A Saint and a White

Footballers who have played league football for PNE & Southampton

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932) Brett Ormerod

PNE 62 apps; 13 goals

Saints 98 apps; 12 goals

PNE debut 31/01/2006 v Crystal Palace (H) - Won 2-0

382) Dick Rowley

PNE 51 apps; 14 goals

Saints 104 apps; 52 goals

PNE debut 12/12/1931 v Plymouth (A) - Lost 1-2

350) Frank Ward

PNE 208 apps; 3 goals

Saints 27 apps; 0 goals

PNE debut 12/11/1927 v West Brom (H) - Drawn 3-3

490) Charlie Wayman

PNE 157 apps; 105 goals

Saints 100 apps; 73 goals

PNE debut 09/09/1950 v Birmingham (A) - Lost 0-1

697) Oshor Williams

PNE 39 apps 12 goals

Saints 7 apps 0 goal

PNE debut 23/08/1996 v Tranmere (A) - Drawn 1-1

707) Frank Worthington

PNE 23 apps; 2 goals

Saints 34 apps; 4 goals

PNE debut 21/02/1987 v Torquay (A) - Won 2-0

Player Profile - Dick Rowley

Richard William Morris (Dick) Rowley was born in Enniskillen on 13 January 1904. The son of an army major, Rowley spent his childhood in a number of barracks. He excelled at a number of sports, representing Wiltshire and Hampshire at cricket, golf, tennis, 100 yards, hurdles and motoring. Further, while on active service Rowley won the DCM.

Rowley first took to football with the Fulwood Barracks team but on attending Taunton College Grammar School he was forced to switch to rugby. With his schooling over he returned to football and played as an amateur with Andover.

For the 1925/26 season Rowley joined Third Division South side Swindon were he scored twice in two appearances.

In May 1926 Rowley signed for Southampton and quickly struck an understanding with Bill Rawlings and by that November he had been awarded his first professional deal. Rowley scored 13 goals from 35 appearances during the 1926/27 seasons with Rawlings scoring 23 goals and the Saints' finished the Second Division in thirteenth position. Before losing 2-1 to Arsenal in the 1927 FA Cup semi-final he had scored five goals and began to attract scouts from a number of clubs.

The 1927/28 season saw Rowley make 20 league appearances, scoring 5 goals as Southampton finished in seventeenth. The following season the Saints' finished fourth with Rowley netting 9 goals from 24 appearances.

His most productive season in finding the net was the 1929/30 season when he was the top scorer with 25 goals in as many games, ten more than Willie Haines who was in second place in the goal scoring charts. His tally included including four goals in a 5-2 win at Bradford City on 2 November and hat tricks on successive games in a 4-2 win at home to Chelsea on 21 September and a 5-0 win at Nottingham Forest a week later.

Rowley was capped by Ireland for the first time in a 2-2 draw against Wales on 2 February 1929; He scored his first international goal three weeks later on his second cap in front of a 40,000 crowd at Windsor Park he was one of the few Irish players to earn credit as Scotland cruised to a 7-3 victory. In all Rowley won four caps while a Southampton player.

In February 1930 after netting 52 goals from 104 league appearances Rowley moved to Tottenham for a fee of £3,750. It was not to prove a wholly successful move as he was largely restricted to the reserves. Rowley made 9 appearances in the remainder of the 1929/30 season, scoring 4 goals.

Tottenham finished third in the Second Division in the 1930/31 season but Rowley only made 9 appearances, scoring 3 goals.

Rowley made the last of his six caps for Ireland, scoring twice in the 1931/32 season with a 3-1 defeat in Scotland on 19 September. Rowed only made 7 league appearances during the season for Tottenham and netted 3 goals.