Lee Thorpe

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Lee Thorpe
Nationality:
Rovers apps (gls)1:	35 (4)
Date of birth:	14 December 1975
Place of birth:	Wolverhampton
Height:	6 ft 0 in
Position:	Forward
Date joined:	March 2004
Joined from:	Leyton Orient
Date left:	February 2005
1 League appearances and goals only.

Lee Thorpe is a forward who spent just under a year at Rovers between March 2004 and February 2005. He joined on a free transfer from Leyton Orient near the end of the 2003-04 season, and played in ten of Rovers' last eleven games of that campaign. He began the following season as a regular in the first team, but in February 2005 he joined Swansea City, initially on loan, but he soon signed an 18-month contract with the Swans.

In all he played 41 games for Rovers, 35 of those in the league, and scored six goals, four of which came in League competition. He was also a teammate of Kevin Austin at three different clubs; Lincoln City, Rovers and Swansea.

[edit] Career

Lee began his career as a youth player with Blackpool, and progressed through to there first team where he played twelve league games. While at Blackpool he was sent out on loan to Welsh side Bangor City for whom he played three games in the league, scoring once.

He left Blackpool in the summer of 1997, whereupon he joined Lincoln City, the club for whom he played more games than any other in his career. He made a grand total of 192 league appearances for the Imps, netting 57 times in that spell. After five years at Sincil Bank he was picked up by Leyton Orient in 2002, where he signed a two-year contract. Towards the end of his time at Orient he was informed that his contract would not be renewed and that he could leave the club on a free transfer. He joined Grimsby Town for a month's loan in February 2004, before signing a permanent deal with Rovers in March.

After joining Swansea City from Rovers, he was loaned out to Peterborough United and Torquay United, before signing a one-year deal with Torquay. He then spent a year at Brentford before signing for Rochdale in 2008, and then for Darlington in the 2009 off-season.

Season	Club	League
		Apps	Goals
1993-94	Blackpool	1	0
1994-95	Blackpool	1	0
1995-96	Blackpool	1	0
1996-97	Blackpool	9	0
1997-98	Lincoln City	44	14
1998-99	Lincoln City	38	8
1999-00	Lincoln City	42	16
2000-01	Lincoln City	31	7
2001-02	Lincoln City	37	13
2001-02	Leyton Orient	0	0
2002-03	Leyton Orient	38	8
2003-04	Leyton Orient	17	4
2003-04	→Grimsby Town (loan)	6	0
2003-04	Bristol Rovers	10	1
2004-05	Bristol Rovers	25	3
2004-05	→Swansea City (loan)	2	1
2004-05	Swansea City	15	3
2005-06	Swansea City	3	0
2005-06	→Peterborough United (loan)	6	0
2005-06	→Torquay United (loan)	10	3
2006-07	Torquay United	41	8
2007-08	Brentford	19	4
2007-08	Rochdale	8	1
2008-09	Rochdale	28	5

[edit] Record against Rovers

Date	Club	Venue	Result	Notes
19 September 1998	Lincoln City	Memorial Stadium	3–0 to Rovers	Kevin Austin also played for Lincoln in this game
15 September 2001	Lincoln City	Sincil Bank	1–0 to Rovers
23 February 2002	Lincoln City	Memorial Stadium	2–1 to Lincoln
15 March 2003	Leyton Orient	Brisbane Road	2–1 to Rovers	Matt Lockwood and Ciarán Toner also played for Orient
21 October 2003	Leyton Orient	Memorial Stadium	1–1	Subbed off after 51 minutes
23 April 2005	Swansea City	Memorial Stadium	2–0 to Rovers	Subbed off at half time. Kevin Austin also played for Swansea, and Andy Gurney was an unused sub
18 October 2005	Peterborough United	London Road	2–1 to Peterborough (aet)	FL Trophy first round. Chris Plummer also played for Peterborough
13 September 2006	Torquay United	Plainmoor	0–0
17 October 2006	Torquay United	Memorial Stadium	1–0 to Rovers	Football League Trophy match
1 January 2007	Torquay United	Memorial Stadium	1–0 to Rovers