He was a friend of our family. Too young to see him play, but met him many times over the years. Always humble and nice, but no time for fools. I would have liked him a lot without knowing his background.
I've mentioned here before that Hassa Mann is my uncle, so talking to football royalty was pretty 'meh' growing up (don't all kids have champion footballers in their family?), but no matter how many times I talked to Ron I was always a bit (lot) in awe of him. The man had a list of honours and a gravitas about him that made Uncle Hass seem just another bloke that played football.
His influence on the MFC, and every other club he touched, plus the game as a whole cannot ever be calculated.
Love and thoughts to RDB's family and friends.
"Don't cry because it is over. Smile because it happened"