Ron Rafferty

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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.

Same, used to stand on the corner between the Pontoon and the Main stand with my dad watching those great players, although for some reason my Dad was always on Cullens back!

Quoted from Nelly GTFC

My dad used to mention Ron Rafferty quite a lot when talking about the good old times. RIP Ron.
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....

Cairns was the common name for the pub on Freemo that he ran for years.

Not sure what Jim Fell did when he came back from his travels but his wife Alberta was a secretary at the old Education Centre on Victoria Street.

Quoted from 123614

Same, used to stand on the corner between the Pontoon and the Main stand with my dad watching those great players, although for some reason my Dad was always on Cullens back!

Mick Cullen was never a hit with the older fans was he? Funny really but many of them would be comparing him with little Jackie Bestall I suppose. Cullen, Don Donovan and Johnny Scott were almost telepathic and technically as good as you could get. All Hunt and Rafferty had to do was time a run in the box and the ball would be there. As I said, in the words of a later manager we was spoilt!

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

Mick Cullen was never a hit with the older fans was he? Funny really but many of them would be comparing him with little Jackie Bestall I suppose. Cullen, Don Donovan and Johnny Scott were almost telepathic and technically as good as you could get. All Hunt and Rafferty had to do was time a run in the box and the ball would be there. As I said, in the words of a later manager we was spoilt!

I can't think of any two better wingers we have had than Scott and Fell.

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I can't think of any two better wingers we have had than Scott and Fell.

I played in Lincs League for Market Rasen back in the seventies and we played Ross Sports, they had Jimmy Fell we had Brian Hill, so two of the best wingers in the last 60 years on view that day. Have to say Jimmy was probably in his final season and was carrying just a little excess weight but Brian was as fit as a fiddle.

My old man’s boyhood hero, I wonder how many kids of today call a town player their idol? Rest in peace Ron.

RIP Ron
My first legend as a boy supporting the Town
Johnny Scott crosses the ball and Ron Rafferty meets it with a bullet header. Another goal for the mariners.
The good ol' days.

RIP

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I can't think of any two better wingers we have had than Scott and Fell.

For quite a  few games in the 1959-60 season me and my mate used to walk to the match from where we lived in Duncombe Street to save the bus fare so we could get chips from the Pea Bung and boiled sweets from the stall on the market, then go in the boys paddock which gave us a great view of Johnny Scott for half the game.

I don’t know which games but several times he would beat a full back then stand still and wait for him to catch up then beat him again. He seemed to mesmerise them.and he could bend a cross so the GK would start to come for an easy catch and the ball would swerve away from him onto the head of Hunt or Rafferty.

On a good day we won the toss and attacked the Osmond first half. We would see the half in the boys paddock then climb over the gate into the Barrett and walk down to the other end, climb that gate to the open corner and watch Jimmy Fell in the second half. Jim was more direct, he had a fast step over and then away either into the box or a far post cross.

My first hero when he got into the team.

I used to argue with my dad that Ron was better than Tommy Briggs.

What we could do with someone like him now.

RIP Ron you gave me the love of football and of Town.

You will never be forgotten .

By far the best header of a balI i have ever seen...
Scott and Fell in the wings delivering the crosses and big
Ron with his bullet headers...  A simple game really played by tougher men...
RIP. Ron...