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FishOutOfWater
February 5, 2013, 5:58pm
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Ray Lancaster was supposed to be good but the sea air effected him was the excuse ,

Alick Jeffery was a wonder boy while at Donny, broke his leg 3 times so by the time he came to us on loan or trial he was poor,


I never knew Alick Jeffery was with us Pete

My uncle used to go to the same school as him near Donny and as you say he was their glory boy - still held in high regard I think as they've got his statue outside the Keepmoat
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Jimmy Gilligan

And to think we paid out more or less the same amount to bring him in as we received from Norwich for Kev Drinkell who he replaced  


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Michael Leary........seriously........there was the article that said he used to watch Town as a lad and this was something of a homecoming for him.....touted as a tough tackling enforcer in the middle got me all Alan Pouton.........such thoughts ended within 10 minutes of seeing him in action at some obscure place in pre season....on the doomed Errea Devon tour possibly against a Belgium league team made up of yank scholarship players......


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I am going to be controversial here but I have a sneaking feeling that Ross Hannah might end up on this list.  Its a while since fans have clamoured so strongly for a player to be signed and I fear he may not live up to expectations.

Should there be a thread for signings that didn't look that interesting initially but turned out great.....?  Obviously a central defender signed from Halifax reserves comes top of the list.
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I am going to be controversial here but I have a sneaking feeling that Ross Hannah might end up on this list.  Its a while since fans have clamoured so strongly for a player to be signed and I fear he may not live up to expectations.

Should there be a thread for signings that didn't look that interesting initially but turned out great.....?  Obviously a central defender signed from Halifax reserves comes top of the list.


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I never knew Alick Jeffery was with us Pete

My uncle used to go to the same school as him near Donny and as you say he was their glory boy - still held in high regard I think as they've got his statue outside the Keepmoat



Alick Jefrery never played for G.T.F.C. played against him myself exceptional footballer.
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Saw alec jeffrey play against town for lincoln in late 60's think he scored and they won. It was the era when we were really bad just before bobby kennedy. I am sure older fans will remember when we had tallest and shortest players in football league, dave boylen and gordon walker. Honestly big gordon made elding look like shearer. We had some poor players duncliffe at full back, who came with hickman fron brighton was poor and jimmy bloomer was another poor full back til worthington started playing there.
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Saw alec jeffrey play against town for lincoln in late 60's think he scored and they won. It was the era when we were really bad just before bobby kennedy. I am sure older fans will remember when we had tallest and shortest players in football league, dave boylen and gordon walker. Honestly big gordon made elding look like shearer. We had some poor players duncliffe at full back, who came with hickman fron brighton was poor and jimmy bloomer was another poor full back til worthington started playing there.
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