Stephen Robinson knows exactly just how big an asset centre back Charles Dunne is.The new St Mirren boss built his steely Motherwell defence around him and Cedric Kipre, now impressing at Championship side West Bromwich Albion.The talented pair helped steer the Steelmen to the Scottish Cup and League Cup finals in the 2017/18 season, keeping clean sheets against Aberdeen and Rangers in the respective semi-finals of each competition.Now Robinson finds himself reunited with Dunne in Paisley having taken over the managerial reins on Tuesday morning.And thanks to a successful appeal against a red card Dunne picked up in last weekend’s 1-1 draw with Livingston, Robinson is now able to call on the 29-year-old once again when he leads the Buddies for the first time this afternoon against Hearts at the SMISA Stadium.Robinson told Renfrewshire Live Sport: “I would like to take the credit for the appeal but it was absolutely nothing to do with me.“Vicki (Gilzean) put it all together.
But I don’t think it was too hard a decision.“It’s nice that people actually admit when they make a mistake, which (referee) Willie (Collum) obviously did, and it was downgraded to a yellow card.“Which is great because Charles has been a big, big part of the success so far.“To lose him for two games over that would have been a joke so I’m glad we got that sorted.“Both on and off the pitch, Charles is such a character.
He really runs the dressing room and keeps everybody motivated.“His pace is electric so it allows you to press teams higher up the pitch knowing he has that recovery pace.”Robinson has already had to cope without Dunne for over a year during his final 16 months in charge at Fir Park.The powerful defender missed the vast majority of the
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