Sir Bobby Robson (1933–2009)

[Menace]

RIP to a fantastic man. I still think about him.

[MagPar]

Me too, he and Bert Paton are my all time favourite managers. 

[BGRM]

Just a heads up; "Bobby Robson: more than a manager" is on Sky documentaries tonight at 8 o'clock. You've probably all seen it like.

[Keggy_Keagal]

1 minute ago, BGRM said:

Just a heads up; "Bobby Robson: more than a manager" is on Sky documentaries tonight at 8 o'clock. You've probably all seen it like.

 

It's fantastic , almost as good as 

 

[BGRM]

1 minute ago, Keggy_Keagal said:

 

It's fantastic , almost as good as 

 

Yeah that's class as well. Might watch this again cheers.

[Hudson]

On 31/07/2025 at 16:38, Menace said:

RIP to a fantastic man. I still think about him.

Many Moons ago, I was in Waterstones in Town and Bobby was there signing his book.
I was too shy to talk to him, but he got of his seat and came over to me and we chatted for about 10 minutes. All we spoke about was me and what I was doing, he gave me words of encouragement said good bye and sat back down.

What an amazing human he was, The world needs more people of his kind.

[Keggy_Keagal]

Just now, BGRM said:

Yeah that's class as well. Might watch this again cheers.

 

There's a few good ones on there someone called Whey Aye has a few up . 

 

 

[BGRM]

2 minutes ago, Keggy_Keagal said:

 

There's a few good ones on there someone called Whey Aye has a few up . 

 

 

Thanks again 

[Keggy_Keagal]

I love Sir Bobby, always get a bit emotional watching him. Reminds me very much of me grandfather, same sort of generation as well . 

[BGRM]

5 minutes ago, Keggy_Keagal said:

I love Sir Bobby, always get a bit emotional watching him. Reminds me very much of me grandfather, same sort of generation as well . 

Yeah, he was an absolute gentleman. With the exception of Eddie Howe, football needs more of his kind in the game.

[Ed Vinegar]

16 minutes ago, Keggy_Keagal said:

I love Sir Bobby, always get a bit emotional watching him. Reminds me very much of me grandfather, same sort of generation as well . 

Me too, they died in the same year as well. I always well up watching or reading about Sir Bobby.

[Wolfcastle]

He felt kinda grandfatherly to a lot of us when he was here, something so familiar and north-easterly about him made him so relatable and likeable.  Also with an element of absolutely loving his football (in an old school romantic sense) mixed in. Could listen to him and others like that (David Pleat, Graham Taylor) talk about it forever.

 

 

Edited August 14, 2025 by Wolfcastle

[Colos Short and Curlies]

Looking at a last minute trip over towards Barcelona with a trip to the museum tagged on.

 

Have taken it as the perfect time to introduce my 7 and 6 year olds to the great man

[54]

 

[RUHRLYASLEEVESUP]

Bobby Robson more than a manager on Sky Documentaries at moment

 

[Sandrotastico]

On 21/08/2025 at 18:51, 54 said:

 

I attended his course  Old fucker!

[James]

I going to put this out there.

 

As great as Bobby Robson was as a man and a manager,  he could not recognise a good Premier League full back if it smacked him in the face.

 

he never signed a good right back instead playing Barton (too old), Griffin (championship level) or Hughes (not a right back). His final solution, Stephen Carr, says it all.

 

once he lost Domi, he signed a string of duds like Wayne Quinn. Robbie Elliot was a happy circumstance but he was bottom half PL level at best and Bernard went that great either but the other full backs were o bad it made him look good.

 

basically if Robson could have recognised a good full back and had £10m to spend on them we’d have won the league.

[Colos Short and Curlies]

Stephen Carr wasn’t his pick.

[Virtua Stiva]

Bernard did fine until Robert short circuited his brain 

[Fak]

Griffin wasn't championship level at all and Hughes was a very good right back for us. 

 

Carr - as shit as he was for us - was in the PFA Team of the Year twice in 3 seasons before he signed for us so it's not as if we were signing a known dud (at the time). 

 

 

 

Edited October 11, 2025 by Fak

[James]

Hughes was as good a right back as Dummett was a left back. I didn’t dislike Dummett by the way.

 

that Robson got these below-par players performing was testament on his management but he could have done so much more with a pair of full backs of a quality more in line with the rest of the squad.

 

imagine this current NUFC squad but with Krafth, Ashby, Dummett and Lewis as the full backs. That was what is was like under Robson

[James]

48 minutes ago, Colos Short and Curlies said:

Stephen Carr wasn’t his pick.

that might be a fair point, actually Shepherd had full backs at the bottom of his priority lists and he was the problem on this matter, not Robson.

nevertheless the lack of decent full backs put a ceiling on what that team could achieve.

[James]

I could easily say imagine that team with Tino RB and Hall LB.

 

but I’m not going to do that.

 

instead I will say imagine that team with Beye and Enrique.

 

i rest my case.

[Optimistic Nut]

8 minutes ago, James said:

Hughes was as good a right back as Dummett was a left back. I didn’t dislike Dummett by the way.

 

that Robson got these below-par players performing was testament on his management but he could have done so much more with a pair of full backs of a quality more in line with the rest of the squad.

 

imagine this current NUFC squad but with Krafth, Ashby, Dummett and Lewis as the full backs. That was what is was like under Robson

 

Dummett doesn't belong in the same category as Hughes. What a pile of guff, man. Dummett was more 2001-6 Robbie Elliott, but not fit to lace 93-97 Robbie Elliott's boots, either. 

 

 

Edited October 11, 2025 by Optimistic Nut

[Fak]

Absolutely mental to put Hughes in the same bracket as Dummett. An outright insult infact. 

 

I don't know why James is behaving like this. 

 

 

Edited October 11, 2025 by Fak