Robbie Peters

Robert Anthony Angus Peters (born 18 May 1971) is an English retired professional footballer who played as a right winger in the Football League for Brentford and Carlisle United.

Robbie Peters
Personal information
Full name Robert Anthony Angus Peters[1]
Date of birth (1971-05-18) 18 May 1971
Place of birth Kensington, England
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Position(s) Right winger
Youth career
1985–1989 Brentford
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1994 Brentford 30 (1)
1990–1991 → St Albans City (loan) 20 (5)
1993 → Woking (loan) 7 (0)
1994 → Slough Town (loan) 14 (3)
1994–1995 Carlisle United 8 (0)
1995 Woking 7 (1)
1995–1996 St Albans City 18 (6)
1996–1997 Chertsey Town
1997 Yeovil Town 2 (0)
1997–1998 Aylesbury United
1999–2000 Chertsey Town
2007–2008 Frankston Pines
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

Brentford

A right winger, Peters began his career in the youth system at Third Division club Brentford, joining the club at the age of 14 and commencing a scholarship after leaving school in 1987.[3] Playing in the same generation as Marcus Gayle, Paul Buckle and Ashley Bayes, Peters was part of the youth team which reached the semi-finals of the 1988–89 FA Youth Cup.[4] He signed a professional contract during the 1989 off-season and made 10 appearances during the 1989–90 season,[3] scoring one goal.[5] Peters and youth teammate Khotso Moabi joined Isthmian League Premier Division club St Albans City on loan in November 1990.[6] He made 24 appearances and scored seven goals before being recalled to Brentford in April 1991.[7][8]

With Brentford challenging for promotion from the Third Division during the 1991–92 season,[9] Peters managed only 14 appearances.[10] Matters failed to improve after the Bees' promotion to the new second-tier First Division for the 1992–93 season,[11] when he rejected the offer of a new contract during the off-season and played the entire regular season on a week-by-week basis.[11][12] Peters managed just one substitute appearance during the 1992–93 season and ended the campaign on loan at Conference club Woking,[13] for whom he made seven appearances.[14]

After Brentford's relegation straight back to the third-tier,[15] Peters signed a new two-year contract and made 17 appearances and scored one goal during the first half of the 1993–94 season, before spending the second half of the campaign on loan at Conference club Slough Town.[10][16] He failed to make an appearance during the opening month of the 1994–95 season and had his contract cancelled in September 1994.[10][12] During five years as a professional at Griffin Park, Peters made 42 appearances and scored two goals.[12]

Later career

Peters joined Third Division club Carlisle United in November 1994,[1] but managed just eight league appearances during the 1994–95 season before being released in 1995.[17] Peters then dropped into non-League football and after returns to Woking and St Albans City,[18] he went on to play for Chertsey Town,[19] Yeovil Town and Aylesbury United.[20][21] He moved to Australia in the early 2000s and won the Victorian State League Division 1 title with Frankston Pines in 2007.[22]

Coaching career

Peters worked as a strength and conditioning coach with the Football Star Academy in Melbourne, Australia.[22]

Personal life

Peters is married with four children.[23] As of March 2020, he was running a personal training business in Melbourne, Australia.[23]

Career statistics
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Brentford 1989–90[24] Third Division 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1990–91[10] 6 1 — 0 0 1[lower-alpha 1] 0 7 1
1991–92[10] 9 0 0 0 3 0 2[lower-alpha 2] 0 14 0
1992–93[10] First Division 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1993–94[10] Second Division 12 0 0 0 2 1 3[lower-alpha 2] 0 17 1
Total 30 1 1 0 5 1 6 0 42 2
St Albans City (loan) 1990–91[7] Isthmian League Premier Division 20 5 — — 4[lower-alpha 3] 2 24 7
Slough Town (loan) 1993–94[25] Conference 14 3 — — 1[lower-alpha 4] 0 15 3
St Albans City 1995–96[18] Isthmian League Premier Division 18 6 — — 9[lower-alpha 5] 0 27 6
Total 38 11 — — 13 2 51 13
Yeovil Town 1996–97[20] Isthmian League Premier Division 2 0 — — — 2 0
Aylesbury United 1997–98[21] Isthmian League Premier Division 8 0 — — 2[lower-alpha 6] 0 10 0
Career total 92 15 1 0 5 1 22 2 120 18
  1. Appearance in Third Division play-offs
  2. Appearances in Football League Trophy
  3. 2 appearances and 2 goals in Herts Senior Cup, 1 appearance in Isthmian League Full Members Cup, 1 appearance in Billy Minter Trophy
  4. Appearance in FA Trophy
  5. 3 appearances in East Anglian Cup, 2 appearances in FA Trophy, 1 appearance in Isthmian League Full Members Cup, 1 appearance in Herts Senior Cup, 1 appearance in Herts Charity Cup, 1 appearance in Eastern Floodlight Cup
  6. 1 appearance in FA Trophy, 1 appearance in Isthmian League Full Members Cup

Honours

Frankston Pines

References
  1. "Robbie Peters". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  2. Robbie Peters at Soccerbase
  3. Croxford, Mark; Lane, David; Waterman, Greville (2013). The Big Brentford Book Of The Nineties. Sunbury, Middlesex: Legends Publishing. p. 390. ISBN 9781906796723.
  4. Haynes, Graham (1998). A-Z of Bees: Brentford Encyclopaedia. Yore Publications. p. 50. ISBN 1-874427-57-7.
  5. White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. p. 400. ISBN 0951526200.
  6. Croxford, Lane & Waterman 2013, p. 42.
  7. "Season 1990-91 appearances". St Albans City F.C. History & Archives. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  8. Croxford, Lane & Waterman 2013, p. 46.
  9. Croxford, Lane & Waterman 2013, p. 50.
  10. Croxford, Lane & Waterman 2013, p. 476-480.
  11. Croxford, Lane & Waterman 2013, p. 114.
  12. Croxford, Lane & Waterman 2013, p. 390.
  13. Croxford, Lane & Waterman 2013, p. 119.
  14. "Football: On the move – Sport". The Independent. 28 March 1993. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  15. Croxford, Lane & Waterman 2013, p. 124.
  16. Croxford, Lane & Waterman 2013, p. 146.
  17. Robbie Peters at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database
  18. "Season 1995-96 appearances". St Albans City F.C. History & Archives. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  19. "Club Year | Clubs". The Non-League Club Directory. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  20. "Yeovil Town : Rob Peters Profile". Ciderspace.co.uk. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  21. "Robbie Peters Profile". Aylesbury United FC. 17 January 1998. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  22. "FSA Soccer Coach Profiles – Robbie Peters". Football Star Academy. Archived from the original on 13 September 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  23. "About". RP Performance. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  24. Croxford, Mark; Lane, David; Waterman, Greville (2011). The Big Brentford Book of the Eighties. Sunbury, Middlesex: Legends Publishing. p. 431. ISBN 978-1906796716.
  25. "Robbie Peters". The Official Website of Slough Town FC. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  26. "2007 Victorian State League Division One – Final Table". Ozfootball.net. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
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