Dons striker Adam Rooney recently played his 100th game for the club. In Sunday’s RedMatchday programme Adam looks back at his time so far at the club and also looks ahead to next season:
Ever since he arrived at Pittodrie in January 2014, Adam Rooney has been something of a history maker. Cup winning penalties, seasonal goalscoring records, they all seem to come naturally to the Irishman. Remarkably, inside two and a half years, he has now posted his 100th game for the club, marking the milestone by scoring in our last game here, against Motherwell. He’s certainly got a move on hasn’t he?
“I probably should have reached 100 games three months ago! Obviously I have done well to get there in a short space of a few years, but it also highlights just how many games we have had with the cup runs in previous season and the European games”.
Milestones always offer up a good moment for reflection, so we asked Adam to select just three favourites from his first century.
“The League Cup Final would have to be at number one. Winning the first major trophy in so many years for the club, and for me to score the winning penalty, that was just incredible.
“I quite liked Groningen away in the Europa League last season. That was a brilliant game, a great atmosphere. We were massive underdogs going into it, so to come away with the win was special. I scored another penalty in that one too!
“My third game would be the League Cup semi-final against St Johnstone at Tynecastle. It was only my second game for the club and Shay’s first. The atmosphere was incredible. I had only been in the place a week and then I was thrown into a game like that. I was literally just in the door. I think we had something like 12,500 fans there. I thought, “What is going on here?!”
“I have to be honest I did not realise just how big a club Aberdeen is. When I was at Inverness and we played Aberdeen, they were not doing that great. I knew they were a big club and I knew there was a lot of potential, but it is only when you get here that you fully appreciate the size of the club.
“When you see the amount of away fans, you start to get an understanding. We take a couple of thousand to away games every week. I think you see on twitter that we have almost one of the biggest away followings every time we are on our travels, even bigger than some of the clubs in the Premiership in England.
To read the full interview by a copy of RedMatchday tomorrow.
Also in Sunday’s RedMatchday Magazine: there is a special interview with Niall McGinn about his trip to the Euros; we also speak to two of the Dons other strikers next season – Jayden Stockley and Lawrence Shankland.
This will be physio David Wylie’s final league game so we pay tribute the AFC’s longest serving member of staff.
Plus all the usual history features and latest club news including a feature on the new stadium proposals.
RedMatchday Magazine has once again been named the top programme is the Scottish Premiership. Every week it has 84 pages packed with Dons stories, interviews, news, opinions and historical photos. Costing £3.00, it is available in the AFC club shop and from programme sellers in and around the ground. You can also buy a copy online by clicking here
