Footballers who have played league football for both PNE and Swindon
K-Z
648) John Kelly
PNE 130 apps; 27 goals
Robins 7 apps; 1 goal
PNE debut 10/08/1981 v Bristol City (A) – Drawn 0-0
875) Andy Lonergan
PNE 208 apps; 1 goal
Robins 1 app; 0 goals
PNE debut 27/09/2001 v Coventry (A) – Lost 1-4
828) David Lucas
PNE 122 apps; 0 goals
Robins 65 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 27/04/1996 v Hartlepool (A) – Won 2-0
900) Alan McCormack
PNE 11 apps 0 goals
Robins 80 apps; 2 goals
PNE debut 06/03/2004 v Burnley (A) – Drawn 1-1
964) Jay McEveley
PNE 27 apps; 0 goals
Robins 59 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 30/09/2008 v Swansea (H) – Lost 0-2
940) Tommy Miller
PNE 7 apps; 0 goals
Robins 34 apps; 1 goal
PNE debut 28/11/2006 v Coventry (H) – Drawn 1-1
382) Dick Rowley
PNE 51 apps; 14 goals
Robins 2 apps; 2 goals
PNE debut 12/12/1931 v Plymouth (A) – Lost 1-2
604) Ray Treacy
PNE 58 apps; 11 goals
Robins 55 apps; 16 goals
PNE debut 11/12/1973 v Middlesbrough (A) – Lost 0-3
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 TauntonCollegeGrammar 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 and scored twice on his league debut in a 2-1 win at Exeter on 5 April 1926. His second and last appearance for Swindon was a 3-2 defeat at Watford on 24 April
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 BradfordCity 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 NottinghamForest 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.
After 10 goals in 24 appearances in a little under two years for Tottenham he joined Preston for a fee of £5,000 in December 1931 in a deal that also included Ted Harper.
In 1932/33 Rowley laid on many of Harpers' 37 goals and claimed five himself as Preston fell well short of the Second Division promotion spots. In the following campaign the partnership was split up as Harper left to join Blackburn mid-season and injuries restricted Rowley to just five games as Preston claimed promotion to the First Division as runners-up. Unable to face a campaign in the topflight, Rowley retired in the summer of 1934.
With his playing days behind him, Rowley became a coach with the Lancashire AFA in July 1937 and in the 1940s shared his skills and knowledge with RAF Uxbridge. He passed away in 1984.