Dennis Wyness
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| Dennis Wyness | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dennis Middleton Wyness | |
| Date of birth | March 22, 1977 | |
| Place of birth | Aberdeen, Scotland | |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |
| Playing position | Striker | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | St Mirren | |
| Number | TBA | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1996-2000 1999 2000-2003 2003-2006 2005-2006 2006-2008 2008- |
Aberdeen → Inverness CT (loan) Inverness CT Heart of Midlothian → Inverness CT (loan) Inverness CT St Mirren |
23 (16) 12 (0) 116 (67) 57 (11) 27 (8) 44 (6) ) (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Dennis Wyness (born March 22, 1977 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish football attacking midfielder or second striker. He is currently with Scottish Premier League side St Mirren. Wyness currently holds the Inverness CT scoring record, with a total of 101 goals. Dennis netted his 100th against his old club Aberdeen.
Wyness began his career at Aberdeen, where he originally played as a midfielder. He was used sparingly as a squad player by several managers, until Ebbe Skovdahl allowed him to go on loan to Inverness Caledonian Thistle in 1999, where he played as a midfielder, then as a striker. Wyness signed a permanent contract for Caley Thistle in January 2000. However, during his first twelve months at the club he struggled to make an impact, and was eventually transfer-listed by then-manager Steve Paterson. This provided Wyness with a huge incentive to fight his way back into the team and he responded to his transfer listing by beginning to score goals almost immediately. He was eventually taken off the transfer list in December 2000, and soon became a firm favourite of the Caley Thistle supporters.
Wyness was Caley Thistle's top scorer of season 2000-01, with 24 league goals. The following season he netted 18 times in the league and, in season 2001-02, established a strike partnership with Paul Ritchie which resulted in 37 league goals between the two of them that season. In March 2003 he also scored the only goal of the game as Caley Thistle once again sent Celtic crashing out of the Scottish Cup.
Wyness's excellent performances in front of goal earned him a move to Hearts in the summer of 2003. Although highly-rated by former Hearts manager Craig Levein, Wyness found it hard to break into the Hearts team and was only occasionally used by Levein. He fared better under Levein's successor, John Robertson, who had also managed him at Caley Thistle, but when Robertson was replaced by George Burley in 2005 Wyness once again found himself out of favour at Tynecastle and returned on loan to Caley Thistle, viewed by many as his spiritual home. In January 2006 it was announced that Wyness' loan was to be extended to the end of the current season, and that has he also signed a pre-contract agreement to then rejoin the Inverness club on a permanent basis. In late May 2006, once his Hearts contract expired, he signed a two year deal with Caley Thistle.
On the 19th May 2008, it had been officially announced that Dennis agreed a 2 year pre-contract deal to join fellow SPL side St.Mirren FC, which will tie him to the Paisley outfit until the summer of 2010.
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