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From the Mail on Sunday football section:
" and a fierce shot from the impressive Mike Pook was only just over". :)

Impressive?

did I watch a different game, anyone that says pook is impressive is quite frankly deluded.

Further proof newspaper reporters do not go to games!

I thought that was a bit strange when i read that a little while ago, impressive!  :soapy tit wank: he was useless.

scapegoat

Not at all, did you also watch the same game as the Sunday Express reporter?

I give players a chance but Pook is fucking useless.
Just to prove this I still rate Roberts and think he's useful to have in the squad......but Pook has shown nothing and no signs of becoming a decent player. Roberts for all his faults can be a match winner, Pook can make do if things are going well but as soon as we start to struggle Pook goes missing and can't change or influence the game.

I'll place a bet with you arriba if you want that he'll end up at some Wiltshire non-league team in the next couple of years

It's from the Mail, what do you expect?

Fair point........Do you reckon ITV will be at our ground again next week for their championship program with us going for promotion and Walsall going for the title. Wonder whether Willie will turn up on time this time....

In some cases, yes
Yesterday, no

Fucking awful, flick ons to no one, passes to no one. Just gave the ball away time after time after time.

Dont know how he managed to stay on the pitch yesterday, but hey we wouldnt make 9 substitutions

umm he did have a turn shot from eight yards that phillips seemed to struggle with in the first half with AND had a dig from 20+ yards in the second...about the only times we chanced anything all day. apart from that he was shite though, but he did  perform as well as everyone else in the team yesterday

Can I just say, it annoys me when people say that.
How often has Roberts won us a match.
I know someone will prove me wrong but.......

if he has, it hasnt been often enough to warrant the chants he gets.

I thought he was one of our better players .. it showed how crap the rest were

You would say that.

He was fucking shit. Get over it.

ralph dearest, i think fatters maybe admitting his son was shite as well.

you're an angry young man

I feel angry today.

Sheff wed 3-2 win, the sheff wed cup match, the hull match that followed that....  when he first joined he was immense, somehow need to get that Roberts back

3 games 2 seasons ago.......

Despite some good games of late, I thought Pooky was one of the worst players on the pitch on saturday. He gave the ball away so many fucking times, most of the time he didnt even seem to be aiming at a red shirt.

I'm not making him a scapegoat, we'd have lost if he had played well - the rest of the team was shite as well.   However him and shakes seem to suffer from the same problem - they put a couple of good performances in and I think "good, he's finally improving, could become a half decent player now." They then just end up back at square 1 after a few games still showing the same glaring problems in their games as they did when they 1st got into the side.

sorry but thats RUBBISH Piemonte - I know I go over the top praising Pooky but he was no way one of the worst ...

I hate Poook with a passion, I really do. But at least he had a shot, unlike some of our other players.

He was. in fairness to him Sturrock & Zaaboub were equally as bad.

He had our two best efforts on goal, BUT that by no means makes him exempt from blame.  IMHO generally his use of the ball was appalling, the whole team played poorly, but midfielders perhaps more than any other player should use the possession they have carefully, and he didn't.  Zaboub was doubled up on marking wise that means that there had to be a space somewhere that wasn't filled, the midfield should have been finding that space and utilising it - and they didn't.  Zaboub was poor but he was also heavily marked - all he needed was to lay it back to a full back or midfielder and pass it into the spaces.

His 2 shots on goal were the only contributions where he didn't give the ball away! I think he needs to take up rugby, he seemed to be aiming for touch in the corners with every pass.

A rovers fan at work said "I always though Roberts was good when he was at City, and he was good on Sat"  :shock: Why didn't he shoot  :|