Footballers who have played league football for both PNE and Rochdale
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684) Vernon Allatt
PNE 19 apps; 3 goals
The Dale 40 apps; 8 goals
PNE debut 09/12/1985 v Orient (A) – Lost 0-2
804) Graeme Atkinson
PNE 79 apps; 6 goals
The dale 57 apps; 5 goals
PNE debut 15/10/1994 v Hartlepool (A) – Lost 1-3
886) Brian Barry-Murphy
PNE 21 apps; 0 goals
The Dale 38 apps; 1 goal
PNE debut 24/08/1999 v Wrexham (A) – Won 2-0
815) Michael Brown
PNE 16 apps; 1 goal
The Dale 5 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 02/09/1995 v Cambridge (H) – Drawn 3-3
793) Ian Bryson
PNE 151 apps 19 goals
The Dale 54 apps; 1 goal
PNE debut 04/12/1993 vShrewsbury (A) – Won 1-0
601) Dave Carrick
PNE 2 apps; 0 goals
The Dale 26 app; 4 goals
PNE debut 17/11/1973 v Oxford (A) – Drawn 1-1
746) Lee Cartwright
PNE 407 apps; 22 goals
The Dale 27 apps; 1 goal
PNE debut 02/03/1991 vShrewsbury (A) – Won 1-0
695) Les Chapman
PNE 53 apps; 1 goal
The Dale 88 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 23/08/1986 v Tranmere (A) – Drawn 1-1
246) William Clifton
PNE 4 apps; 0 goals
The Dale 13 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 10/04/1915 v Clapham Orient (A) – Drawn 1-1
566) Paul Crossley
PNE 3 apps 0 goals
The Dale 17 apps; 2 goals
PNE debut 06/05/1967 v Carlisle (A) – Drawn 1-1
253) George Daniel
PNE 12 apps; 1 goal
The Dale 35 apps; 1 goal
PNE debut 01/09/1919 v Bradford City (H) – Lost 1-5
610) Stephen Doyle
PNE 197 apps; 12 goals
The Dale 121 apps; 1 goal
PNE debut 01/10/1974 v Tranmere (A) – Lost 1-3
630) Steve Elliott
PNE 208 apps; 70 goals
The Dale 52 app; 9 goals
PNE debut 17/03/1979 v West Ham (H) – Drawn 0-0
717) Tony Ellis
PNE 158 apps; 74 goals
The Dale 59 apps; 17 goals
PNE debut 10/10/1987 v Port Vale (H) – Won 3-2
Player Profile – Micky Brown
Michael Anthony (Micky) Brown was born in Birmingham on 8 February 1968 and was probably most well known for playing for Shrewsbury during the late 80's and 90's, in which during this period he joined the club three times and made a record 418 league appearances out of 500 in his career.
He started as an apprentice with Shrewsburyand signed professional forms in February 1986 and in his first spell scored 9 goals from 190 appearances.
On 15 August 1991 Brown joined Bolton for a fee of £100,000 with Tom Kelly also for £100,000, but only made 33 appearance with 3 league goals before returning to Shrewsbury on 23 December 1992 for a cut price £25,000.
In his second spell for Shrewsbury Brown netted 11 goals in 67 appearances and helped the shrews to the Third Division Championship in 1993/94, before joining Prestonon 30 November 1994 for a fee of £75,000.
Injury prevented making his debut until the 1995/96 when he was a substitute for Lee Cartwright in a 3-3 home draw against Cambridge on 2 September, He then made five first eleven appearances but only finished 90 minutes once. His only goal for the club came in a 5-0 home win over Cardiff on New Years Day, scoring one of the quickest substitute goals ever when he scored 30 seconds after coming on. He made 10 appearances during the season as Preston won the Third Division Championship.
Brown joined Rochdale on loan on 13 September 1996 and made his debut in a 2-1 win over Doncaster the following day. His fifth and last appearance came in a 2-2 home draw against Carlisle on 12 October.
Brown returned to PNE and made 6 further appearances in 1996/97 his last being a 0-0 draw against Rotherham on 2 November 1996.
He joined Shrewsbury on loan on 12 December 1996 which was made permanent a month later for a transfer fee of £25,000.
On 15 April 2000 he scored twice in a 4-2 home defeat against former club Rochdale whose goalscoreers included former PNE players Graeme Atkinson and Tony Ellis. But his most important goal in the last game of the 1999/2000 season when he scored against Exeter to secure the Shrews Football League status.
He created a new Shrewsbury appearance record when he overtook Colin Griffith’s tally of 406 before being released in the summer of 2001, in total he netted 36 goals from his 418 league appearances.
Brown joined Boston United on 15 August 2001where he won a Nationwide Conference winners medal in 2002 with 3 goals from 26 appearances
His final club was Chester who he joined on 17 May 2002 which was the club who had been relegated thanks to his Shrewsbury heroics in 2000 but only stayed for one season.
In September 2007 Brown joined West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division side Shawbury United from Newtown.
In June 2009 he joined Shrewsbury as part-time fitness coach.