Robinson glad to see St Mirren 'revive' League Cup campaign
The Buddies boss was far from happy that his Scottish Premiership side drew 0-0 with Arbroath on Saturday before losing the penalty shootout and bonus point.
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At fourth-tier Forfar, defender Jayden Richardson drove in his first goal for the club after nine minutes and Mikael Mandron doubled that lead after 75 minutes, with Kieran Inglis reducing the deficit with a fine strike.
Robinson told St Mirren's official X account: "It was a win. These games are a hiding to nothing. You come here, a real sticky pitch. Everyone expects you to win five and six.
"We started extremely well and then we got a bit casual with things, without Forfar really threatening apart from free-kicks we gave away needlessly.
"We need a few fresh faces to freshen things up as well. But as I've always said at this stage of the season, you're still searching for your best 11 people, you are still searching for form.
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"You're expected to come in and roll people over and Rangers and Celtic don't go to Livingston and Kilmarnock (artificial pitches) and roll them over.
"It's difficult to move the ball on these surfaces. It's difficult to get any kind of momentum.
"And we can be better, of course, we can be better in certain aspects and in our decision-making, especially.
"But we did what we needed to do to win, to sort of revive the campaign again, and we will go on and try and win the next two games and qualify."
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