Ron Ruddick - an unsung hero?

[Leslie Charteris]

An interesting read on the Guardian website featuring Ron Ruddick, a long time scout for Saints.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/17/man-who-discovered-gareth-bale-champions-league-real-madrid

 

None of your poncy Opta Stats here, just good old-fashioned observation, intuition and instinct. It seems to have served him well.

Edited 18 May, 2014 by Leslie Charteris

[david in sweden]

another case of where persistancy pays off......someone who watches a lot of small games with youngsters on wet afternoons ....week after week, yet can still pick a good'un when they see him.

 

Nice story . well done Ron R.

[SuperSAINT]

That was a good read.

 

Nice work Rod.

[Graffito]

Salt of the earth person who does it because he loves it. The kind whom football, with all it's hangers on, prima donnas and parasites, couldn't do without.

[SuperMikey]

I never sack him on Football Manager

 

Great piece though, always nice to hear from the likes of Rod who have been with the club for a long time in the back room - we forget just how much the club has changed in 6 or 7 years!

[CityRanger]

Surely 'Arry Redknapp discovered Bale? Was present at the birth ya know-signed him up there and then.

[Saint-Armstrong]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/17/man-who-discovered-gareth-bale-champions-league-real-madrid

[JonnyLove]

So you didn't see this thread from yesterday then?

 

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?50289-Ron-Ruddick-an-unsung-hero

[VectisSaint]

So you didn't see this thread from yesterday then?

 

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?50289-Ron-Ruddick-an-unsung-hero

That was about Rod's less well known brother Ron.

[Leslie Charteris]

That was about Rod's less well known brother Ron.

 

Whoops! That was the cider speaking.

[saintedwill]

He used to run a six a side team for a pub near Bath in the 80s. Always had a few ringers. One year his team had Jason Dodd and my dad's had Fitzroy Simpson. He told me I'd play centre mid for Saints one day (I was 6) so he doesn't get them right all the time!