Very disappointed with Robertson today

[PentyrchBlue]

Anyone else thinking the same?

The one player who we were relying on today to conjure up some opportunites and create some penetration and he left us wanting and some.

Knocked off the ball far too easily, robbed on far too many occasions and ended up.making some abysmal errors in the 2nd half which almost led to very good Stoke chances. It was obvious to all & sundry that he just wasn't up to it today. He was knackered with 30-40 mins to go & should have been subbed but Riza dropped another bollock & left him on.

I was just very disappointed with him today.

What was also very disappointing was such an attacking starting line up hardly causing the Stoke keeper to have to do much, especially 1st half. Dear oh dear.

[Armitage Shanks]

Very poor. He nearly gifted Stoke a goal

[RichardM]

Yes, I thought he was poor today. I assumed it would be him going off when Robinson went off.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

He's as weak as a kitten.

[Joe Gillis]

Everything he did was either sideways or backwards and he didn't even do that very well

[Hilts]

Anyone else thinking the same?

The one player who we were relying on today to conjure up some opportunites and create some penetration and he left us wanting and some.

Knocked off the ball far too easily, robbed on far too many occasions and ended up.making some abysmal errors in the 2nd half which almost led to very good Stoke chances. It was obvious to all & sundry that he just wasn't up to it today. He was knackered with 30-40 mins to go & should have been subbed but Riza dropped another bollock & left him on.

I was just very disappointed with him today.

What was also very disappointing was such an attacking starting line up hardly causing the Stoke keeper to have to do much, especially 1st half. Dear oh dear.

Is there any point in picking on individual players though. Collectively so poor and some really poor senior pros who we are probably stuck with. Colwill didn't start. Robertson next in line. It's deeper than that.

[RichardM]

Everything he did was either sideways or backwards and he even didn't do that well

Alves did a lot of that as well

[Joe Gillis]

Is there any point in picking on individual players though. Collectively so poor and some really poor senior pros who we are probably stuck with. Colwill didn't start. Robertson next in line. It's deeper than that.

TBH, you could probably raise 11 different threads on the starting line up today

[the other bob wilson]

Is there any point in picking on individual players though. Collectively so poor and some really poor senior pros who we are probably stuck with. Colwill didn't start. Robertson next in line. It's deeper than that.

I agree, I thought there were one or two who did fairly well today, but there wasn’t a single seven out of ten performance from a City player - they bottled it collectively against Luton and they did the same today in the next home game we played against a team down there in the relegation zone with us.

[Dave Blue]

As has been said you can virtually say the same for every individual. I thought Alves seemed to care the most and he’s on loan.That said, no one helps each other, no one makes a run, no one helps their colleague and barely anyone wins a 50/50. What the hell does the manager and staff do all week?

[NYCBlue]

Just Robertson? How can you single out a player from that performance?

[jeepster]

The balance of the team was so wrong not for the first time.

[Father Dougal]

As has been said you can virtually say the same for every individual. I thought Alves seemed to care the most and he’s on loan.That said, no one helps each other, no one makes a run, no one helps their colleague and barely anyone wins a 50/50. What the hell does the manager and staff do all week?

Talk about shapes?

[Joe Gillis]

https://youtu.be/XUwUp-D_VV0?si=GkktcmhU3vq3fUo7

[PentyrchBlue]

Just Robertson? How can you single out a player from that performance?

Granted there wasn't much you say about the whole team today but the way we set up starting, the only player you'd say who could create for us, was Robertson and he basically put in a dreadful performance and keeping him on was a piss poor decision from Riza.

[Cleve van Leef]

Overrated

[Cleve van Leef]

As has been said you can virtually say the same for every individual. I thought Alves seemed to care the most and he’s on loan.That said, no one helps each other, no one makes a run, no one helps their colleague and barely anyone wins a 50/50. What the hell does the manager and staff do all week?

So true.

[Hilts]

Overrated

We will see. Will probably be sold this summer along with Ashford Colwill and Salech.

I think they will all do OK away from us

[Bald Barry Bastad]

Agreed he was rubbish today. Slow, off the pace. A disgrace if a performance.

[Don Corleone]

The Pompey fans raved about him last season. Makes you wonder what we’ve done to him!

Good point made by DaveBlue above that we don’t seem to be team that plays for each other. Having a lack of strong characters in the team doesn’t help either

[Hilts]

We signed experienced players like Chambers , El Ghazi and Willock. They have all been utterly hopeless.

Bad choices for buys at CB. Blowing money on a striker who will probably never play for us just like the Japanese CB.

But worse the yet again crazy and cheap internal managerial appointment. Bye bye Championship. Could be a long time away.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

The Pompey fans raved about him last season. Makes you wonder what we’ve done to him!

That was in League 1.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

The Pompey fans raved about him last season. Makes you wonder what we’ve done to him!

Good point made by DaveBlue above that we don’t seem to be team that plays for each other. Having a lack of strong characters in the team doesn’t help either

The players don't fit with each other. We've signed players that don't play well together. Take Willock, he is the exact opposite of what we needed. We've already got lots of players that want to get lots of touches, we don't need wingers who do it, especially when he was supposed to replace Grant. Horvath was supposed to be able to play out from the back, he can't. Bulut wanted midfielders that worked hard, ran around etc, we signed Turnbull. Simic cost £2m, he's not supposed to play this season?! Daland, Fish and Chambers have been disasters at the back, they're just not good enough. Chambers is poor in midfield, he can't play, he doesn't look up, can't turn. AEG is a complete joke of a signing, Robertson would be alright in a better side, Salech has obviously been a huge success.

We've signed some truly honking players, especially in defence but we've got too many similar footballers. Our recruitment has been a complete and utter shambles. We need players that complement each other, and we don't.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

The players don't fit with each other. We've signed players that don't play well together. Take Willock, he is the exact opposite of what we needed. We've already got lots of players that want to get lots of touches, we don't need wingers who do it, especially when he was supposed to replace Grant. Horvath was supposed to be able to play out from the back, he can't. Bulut wanted midfielders that worked hard, ran around etc, we signed Turnbull. Simic cost £2m, he's not supposed to play this season?! Daland, Fish and Chambers have been disasters at the back, they're just not good enough. Chambers is poor in midfield, he can't play, he doesn't look up, can't turn. AEG is a complete joke of a signing, Robertson would be alright in a better side, Salech has obviously been a huge success.

We've signed some truly honking players, especially in defence but we've got too many similar footballers. Our recruitment has been a complete and utter shambles. We need players that complement each other, and we don't.

Apparently we've got a squad that should be top half of the table.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

Apparently we've got a squad that should be top half of the table.

And I've got some magic beans for sale