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Roberts completes Chesterfield move
           
           


  GARY Roberts has completed his move to Chesterfield after he was released by Swindon Town yesterday.

           

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"I don't think there's anybody outside the Premiership who's better on the left wing."

Really?

I've never heard of Gary Roberts. Is the other one you've got with two really common names Andy Williams? Always sign players with distinctive names, would be my rule as a chairman. Joey Beauchamp; now there's a left winger with a strong name who was once the best outside the top league.

Beauchamp means 'beautiful fields' and a Joey is a baby kangaroo.

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Good luck to Roberts. Could have stayed here, where he obviously wasn't wanted by the manager and grabbed more cash - But he didn't. Wish him good luck at Chesterfield.

indeed. Better player than people give him credit for. Didn't really work out here though

I realise it's de rigeur to slag off players that leave

but Roberts going in the circumstances we're in is fucking ace

Didn't even need to pay him off? Result!

Fuck him.

Wait until they see his goals against Tranmere. They'll think Neymar has just signed. That happened once my Spireite chums. Good luck to him, but out of our departures, this is the least harmful.

Bit like Dossevi. Brilliant in one per season friendly, then pure shite from then on

Ridiculous statement.

Dossevi was class.

hey,less of the "common"-there's only 4 Andy Williams!

My abiding memory of Gary, sadly, will be his rabbit-staring-into-the-headlights performance at Orient.  It was the most inept display I'd seen from a winger in years.  I think I could have dispossessed him that day.

He wasn't as bad as some were making out. Just, well, disappointing.  He often worked great positions only fuck it up with a shit cross.  Or even a good cross which arguably wasn't good because it was pointless sending it in to no one despite the fact it had a great shape and speed to it.

I'm glad he's dropped a league as I'm sure he's going to have a fantastic season and everything he does will suddenly start coming off. 

The abiding memory I have of him was at home (can't remember who it was against, Portsmouth I think). He came on as a sub for Ritchie (so playing on the Right), and about 4/5 times in the space of ten minutes he got the ball, pushed on, beat the defender, got into the right position for a cross, with 5/6 bodies waiting for it, then, inexplicably, doubled back on himself towards, dribbled across the face of the box from the right wing all the way to the left, where he promptly lost the ball or made a poor pass.

I still can't understand what he was doing. Either cut inside and shoot, or stick the cross in. That's your job as a winger. Not to inexplicably dribble across the edge of the box to the other wing like a headless chicken and then lose the ball.

Fans did get on his back way too much, and stuff that he did wrong would be exaggerated by the moans from the stands that wouldn't have happened if Ritchie or Ferry had made the same mistake. But I wouldn't go as far to say he was a good player for us, because he wasn't. His head never really got in the right place to do what he's obviously capable of. After the Crawley away game (first one after Ritchie had gone), I saw glimpses of him doing the right thing and was excited that he might finally come good. Nope.

He's a great example of why wages should be linked to performance. He's got skill, it just never showed. Sods law he'll go and be both top scorer and have top assists in L2 now.

Prenton Park saw the real Gary Roberts, brilliant night

Wasnt just that one game, that was his standard approach IF he kept the ball after sometimes trying to get past a defender.
Always cut back when crossing was a better option
PO semi away the rare occasion he didnt and he made a difference there

so much so he ended up playing for brentford and setting up there goal ;)

To be fair he fucking ran his socks off at Brentford

Wouldn't be the first time a good player struggled to adapt to a different system.

Footballers aren't known for being particularly bright and adapting to different instructions than they are used to may simply be beyond some.