Robins disgruntled as apathy suppresses Barnsley's displays

The former Manchester United striker says the next two games will be the last in a Barnsley shirt for some unless they produce improved performances.

After reaching ninth position in the Championship in mid-March, the Tykes have collected only four points from the last 32 and have sunk to 17th in the table.

Robins feels apathy set in after the club achieved their main goal of survival and was moved to label last weekend's performance against Swansea City as 'garbage'.

Speaking ahead of the final games against Queens Park Rangers and West Bromwich Albion, Robins said: "What matters now is the players don't let these last two games be their last for the club.

" This is a good football club and they certainly should want to be in our camp when we come to pre-season training.

"In my career, I won a lot of trophies and a lot of promotions, and in management I want to surpass what I did as a player," he added.

"The players have got to realise that just surviving in this league is not what I want. It's not what the owner wants and I am sure it's not what the supporters want because they are paying good money to watch the team on the pitch."

Brazilian midfielder Anderson De Silva was not involved in last weekend's fixture and is one of seven players at Oakwell whose contracts are due to expire this summer.

Strikers Daniel Bogdanovic and Jon Macken, midfielders Hugo Colace and Mounir El Haimour, and defenders Darren Moore and Rob Kozluk are the others.

Defenders Ryan Shotton and Carl Dickinson, meanwhile, are on loan from Stoke City and midfielder Filipe Teixeira is on loan from West Bromwich Albion.

"We are safe and, yes, I am relieved because of the way we have performed over the last couple of weeks but there is a lot of work to be done in the summer," said Robins, who took over in September when the club were bottom of the table.

"We were playing catch-up, there was a lot of ground to be made up and, in fairness, we have done that pretty quickly and with a lot of hard work.

"It's a massive achievement, no doubt about that, but that can't be it.

"Everyone has got to push themselves harder and harder to actually achieve something tangible."