Robinson: Ronald (Ronnie)

1985-1987 (Player Details)

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Born: Sunderland: 22-10-1966

Debut v Carlisle United (a): 23-11-1985

5’9” 11st 0lb (1986)

A Sunderland and Wearside Schools representative, he played for Vaux Breweries before going to Ipswich Town as an apprentice but never made the first team at Portman Road. Billy Bremner brought him to Leeds on a free-transfer from the East Anglian team on 25th November 1985, making sixteen appearances in his first season. The start of the following season, saw Peter Haddock at left-back and, after getting back for eleven games before December, he had no future at Leeds when Micky Adams and Bobby McDonald were signed. On 25th February 1987 he joined Third Division Doncaster Rovers for £5,000 and switched to a central defensive position. He played regularly at Belle Vue, making seventy-six starts and two more from the bench, bagging five goals in his time there. On 22nd March 1989 he and Doncaster starlet Paul Raven joined Second Division West Bromwich Albion in a £200,000 package deal, with Robinson thought to have been valued at £80,000, but he only made one start at the Hawthorns. He then moved to Rotherham United on 18th August 1989 for £40,000, where again he found himself a regular. He missed just three games in his first season and was strong in central defence as the team struggled against relegation in the second, missing only seven games. He scored twice in eighty-six League starts at Millmoor before a free transfer took him to Peterborough United on 10th December 1991. The Posh pocketed a tidy profit when they sold him to Exeter City on 24th July 1993 for £25,000, after forty-seven League games, including three from the bench. Loaned to Huddersfield in January 1994, he made two League appearances before returning south and he managed one goal in thirty-seven League starts and two games from the bench. He signed on trial with Scarborough on 4th August 1995 but was released after one game and went into Non-League football with Spennymoor United.