Wayne Carlisle has left Rotherham United

do I again hear the cry of 'wolf!'?

I'll believe it when his rellie posts it

Wolf.

Saw him score from a perfect free kick once v Darlo when the signing of Andy Rammell also scored and virtually kept us up.Recall him (Rammell) bundling the Darlington keeper Andy Collett ( ex Gas) into the net and the goal stood.Think Ray Graydon was manager.
Also recall the pre match warm up conducted by John Still when A R hardly moved!!!!!

Everything you wanted to know about

Wayne Thomas Carlisle. 2001-04.
Born, 9.9.1979, Lisburn.
5’ 7”; 10 st.
Rovers league Début: 30.3.02 v Plymouth Argyle.
Career: 18.9.96 Crystal Palace (professional, 1.8.97) [29+17,3]; 12.10.01 Swindon Town (loan) [10+1,2]; 28.3.02 Bristol Rovers (loan); 1.7.02 Bristol Rovers (free) [62+9,14]; 9.6.04 Orient (free) [27+13,3]; 17.1.06 Exeter City (free); 29.5.08 Torquay United (free) [25+11,2]; 7.3.11 Truro City; August 2011 Ivybridge College (Director of Football); 13.3.14 Truro City (assistant manager); 1.9.16 Ivybridge Community College; 28.11.16 Exeter City (coach; 11.3.17 Head of Coaching; 12.8.19 assistant manager); 3.10.22 Rotherham United (assistant manager).until 19.12.23.

Northern Irishman Wayne Carlisle notably scored both goals when Rovers defeated the team with which he shares a name 2-0. His last-minute penalty at Scunthorpe in August 2002 past his former Palace team-mate Tom Evans earned Rovers a 2-2 draw and his twenty-yard free-kick after 75 minutes against Darlington in April 2003 gave Rovers a 2-1 victory which essentially preserved the club’s Football League status. The holder of nine caps for Northern Ireland at Under-21 level, which included a goal after just three minutes against Bulgaria in June 2001, in a match in which Ciarán Toner also played, Carlisle joined Rovers after scoring for Swindon against Wycombe Wanderers and Bury whilst playing alongside Giuliano Grazioli. Despite having picked up only two yellow cards with Palace, where he appeared in a League Cup-tie at Anfield, he was sent off on his Rovers début, after a second bookable offence just 62 minutes in. Until Joe Martin’s red card at Shrewsbury in September 2018, he had been the only Rovers player sent off on his first League appearance for the club. Nonetheless, Carlisle soon became a crowd favourite with the Pirates but, having won a cap for Northern Ireland B against Scotland in Glasgow in May 2003, missed the second half of the following season through injury. After playing for Orient against Rovers, a brief career at Exeter comprised 4(+2) Conference games and one goal against York City, suffering a broken ankle after fourteen minutes of a March 2006 fixture with Tamworth, although he recovered to play in the Conference play-offs against Torquay in May 2008. Before the calendar month was out he was at Plainmoor, where his Wembley cross led to Tim Sills’ goal as Cambridge were defeated 2-0 in May 2009 and Torquay regained their League status. Alongside Paul Buckle, Scott Bevan and Mustapha Carayol at Plainmoor, Carlisle played in 34(+3) Conference games and scored eight times before reappearing in the Football League and he later appeared three times for Truro City, before helping guide Exeter City to the League Two play-offs in 2016-17 and to promotion to League One in 2021-22. Married to Emma daughter of former Rovers director Kevin Spencer and with a son George, Wayne Carlisle followed manager Matt Taylor from Exeter City to Rotherham.United. He left the Millers by mutual consent on 19 December 2023.

We had this conversation the other day but it was two goals. The Bristol Post headline read Carlisle 0 Carlisle 2 and we gave Wayne a framed copy as a gift.