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  4. Robins pleased with 'really good shift'

    New Stoke City boss Mark Robins said he was pleased with the effort his side produced despite being held to a 0-0 draw by Championship bottom club Plymouth on Saturday.

    The Potters dominated possession against managerless Argyle- with 65% of the ball- but out of 18 shots on goal, only hit the target three times.

    "There's a lot that we can work on clearly but when you're coming into a third game in a week, whoever you're playing against, it is really difficult," Robins told BBC Radio Stoke.

    The draw stretched the Potters' unbeaten run to three games following victory over Sunderland and a hard-fought draw at high-flying Burnley in Ryan Shawcross' short tenure as interim boss, and Robins is keen to focus on the positives.

    "They've tried to execute everything we've asked them to do so, for the first game, it was a reasonable point in the end," he added.

    "There were some really decent performances in there for a start.

    "I'd like us to move the ball quicker, but for a starting position - off the back of the physical demands of the week- it was a really good shift, so I have no complaints."

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  9. 'A roll of the dice - but Robins suits Stoke'

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    Stoke City boss Mark Robins during his first game in charge against PlymouthRex Features

    Stoke City fan George Weaver, also known as Potterlytics, has been speaking to Lucas Yeomans on the BBC's A Cold Wet Tuesday Night podcast about the appointment of Mark Robins and his first game in charge.

    The Potters drew 0-0 with bottom side Plymouth on Saturday, three days after Robins joined on New Year's Day.

    Potterlytics said: "In a vacuum, the Mark Robins appointment in terms of who is available, I'm pretty excited by it. The work he did at Coventry was incredible.

    "I don't think Mark Robins was part of any long-term plans at Stoke prior to the issues with Narcis Pelach and how poorly that went.

    "I feel Robins has come in to implement some of his own long-term plans and that's fine, but it's more of a return to rolling the dice.

    "On the positive side, this is a dice roll that's more likely to work out. I think he suits the club, I think he suits what we're looking for at this point in time but it's still a dice roll.

    "There's no way this is what Stoke were looking to do when they brought in Pelach, when they brought in Jon Walters, when they brought in [Steven] Schumacher in the first place.

    "Robins is a pretty decent fit and probably more likely to come off than some of the previous ones."

    On the performance against Plymouth, Potterlytics added: "The big takeaway was that the vast majority of that starting XI were absolutely knackered after 45 to 50 minutes.

    "The way they worked in the Burnley and Sunderland games, that was inevitable. He [Robins] said afterwards we've not got a great depth of squad to work with at the minute.

    "So it very much makes sense that it was a bit of a tired performance. But I don't think there is too much we can take out of it in terms of what Robins is going to be like in the long-term."

    Listen to A Cold Wet Tuesday Night podcast on BBC Sounds.

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  17. Mark Robins directs operations at the Bet 365 Stadium for the first time as Stoke City boss against Plymouth Argyle

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  20. New Stoke City boss Mark Robins was taking charge of his first game following the Christmas sacking of Narcis Pelach

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