I agree. We will miss him when he is gone. Ireland does not actually produce many players capable of scoring that amount of goals at international or premiership level. I don't care if they are screamers from outside the box or if they go in off his This post will be deleted if not edited to remove bad language.
Having said that, I always thought he had more potential than he actually fulfilled. Same with Damien Duff. However both players have been great servants to Ireland and when you compare them to someone like Stephen Ireland who people talked about like he was the best thing like sliced bread on the back of one good season, it makes you realise how lucky we have been.
He is not one of our best ever though!
Apart from Spurs first time round, no club seemed interested in holding onto him and that says a lot. And Fergusson wouldn't touch him when he was leaving Wolves, despite many Irish people saying, at the time, that Fergie was mad not to snap him up! I know he's our top goalscorer but I think a better player would have a much better return from the same number of chances. He does act like a headless chicken at times and is a great one for moaning when it suits him. Many of you have made fair points in his defence but I still think that if he wasn't Irish, we'd be asking, Robbie who? I'd like to see him have a few good seasons before he retires but I don't expect he will. Still, I'd be happy for him to prove me wrong......