Gary Jones (footballer born 1975)
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| Gary Jones | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Gary Steven Jones | |
| Date of birth | May 10, 1975 | |
| Place of birth | Chester, England | |
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | |
| Playing position | Centre Forward | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Grimsby Town | |
| Number | 19 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1993-99 2000-02 2002 2002-05 2005-present |
Tranmere Rovers Nottingham Forest Tranmere Rovers (Loan) Tranmere Rovers Grimsby Town |
178 (28) 36 (2) 6 (0) 86 (17) 118 (27) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Gary Steven Jones is an English football player, who usually plays as a centre forward, but has played in an attacking midfield role and as a centre back.
Jones has spent most of his career playing for clubs in the second tier of the English league. He is by no means a prolific goal scorer, but has a reputation for providing goal scoring opportunities for other players. Currently he plays for Grimsby Town in Football League Two.
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[edit] Grimsby Town
After a slow start to the 2005-06 season, due to lack of fitness as he was a relatively late signing, Gary provided vital goals in Grimsby's ultimately unsuccessful promotion push. He was leading goal scorer with 17 goals in all competitions and formed a very effective partnership with Michael Reddy who scored 14 goals. He was seeming going to miss the play off final due to a 90th minute red card[1] in the second leg of the semi final, but this was rescinded on appeal.[2]
He signed a new one year deal at Grimsby Town F.C. in the summer of 2007.
He enjoys a great rapport with the fans, and his whole-hearted displays make him a big favourite. He played most of the 2007/08 season with an injury (including an appearance as a substitute at Wembley as Grimsby lost out to Franchise FC in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final) and is due to have on operation on Monday 21 April 2008. He is still to hear whether he is to be offered a new contract.
Gary is affectionately known as Gary Lump by Grimsby fans. This was down to there already being a Jones (Rob, now at Hibernian) at the club when he arrived. This has been adapted to Lumpaldinho by some fans. Gary also has a Facebook group in his honour.
[edit] Honours
- League Cup Runner-up 2000
[edit] References
- ^ 2006 Play off semi final, 2nd leg - Match Report at Telegraph.co.uk
- ^ Successful Appeal - news.bbc.co.uk
[edit] External links
- Gary Jones career stats at Soccerbase
- Football Heroes Profile - Nottingham Forest
- Cod Almighty Player Profile - Grimsby Town, start of 05/06 season at codalmighty.com
- Cod Almighty Player Profile - Grimsby Town, start of 06/07 season at codalmighty.com
- Profile of Gary Jones - Grimsby Town, start of 07/08 season at codalmighty.com
- Gary Lump Appreciation Society at Facebook.com
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