Just read that big Ron has died aged 86 after suffering from Alzheimer’s in recent years. One of the all time greats who helped us out of Div.2 and back into Div.1. Shanks signed him at the same time as Ian St John.
Ronnie was the first LFC captain whose career I saw from start to finish.
Shanks was right …Ronnie was a colossus. RIP Ronnie.
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Dreadful news. The first LFC captain to lift the FA Cup. One of the greats.
RIP
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Walk around him, lads. Walk around him.
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I had a VHS as a kid about the history of LFC and it had footage of Shanks talking about signing Yeats, and while I dont remember exactly what he said the vibe of it always stuck with me as the defining aspect of the Shanks era. It was way of speaking in what is clearly hyperbole, but with an authenticity that makes you think maybe he genuinely means it and this guy might actually be 8 feet tall.
Liverpool’s history is built on the shoulders of many people, but there arent many who played as big a role in building the modern foundations as Yeats.
Interesting trivia in the BBC write up of the news is that he was the person who identified Hyypia and pushed the club to sign him. Game knows game. RIP, big man.
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Was just reading up on the history of LFC especially the Shankley years yesterday.
RIP
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It was only a few days ago I was watching Ron tell the story how he first met Shankly in a hotel in Scotland and how it was a surprise visit when he got the call that was set up by one of the colonel’s of the British Army Ron was playing for at the time.
This was the main guy that made it all happen.
RIP Rowdy.
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RIP Ron Yeats
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Also captained the 1st Div champions twice. Before Sly invented football naturally.
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A good age, a terrible disease. RIP Colossus.
Just out of curiosity, is there a good disease? 
There is. Julius Wagner used malaria to cure syphilis and won a nobel prize for it.
This is very important information for alot of people here I believe.
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I don’t wish to take this thread off topic, but calling malaria a good disease is utter nonsense.
I believe we should continue this discussion elsewhere.
RIP Big Ron. He was more than just a collosus of a man, he was one of the pillars of the club. Before the likes of Ron Yeats, Ian St. John and Roger Hunt we were nothing. They made us what we are today.
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What do you dislike about that? We were second division and second rate before Bill Shankly transformed us with players such as Yeats, St. John and Hunt.
I think it’s past your bedtime. Maybe you should get some sleep. You look very tired.
Learn your club history.
That’s very patronising.
When we won the league in 1964 it had been about 40 years since we had been one of the major clubs.
And telling me that it’s past my bedtime isn’t?
It was a joke. You weren’t joking.
I think it’s time we stopped derailing this thread.
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RIP Ron, YNWA.