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Post by shotbybothsides on Jun 22, 2011 5:45:06 GMT
He hasn't attracted legendary-type status at Stoke like Conroy, Greenhoff, Smith, Banks, Pejic, Hudson, Eastham, Dobing, Bloor, Marsh etc, and I appreciate he wasn't part of the cup winning squad as he came to the club after that, but I thought he was a great winger, and a key part of Stoke's best team possibly ever - from my memory.
I may have got it wrong, was he just before that great Stoke side who challenged for the title and who came back to beat Leeds 3-2?
Either way, I remember Stoke beating someone 5-2, I think it was Blues at the Vic- and Jimmy going on a mazy run down the right wing, before cutting past a player on the edge of the box and crashing a shot into the top corner of the net, in front of the Boothen.
Great player.
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Post by JoeinOz on Jun 22, 2011 5:49:01 GMT
When we talk of the 70s team he's often overlooked. Exciting player though.
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Post by dozintheseventees on Jun 22, 2011 5:58:02 GMT
Jimmy was a great winger but came to Stoke late in his career. He was a big star at Spurs and won the FA Cup with them before moving to Ipswich. Despite being a great player for Stoke, he will be much more remembered for his time at Spurs. One of my favourites at the time, in a team full of good players.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2011 6:09:46 GMT
very fast over the first 20 yards even in his latter years- also excellent crosses delivered.His signing gave us two excellent wingers and the ability to break quickly from both sides of the pitch- must have beed difficult to defend against when on form
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Post by JoeinOz on Jun 22, 2011 6:23:51 GMT
He was Scottish
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2011 6:35:03 GMT
As others have said here he was a wonderful player. He and Geoff Salmons came in at the same time and were very significant players in our challenge for the league title, but neither are remembered as 'legends'.
I have my memories of him (funnily enough on the left wing - is my memory falling apart again) being fast and tricky. He sometimes failed to deliver the final cross, but he was a very exciting player to watch.
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Post by mensa on Jun 22, 2011 6:55:35 GMT
One of my all time favourites. I love watching excellent wing play so it's great to have Matty and Jermaine at the moment ..but Robbo was something else.
He was one of our Heroes in the early 70's and if that shot against Ajax had gone in at their place instead of hitting the post - knocking them out - his status wound have been up there with the rest of the legends.
Fabulous player.
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Post by lancashirelad on Jun 22, 2011 7:32:37 GMT
Came in with Geoff Hurst after the cup winning season. Played very well for Stoke and one of the broken leg (4) in the season we should have won the league. 5-2 was against Carlisle as far as I can remember.
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Post by dozintheseventees on Jun 22, 2011 7:42:54 GMT
Ah yes, Carlisle in the TOP Division. Bet there's an awful lot of football fans throughout the country who'd have trouble believing that one.
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Post by stokerambler on Jun 22, 2011 8:11:37 GMT
Ah yes, Carlisle in the TOP Division. Bet there's an awful lot of football fans throughout the country who'd have trouble believing that one. Being born in Carlisle I'll never forget watching MoTD and seeing Carlisle top of the first division after the first few games! Sadly, it was all downhill after that but I always hunt out Carlisle's results to this day. As for Jimmy Robertson, he was lightning fast. He just knocked the ball past the full back and every time he would beat him to it. Robbo was an out and out winger whereas Geoff Salmons was more of a left sided midfielder, drifting infield and combining with Hudson. With Robbo, Hudson, Mahoney and Salmons in midfield we had a fantastic balance.
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Post by Cyprusdelilah on Jun 22, 2011 8:34:52 GMT
When I was at St. Giles & St. Georges in Newcastle in the early seventies, I was in the football team, decent player a Jimmy Greenhoff :)upfront. Well I was captain in my final year 74/75, we won the league and I was presented the trophy by Jimmy Robertson, still got two photo's of it.
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Post by pearo on Jun 22, 2011 9:30:19 GMT
I remember a goal Jimmy scored at home against Newcastle, I think it was them, I recall they were wearing an all blue strip, they were pressing for an equaliser late in the game and won a corner at the Stoke end. As the corner came over a Stoke defender, probably Smithy, headed the ball clear. Jimmy picked it up and proceeded to run for 60- 70 yards beating each Newcastle player that came to challenge him before cutting in from the left touchline to thump a scorcher into the far corner. Great goal, great player.
