Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Robert scored the best goal in premier league history. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallsendmag Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 3 minutes ago, KennyUtd said: He was but that first season Ginola was absolutely unplayable. Tortured defenders. I remember Boro at home and Neil Cox couldn't touch him. He even turned to the fans in the Gallowgate corner and just shrugged as if to say "what am I supposed to do" 😆 First player to get me out of my seat regularly during a game. He was great but he often looked better than what he was producing. That season you mentioned him being unplayable I think he ended with 5 goals and 8 assists. His next season was 2 goals and 7 assists. Robert by contrast had 12 goals and 16 assists in 03/04 alone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 (edited) 13 hours ago, Wallsendmag said: He was great but he often looked better than what he was producing. That season you mentioned him being unplayable I think he ended with 5 goals and 8 assists. His next season was 2 goals and 7 assists. Robert by contrast had 12 goals and 16 assists in 03/04 alone. Ginola barely had a good game after being kicked aal owa Highbury in the LC QF. There was one kick that Dixon gave him that we could hear in the away end (it was Highbury). He was never the same after that point. edit: apologies WM just realised you made this point the page before Edited February 9 by TheBrownBottle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 13 hours ago, Wallsendmag said: Beardsley Shearer Robert This is the correct order Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newcastle Fan Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 17 hours ago, Alberto2005 said: Love that. Look at the amount of set piece goals in that video, we must've had a fabulous set piece coach back then Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 59 minutes ago, Newcastle Fan said: Love that. Look at the amount of set piece goals in that video, we must've had a fabulous set piece coach back then Just someone who could actually take them Shearer and Solano were handy too. We’ve no-one who can take them atm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikri Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 3 hours ago, Newcastle Fan said: Love that. Look at the amount of set piece goals in that video, we must've had a fabulous set piece coach back then It was such a brilliant period. If we got a free kick anywhere within 30-40 yards of goal we had 3 set-piece takers who were massive threats. Robert on the left, Shearer central and Nobby on the right. Must have been terrifying for defenders. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 5 minutes ago, ikri said: It was such a brilliant period. If we got a free kick anywhere within 30-40 yards of goal we had 3 set-piece takers who were massive threats. Robert on the left, Shearer central and Nobby on the right. Must have been terrifying for defenders. Then you had Speed, Dabizas & O'Brien in the box for wide set-pieces. Was brilliant. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 (edited) 20 hours ago, Wallsendmag said: He was great but he often looked better than what he was producing. That season you mentioned him being unplayable I think he ended with 5 goals and 8 assists. His next season was 2 goals and 7 assists. Robert by contrast had 12 goals and 16 assists in 03/04 alone. I think I've mentioned this before but I think Ginola is the best ever example (at least at Newcastle) of stats not telling the full story. Best example I can think of to try and prove it is that Longstaff, in a season when everyone agreed he was poor (23/24) scored more than Ginola did in his entire Newcastle career. In spite of that, Ginola was imo one of the main reasons we went from European contenders to title contenders in that 6 month period where he was unplayable and played at a level I'd never seen from a Newcastle player before. Teams played differently against us because of him and the threat he posed with his goal threat, but mainly his assists with both feet. Totally understand people having Robert ahead of him like, his stats are great and he was also a great player for us, I would just say that with Ginola the devil was in the details. Edited February 9 by Kid Icarus Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucasol Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Finally had time to watch the video. Reminiscing as that time was probably the most I went, home and away, Euro trips, so many happy memories flooding back. But what a fucking player. Some games he’d get 3, 4 goals/assists, he’d have been a Fantasy Football wrecking machine. Undoubtedly my favourite NUFC wide player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Robert is the cleanest striker of a ball I’ve ever seen in B&W Re Ginola - he’s probably the finest passer of a ball I’ve seen. He was genuinely two-footed, and would just stroke the ball and it would be pinged to feet from any distance. When Cruyff talked about being able to shut his eyes and know if a player was top class by the sound the ball made when a player struck it, he could’ve been talking about Ginola. He also always seemed to have time on the ball - always the sign of a top player - Bruno is the player we have today who has that characteristic; never hurried, never hassled. The proviso re Ginola is that English football has never been weaker than when he was playing for us - I was there when he turned Cox inside-out, but if Neil Cox was playing today there’s zero chance it would be for a PL club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
McEwan Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Can't believe nobody posted in his thread for 14 years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 I’ve said this a dozen times before but Robert was perhaps the biggest difference maker in tight games I’ve ever seen in the shirt. Time and time again he’d just produce. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fak Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 On 09/02/2026 at 06:40, Newcastle Fan said: Love that. Look at the amount of set piece goals in that video, we must've had a fabulous set piece coach back then John Carver Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colos Short and Curlies Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Going back to Ginola, one of the reasons we were difficult to defend against was that we had 2 very different wingers in him and Gillespie. One direct and pacy, one who had more tricks than Paul Daniel’s. you couldn’t sit back or step up Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 (edited) On 09/02/2026 at 06:40, Newcastle Fan said: Love that. Look at the amount of set piece goals in that video, we must've had a fabulous set piece coach back then He used to get stick because he'd hit the first man a fair bit from corners, but the way he'd hit them meant a percentage would always do that. When he hit the sweet spot though they were impossible to defend, and had too much dip & "swazz" for the keeper to come out for. Edited February 12 by Optimistic Nut Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 1 hour ago, Fak said: John Carver Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Probably my favourite ever NUFC player. I know it's a highlight reel, but did things that make it seem like a different sport to today's lot. Just unreal. What a privilege to have watched him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 A very different player to Ginola, but what a left food he had. Such a shame that he fell out with Souness. Am sure during that time, we had among the best wing pairings in the world - Robert down the left, and Nobby doing the right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbee909 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 12 minutes ago, Big Geordie said: A very different player to Ginola, but what a left food he had. Such a shame that he fell out with Souness. Am sure during that time, we had among the best wing pairings in the world - Robert down the left, and Nobby doing the right. The shame was in hiring Souness at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Prontonise Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 11 hours ago, Beren said: Probably my favourite ever NUFC player. I know it's a highlight reel, but did things that make it seem like a different sport to today's lot. Just unreal. What a privilege to have watched him Yeah he's in my top 3 nufc players, he would always have one moment a game where he'd create a chance etc even when he was off it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 A lot of right footed contributions too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMSIllustrious Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 I miss the days when football was not only about who can run the most, crowd the box and VAR interruptions 😟 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 Wonder how he'd do today in a Salah role? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boey_Jarton Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 Why did he get no France caps whilst racking up insane numbers for Newcastle in the premier league? I seem to remember France deploying Bruno Cheyrou one time on the left side of midfield whilst he was stinking out the premier league, whilst Robert didn't get a look in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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