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joe56
January 10, 2021, 12:33pm
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Good to read the positive comments about George’s management on here. I go right back to Tim Ward, and although we’ve had some good and even great managers over the years, including Jimmy McGuigan, Lawrie. McMenemy, Dave Booth and Alan Buckley, I have always thought that George’s team was the best of the lot. Raiding wingers, goal scoring strikers, creative midfielders, combative defenders and a first class goalkeeper, all playing wonderful football, This was encapsulated for me in the League Cup victory over Everton with Mike Brolley outstanding. For a couple of years, we were privileged to enjoy fantastic entertainment. The problem is, to quote Joni Mitchell, “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone!”
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January 10, 2021, 12:39pm

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In the 65+ years I have been a fan his team was about the best.

Happy birthday George and thanks for the memories.


                             Over 37 years living in Suffolk but always a mariner.
                             69 Years following the Town

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                               First game   April 1955
                               
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George’s great strength as a manager was leaving well alone. He inherited a strong squad that had started under Tommy Casey and developed under John Newman, with a great team ethos, individual characters and added little to it, taking them as far as he could. The team more or less picked and ran itself for his time as manager. I think he wanted to run the club (or at least the football side) in the same way as Cloughie but it was a time of change at Town, the Ramsdens were running the show and were looking ambitious.


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George was a regular in the Press Room,  just before the first lockdown in March 20, George had not been well and had been in hospital.
Asked him why he never wrote a book, he replied "you would not be able to print ,most of it".
He would tell me little snipets about his time at Grimsby. Like the day their left John Fraser behind after an away game, John had to get the train back.

Happy birthday George, hope to welcome to back into the Press room, when its safe.

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In that squad we had 2 of our strikers play for the England U21's?
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Quoted from cannylad68
In that squad we had 2 of our strikers play for the England U21's?


That’s a trivia question and a half I know Kevin Moore was involved with England at youth level so I assume one was Kevin Drinkell who was the other?


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Garry Lund and Paul Wilkinson were both capped at U23 level whilst playing together at Town.
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Garry Lund and Paul Wilkinson were both capped at U23 level whilst playing together at Town.


Thanks, I knew that one but they where after George so I thought I’d missed something from the trivia annals.


"Crombie you would have got to that if you weren't such a fat ba%$@rd" - George Kerr, inspiration from the dug out 70s style  
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