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Has the game finished yet?

Character assassinated? I like every other right thinking person, thinks it's stupid to boo your own players, particularly even before they've come onto the field. I was saddened to hear some people with an IQ somewhere around room temperature booing Rory McAllister when he was warming up and came onto the field a few years ago. I cringed when people booed Lionel Djebi-Zadi against County, no-matter how bad a performance he put in. In saying that, that's not to say that people don't have the right to complain. Philip Roberts is a player who often comes on, as was the case in the cup game at Kilmarnock and watched, for the best part of an hour, the action going on around him. It was the same in December away to St Johnstone where he came on and simply looked like he couldn't be bothered. His performance that day made Claude Gnakpa look like Gregory Tade. As fans we have a right to criticise the attitude of a player, when it's glaringly obviously that they couldn't care less. Booing before he goes on the field though, is not the way to do it.

Now there are different ways of looking at this. I wholly agree that the **** in the Hat is a knobhead. I have been a supporter of Roberts as I feel that he has real potential. BUT he is being played completely out of his comfort zone of a centre forward. Shure it is a learning process but he simply does not have the ball control or awareness to play on the wing. TB's persistence in playing him can only be denting his confidence. I am also informed that he is not the most liked individual in the camp. But my main frustration is that I feel that i have recently detected a degree of lets say non-urgency and sorry a bit of a couldnt care less attitude. That could well be becos of the manner in which he is being treated by some fans but it is not acceptable. Many may never forgive him for the penalty miss even though he should not have been walking up to the spot in the first place. I now cannot help but think that there must be summat in his extended loan contract to stipulate match playing time.

Thought it was poor from the boy who booed Roberts, obviously felt he knew more about Roberts footballing ability than Arsène Wenger, Terry Butcher and me! three recognised expert in that field. Roberts is only 18 I think and I'm guessing from way south of the border, Inverness must have seemed like the other side of the world, How many of us would have settled quickly in London at 18 and been successful immediately. I know booing can be part of football, but surely not booing you're own without very good reason. It smacked to me of bullying on Saturday verbally attacking Roberts when he had no comeback. I was incensed by the action of that paying customer and immediately got to my feet to tell him to get up the other end with the away support and he did seem a bit taken aback at the reaction of me and other fans to his stupidity. But please when discussing this gentleman refrain from describing him as fat, overweight, chubby, obese, bit of a porker, lard a**, tubby, big boned, or bunteresqe as these terms could also be construed as verbal bullying. He was also a bit of a ginger (like me) glad no-one mentioned that., I could also do with loosing a few pounds. Any way onwards and upwards 2nd spot is fantastic this could be our best season ever. Get behind the team and lets get behind Roberts

Steve.

Aye, she must be a right Dingwall beaut to knock about with him....