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Post by youareallwrong on Jun 22, 2011 9:35:59 GMT
Ah yes, Carlisle in the TOP Division. Bet there's an awful lot of football fans throughout the country who'd have trouble believing that one. Being born in Carlisle I'll never forget watching MoTD and seeing Carlisle top of the first division after the first few games! Sadly, it was all downhill after that but I always hunt out Carlisle's results to this day. As for Jimmy Robertson, he was lightning fast. He just knocked the ball past the full back and every time he would beat him to it. Robbo was an out and out winger whereas Geoff Salmons was more of a left sided midfielder, drifting infield and combining with Hudson. With Robbo, Hudson, Mahoney and Salmons in midfield we had a fantastic balance. I'm with you there, that was an absolutely stunning midfield. They could rip the heart out of most teams at home and leave them for dead.
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Post by bristolstoki on Jun 22, 2011 10:54:22 GMT
I remember that goal against Newcastle - absolute stunner as you said. He was a very under rated player in what was a really good team back then.
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Post by dozintheseventees on Jun 22, 2011 11:01:26 GMT
Imagine what a midfield of Salmons, Hudson, Mahoney and Robertson would cost today. Jesus we were good back then.
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Post by AlanHansen on Jun 22, 2011 11:08:35 GMT
I have vague memories of him playing. I spoke to him a number of times about 7 years ago. He was and maybe is still local and working as an IFA.
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Post by westendstokie on Jun 22, 2011 11:25:52 GMT
From memory I have visions of him continually having the crap kicked out of him in the home leg vs Kaiserslautern. I'm sure the offending Boche went by the name Fritz Fuchs.
Fine player BTW.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2011 11:45:50 GMT
i remember that goal against newcastle, great goal, great player!
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Post by nottinghamstokie on Jun 22, 2011 12:04:01 GMT
As others have said here he was a wonderful player. He and Geoff Salmons came in at the same time and were very significant players in our challenge for the league title, but neither are remembered as 'legends'. quote] No, he came in at least 2 years before Salmons, definitely. I started watching in 72 and he was there, Salmons came in 74
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Post by swedishstokie3 on Jun 22, 2011 12:43:59 GMT
Jimmy Robertson was indeed a fine player.
Joined 1972 and was immediately a crowd favourite. He excelled in the 5-2 defeat of Birm. City in 1973; I recall on Radio 2 sport after the game of him being named "The Scottish Stanley Matthews". Talk was of him making the Scottish squad for the World Cup in Germany
He broke his leg the following season at Coventry (Boxing Day). I remember his comeback (as a sub.) almost a year later, when he came on against Everton and help turn the game around from 1-2- to 3-2.
Sadly, he never really gained fitness and his demise coincided with Stokes as we were regulated the year after.
Wonderful player who I always name in my best ever Stoke X1. Hope he and his family are enjoying life.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2011 16:47:54 GMT
He scored the very best goal Ive ever seen stoke score
in a 2: 2 draw against Newcastle United sometime in the mid seventies
ran the FULL length of the pitch leaving numerous tacklers in his wake one after another then, to crash a screamer into the roof of the net at the BOOTHEN
standing ovation all around resulted - even from the newcastle fans
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Post by Pugsley on Jun 22, 2011 17:18:45 GMT
One of my first few Stoke games I remember standing on the Stoke end with my Dad and Jimmy scored direct from a corner. Could have been B'pool, not sure.
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Post by mica on Jun 22, 2011 17:43:38 GMT
I seem to remember he was bought at the same time as Geoff Hurst. Waddington said he'd bought him to supply Hurst with crosses. He has some strange notion that, with Robbo on the wing crossing the ball to him, Hurst might score the odd goal. Sadly, I also seem to remember that Hurst had decided that he'd had enough of being kicked while trying to score goals and it would be a really good idea if he played on the wing as well. The football experts amongst us can probably spot the flaw in this plan...
