Jamie Coppinger’s Team-Mates – All 137 Of Them

It’s quite easy, particularly in the hyperbolic world of modern football, to oversell something, to exaggerate it’s standing or importance. However, even with that in mind, it is no exaggeration to call Jamie Coppinger’s departure from Doncaster on Friday night (hopefully temporarily we must add), the end of an era. Coppinger has been with Rovers since 2004, when they were beginning life in the third tier off the back of consecutive promotions, and has been central to everything the club has achieved since.

Across eight and a bit seasons Coppinger has played at two home grounds, under four managers – Dave Penney, Sean O’Driscoll, Dean Saunders, and briefly Mickey Walker – and in a hell of a lot of different kits, but, we wondered, how many different players has played alongside? So we checked, and the answer, from competitive fixtures alone, is 137 who you will find listed below.

The list is certainly an eclectic group of footballing professionals, from twenty seperate nations. It also includes players from very different Rovers eras, from Franny Tierney and ‘Dangerous’ Dave Morley through to Pascal Chimbonda and Habib Beye, plus a few names we had completely forgotten about (take a bow Phil McGuire). In addition to those above there are also several other team-mates whom Coppinger didn’t quite share match time with including the likes of Liam Green, Robbie Clarke, Jon Maloney and Adam Brown. Ultimately it just serves to underline what a servant Coppinger has been to the club, and why all will wish him well during his spell at Nottingham Forest.