Just seen Ian has passed away age 73 good prop nice man aswell

RIP. Great forward for us. Just a bit before my time.

RIP Selwyn, what a character and a great performer for us. Ian van Bellen is the correct spelling.

Yes, R I P Ian

Anyone else remember his drop goal from near the half way line?

Yes I can just about remember that. Can’t remember who it was against though

Fulham I think?

Or was it there we signed him from?

Thought he went to them from us

Great Memories of Ian.Jumping and Spinning in the Tackle and generally causing havoc with strange running style.One of the first pieces in the Foxy jigsaw.People laughed when we first signed him.They stopped laughing when the trophies started to mount up.Met him in huddersfield a few years back,a great bloke.Thanks for the memories Selwyn.RIP.

Wasn't he basically a cannonball impact prop that played about 10 mins per game?

Well before my time but that was my dad's analysis of him

From memory we got him from Huddersfield, ad he left us to go to Fulham.

He played for about 20 minutes per game - real blast-from-the-past type player. Big lump with no stamina or fitness! He wouldn't last five minutes in the modern game

But that drop goal was phenomenal!

Sad to hear.

Ian was a 'big lad' in every way. It's true he was perfect for the substitution rule but he was very effective and took a lot of stopping. I guess he was very much in the same mould as Paul Anderson, who most younger fans will remember. If I remember correctly he came from Huddersfield, but I could be wrong.

Commiserations to his friends and family, including his younger brother Gary, who also played for the RA&B.

It was versus Hull FC was that drop goal apparently.

Hull away at the Boulevard in a cup quarter final replay in 1979, I remember it as if it was yesterday

An 8-4 win when Hull had 70% of the ball and a great pack, but they did not pass!! Their points came from 2 pens, we scored 2 tries and 2 drops including Ian's

The Threepeny stand started laughing when he attempted it, they stopped when it was still rising when it went over the posts.

I knew someone who knew someone on the board at Hull. They told him there was over 25,000 in the crowd that night, but they only declared 18,000 as that was all the ground was certified for and that we had shafted them in the game at Odsal by declaring about 10,000 less in the ground than there was so we could pocket the difference!! Some things keep coming round for our great club
We had about 2,000 in the crowd at Hull, it wasn't a place for the faint hearted

RIP big man!!