{"id":796288,"date":"2026-10-08T20:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796288\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T20:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:26:13","slug":"dan-robsons-bee-in-his-bonnet-thats-11-years-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796288\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Robson’s ‘bee in his bonnet’ that’s 11 years in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Published: 5 hours ago | 8 October 2026 10:30 EDT <\/p>\n

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Gloucester’s Dan Robson during the PREM Rugby Cup match between Bristol Bears and Gloucester Rugby at Ashton Gate on September 5, 2026 in Bristol, England. (Photo by Bob Bradford – CameraSport via Getty Images) \"Google <\/a> <\/p>\n

Gloucester<\/a> boss George Skivington is reaping the rewards for his patient pursuit of former England<\/a> scrum-half Dan Robson, who, he says, has started the season with a \u201cbee in his bonnet\u201d and a point to prove.<\/p>\n

Skivington admits that Stoke-on-Trent-born Robson, 34, who started his career at Kingsholm, never wanted to leave when he signed for Wasps<\/a> in January 2015, and is now making up for lost time.<\/p>\n

Robson\u2019s return from France, where he spent nearly four years with Pau<\/a> after Wasps went into liquidation, has almost flown under the radar after the headline-grabbing signings of Dewi Lake, Jac Morgan and Jean Kleyn.<\/p>\n

Skivington told RugbyPass this week that Robson has a big role in developing Caolan Englefield, who ruined Harlequins<\/a> for an hour last weekend before Skivington sent on the 16-cap veteran to finish the job.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to sign him a couple of years ago, but he was in France, but we couldn\u2019t get him out of his deal. So when the next opportunity came round, it was pretty easy business, but I think the first thing with Dan is he\u2019s just a quality bloke.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe knew a few guys in the building, and I couldn\u2019t find anyone who said anything bad about him as a bloke, and he\u2019s a very, very good player and is still really ambitious, and there\u2019s still stuff he wants to achieve.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the beauty of it is he\u2019s always had a little bit of a bee in his bonnet about how he exited the club the first time because he didn\u2019t really want to ever leave, but he needed the opportunity to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cDan\u2019s obviously gone on and played really well for a number of years. There are a lot of things that come together, but I think he\u2019s been brilliant and is another leader that we\u2019ve brought in.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s another straight-up bloke who says it as it is and has made the leadership group, which is voted for by the players. He\u2019s very happy to speak in there. He and I can have a really good conversation, and there\u2019s no agenda to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just been a great bloke to bring in. And I think he and Caolan, who we\u2019ve got high hopes for, are a really good combination of the wiser, older guy with miles on the clock, and a younger guy who\u2019s really talented, and Dan can just help him develop his game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 5 hours ago | 8 October 2026 10:30 EDT mens gallagher-premiership Gloucester’s Dan Robson during the PREM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-796288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}