Recently retired, he's now an ice cream entrepreneur no less: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42139461 I always had a lot of time for Rory. He often worked hard on his own up front and, to be fair to him, managed to win a fair few headers. Just a shame there was no one alongside him to pick up the knock downs! He of course scored a very good goal in the 2006 play-off final. I didn't like him so much at that point! I always thought that Rory and Leo Bertos might have enjoyed more success with us than they actually did. Dave Mulligan did okay, and he too scored a cracker against us, at Oakwell for Donny.
"She had a desktop ice cream machine and all the lads at Aberdeen would come and rate the different flavours." Oh....my poor sick sick mind...
"Scored 86 goals in an 18-year league career". Would have been more appropriate if he'd got 99. She sounds a bit of a flake.
Rory and his wife and their ice cream trike were at a special market day at Cannon Hall. They were doing a roaring trade by the looks of it.
He is still playing, for Dorchester Town. He recently received a recall to the New Zealand too for their recent World Cup play off with Peru, but didn't feature.
Met his wife and spoke to her a few times, as they store their ice cream with us when they have weddings in the area.
I went to school with a lad called Tony Fallon who was from Maltby. One of his brothers Jack played for Derby County. Both those lads bear a remarkable resemblance to Rory ( tall with black hair and similar facial features). Tony's other brother Ted played in goal along with Tony for Maltby Miners Welfare for a number of seasons. I know that Rory Fallon came over from New Zealand after his family had emigrated there and I always wondered if he was the son of one of the Fallons I knew back in the day.? When Rory played for us, I wrote to him at the Club to ask that question but unfortunately I never heard anything back from him.
Rory's Dad Kevin is from Maltby and was taken to NZ by way of his professional football career having been on the books at Rotherham. It was Kevin and his links with Colin Walker that were the reason for us having so many lads come over from New Zealand in the 90s.
Thanks for that info MR. Sounds as though Rory is related in some way to the Fallon family I knew. Tony Fallon and myself played on opposite wings in the school first team and his build and the way he ran were uncannily like Rory's style. Always surprised Tony never made the professional ranks. He was quite fast and was an excellent passer of the ball.
I liked the lad, though his movement, around the oppositions box, always reminded me of a giraffe that had been shot with a tranquilliser dart.