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Post by Gods on Jun 22, 2011 17:51:43 GMT
I seem to remember he was bought at the same time as Geoff Hurst. Waddington said he'd bought him to supply Hurst with crosses. He has some strange notion that, with Robbo on the wing crossing the ball to him, Hurst might score the odd goal. Sadly, I also seem to remember that Hurst had decided that he'd had enough of being kicked while trying to score goals and it would be a really good idea if he played on the wing as well. The football experts amongst us can probably spot the flaw in this plan... Hurst was sodding awful for us wan't he ? Particularly when you consider he was and is still the only player in history to score a world cup final hat trick. I had great hopes... From what I remember he couldn't hit a cows ass with a banjo for us.
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Post by greenhoff74 on Jun 22, 2011 17:59:18 GMT
He hasn't attracted legendary-type status at Stoke like Conroy, Greenhoff, Smith, Banks, Pejic, Hudson, Eastham, Dobing, Bloor, Marsh etc, and I appreciate he wasn't part of the cup winning squad as he came to the club after that, but I thought he was a great winger, and a key part of Stoke's best team possibly ever - from my memory. I may have got it wrong, was he just before that great Stoke side who challenged for the title and who came back to beat Leeds 3-2? Either way, I remember Stoke beating someone 5-2, I think it was Blues at the Vic- and Jimmy going on a mazy run down the right wing, before cutting past a player on the edge of the box and crashing a shot into the top corner of the net, in front of the Boothen. Great player. Chelsea wasn't it 6-2. 4-0 at half time 2 OG's Mickey Droy OG from outside the box
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Post by greenhoff74 on Jun 22, 2011 18:02:02 GMT
One of my all time favourites. I love watching excellent wing play so it's great to have Matty and Jermaine at the moment ..but Robbo was something else. He was one of our Heroes in the early 70's and if that shot against Ajax had gone in at their place instead of hitting the post - knocking them out - his status wound have been up there with the rest of the legends. Fabulous player. He used to get everyone on their feet When he got the ball
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Post by robinredcoat on Jun 22, 2011 18:24:22 GMT
I first started going to Stoke regularly as a young kid round 72/73 and Robo was my first favourite player, and still to this day is probably the one player I would highlight as my favourite ever player. He was originally from the Paisley area if I remember rightly, but settled in Stoke after retiring.
Lots of great memories of great games he had, but I think his finest ever game for Stoke was in the 1-0 cup win against Man City in 1975. He ran absolute rings round Willie Donachie that night, and Donachie was eventually sent off for persistent fouling of him. It was a night match and still one of my all time favourite Stoke games.
As others have said it was his pace that made the difference, he used to get the ball and just run past players.
Anyone remember him scoring from a corner? I think it was against Sheff Utd?
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Post by cousindupree on Jun 22, 2011 19:34:32 GMT
As a skinny kid standing on the Boothen I used to dread Jimmy Robbo getting the ball because as soon as he took on a fullback the Boothen would surge forward with anticipation and I would usually go arse over tit and miss his final cross. Great player..probably the best scottish player to wear the stoke shirt and indeed what a midfield that was.
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Post by smokeyjoe on Jun 22, 2011 20:19:27 GMT
One of my first few Stoke games I remember standing on the Stoke end with my Dad and Jimmy scored direct from a corner. Could have been B'pool, not sure. can remember harry burrows doing exactly the same, incredible just how much they could curl it in. Robo is still my all-time favourite stoke player. I remember reading at the time, he was the fastest footballer with the ball at his feet. He could just sidestep past defenders and then turn on the pace - awesome
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Post by checkmatestokie on Jun 22, 2011 20:33:50 GMT
Jimmy Robertson was one of quite a few players who were just past their prime when Stoke won the League Cup in 1972.
Harry Burrows was another - and in my opinion both of these would have kept Conroy and Eastham out of the Cup winning team if they been born a few years later.
They're not rememembered simply because the winning eleven have become legends of our club - that doesn't mean they were the best players though.
A similar argument could also be made for Eric Skeels instead of Mickey Bernard, but it's all a matter of opinion really.
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