The Ex-Files

THERE HAVE BEEN FIVE PLAYERS WHO HAVE TURNED OUT FOR BOTH TOWN AND THE SHRIMPS IN RECENT YEARS Town’s Club Historian, Phil Harrison profiles three

Colin Hunter Jamie Heard

1997-98, 2001-05, 2006-07 2000-01

Apps: 191 (56) I Goals: 49 Apps: 14 I Goals: 0 Colin Hunter started out with Harrogate Railway Juniors before making his senior debut in 1994. In 1997 he joined NPL outfit Guiseley from where he joined Town on a month’s loan in January 1998 playing six games as a defender. He also had spells at Hednesford, Gainsborough and Leigh RMI before joining Conference Premier side Morecambe in October 2000 making 14 appearances for the Shrimps before re-joining Town permanently in August 2001 as a left winger. He helped Town to the NPL Division One title in 2003-04 playing all 52 games that season. He returned in 2006-07 for a third spell and racked up 247 total games for the club. After spells at North Ferriby and Buxton he finished his career back at Railway between 2010-14 making a total of 229 (25) appearances scoring 59 goals.

Lee Elam

2002-03 & 2004-05 2011-13

Apps: 71 I Goals: 17 Apps: 36 (41) I Goals: 9 Winger Lee Elam began his career at Southport in 1998 and played 111 games for the Sandgrounders before moving on to Conference Premier Morecambe for the first of two spells in 2002. He made 40 appearances for the Shrimps before joining Halifax Town for the following season but after just 16 games for The Shayman joined League Two Yeovil Town in October 2003. He then played for a string of non-league clubs including Morecambe for his second spell before arriving at Exeter City in January 2007. He made 40 appearances for the Grecians before joining Altrincham. Stints at Northwich Victoria, Bradford Park Avenue and Stalybridge Celtic followed before signing for Town in summer 2011 making his debut in a 3-2 defeat at Stalybridge Celtic. He played 77 games in his two seasons at Town before moving back to Bradford PA. In 2018 he helped Harrogate Veterans England team win the Senior World Cup in South East Asia and is currently managing Eccleshill United.

The other two...

Joe Anyon

2005-06 (loan) A: 13 I G: 0 2011 (loan) A: 4 I G: 0

Scott Brown

2019-20 A: 5 (5) I G: 0 2010-11 A: 33 I G: 3

2004-06

Apps: 36 I Goals: 0

2005-06

Apps: 20 (3) I Goals: 0 Defender Jamie Heard started out as a trainee at Hull City in 2000 but without a senior appearance for the Tigers joined Chester City in 2003 helping them win promotion back to the Football League. At the beginning of the 2004-05 season he signed for Conference Premier Morecambe and played a total of 36 times over one and a bit seasons for the Shrimps. By 2005-06 he was playing for Town having transferred from Morecambe and made his debut as sub in October 2005 in a 1-0 home win over Conference Premier side Scarborough in the FA Cup 4th Qualifying Round in front of a 1,591 crowd (the first ever segregated game seen at Wetherby Road). Heard made 23 appearances for Town before moving to Australia for play for Dandenong Thunder in Melbourne before returning to the UK in December 2006 and signing for Easington United before soon moving to North Ferriby United.