Footballers who have played league football for both PNE & Peterborough
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779) Craig ALLARDYCE
PNE 1 app; 0 goals
Posh 4 apps 0 goals
PNE Debut 06/04/1993 v Port Vale (A) – Drawn 2-2
750) George BERRY
PNE 4 apps; 0 goals
Posh 32 apps; 6 goals
PNE Debut 17/08/1991 v Peterborough (A) – Lost 0-1
976) Paul COUTTS
PNE 77 apps; 4 goals
Posh 53 apps; 0 goals
PNE Debut 06/02/2010 v Swansea (A) – Lost 0-2
929) Dave HIBBERT
PNE 10 apps; 0 goals
Posh 7 apps; 1 goal
PNE Debut 27/09/2005 Luton (A) – Lost 0-3
573) Ricky HEPPOLETTE
PNE 154 apps; 13 goals
Posh 5 apps; 0 goals
PNE Debut 20/04/1968 v Middlesbrough (H) – Drawn 0-0
744) Ronnie JEPSON
PNE 38 apps; 8 goals
Posh 18 apps; 5 goals
PNE Debut 16/02/1991 v Huddersfield (A) – Lost 0-1
Player Profile – Dave Hibbert
David John Hibbert was born in Eccleshall on 28 January 1986 and started his career at League One Port Vale, rising through the ranks from the age nine years old. He made his debut in a 1-0 defeat at Chesterfield as a 82nd minute sub on 31 August 2004 Hibbert made 2 league starts and 7 substitute appearances in first season with Vale. His maiden season was restricted only by a head injury sustained in a 1-1 at Milton Keynes Dons on 12 March.. His two goals for the club both came in his second starting appearance in a 3–1 win over Luton Town on 26 February 2005.
In June 2005 he signed for Championship side Preston . As Hibbert was under the age of 23, the fee was decided by a tribunal according to UEFA regulations. Preston were ordered to pay Port Vale £35,000 up front with add ons of £10,000 for each 10 of his first 50 appearances for Preston (Vale would only receive the first of these due to him only making 13 appearances in total for Preston); a £280,000 bonus if Preston achieved promotion to the Premiership; plus a 25% sell-on clause if Hibbert was sold on. Vale chairman Bill Bratt was highly disappointed with the news.
Hibbert made 10 league appearances in 2006/07 all as a substitute. His debut was in a 3-0 defeat at Luton on 27 September 2005 replacing Danny Dichio in the 81st minute. His final match for PNE was a 2-0 win at home to Norwich on 8 April 2006. He started just one game for Preston in 2005/06, playing the full ninety minutes of a 1–1 draw with Crystal Palace in the FA Cup.
In July 2006 he joined Rotherham on a six month loan. He played 21 times in the League for the "Millers", scoring two goals. The first was in a 2-1 home defeat against Northampton on 1 September 2006. His second goal came in a 3-1 victory at former club Port Vale.
Returning to Deepdale in January 2007, he was immediately loaned out to Bradford City on a one month deal. He made his City debut in their 1–0 win against his old club Port Vale at Vale Park on 6 January. The loan was later extended, keeping him at Valley Parade until April 2007. During his prolonged stay at Valley Parade, however, Hibbert suffered an ankle injury on 28 February and did not feature again for the "Bantams" after tests revealed he had ruptured ligaments. He remained at Bradford for a further month so that caretaker manager David Wetherall could see if the injury improved, before he returned to Preston in April after 8 appearances.
In May 2007 Hibbert was transfer listed. The next month he was sold to League Two side Shrewsbury for a nominal £75,000 fee. He scored the first goal at Shrewsbury's New Meadow stadium, in a pre-season friendly, his first match in "Shrews" colours. He scored on his league debut for Shrewsbury as the “Shews” won 4-0 at Lincoln. Hibbert was also the first ever league goalscorer at New Meadow, scoring a penalty against former club Bradford on 18 August. His strong performances that month earned him a nomination for the division's Player of the Month award, though he lost out to Morecambe defender Jim Bentley. With four goals in five games in September he was a contender for the award for a second successive month, though this time he lost out to Hereford United's Trevor Benjamin. Despite suffering from a hamstring injury in mid-season Hibbert finished the 2007/08 season as Shrewsbury's top goalscorer with twelve goals in 46 games. His goals were crucial in helping the club to avoid relegation out of the Football League.]
Following a solid start to the 2008/09 campaign with 3 goals in his first 7 matches, Hibbert was sidelined with a broken nose picked up in training, before failing to start a game between October and March due to a foot injury. He finished the season having scored just three goals in 25 appearances. He spent the following summer undertaking physiotherapy sessions in an attempt to cure his long-standing foot injury.
Hibbert started the 2009/10 season in fantastic form, building a strong partnership with Nathan Elder with 3 goals in his first 3 appearances of the season and netting 8 from is first 11 games. A brief spell on the sidelines through an Achilles injury slowed up his impressive flurry of goals,] but he then scored five on the trot, against Macclesfield , Bradford City, Chesterfield, Burton Albion and Dagenham & Redbridge between 26 December to 23 January 2010; eventually hitting 6goals in 8 games. Though he suffered a groin injury late in the season and missed out on his target of 20 goals,] his 15 goals made him Shrewsbury's top goalscorer for the second time in three seasons earned him the club's Player of the Year award.
He turned down a new contract with Shrewsbury after 29 league goals from 104 matches, and instead signed a three-year deal with Peterborough in May 2010, becoming Gary Johnson's first signing as manager of Peterborough.
Hibbert made his Peterborough debut with a 4-1 Carling Cup win at home to Rotherham on 10 August 2010, replacing Mendez-Laing in the 66th minute. On his fifth league appearance Hibbert scored his first goal for the club on 11 September 2010, in a 5–2 win over Oldham Athletic. This was to be his only goal of the season, as he started just one League Trophy game, a 3-2 defeat at Huddersfield and was limited to eleven substitute appearances in other competitions thanks to injury and the form of other players. The success of Aaron McLean and Craig Mackail-Smith's strike partnership restricted to a cameo role in the club's promotion out of League One, before a serious knee injury sustained in in a 4-1 FA Cup win against Stockport on 11November kept him sidelined for eight months and threatened to end his whole career. The injury caused him to miss the entirety of the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons, and he announced his retirement from football in April 2013.