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Greens on Screen started its life in 1999 before many of the football sites that we are familiar with today, including Plymouth Argyle's own official site. Greens on Screen is dedicated to the sights, sounds and history of Plymouth Argyle Football club. It is owned and run by the Plymouth Argyle Heritage Archive, a charity dedicated to the promotion, preservation, and display of the heritage of our great football club.

The site owes its existence to Steve Dean. Without Steve's dedication and commitment for over 25 years, GoS would not exist and be the valued and loved resource for all football fans that it is today. The site is truly the envy of many clubs, and we owe a huge debt to Steve for his tireless work, and continued support behind the scenes.

Greens on Screen's first page was published in January 1999. Its early purpose was to bring Plymouth Argyle a little closer to those unable to see their team, and whilst it has changed a great deal over the years, its core themes - sights and sounds for Westcountry exiles - still stand. The site was very lucky to take on the content of Trevor Scallan's Semper Viridis in the summer of 2007, and in 2009 launched GoS-DB, a wealth of facts and figures from PAFC's history. A year later, we embarked on a complete history of Argyle, with much-valued contributions from chapter authors. Greens on Screen was taken over by its new custodians, The Argyle Archive, in 2024.

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GoS's sole aim is to be a service to fellow supporters, and we look forward to continuing to celebrate Argyle'ss history for many years to come.

Plymouth Argyle Heritage Archive.
April 2024

Thanks to Dave Rowntree for many of the player images after 1984.

Can you help? This page is the result of the best endeavours of all concerned. If you spot a mistake or know of facts to add, or have a better photo, please get in touch using 'Contact Us' (top, right).

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SIMON DAWE

Born: 16 March 1977

Came from: Trainee Went to: Released

First game: 10 December 1994 Last game: 26 September 1995

Appearances: 5 (3/2) Goals: 0

Born in Plymouth, and a defender, he attended Eggbuckland Community College, and made his way up through the youth ranks at Argyle. However, Dawe's professional career was over almost as quickly as it had begun.

Called upon to plug the gaps caused by an horrendous injury crisis in what-was-to-be the relegation season of 1994-95, he was thrust straight into a situation he was not prepared for, by Peter Shilton, and the experience was quite possibly enough to mentally scar the 17-year-old for life.

A commendable display in a 3-0 home defeat to Brighton & Hove Albion was followed up by further starts in the eye-watering 7-0 thrashing at Brentford's Griffin Park in December 1994, as Shilton's tenure waned. This was followed by a 3-0 Boxing Day defeat at Swansea City. Three league appearances in 16 days and 13 goals were conceded.

Dawe went on to make just two further appearances for the club after that baptism of fire, and at least finished his league career with a 0-0 draw away at AFC Bournemouth under caretaker-manager Steve McCall in January 1995. An appearance in the Football League Trophy followed in September 1995, when as part of an early Neil Warnock side, normal service was resumed in a 0-3 defeat at home to Peterborough United. This was Dawe's final game for the club before being released.

In just five appearances for the club he achieved not only the feat of not being on a winning side and playing under three different managers, but more remarkably still, had not played in an Argyle side that had scored!

After spending some time with Barnstaple Town, he moved out of the game and in 1997, started work locally, for specialist jewellers insurers TH March in their Plymouth office. He subsequently qualified as an ACII (Associateship of the Chartered Insurance Institute) and by 2022 was reached the level of Managing Director, within their Birmingham office and was based in Bromsgrove.

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APPEARANCE DETAILS [reselect competitions]

The details below reflect appearances in all first-team competitions.

I'm very grateful to many who have helped write GoS-DB's player pen-pictures, and to Dave Rowntree, the PAFC Media Team and Colin Parsons for their help with photos. Thanks also to staff at the National Football Museum, the Scottish Football Museum and ScotlandsPeople for their valuable assistance.

The following publications have been particularly valuable in the research of pen-pictures: Plymouth Argyle, A Complete Record 1903-1989 (Brian Knight, ISBN 0-907969-40-2); Plymouth Argyle, 101 Golden Greats (Andy Riddle, ISBN 1-874287-47-3); Football League Players' Records 1888-1939 (Michael Joyce, ISBN 1-899468-67-6); Football League Players' Records 1946-1988 (Barry Hugman, ISBN 1-85443-020-3) and Plymouth Argyle Football Club Handbooks.

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