Philip Roberts

**tetsujin1979** · 22/09/2012, 4:33 PM

U19 striker with Arsenal, on loan at Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
Made his senior debut today, coming off the bench on 71 minutes

**tetsujin1979** · 30/09/2012, 6:10 PM

First goal yesterday for Roberts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWmIj-D5mHA
Lovely finish on the 4 minute mark
Two goals for Richie Foran in the first half highlights as well

**Charlie Darwin** · 30/09/2012, 6:46 PM

Nice finish. He set up Foran's goals too.

**AlaskaFox** · 30/09/2012, 9:03 PM

His hair is fantastic.

**Charlie Darwin** · 30/09/2012, 10:04 PM

It deserves a squad number of its own.

**Ol� Ol�** · 30/09/2012, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by AlaskaFox

His hair is fantastic.

Immediately reminded of Namond Brice's wild ponytail in The Wire.

**tetsujin1979** · 30/09/2012, 11:21 PM

I was thinking of Jason Lee myself
he's got a pineapple, on his head, etc

**tricky_colour** · 01/10/2012, 4:45 AM

With hair like that you are either going to be very good or very bad, I don't think there is a halfway house in such matters.
From what I have seem of him my money is on very good, 4 goals from 5 game for the u17's adds weight to that.
He is wrongly listed as Scottish here
http://www.soccerbase.com/players/pl...layer_id=67581

**gastric** · 04/10/2012, 7:07 AM

Good article about Roberts and Foran gets a positive mention too!

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/f...amland-1352807

**liamoo11** · 24/11/2012, 6:08 PM

set up the goal v celtic away today for the win . What a great decision for an 18 yo to make to move to scotland on loan instead of staying messing about at arsenal. I dont think he would be getting any opportunities with arsenals 21s and would prob only be a sub on there under 19 nextgen team. Not sure what that says but I wish other irish young players at big clubs would push to go out on loan at unfashionable clubs and play senior instead of been happy to be at a big club and get called up to train with the first team every now and then. Still under 19 for us this season

**nigel-harps1954** · 25/11/2012, 4:07 PM

Originally Posted by liamoo11

set up the goal v celtic away today for the win . What a great decision for an 18 yo to make to move to scotland on loan instead of staying messing about at arsenal. I dont think he would be getting any opportunities with arsenals 21s and would prob only be a sub on there under 19 nextgen team. Not sure what that says but I wish other irish young players at big clubs would push to go out on loan at unfashionable clubs and play senior instead of been happy to be at a big club and get called up to train with the first team every now and then. Still under 19 for us this season

Exactly. I've been saying it for a long time, they're wasting themselves in the youth teams there when they could be out on loan at lower league level, or even across here in the League of Ireland. Any chance of experience at first team level helps a younger player come on a lot.

**samhaydenjr** · 25/08/2013, 1:09 AM

Bagged a hat-trick for Falkirk away to Livingston to go with his opening day strike and now tops the Scottish Championship goalscoring charts - still only 19, so if he keeps this up for the season could well worth looking at for the future. Anybody know of any reason why he isn't in any of the underage squads?

**liamoo11** · 25/08/2013, 4:56 PM

Originally Posted by samhaydenjr

Bagged a hat-trick for Falkirk away to Livingston to go with his opening day strike and now tops the Scottish Championship goalscoring charts - still only 19, so if he keeps this up for the season could well worth looking at for the future. Anybody know of any reason why he isn't in any of the underage squads?

Mr Doolin