Robinson determined to earn more than plaudits
FRUSTRATED Stephen Robinson has insisted St Mirren deserved more than compliments and taking confidence from their loss to Rangers.
The Buddies manager admitted he’s grown fed up of narrow defeats to Celtic and Rangers as he claimed his side created enough chances to beat Rangers – never mind take snatch a draw.
Philippe Clement was complimentary of the display from the hosts in Paisley, as too has Brendan Rodgers been previously this season, but Robinson is desperate for St Mirren to take points rather than plaudits in their quest for European football.
“Ultimately, I’ve had a lot of ‘welldones’ this season from top-class managers,” said Robinson.
“Philippe was very complimentary about how good we are, the style of play we have, and Brendan was the same a couple of weeks ago, but ultimately we’ve come out with no points from both games.
“We created enough chances today to win the game, never mind draw it. Their keeper made some terrific saves. The two goals are very much avoidable, two poor goals to concede.
“The goals were frustrating ones to lose. We have to be better than that and we demand better than that. All the ‘well dones’ in the world don’t get you points unfortunately.
“Every game that we’ve played, we’ve caused them problems. We’ve had a lot of compliments without taking points.
“We’ve taken points off Aberdeen, Hibs, the other big, big teams in the league, where we’ve been clinical with chances. We weren’t clinical today and we had enough chances.
“We don’t accept that. Previously at the football club we’d have said we were unlucky. We weren’t unlucky, we should have defended better. If we want to be a sustainable top-six club, which I believe we have the quality to be, we have to be better than that.
“We have to take our chances and I’ll demand that. The boys know I’ll demand that. It’s not, ‘Oh we got beat by Rangers and that’s okay’. We want more. I demand more and I believe we will get more with the quality that we have.
“Communication, opening up our bodies a little bit, things we have to work on and improve. Ultimately it’s my job to do that.
“We’ve had so many plaudits for performances, but we have to turn them into results. It’s a completely different game against Dundee but take out those small indecisions and we’ll certainly pick up a lot of points.”