Southampton 'can't cope' with MK Dons claims Karl Robinson (From Daily Echo)
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Southampton 'can't cope' with MK Dons claims Karl Robinson
10:11am Saturday 20th March 2010 in
KARL Robinson doesn’t think Saints can cope with MK Dons in full flow – even though Alan Pardew’s men have already beaten them three times this season.
The Dons assistant believes they are better than any side in League One on their day and has told his players not to be over-awed this afternoon.
Saints have swept Milton Keynes comfortably aside on all three occasions this season – twice in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy and once in the league.
The outspoken Robinson admitted that had “hurt” him. But he has promised his team will be better than that today and will take Saints on “like men”.
“It should be one that the fans come to and enjoy, and we shouldn’t get overawed by Southampton, but it hurts me that we have lost to them three times,”
he said. “We need to come out of the traps fighting and really stand up and be counted, and I’m sure we will do.
“If you are going to be successful at any level you’ve got to go and win these games. These are the sort of big games footballers should thrive on.
“There is not a team in this league who can cope with us when we are playing our football.
“Teams come here and play a different way and we need to make sure we’re ready to take them on like men.”
Robinson added they would not be welcoming former player Jason Puncheon back to stadium: mk either – because he is too good.
“We won’t welcome him back because he is a good player,” he continued.
“We will need to set up correctly and do our jobs right, but we can’t concentrate on him – they have also got Adam Lallana, Lee Barnard, Rickie Lambert and other superb players.”
The Dons are expected to field the same side that drew 3-3 at Brentford on Saturday.
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OSPREYSAINT
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10:23am Sat 20 Mar 10
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10:25am Sat 20 Mar 10
Saint Andrew Scotland
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10:45am Sat 20 Mar 10
COYR's 1-3
Southampton boy
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10:48am Sat 20 Mar 10
franiow
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10:55am Sat 20 Mar 10
saint t.boy
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11:04am Sat 20 Mar 10
COYS
happysaint
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12:09pm Sat 20 Mar 10
mack chinnon
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puppy saint
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12:35pm Sat 20 Mar 10
happysaint
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4:59pm Sat 20 Mar 10
puppy saint wrote:mick hucknall
look like a Wotsit, look like a Wotsit! You f%£ing look like a Wotsit!
On the N332
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6:26pm Sat 20 Mar 10
Footso
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6:41pm Sat 20 Mar 10
Harleysaint
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7:14pm Sat 20 Mar 10
Footso wrote:He will so be out of there so soon!
Play like men eh, Mr Robinson? Did I miss something, or did we "do the quadruple" to your "men" this season?
Why is a wanabee Hippy running a football club ayway?
sw: drug-that
Says it all!
pyan
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7:37am Sun 21 Mar 10
Perhaps he should join the Met Office, with predictive skills like that...
SaintL-Y
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7:33am Mon 22 Mar 10
SaintL-Y
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7:34am Mon 22 Mar 10
Optimism rules OK
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8:19am Mon 22 Mar 10
St Retford
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11:11am Mon 22 Mar 10
SaintL-Y wrote:Heh. That's one of my favourite things I've read on here in ages. Well played that lino.
Had the misfortune to watch the game on Saturday - from the MK end :( Karl Robinson is a kn*b. he stood in front of me at kick off and instructed three of his bench players to go and 'warm up' surrounding the female lino - then called one of them back and instructed him to get all three of them to call Saints offside right in her ear. Then after five minutes of harrassing her (sorry - 'warming up') they all came and sat down in front of me and giggled with the rest of the bench about how they'd all put her off! W**kers! She then gave a clear MK throw-in to Saints! KR nearly bust a blood vessel! Hugely entertaining!
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