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TownSNAFU5
June 6, 2020, 5:24pm
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Birtles was good when he scored 3 goals at home to Wrexham.  5-1 I think.

Whilst serving in Germany, I also saw at his very best in the European Cup in 1979 against Cologne.  They were the current double-winners and very strong favourites to go through after a draw at the City Ground.

Birtles and Woodcock ran them ragged all night.  Forest won 1-0.  Master tactics by Cloughy.  
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Two of my favourite Town players were forwards but not necessarily strikers, namely Trevor Whymark and Tony Rees. In terms of strikers, Tees, Mendonca and Drinkell.
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Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub
I was lucky enough to have seen the best striker that Grimsby Town had since WW2 score five goals in a game at Blundell Park in 1959. He was Tommy Briggs and he was doing a Tees and returning to the ground where he first found fame. Tommy first played for Town in 1947 and before he left to sign for Coventry for £19500 in December 1950, a massive fee in those days, he had scored 83 goals in 121 games. He went on to become a legend at Blackburn and returned for a short spell to BP.

In 1959 you could go to reserve games and sit where you liked in the Main and the Osmond. Some weeks the A team from the Lincs League would be playing on BP.  Me and my mate would get a bag of boiled sweets from that stall on the market near the Pea Bung and walk down to BP and go in the Osmond seats. I think the Reserves were playing Hartlepool and we had a strong team out. Tommy was well past his sell by and he was struggling with his knees, but much too good for the opposition and we had Jimmy Maddison on the left wing as well. In the end we won 12-0 with them scoring 5 a piece. I remember Maddison scoring a penalty and a lovely bum-bump by Briggs on their centre half just to move him out of the way so Tommy could belt one in.

So I count myself lucky because I think it was only a week or two after that Tommy went off as player manager to Glentoran for a couple of quite successful seasons before coming back to live in Grimsby.


Tommy also played for the England B scoring on his debut.

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Tommy also played for the England B scoring on his debut.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/Bhz0ysg.jpg[/img]



His scoring stats are amazing especially when you think he was playing in a poor Grimsby side on the slide down after the war. That photo would be about the time he was capped.

He didn’t look like that when I saw him play.



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He was a striker wasn’t he ? Pineapple head ?


Yes mate, got tore to shreds by baddiel and skinner which shattered his confidence.
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Drinkell for definite 1st place and latterly Mendonca and Reddy when fit

Special mention for Rees, as whilst not in same class as these 3, his impact in getting us going under AB was immense
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Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub



His scoring stats are amazing especially when you think he was playing in a poor Grimsby side on the slide down after the war. That photo would be about the time he was capped.

He didn’t look like that when I saw him play.



Haha, apparently (well according to Wiki) he struggled to settle at Coventry and Birmingham but was ok at Blackburn.  His stats are pretty good.  I wished I had the luxury of seeing these older players like Jackie Bestall and Pat Glover etc.

Years                Team                               Apps     Gls
1946                 Plymouth Argyle               0           0
1947–1950       Grimsby Town                  116       78
1950–1951       Coventry City                   11         7
1951–1952       Birmingham City              50         22
1952–1957       Blackburn Rovers            194       140
1957–1958       Grimsby Town                  19         9
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Glentoran (player manager)                          Total

                                                                  390      256


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He's hardly in hiding while working at the Nissan plant, and, despite his lack of speed he did go higher 🤦‍♂️


He doesn't have email or mobile according to him because of the trolls.  I know he went higher than town but he could have been more reknowned or joined a bigger club than Charlton
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My Dad took me to watch a reserve game versus York City at BP in the late 50's. Heavyweight  Tommy  Briggs with a very young featherweight Brian Hill on the left wing I think we won 2-0.

Incidentally Ron Rafferty wasn't half bad! Ralph Hunt was good but I believe his penchant for the good life perhaps restricted his potential?
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food for thought on here though.......any young strikers watching, just about every one of those caressed into the net with precision, technique over power.


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