Rooney waving down the wing
Friday, 4th Sep 2015Shaun Rooney looks forward to impressing the Dunfermline fans
Shaun Rooney signed for Dunfermline Athletic on Thursday 3rd September. He started playing football at Bellshill Boys Club and then joined Dundee United at under 13 to under 17s before moving on to Queens Park. His story began there playing in the first team under Gardner Spiers initially and subsequently under Gus MacPherson.
"It was a great experience especially with the team winning so often. We were gutted to just miss out in the play offs but these things happen. We got to the final only to lose to Stenhousemuir.
"I have been here for two weeks training, it has been good. The training is different since I was really only training on Tuesday and Thursday nights now it is full time it is better. I was at St Mirren and then Hearts before coming here. I got used to full time training with them."
The young full back could have returned to Queens Park but he was allowed to go and try out full time clubs with an option to return if things didn't work out for him:-
"I am happy to sign for Dunfermline. I am hoping to get a good start to my season. Get my head down and work away to win promotion.
"I came on as a sub last week against Stranraer and the fans were great chanting my name - shouting "trialist give us a wave" and I enjoyed the thirty minutes I got. I played on Tuesday night as well trying to get my fitness up since I have not had a lot of game time recently. It was good to play against some of the Hearts players that I was in training with for a few weeks."
In Tuesday night's Development League match Shaun made a number of runs up the right wing and he joked that was the part of his game that he was good at.
"I like to make the runs forward, it became a bit of an asset last season at Queens Park. I was always bombing down the right hand side and always being an outlet ball. I got a lot of joy out of that and that is where lots of goals came from last season."
Shaun claimed that his Queens partnership with Paul Woods was the reason for his success:-
"We always understood what each other was going to do. I would hope to be played at right back here since Ryan Williamson got injured. That is my position.
"We are the only full time club in the league and we should be pushing for promotion and winning the league at least. At Queens Park I was only playing in front of 500 and at Hampden they are quite a bit away from the park. Playing at the National Stadium with its facilities was really good but we played most of our games at Airdrieonians last season because of the Commonwealth Games. On Saturday there was a better atmosphere and I look forward to playing more games at East End Park."
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