{"id":408853,"date":"2024-07-03T00:53:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T00:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=408853"},"modified":"2024-07-03T03:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T03:07:04","slug":"bulldogs-cult-hero-who-invented-controversial-move-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=408853","title":{"rendered":"Bulldogs cult hero who invented controversial move dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canterbury<\/a> legend Geoff Robinson, who died on Wednesday after a long battle with cancer, was a fierce competitor – and will always be remembered for one 'moment of madness' on the field.<\/p>\n

Parramatta<\/a> – the Bulldogs' arch enemies in Robinson's heyday in the 1980s – had a renowned move known as 'The Wall' where, from a tap kick, four players would line up side by side, backs to the defence, to hide the ball and confuse the defence.<\/p>\n

But 'Robbo' decided he would have none of it, and in a famous incident at the SCG – charged headlong into the wall – sending players skittling like nine pins.<\/p>\n

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"It's a move I'd seen many times but what I did was just a spur of the moment thing," Robinson told this reporter many years later.<\/p>\n

"I thought 'I can't see the ball so I'll bowl them all over'.<\/p>\n

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"It was a stupid thing, head down, arse up, but it worked.<\/p>\n

"I cleaned up a couple of the forwards and also gave Peter Sterling<\/a>, who was working the move behind the wall, a shock as I charged through.<\/p>\n

"Most players just stood back, watched the wall and waited for the ball to become visible. My approach obviously stunned them.<\/p>\n

"But it worked as they dropped the ball.<\/p>\n

"I did it a couple of times and I don't think they used the move nearly as much after that."<\/p>\n

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Robinson's tactic was typical of his 'bull at a gate' approach that made him a crowd favourite for 11 seasons at Belmore.<\/p>\n

The Canterbury pack was the most feared in the league in the '80s – and no one embodied that fear more than the bearded, tearaway prop.<\/p>\n

Robinson, who was 66, battled throat cancer for years but is believed to have died of a heart attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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