RIP Bobby Collins

[The Esk]

According to a 1959 Football Annual I have he only wore size 6 boots....

RIP

 

[SuperTimCahill]

Rest in peace, Bobby. Never had the pleasure to watch you play, but I hear others hold you in high regard and it's always sad when a fellow blue passes away.

 

[rascal]

Rest in peace, Bobby. Never had the pleasure to watch you play, but I hear others hold you in high regard and it's always sad when a fellow blue passes away.

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RIP.

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

RIP. He was playing when my dad first started taking me to the match.

 

[zakmo]

The signing of Bobby Collins was, to my mind, the beginning of the 'modern' Everton...we subsequently signed Roy Vernon, and many more who made up the first great Everton team of the modern era. He was, as posters have said, hard as nails, but he could pass a ball brilliantly and had a very quick football brain. Never forget a back heeled goal he scored in the Park End, and how he would stand up to players who towered over him and get the better of them. He was a stocky little 5'4" and didn't look at all like a footballer, but in his era, he was one of the very best around. 8-9-10....Collins , Young, Vernon. I'll bet there are some old ex footballers around who still have nightmares at the thought of that particular threesome.

Steve, I bought my first stand season ticket in 1959/60, so had a season or so of watching Bobby (and Roy Vernon). I think it was the following year we signed Alex Young and we went on to win the League. My best moments of watching the blues! It's funny really because I feel that this season is turning out like that one! Hope so as I am getting on a bit now and would like to see us win something again. R. I. P. Bobby.

 

[Pat's Van]

Grandad used to go on about him, sad news

RIP Bobby x

 

[The Equaliser]

Only ever heard great things about him. RIP.

 

[Nlondonblue]

Rest in peace, Bobby. Never had the pleasure to watch you play, but I hear others hold you in high regard and it's always sad when a fellow blue passes away.

Well said. My Dad , who's seen most in the RBJ, reckons he's right up there. Cracking footballer. Hard as ****** nails.

RIP.

 

[banno]

why did we sell him to leeds?

Some of the older blues put it down as the similar Catterick brain freeze when he sold Alan Ball.

RIP Bobby Collins

 

[Joey66]

Some of the older blues put it down as the similar Catterick brain freeze when he sold Alan Ball.

RIP Bobby Collins

Yes The Legend of a player he was took Leeds on from the old division 2 to the great times in Leeds FC history PFA player of the season with them, My older brother always reminds me what a midfield General he was for the blues - sold by HC after asking for a pay rise as he was a keen small time pig farmer nr Ormskirk , and wanted the extra cash to buy a sow pig for more litters, for piglets etc to boost his income, as he took us from a lower division one team into the top six - he did start the HC revolution, but HC, and the chairman refused to pay him a pay rise, and Leeds did and the rest was history - Labby always rated Bobby Collins as a midfield gem RIP another EFC great departs sad news!

 

[degsy]

why did we sell him to leeds?

Not Harry Cattericks best decision, he had a thing ( or so it seemed ) of getting rid of Players who he didn't like as people and /or weren't yes men, add to that the theory ( in which Harry was a great believer ) of 30 yrs old meaning you were finished.

Harry, along with many many others it must be said, did not see that the game and the players were changing. For instance, players like Giles, Callaghan, Paine, Charlton and others, once flying and or trick wingers ( see Giggs even now ) could morph into the new position of Mid fielder.

That above, the double your money option and the firey / not a yes man temprement was why he sold Ball, Yes he wasn't the player he was in 66 and he could see the goal tally diminishing and the injuries creeping in.


Short sighted by Harry, well maybe a little, but he only knew what he knew, so his 40's and 50's experience told him it was right.

 

[Eggs]

The signing of Bobby Collins was, to my mind, the beginning of the 'modern' Everton...we subsequently signed Roy Vernon, and many more who made up the first great Everton team of the modern era. He was, as posters have said, hard as nails, but he could pass a ball brilliantly and had a very quick football brain. Never forget a back heeled goal he scored in the Park End, and how he would stand up to players who towered over him and get the better of them. He was a stocky little 5'4" and didn't look at all like a footballer, but in his era, he was one of the very best around. 8-9-10....Collins , Young, Vernon. I'll bet there are some old ex footballers around who still have nightmares at the thought of that particular threesome.

...can't add much to Steve's summary, tough lad and a great player. Saw him at GP a few years ago and he looked great. RIP wee man.

 

[Moomin]

Rest in peace.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Rest in Peace

Thoughts with his family and friends

 

[Alan Whittle]

Not Harry Cattericks best decision, he had a thing ( or so it seemed ) of getting rid of Players who he didn't like as people and /or weren't yes men, add to that the theory ( in which Harry was a great believer ) of 30 yrs old meaning you were finished.

Harry, along with many many others it must be said, did not see that the game and the players were changing. For instance, players like Giles, Callaghan, Paine, Charlton and others, once flying and or trick wingers ( see Giggs even now ) could morph into the new position of Mid fielder.

That above, the double your money option and the firey / not a yes man temprement was why he sold Ball, Yes he wasn't the player he was in 66 and he could see the goal tally diminishing and the injuries creeping in.


Short sighted by Harry, well maybe a little, but he only knew what he knew, so his 40's and 50's experience told him it was right.

Interesting that. I always put Everton selling Bobby Collins in the same category as when Busby sold Giles to Leeds. Both great players who could win and keep a ball as well as pass it. I'd also forgotten that he was Football Writers Footballer of the Year in 1965 when that award seemed to mean much more than it does now.