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Albion ace Jake puts on brave face
By Brian Owen
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Jake Robinson fires in a shot against Southend (photo Simon Dack)
Jake Robinson has urged Albion to finish the season with a spring in their step, even though the play-off dream is dying.
The Seagulls substitute in recent matches came as close as could be expected in the circumstances to admitting the top six was out of reach as he reflected on a 2-0 defeat at Southend.
At the same time, though, he is determined the season will remembered as one of progress and that Dean Wilkins' squad will continue to improve next term.
Robinson helped liven things up as a half-time replacement at Southend on Tuesday, just as he did to a lesser extent in the home defeat by Port Vale.
Those defeats, though, look to have put the top six out of reach.
Robinson said: "However cliched it sounds, as long as it's mathematically possible there is still hope for us.
advertisement"I'm sure if we win our last four games we will be in with a shout.
"It's probably too late now but we still want to get as high a position as possible and finish on a high.
"That would leave us in good stead for next season as well. If you reflect on where we were this time last year, and how much the team has come on, overall it has been a positive season.
"It's probably quite easy to forget that after a couple of defeats that have left everybody really disappointed at slipping down the league table this late.
"It has been a good season. Lots of players have improved, we've improved as a team and we've made some great signings which has helped.
"I think we look in really good shape to kick on next season.
"We will all go away and have a good rest and then it will be the first chance we have had as a squad to do pre-season together and really knuckle down and get a squad effort going."
Having negotiated their so-called Mad March, Albion's play-off bid has gone off the rails in the first week of April.
Much was made of the tough nine-game schedule they faced last month so could there have been a sub-conscious easing off having got that hectic schedule out of the way?
Robinson does not think so but he does admit the last two games of March, at Nottingham Forest and Leeds, were emotional highs.
He said: "I don't think anyone has consciously eased off thinking job done'.
"It might have been a slight case of after the Lord Mayor's Show with Forest and Leeds in a a week.
"We had a real high, getting two good results there.
"Then coming to Port Vale perhaps a bit of complacency slipped in. We let ourselves down massively then.
"We didn't bounce back like we should have done at Southend but we will be looking to do that on Saturday.
"But it's a bit too late now, unfortunately."
Robinson will hope to play some part at Luton having helped liven things up in the last two games.
His introduction at Roots Hall helped Albion look more creative, with Dean Cox getting the ball in wider areas, but they ended up with precious little to show for it as the better team won.
Robinson said: "The gaffer told the players to get the ball to me and Coxy wide as much as we could and get the ball into the box.
"I just tried to get on the ball as much as I could, win headers, tackles, just to try and get a spark going, liven things up.
"Then, whenever I got the ball, look for team mates or try and run with it "The more it went on I thought we might nick one, which would probably have been fair for our efforts in the second half.
"We had chances, a few maybe dodgy offside decisions.
"To be fair, though, we played for most of the game we didn't really deserve anything out of it. Justice was done really."
Albion ace Jake puts on brave face
By Brian Owen
Comment | Read Comments (1)
Jake Robinson fires in a shot against Southend (photo Simon Dack)
Jake Robinson has urged Albion to finish the season with a spring in their step, even though the play-off dream is dying.
The Seagulls substitute in recent matches came as close as could be expected in the circumstances to admitting the top six was out of reach as he reflected on a 2-0 defeat at Southend.
At the same time, though, he is determined the season will remembered as one of progress and that Dean Wilkins' squad will continue to improve next term.
Robinson helped liven things up as a half-time replacement at Southend on Tuesday, just as he did to a lesser extent in the home defeat by Port Vale.
Those defeats, though, look to have put the top six out of reach.
Robinson said: "However cliched it sounds, as long as it's mathematically possible there is still hope for us.
advertisement"I'm sure if we win our last four games we will be in with a shout.
"It's probably too late now but we still want to get as high a position as possible and finish on a high.
"That would leave us in good stead for next season as well. If you reflect on where we were this time last year, and how much the team has come on, overall it has been a positive season.
"It's probably quite easy to forget that after a couple of defeats that have left everybody really disappointed at slipping down the league table this late.
"It has been a good season. Lots of players have improved, we've improved as a team and we've made some great signings which has helped.
"I think we look in really good shape to kick on next season.
"We will all go away and have a good rest and then it will be the first chance we have had as a squad to do pre-season together and really knuckle down and get a squad effort going."
Having negotiated their so-called Mad March, Albion's play-off bid has gone off the rails in the first week of April.
Much was made of the tough nine-game schedule they faced last month so could there have been a sub-conscious easing off having got that hectic schedule out of the way?
Robinson does not think so but he does admit the last two games of March, at Nottingham Forest and Leeds, were emotional highs.
He said: "I don't think anyone has consciously eased off thinking job done'.
"It might have been a slight case of after the Lord Mayor's Show with Forest and Leeds in a a week.
"We had a real high, getting two good results there.
"Then coming to Port Vale perhaps a bit of complacency slipped in. We let ourselves down massively then.
"We didn't bounce back like we should have done at Southend but we will be looking to do that on Saturday.
"But it's a bit too late now, unfortunately."
Robinson will hope to play some part at Luton having helped liven things up in the last two games.
His introduction at Roots Hall helped Albion look more creative, with Dean Cox getting the ball in wider areas, but they ended up with precious little to show for it as the better team won.
Robinson said: "The gaffer told the players to get the ball to me and Coxy wide as much as we could and get the ball into the box.
"I just tried to get on the ball as much as I could, win headers, tackles, just to try and get a spark going, liven things up.
"Then, whenever I got the ball, look for team mates or try and run with it "The more it went on I thought we might nick one, which would probably have been fair for our efforts in the second half.
"We had chances, a few maybe dodgy offside decisions.
"To be fair, though, we played for most of the game we didn't really deserve anything out of it. Justice was done really."
