Bob Skilton

**Robert John** "**Bob**" **Skilton** OAM (an haife shi a ranar 8 ga watan Nuwamba 1938) tsohon dan wasan kwallon kafa ne na Australiya wanda ya wakilci Kudancin Melbourne a gasar kwallon kafa ta Victoria (VFL).

Yin wasa a matsayin mai tafiya, Skilton yana daya daga cikin 'yan wasa hudu da suka lashe lambar yabo ta Brownlow sau uku - a 1959 (lokacin da ya daura da Verdun Howell), 1963, da 1968. Fitzroy's Haydn Bunton, Sr (1931, 1932, 1935), Essendon's Dick Reynolds (1934, 1937, 1938), da St.Kilda's Ian Stewart (1965, 1966, 1971) sun raba rikodin Brownlow.

Jack Dyer ya kimanta shi a matsayin mafi kyau fiye da Haydn Bunton, Sr kuma daidai da Dick Reynolds, yana mai da shi daya daga cikin 'yan wasa mafi kyau a tarihin wasan.

An ba da lambar yabo ta Sydney Swans Best and Fairest bayan shi; lambar yabo ta Bob Skilton .

## Iyali
An haifi ɗan Robert Herbert Skilton (1901-1987), da Rita Skilton (an haife shi a ranar 8 ga Nuwamba 1938.

Mahaifinsa, wanda aka fi sani da "Bobby", ya kasance ɗan wasan ƙwararren 440 wanda ya buga wasanni 149 a Port Melbourne a cikin VFA daga 1922 zuwa 1929. A matsayinsa na fursuna na yaki na Jafananci, ya tsira daga wahalar yin aiki a kan sanannen jirgin kasa na Burma.

Ya auri Marion Joyce Stirling a shekarar 1960.

## Kwallon ƙafa
Tsayi 171 cm kawai, Skilton yana da sauri sosai kuma mai ba da kariya mai kyau, yana ba shi damar guje wa abokan adawar lokacin da ya cancanta. Bai taɓa jin kunya ya kai hari kan kwallon ba, duk da haka, kuma a cikin shekaru 16 da ya yi aiki ya sha wahala da yawa, gami da rikice-rikice, hanci ya karye sau huɗu, wuyan hannu ya karye uku da idanu 12 baƙi.

Ɗaya daga cikin manyan kadarorinsa shine ikon kiɗa da ƙafafu biyu, ƙwarewar da aka koya a kan nacewar mahaifinsa, kuma ya haɓaka ta hanyar yin sa'o'i yana kiɗa kwallon a kan bango, yana tattara shi a kan sakewa kuma yana sake kiɗa da ɗayan ƙafa. Ba zai yiwu a ce ko yana da ƙafafun dama ko hagu ba, tunda ƙafar hagu ta ba da daidaito mafi girma, amma nesa ta dama ta fi girma. Yana da jayayya mafi daidaitattun kisa a wasan.

Star na kungiyar Victorian Schoolboys ta 1953 (ya zira kwallaye 8 a kan West Australia a daya daga cikin wasannin gasar), kuma mafi kyau da adalci ga Kudancin Melbourne (a karkashin 17) Na huɗu XVIII wanda ya buga a cikin Melbourne Boys League a shekarar 1955, Skilton ya fara buga wasan farko yana da shekaru 17 a zagaye na biyar, 1956, kuma ya ci gaba da buga wasanni 237 a Kudancin Mexico kafin ya yi ritaya a 1971, a lokacin rikodin kulob din. Ya zira kwallaye 412 a wannan lokacin kuma ya kasance babban mai jefa kwallo a kulob din a lokuta uku. An ba shi lakabi da 'Chimp', ya nuna babban murya da ƙuduri kuma ya zama sananne don ba da iyakar ƙoƙari a kowane lokaci.

Ya bayyana a shafin farko na The Sun News-Pictorial a shekarar 1968 tare da idanu biyu da suka ba shi lambar yabo ta Douglas Wilkie . Idanun baƙar fata sun kasance sakamakon mummunan rauni a fuska, wanda ya haɗa da raguwar ƙashin kansa, saboda haɗari a cikin makonni masu zuwa daga Footscray's Ken Greenwood, abokin aikinsa John Rantall sannan Len Thompson.

Wani tsawo jerin hotuna masu hoto da ke nuna ainihin raunin Skilton ya kasance a cikin ɗakunan ƙungiyar a Lake Oval, kafin ya koma Sydney (ba a nuna shi a Sydney kuma an fahimci cewa an fara cire shi daga nuni a Lake Ovel a matsayin wani ɓangare na ƙoƙarin samun Tuddenham ya horar da South Melbourne a 1978).

Ya rasa dukkan kakar wasa ta 1969 ta VFL bayan ya fashe wani Achilles tendon a wasan motsa jiki na farko da kungiyar SANFL Port Adelaide.

An zaba shi don wakiltar jiharsa a wasanni 25, Skilton ya zama kyaftin din tawagar Victoria a 1963 da 1965. Rashin nasarar da ya samu a cikin aikinsa shi ne rashin nasarar kulob dinsa. Sau da yawa ya ce zai sayar da kowane daga cikin lambobin Brownlow guda uku don zama firaminista ko ma damar yin wasa a Grand Final, kuma ya ji mafi girman matsayi na aikinsa shine lokacin da Kudancin Melbourne ya yi wasan karshe a 1970 (a karkashin babban Norm Smith), ya kammala na huɗu bayan ya rasa wasan kusa da na karshe na farko da St Kilda.

Bayan shekaru 16 a Kudancin Melbourne, ciki har da shekaru biyu a matsayin kocin wasa a 1965-1966, da kuma kyaututtuka tara mafi kyau da mafi kyau, Skilton sannan ya buga wa tawagarsa ta yaro, Port Melbourne a cikin Victoria Football Association kuma daga baya ya horar da Melbourne daga 1974-1977, tare da mafi kyawun kammala na shida. Tun daga wannan lokacin, an girmama Skilton ta hanyar kiranta kyaftin din tawagar Swans na karni, kuma an sanya masa suna a cikin tawagar AFL na karni. Ya kuma kasance dan wasan da aka nuna a cikin murfin takardun hatimi da ke nuna Swans da Australia Post ta fitar don tunawa da cika shekaru dari na VFL / AFL.

Skilton ya yi jawabi a gabatarwar bayan wasan na 2005 AFL Grand Final bayan nasarar tawagarsa ta farko a cikin shekaru 72, kuma an ba shi aikin gabatar da kofin a 2012 AFL Grand final.

SkiltonSkilton ya yi jawabi a gabatarwar bayan wasan na 2005 AFL Grand Final bayan nasarar tawagarsa ta farko a cikin shekaru 72, kuma an ba shi aikin gabatar da kofin a 2012 AFL Grand final. kuma shine mai riƙe da tikitin lamba ɗaya a kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Ormond Amateur, wanda ke fafatawa a cikin kungiyar kwallon kafa mai son Victoria.

## Medal na Order of Australia
A cikin 2018 Queens Birthday Honours, an ba Skilton lambar yabo ta Order of Australia (OAM).