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has anyone else heard that hes had/soon be having a operation which will keep him out for a good 3-4months?

nope.

can he have it in may?

May he have it in Cannes?

Didn't he have an op a couple of months back which kept him out for a short time?

What has provoked your enquiry JPC82?

well u have heard it now! Robbo out for a few months

Implanting anti-alcohol pellets?

knee operation

how many good games has he had in his time here?
imo two hands to count them tops.
could be such a good player but lets himself down so to often.

he shows glimpses arriba, he has ability but he simply cant apply it every week, if he could he wouldnt be at swindon, its that simple, we have him for those glimpses, at luton for example 1-0 win, picks it up skins a few players and buries it, brilliant, yet u know he will have 5 shit games before he does summat good again

i cant argue with that jpc82. nor have i

Not a great loss really, cant see him being here next season.

I've noticed quite a few people saying 'if he could do it every week he wouldn't be here' recently. In my opinion this sort of talk is a load of rubbish in a lot of players cases. Few are that good, even on their good days.

roberts is though imo

i disagree Si, Roberts playing at his best is good enough for the championship

I think Roberts is a good league one player on his day. He's lost that extra bit from his younger days that made him a bit special.

But he cant play at his best week in week out, thats why he plays for us i guess.
This is as good as he is gonna get unfotunately.

with only a couple of months of the season and no real chance of the playoffs better to get any niggles sorted now i reckon.

I disagree a bit. I don't think he can still put in full 90mins special performances, but he's still worth it if he can pull it off 20mins in a game.

Although, he is getting on a bit, and with ComeOnMingTheMerciless filling more of a wing-back role on the right, there is less of need for a Robert's style winger. If he's coming off the bench more then that doesn't really matter that much. When he pulls off one of his special days in the last 20 mins it doesn't really matter which attacking role he's playing. Be it Macbeth or Batman.

He was spotted the other lunchtime in the bar at the GW.  Sorry to disappoint you all -  he was apparently drinking coffee!!

He lost it when he got injured the first time this season but decided to play through it so he could have the op in the close season. Only that didn't work, it made things worse from the sound of it.

Every season there is something that goes wrong. Can't help but think that's just the way it will always be, hence my argument.

Don't get me wrong I think he's a good player and I like him in the team (especially as I dislike McGovern), but I think there will always be something to limit him, even when he's playing that 'special' 20 minutes.

And the original point I was making is - do we have to settle for players like that simply because we are Swindon Town?

What was the point of paying £200k for Cox? That was the most ambitious thing we have done in a long time.

We need to show more ambition with who we target (don't mean paying transfer fees necessarily) if we want to go up. Perhaps even get some slightly worse but extremely consistent performers to balance things up.

there's always a player the fans get on the back of - in the recent past it's been Duke, Robinson etc - if it's Christian roberts now, then it shows the squad has improved big time

Agreed MOONRAKER....even keeper Smith who was fantastic last year is getting abuse.

That's because unfortunately a few of our fans are utter morons.

I take this is stfc as pretty good evidence of this!

SHOCK! i was right  about the injury 8)

Im under the impression the fans who boo are not giving smith abuse but booing Malpas decision .

Don't agree with booing players, but when players aren't doing very well then fans have every right to voice their opinions. I don't care how someone played last season. That past form is not going to do us any good in the present.

it isn't. around me at least its all "booo smith your rubbish", evertime  he fluffs a kick

There's just no room for sentiment in football is there  :wink:

Everyone will forever have their favourites regardless of actually how good they are. I personally think Brez is a different class to Smith when on his day. Really we should consider Football as a form sport and your only as good as your last game. Sadly we all love a bit of history.

That's what makes us British. Sadly also conincides with us lacking in terms of world class sporting performers.

does this mean  Robbo could have played his last game for Swindon?

Yes.