| Born: 24th
October 1974 in Derby. Previous clubs: Derby County,
Fulham, Bradford City, Preston, Wycombe, Notts
County, Barnsley, Chesterfield and Shrewsbury.
Signed: July 2006.
Mark Stallard
joins The Imps on a two year contract from League
Two rivals Shrewsbury Town. Aged 31, Stallard has
a wealth of experience having played for ten
different clubs.
The Derby born
player began his career as a trainee at his home
town club Derby County in 1991. He spent 4½
years at Derby but only made 36 appearances, for
which he scored six goals.
During his time at
Derby, he spent a month on loan at Fulham where
he scored three times in four appearances.
Bradford City spotted Stallard's potential,
leading them to pay Derby a fee of £110,000 for
him in January 1996.
His stay at
Bradford was just over a year, and he scored 13
goals in 48 appearances. He also spent a month on
loan at Preston, where he scored once during four
appearances. Immediately after his loan ended
with Preston in March 1997, he was transferring
to Wycombe Wanderers in a £100,000 deal.
It was while at
Wycombe that he started to establish himself as a
goal every three matches ratio of a striker. He
scored 25 goals from 81 appearances for Wycombe.
He continued this
ratio when he joined Notts County for a bargain
£10,000 in March 1999. He scored 77 goals from
211 appearances for County during almost five
years at the club. The man who signed Stallard
for Notts County, was Sam Allardyce. While at
Notts County, Stallard finished as the club's
leading goalscorer for the 2000/01 and 2002/03
seasons and was also voted as Notts County's
Player of the Season for 2002/03.
Since January
2004, Stallard's career has become that of a
journeyman player because of a disappointing
spell at Barnsley. Hopefully, the security of a
two year contract at Lincoln City will help him
regain his form shown at both Wycombe and Notts
County.
After leaving
Notts County in January 2004, he joined Barnsley
on a free transfer. Over an 18-month period, he
made just 16 appearances and scored just one goal
for Barnsley. During this spell, he also played
for Chesterfield on loan, where he scored twice
in ten appearances.
A three month loan
spell at Notts County from February 2005 helped
restore his ratio, as he scored three times in
sixteen appearances. This took him to his
departure from Barnsley upon which he joined
Shrewsbury on a two year contract in July 2005.
Despite having a
year of his Shrewsbury contract remaining,
Shrews' manager allowed Stallard to join Lincoln
City in July 2006 on a two year contract without
asking for a fee. The move to Lincoln is also
reduced Stallard's daily journey time from his
Nottingham home.
Stallard's signing
is to help bridge the striker gap left by the
departures of Derek Asamoah, Gary Birch, Franny
Green, Marvin Robinson and Simon Yeo from Lincoln
City's 2005/06 season's striker roster. It proved
an astute signing, as Stallard would score 16
goals during the 2006/07 season, to help guide
Lincoln City into the League Two play-offs.
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