When players from the 1999 Uni Blues Reserves Premiership team gathered at Naughtons last month, Michael Robin was on hand to help with the reminiscing.  Mick was a popular figure at Uni Blues for the best part of two decades.  Between 1986 and 2006, he served the club in a variety of guises that included Vice President, Committee member, VAFA delegate, Chairman of Selectors and as Team Manager of senior, reserves and Under 19 teams.

Few people could claim to have seen as many Blues games in the modern era as Mick so his selection of the best players he has witnessed at the club carries some weight.  He narrows it to four:  Michael Yeo, Mark McCarty, Aaron “Duxy” Davis and Richard Furphy.

For sheer onfield drama, Mick says his most memorable moment was attempting to restrain “a raging Marcus Coleman at Camberwell Sports Ground against Old Scotch before the start of the last quarter”.  Off the field, Mick recalls the drama arriving courtesy of rowdy Pavvy nights, club vote counts and being “on the road” for practice matches in Echuca and Ballarat.

Mick was awarded the Chris Brown trophy for best team man in 1989 and was made a life member of the MUFC in 1996.  The other highlights of his time at Uni Blues include being awarded a Certificate of Merit by the VAFA, and the club clawing its way back into A-Grade in 1995 and then ending the 44-year A-Grade premiership drought in 2004.  

Mick describes himself as “very happily retired” in Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula.  However, he readily concedes that he does miss the Thursday night BBQs and hot dogs and attending Blues games each Saturday.