Birthdays Today: Kevin Gallen...Richard Dunne...Rowan Vine

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Birthdays: Kevin Gallen & Rowan Vine

Kevin Gallen Turns 43

Rowan Vine Turns 36

Richard Dunne 39

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I posted these in the Match Report thread. But Vine seems to be speaking out of turn... Watch it Vine: !


The Mirror
Rowan Vine pleads with QPR board to give Jim Magilton time to make his mark
Published 20:38 20/09/09 By Ken Gorman

Striker Rowan Vine helped to lift Rangers in to the top half of the Championship - then fired his own plea to their directors.

He urged their notoriously hard to please board to give new manager Jim Magilton the time to develop a team which the former Birmingham and Luton hit man believes is good enough for promotion.

Vine has been at Loftus Road for just two years, but he has already played under FOUR different bosses and he believes that the revolving managerial door has left the players heads spinning as well.

Vine said: “We have brought in players over the last 18 months who have strengthened the squad massively. But there has been instability at the club, with people coming and going. That never helps.

“Jim Magilton has certainly been good for the players so far. We would like to see him given the time to continue the job.

“We believe we are one of the top teams in the league. We are capable of beating anybody. What we need is for everyone to be pulling in the same direction.”

Rangers were certainly well worth their victory over a Cardiff side whose early season glitter has been tarnished by three defeats in their last four games.

Manager Dave Jones pulled no punches, blasting their performance as “unacceptable.”

Cardiff may have the stability that Vine craves, with Jones in charge now for more than four years.

But that didn't stop Jones declaring: “That was our most lack-lustre performance for a very long time. I'll accept players making mistakes, but what I cannot accept is that we didn't work hard enough to make things happen.

“No body can come out of it with any credit - and that includes me, the backroom staff and the players.”

Cardiff were strictly second best in every department as two clinical strikes from Jay Simpson had the game won for Rangers by half-time.

The 20-year-old, Enfield born Simpson is on a year long loan from Arsenal and already looks destined for a successful season.

“It's not just his goals, what I like about him most is his work ethic,” said manager Magilton. “It has rubbed off on the other players and given a greater tempo to our game.

“We have Jay until next May - and perhaps we'll have him longer. But we won't get carried away by this result because everyone knows what a tough league this is.”

As for Simpson - all he wants is a chance to make an impact. “I believe in myself, I can score goals. I just need to be playing,” he said.

www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Rowan-Vine-pleads-with-QPR-board-to-give-Jim-Magilton-time-to-make-his-mark-article166283.html


The Sun
FLAVIO BRIATORE'S Loftus Road reign has been a car crash in its own right.
Six managers have been booted out by the trigger-happy Italian since he arrived at the club in 2007.

The hands-on co-owner has been accused of interfering in team selection and creating unrest behind the scenes.

Eyebrows were once again raised when Jim Magilton was hired to lead 'the world's richest club' into the Premier League - the man sacked for failing to do just that with Ipswich.

But the disgraced Formula One boss, dumped by Renault last week amid their race-fixing scandal, may have just found the steady driver he needs in the likeable Ulsterman.

Although fans should not be jumping through Hoops just yet.

How long Magilton will be left alone to implement his innovative methods remains to be seen.

But striker Rowan Vine said: "You need everyone pulling in the same direction. That's the only way you can get progression.

"We've added players who have strengthened us massively but there's been instability at the club.

"Of course, people coming and going doesn't help. We have to produce results like this week in, week out."

This win was never in doubt once Rangers went two goals up.

Jay Simpson looked offside when he fired home Vine's miscue after 19 minutes.

But there was no luck needed when he hit home in the 40th minute after good work from Wayne Routledge.

Cardiff boss Dave Jones blasted his troops, saying: "We never got going.

"We looked slow and lacklustre and everything that could have gone wrong did."

SUN STAR MAN

BEN WATSON (QPR). Ran the show.

www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2646375/Cardiff-0-QPR-2.html

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Hmm that may just be the kiss of death for both of them

Vine said: “We have brought in players over the last 18 months who have strengthened the squad massively. But there has been instability at the club, with people coming and going. That never helps.

“Jim Magilton has certainly been good for the players so far. We would like to see him given the time to continue the job.

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Bump..

[Lonegunmen]

Gallen is a Hero. Not just a decent player but a decent guy too.

[Macmoish]

A Gallen "Tribute" Video made by "supahoopsa001" (Music optional!)

[eastpaddoknutta]

legend in every sense of the word

WE LOVE KEVIN GALLEN THE SUPERHOOP!!!

[Macmoish]

Bump...

Happy Happy Birthday Kevin Gallen...Someone we'll always be wondering how good he might have become/how far he might have gone - without THE injury.

Edit: And just to note, Kevin Gallen last week joined non-League Leverstock Green
www.levgreenfc.co.uk/


Ha...writing positively about Vine!

