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January 25, 2021, 12:49am
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One of the best. A pleasure to have watched him in action. RIP


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RIP
As legendary GTFC names go he is up there


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RIP Ron

Before my time, but heard so much about him.


Through the door there came familiar laughter,
I saw your face and heard you call my name.
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser,
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same.
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One from my grandads day, one of the players he spoke highly of when we chatted about the Mariners and seemed to look back fondly on the seasons he was with us. Was scoring for fun by the early 60's which got the attention from across the river.

Kind of makes me wonder what I'll have to remember when I reach that age, makes me glad I wasn't born too late and got to witness the likes of Clive Mendonca as a kid.
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Knew him well. One of Town's all time greats. So sad
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Sad day.
Brilliant header of a ball.
Johnny Scott could cross a ball from the halfway line to the far post and Ron just outjumped the defence to head home.
Promotion side of the early 1960s he was unstoppable
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That promotion year was when I started to follow town. Great player. I didn’t know he carried on playing much after that year, because I thought he had cartilage problems, which was a career ending injury in those days. Pleased I got it wrong.
RIP.
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RIP Ron,


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You may guess I was saddened by this news. Ron was my first GTFC hero, right from seeing him in a Christmas game against Liverpool in the 1950s. He had a brilliant partnership with Ralph Hunt in the 1959-60 season and another with Cliff Portwood in 1961-2. He was up there with Matt Tees in my estimation as a header of the ball and he was no mug at playing it on the floor either.

Scott, Cullen, Rafferty, Hunt and Fell were as good a forward line as I ever saw at BP. Seeing them as a kid I was spoilt for life. Such a pity not to have seen them in action on film.

As I say, very sad. But I shall continue to keep the name of my childhood idol alive on the Fishy.


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My dad used to mention Ron Rafferty quite a lot when talking about the good old times. RIP Ron.
Scott, Cullen, Rafferty, Hunt and Fell were as good a forward line as I ever saw at BP. Seeing them as a kid I was spoilt for life. Such a pity not to have seen them in action on film.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think Jimmy Fell ended up a business owner in Gilbey Road later in life around the 1970s - early 80s? My mum and dad knew him by then. The newsagents is still there.....

Jimmy Bloomer snr I guess must have lived close by, as two of his kids lived around there for many years, my dad worked building bungalows in Cleethorpes with him after his playing career. I know a couple of the grand kids quite well.

Billy Cairns I think ran a pub somewhere, I've got a pic of my dad having a pint in there, not sure if it's actually with Billy Cairns himself he's with.  I'll ask my dads brother....


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