The Bulldogs have arranged a tribute lunch for one of league’s toughest characters of the 1980s as he fights a brave battle against cancer.
Geoff Robinson, a fearsome warrior who played over 100 games for Canterbury and won two premierships, is fighting both throat and mouth cancer.
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Bulldogs sponsor Arthur Laundy has arranged a function at the Twin Willows Hotel at Bass Hill in the heart of Bulldogs territory next Friday to pay homage to the bearded warrior.
“It’s really sad to see how such a big, strong man has been ravaged by the dreaded cancer,” a Bulldogs source told Wide World of Sports.
“He has lost a heap of weight and is extremely weak. But he is one of Canterbury’s favourite sons and there will be a lot of people there to catch up with him.”
Robinson has been undergoing extensive chemotherapy and radiation treatment for months and they have taken their toll on his body.
Bulldogs greats including the Mortimer and Hughes brothers, Terry Lamb and Andrew Farrar are expected to attend the function.
Robinson achieve a place in Bulldogs folklore when he charged into Jack Gibson’s Parramatta ‘wall’ in the 1980s, flattening Eels great Peter Sterling.
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