International honours
Dave Robinson won a cap for England while at Swinton in 1969 against Wales,[2 and won caps for Great Britain while at Swinton in 1965 against New Zealand, in 1966 against France (2 matches), on the 1966 Great Britain Lions tour against Australia (3 matches), New Zealand (2 matches), in 1967 against France (2 matches), Australia (2 matches), and while at Wigan in 1970 against Australia.[3

Four Swinton ("the Lions"icon_wink.gif players took part in the 1966 Great Britain Lions tour to Australasia, they were; Alan Buckley, Ken Gowers (vice-captain), Dave Robinson, and John Stopford.[4

County Cup Final appearances
Dave Robinson played loose forward/lock in Swinton's 11-2 victory over Leigh in the 1969 Lancashire County Cup Final during the 1969–70 season at Central Park, Wigan on Saturday 1 November 1969, and played right-second-row, i.e. number 12, in Wigan 19-9 victory over Salford in the 1973 Lancashire County Cup Final during the 1973–74 season at Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington, on Saturday 13 October 1973.[5

BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final appearances
Dave Robinson played loose forward/lock in Swinton's 2-7 defeat by Castleford in the 1966 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final during the 1966–67 season at Wheldon Road, Castleford on Tuesday 20 December 1966.

I remember a formidable back 3 of Ashurst, Robinson & Laughton in the early 70's.

Ashurst, Robinson and Laughton was probably as good a back row as I have seen in my time watching Wigan. Ashurst was big skilfull and a bit of the animal in him one of my favourite all time players.
Dave Robinson was a really hard working second row a bit like a refined Mick Cassidy but in my opinion better going forward than Mick.
Dougie was your complete allround forward who had everything and was a great leader.
They all complemented each other to form a formidable back row and all played for GB at the same time.

Dave Robinson was a class forward who was a real workhorse but I'm not sure that he left Swinton to join Wigan because the Lions sold Station Road. He signed for Wigan in 1970 and stayed for five years. His last game for Wigan was in April 1975 when ironically Wigan beat Swinton in the first round of the Prem Trophy at Central Park. He then re-signed for Swinton who were still playing at Station Road at the time. In fact Station Road was only closed down in 1992 by which time "Robby" had well and truly retired. Never the less it must have been a great experience to talk to a great player such as himself.

Agree probably the best back row that the club has had in my lifetime.

Robinson came with a great reputation but not sure if he delivered what was probably expected of him?
I was 13 in 1970 so I thought we were the only team in the competition and if we lost it was always the ref's fault. After several years of being total poop the early 70's promised a new era which sadly didn't last very long and didn't win the most coveted cup of them all at the time the CC.
We did I believe have an unbeaten run of 30 odd games during 1970 & 1971 which was a record in the game at the time and the back row played a major part in that fantastic run.

Oh how I wish we had Bill Ashurst now. A total maverick but great to watch and had a brilliant kicking game which I don't think any Wigan player since has come close to being anywhere near as good with perhaps only Andy Farrell being gifted enough to be mentioned honourably in the same sentence.

I remember Ashurst getting absolutely snotted by Jim Mills at Widnes after he returned from a spell Australia with Penrith. Fans today would have gagged for a life sentence for Mills after his attack on Ashurst. The game has gone soft compared to those days but to fair my owd feller used to say the same thing when he compared Ken Gee and co with forwards of the early 70's.

Great days and very nearly a great team.