club and placed into their junior ranks where in 1943 he helped Perpignan capture the junior French championship. At the beginning of 1944 the Vichy government would lose power meaning that the sport of rugby league was no longer outlawed in France and Robert ended his playing days of rugby union and decided to sign with his local club in rugby league AS Carcassonne. Carcassonne Still a teenager Robert signed for Carcassonne at the beginning of the 1944 season in the newly re-established French championship now that rugby league was no longer an outlawed sport in France. Later on that year Puig was named in the starting 13 for a regular season fixture but with several other more established players in both sides with the last name Puig a local newspaper editor printed his name back-to-front to avoid confusion and since that day he was forever referred to as Puig Aubert. Over the next nine years with his home town club Aubert achieved immense success that would cement his place as a legend of Carcassonne, rugby league and France while also earning his first national team cap in 1944. He would go on to lead the club (more often than not as captain) to four French championship titles, four Lord Derby cups and runners-up in the championship on four occasions along with three runners-up medals in the Lord Derby cup. Catalans After a decade of success helping to lead Carcassonne to eight combined titles including two doubles in French rugby league Aubert left the only professional club he had ever been a part of to move to the rival XIII Catalan club where he would captain them for the next four years. While at XIII Catalan his fitness became something of an issue, with his weight often fluctuating over the next several years combined with his still-constant chain smoking meaning he found competing in the ever professional championship competition harder as the years progressed. During his time at the Catalanian organisation he would gain another French championship title in his final year with the club in 1957. Celtic de Paris With his footballing career beginning to wind down Aubert moved to the French capital and took up a position with lower division Celtic de Paris. Though his lack of enthusiasm for training began to have negative effects on his rugby league ability and his weight ballooned to over at one