Best Town Striker you've seen

Birtles was class even though his legs had gone by the time he got to us.  Mendonca too, despite his lack of speed.  I think he would have gone higher if he'd had more pace.  Saw him beat a player who went to ground.  The defender managed to get up and catch up for a second try. Doncs did him again and slotted it in the bottom corner.   Another thing he was useless at was heading.  He always timed his jumps wrong so he was on the way down as the ball reached him. If you do manage to make contact it kills the ball.  I noticed it because I did the same thing.  Every lunchtime we'd go out at work and a mate would punt balls in the air for me to head. It's a bit disappointing that a crappy Sunday league player can work on it but a pro cannot. Still, his goals against his native Sunderland for Charlton in the play off final were class. Sunderland fans still hate hims so much, apparently he's in hiding. Tony Rees was good on the eye.

Quoted from Yossarian

Drinkell was playing when I first started watching town - was gutted when he left.  
Tony Rees I always enjoyed watching because he was in such a great team....  

Complete agreement. Drinkell was good enough to play for England. Tony Rees with flicks and dummies, sometimes what he didn't do with the ball fooled defenders. Pity he had injuries, playing the way he did often stretching must have caused some of the injuries.

Quoted from Mayaman

Birtles was class even though his legs had gone by the time he got to us.  Mendonca too, despite his lack of speed.  I think he would have gone higher if he'd had more pace.  Saw him beat a player who went to ground.  The defender managed to get up and catch up for a second try. Doncs did him again and slotted it in the bottom corner.   Another thing he was useless at was heading.  He always timed his jumps wrong so he was on the way down as the ball reached him. If you do manage to make contact it kills the ball.  I noticed it because I did the same thing.  Every lunchtime we'd go out at work and a mate would punt balls in the air for me to head. It's a bit disappointing that a crappy Sunday league player can work on it but a pro cannot. Still, his goals against his native Sunderland for Charlton in the play off final were class. Sunderland fans still hate hims so much, apparently he's in hiding. Tony Rees was good on the eye.

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

most unpredictable was big keith alexander

Birtles was class - you could see he was 2 seconds ahead of everyone else on the pitch.  We were lucky to have him play in that team .....  some great players - that was a time when I'd turn up a Blundell Park expecting an amazing performance.

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.

Quoted from coddy60

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

but apart from that Mayaman was spot on  

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.

My dad who's been watching Town since late 40's always rated Tommy Briggs as absolutely class.. in my lifetime Kevin Drinkell his all round game made him stand out.. tho Mendonca and Wilkinson were not far behind.

Quoted from livvo

From what I can remember I thought Jason Lee showed that he was better then our level when on loan with us. His movement was very good

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