Robert Keith Stockdale (born 30 November 1979) is a football manager and former professional footballer who is a first team coach at EFL Championship side Hull City. As a player, he was a defender from 1997 to 2012. He notably played Premier League football for Middlesbrough having also appeared as a professional for Sheffield Wednesday, West Ham United, Rotherham United, Hull City, Darlington and Tranmere Rovers before joining Grimsby Town in 2008. Stockdale won five international caps for Scotland, all in 2002. Towards the end of his playing career, he became Grimsby's youth team manager and briefly served as caretaker manager. He held this position until 2012 where he took up a similar role with Sunderland. He subsequently moved up to coaching the first team and managed the club three times on a caretaker basis, before he left Sunderland in 2018. He has since worked as a coach for Hibernian and West Bromwich Albion. In 2021 he took over his first full time managerial position with Rochdale, he was dismissed on 18 August 2022. Club career Middlesbrough Stockdale began his youth career at Middlesbrough and originally played as a forward. At the age of around 15 he converted to a right back and graduated to Middlesbrough's senior squad in 1997. He made over 70 Premier League appearances for Middlesbrough and scored 2 goals in games against Watford and Chelsea, as well as earning five international caps for Scotland. He had several loan spells during his time at Middlesbrough, to clubs such as Sheffield Wednesday and West Ham United. Rotherham United In 2004, Stockdale moved to Rotherham United after a successful loan spell in which he scored once against Burnley. He became an integral part of their defence, but the club and manager Ronnie Moore could not keep hold of Stockdale and several months later, midway through the 2004–05 season he left Rotherham to move to another part of Yorkshire. Hull City Stockdale signed for League One side Hull City and played out the season at the KC Stadium, but after the end of the league campaign he lost his place in the squad. After a troubled 2005–06 season when he failed to make a league appearance for Hull. Tranmere Rovers Stockdale was signed on a two-year contract by his former Rotherham boss Ronnie Moore for Tranmere Rovers in a £100,000 deal which also brought Kevin Ellison to the club. He