Before taking up rugby league, Peers played football at junior level for the world famous Wallsend Boys Club.
[3][8] He signed for the club in 1999[2][3] while still in high school and made his final appearance on 1 April 2012, scoring a 90m try in a 30-18 defeat versus Whitehaven.
[3] In 2009, Peers was part of the Gateshead Thunder side that finished 7th in the Co-operative Championship[2] and runners-up in the Northern Rail 9s plate.
[12] Prior to making his first appearance for Gateshead, Robin was part of the successful England Universities team [13] that won the European Rugby Cup in 2001.
In May 2010 he was part of the management team of a delegation that visited Rostov-on-Don, Russia to help promote and develop the sport of Rugby League.
[23][24] In March 2011, he worked on the RLEF Technical Coaching Strategy Course at Brunel University in London, a course that saw more than 50 delegates attend from 19 different nations.
He followed this up by taking the interim USA coaching duties again in July 2016, leading the United States to a big 54-4 win over Jamaica in the Rugby League Americas Championship Series [29]