Full name Donald George Gillies Name Donnie Gillies Role Footballer | Playing position Position Forward, Defender Years Team | |
Date of birth (1951-06-20)20 June 1951 19??-19?? Inverness Clachnacuddin | ||
Donald George Gillies (born 20 June 1951) is a Scottish former footballer, who played initially as a forward but latterly as a right back. He made over 230 Football League appearances and 45 Scottish League appearances in the 1970s in the years after the Second World War.
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His first professional club was Inverness Clachnacuddin, of the Highland League. Gillies joined Greenock Morton in October 1971 and was twice top scorer. Alan Dicks signed Gillies for £30,000 in March 1973 from Morton for Bristol City. Steve Ritchie moved in the opposite direction to Morton. Gillies made his debut for Bristol City. Gillies joined his former "Robins" team mate, Terry Cooper then the manager, to Bristol Rovers for £50,000 in June 1980. Gillies subsequently played for several West Country clubs in the Western & Southern Leagues with a spell in Cyprus playing for Anorthosis.
After retiring from playing football, Gillies worked as a sales representative until the death of his wife in July 1990. In 1997 Gillies was still living locally at Temple Cloud to the South of Bristol.