Some of the current players should remember this.
Robbo is thought of as a legend, and whenever we talk about players now not giving their all etc. Robbo is always a name that is mentioned.
Robbo took YEARS to win over the Charlton crowd. He joined in 92, yet it wasn't until 96-97 that he started to get people onside, and it was only when he moved to the left and had Mark Bowen join behind him that he really started to push on.
Despite getting criticism, he got his head down and stuck at it.
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Same with Steve Brown, it was only in his later seasons he become popular.
when you think of the fact that we had a team with characters like ruuf, brownie, robbo, kins, stuart, powell and parker in it not so long ago and look at the bunch of nomarks we're lumbered with now it just makes you think how times have changed...
And all the goals that Kinny scores are blinding.
There are many things that i would like to say to you but i don't know how.
Cos maybe, we're going on up from Endsleigh
And after all, who the f**k's Millwall !
Copyright. Midweek coach to Huddersfield 2-2
Had about 500 up there and an excellent atmosphere. Freezing cold.
Is this the game when we scored a Charlton fan jumped the little wall and ran onto the pitch then promptly slipped in a mahoosive puddle and ended up in it!
Anyone else remember this?
Or is it a Donky - Bent replacement?
Indeed Robbo is the only player to make my personal best ever Addicks team...and my worst, albeit for different eras. Before 1996 Robbo was a lightweight, injury prone joke, Charlton put him on the transfer list, unsurprisingly there were no takers and as he was under contract he stayed, but I'm sure he'd have been released if his contract had ended in 1995/6. As it was he started that season on the bench, someone got injured, he came in, played a blinder and the rest was history.
The other point is that if it took Robbo 5 years, moving all the way from Brighton, to settle in maybe we should cut Diawara, Gibbs, Pouso et al just a little more slack.