also worth mentioning you can’t take anything Robins says at face value. He’s a good man manager and politician. When he speaks he’s sometimes talking to the fans, sometimes the players, and sometimes the owner. Often all three.
As others have said sometimes the players aren’t really that tired but need a bit of protection from too much criticism while they find form. Sometimes they really are tired but as he said last night at times you need to grit your teeth and find a bit more.
Yeah, my respect is that high for the man's genius that I often think he's relaying subliminal messages within messages sometimes!
My theory for last night's interview though is that he's being prescient and sending an indirect message to the team regarding the run in. After Blues, it's 2 games a week until the end of the season, and he's letting the players know tiredness/fatigue is no excuse at this stage of the season. So they need find that bit extra during the run in.