[cpr]

May I add, Claudette Murphy, mother of Grace, won't mention the age though.

Happy Birthday Claudette ;D

[RoryTheRanger]

Happy Birthday to Magic Hat and Claudette.

As for Rowan Vine, bugger off.

[qprcanada]

Gallen bought me a couple of pints of Guinness at Heathrow after 2003 playoff final. I saw him in the terminal and told him I had flown over for the weekend to see the match, he immediately offered to buy me a drink and we chatted over drinks with his brother and some other friends of his.

He told me we would get promoted next season. And we did !

Legend.

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Bump...

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Happy birthday lads and I just read that its Mackie's birthday tomorrow so dont forget Mac

[sharky]

Vine scored a cracking goal against Celtic for my SPL team St Johnston last week. Many happy return Rowan. Score a brace this week please!!

[sharky]

Sept 22, 2012 7:50:04 GMT sharky said:

Vine scored a cracking goal against Celtic for my SPL team St Johnston last week. Many happy return Rowan. Score a brace this week please!!

Didn't score, got red carded but St Johnston won!

[Macmoish]

And Vine criticizing QPR again

SCOTSMAN



Rowan Vine refused to let stalled career wither

Rowan Vine is settling in well at St Johnstone
By Moira Gordon
Published on Sunday 23 September 2012 03:16

ROWAN Vine looks uncomfortable. The St Johnstone newcomer knows the number of clubs on his CV paints a picture and it’s not one he likes. “I never wanted to be someone who was considered a journeyman and who had loads of clubs,” he says, shifting in his seat.

A fidget by nature, it gets worse when certain topics are raised. His reputation and the way the past four years have helped colour that are definite triggers. Honest and proud, Vine knows that people look at statistics and make snap judgments. In his career, he has signed for 12 clubs and there have been a few others where he has featured as a trialist. Yet he made fewer than 30 starts in the three and a half years prior to joining the Perth side this summer. On paper those facts don’t look great. But there is more to his story. Much more. Which is why he is so relieved that Saints manager Steve Lomas is not one for lazy assumptions. And it is why he is so determined to prove himself in the Scottish Premier League.

“A lot of my clubs have been loan spells.” In fact, there have been nine throughout his career. “And when I was at Portsmouth, I’m proud of the fact that at 19 I went out on loan and played 45 games for Brentford and then did similar for the next two seasons because I think that’s the best thing to do and that’s how you make a name for yourself.”

Vine’s reputation was solid at that stage. Clubs had him watched and, within a couple of years, Luton, Birmingham City and QPR had shelled out a total of more than £4 million in transfer fees for him.

“It was a spiral of success and progression and I moved to Luton and then to Birmingham and everything was going fine. I was 24 and we got up to the Premier league and then it was stop-start for probably the first time in my career. It was because my face didn’t fit as well as I had hoped and, at Birmingham, I struggled to be in the squad for the Premier League. I signed for QPR, on loan initially, and then, having done well, I signed a four-year contract and thought I was going to kick on again.”

The Londoner was 25, settled close to his family and edging towards what should have been his peak years. Injury temporarily curtailed matters before the financial unrest, various takeovers and a succession of managerial switches and personality clashes derailed them. “The injury was unlucky but I ended up having four nightmare years on the back of that. It wasn’t really anything to do with football. It’s been well documented what QPR have been through, different owners, different managers. I was right in the mix. I’m quite opinionated but I was injured at the time. If I had been fit and the first or second name on the teamsheet each week, I probably could have said what I wanted because I could back myself up on the pitch. But, when you are sitting on the treatment table, it’s not as easy to say something because it’s not taken as well as you meant it.

“I now want to play every game that I can but I know people will question that because my reputation over the past four years is that I haven’t played many games. People could look at those stats and just assume I’m not fit or there’s something wrong with me but the truth is I got injured in training from my own team-mate and I was out for 16 months. I think I have had one small injury since then and the fact I haven’t played much since then has been down to everything that’s gone on at QPR, not being allowed to train, not being allowed to play reserve games. That makes it hard to get out on loan and then do your best when you do. I am now trying to get myself back to a level. I’ve just turned 30 but, over the next three or four years, I don’t think it’s in doubt that I will play every game that I can.”

Vine believes he still has plenty of time to change any negative opinions formed about him. That was one reason he wanted to leave England but remain in the UK. He could have tried life abroad but he says he has unfinished business on these shores. “I look at stuff that has been said by people or media close to QPR or in the national press when they have tried to put a spin on things, and I’m embarrassed to see my name even associated with that kind of reputation. But I played over 200/250 games by the time I was 25 and before I was injured and, before everything at QPR, I did have a good reputation. I had never been in the final year of my contract, each time I had already been given an extension or the club sold me to a better club because I was doing well and I was proud of that. But all it takes is for scouts to see one bad game.

“In England you pretty much know that, if one manager has something to say about you, within two or three days every single manager in the league will know that. People seem too willing to take other people’s word but I have never, ever thought I was finished. People can write you off and that’s part of it, people have opinions and everyone wants their say but you can use that as added motivation. A couple of times I have been dealt a rough hand but I have always maintained that, if I could get the opportunity to get back to a certain level of fitness and match sharpness, then I could still show what I could do. I’m getting there but I know I’m still not back to the level I have been in the past.”

Life in Perth is suiting him, although his red card yesterday against Ross County was a setback. Nevertheless, he is settling into the dressing room. “I do speak my mind but I try to be positive. I don’t want to come into a club and be the loudest person in the changing room because I think that’s disrespectful to the guys who were already here. But, in every changing room I have ever been in, I have been a big part of the squad and I can affect things positively.”

Vine’s first goal for Saints, in their victory over Celtic, has helped him and the club find their feet as they look towards this week’s League Cup tie against Queen’s Park. Football excites him again and, after a few years without the carrot of competitive football at the end of each week, he now can’t wait for every matchday. “It’s a gift to be able to play football week in, week out,” he says.
www.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday/sport/rowan-vine-refused-to-let-stalled-career-wither-1-2542704

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Just looked up Jamie Mackie and it said he was also born on the 22nd September

[Macmoish]

Bump another year...

Birthdays Today

Kevin Gallen Turns 38...

Rowan Vine Turns 31



And Richard Dunn turns 34


Home Farm

Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1996–2000 Everton 60 (0)
2000–2009 Manchester City 296 (7)
2009–2013 Aston Villa 95 (4)
2013– Queens Park Rangers 5 (0)

National team‡
1997–1999 Republic of Ireland B 2 (1)
2000– Republic of Ireland 79 (8)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dunne

[sharky]

The latest on Rowan from the Edinburgh Evening News

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/hibs-striker-rowan-vine-admits-driving-charge-1-3102044

Hibs striker Rowan Vine admits driving charge

Rowan Vine admitted the charges: Pic: Phil Wilkinson

Published on the 19 September 2013

HIBS striker Rowan Vine today admitted driving through a red light while he was using his mobile phone.

The striker had sentence deferred after telling the court he had six points on his licence already - but did not know why.

Vine said his mother had told him he had points imposed by a court in Bolton, but the footballer said he had no recollection of being in the Lancashire town.

Sheriff Fiona Tait put the case off to allow the Hibs forward a chance to investigate the existing points, which are understood to have been imposed for failing to say who was driving his car at the time.

At Perth Sheriff Court, Vine, 30, admitted that on February 1 this year he failed to to stop at a red light and drove his Mercedes C250 in Dunkeld Road, Perth, while using his phone.

Solicitor Cliff Culley, defending, said: “There are six points on his licence for an offence I believe is failing to provide details of the driver, which he didn’t know anything about.

“He has been at three or four different addresses over the last year. The court which dealt with that was in Bolton and he has no recollection of being in that area. We want to investigate that.”

Vine scored seven goals in 30 appearances last season for St Johnstone after joining the Perth club from Queens Park Rangers. He was signed by Hibs shortly before the Europa League transfer deadline this summer and has started six matches so far this season. He has previously played for a host of English league clubs including Portsmouth, Gillingham, MK Dons, Luton and Hull City.

[Macmoish]

Sept 21, 2013 7:35:00 GMT Macmoish said:

Bump another year...

Birthdays Today

Kevin Gallen Turns 39...

Rowan Vine Turns 32



And Richard Dunn turns 35


Home Farm

Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1996–2000 Everton 60 (0)
2000–2009 Manchester City 296 (7)
2009–2013 Aston Villa 95 (4)
2013– Queens Park Rangers 5 (0)

National team‡
1997–1999 Republic of Ireland B 2 (1)
2000– Republic of Ireland 79 (8)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dunne

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Kevin Gallen 40

Richard Dunne 36

Rowan Vine 33

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WIKIPEDIA

1994–2000 Queens Park Rangers 172 (36)
2000–2001 Huddersfield Town 38 (10)
2001 Barnsley 9 (2)
2001–2007 Queens Park Rangers 197 (54)
2007 → Plymouth Argyle (loan) 13 (1)
2007–2009 Milton Keynes Dons 30 (9)
2008–2009 → Luton Town (loan) 9 (1)
2009–2011 Luton Town 60 (18)
2010–2011 → Barnet (loan) 7 (1)
2011 Braintree Town 3 (1)
2011–2012 Leverstock Green 5 (1)
2012–2013 Aylesbury United 4 (2)
Total 547 (136)

National team‡
1993 England U18 11 (0)
1995–1996 England U21 4 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 9 December 2013 (UTC).
† Appearances (goals)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 13:05, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

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[Macmoish]

Bump another year
Gallen 41...Dunne 37....Vine 34

[Macmoish]

Kevin Gallen turns 42

+ Vine And Dunne