This season Prostate Cancer UK is the official charity of The Football League. To celebrate, we've asked bloggers from each of the 72 clubs to count down their top five strikers to have worn the No9 shirt, in recognition of the fact that prostate cancer affects one in nine men.

Millers marvel: Alan Lee's last-gasp goal sealed promotion in 2001. Photo courtesy of Action Images

 

Here blogger David Rawson, from rotherhamunited-mad.co.uk, selects Rotherham's five best No9s… and one to forget!

5. Shaun Goater (1989-96)
In a list of players noted for their intensity, energy and effort, Goater's languid - at times awkward - style stands out. Never prolific, he slowly evolved from a frustratingly diffident youth into a calmly competent, effective forward, capable of moments of exquisite delicacy in the morass of early 90s lower league football. Part of the side that achieved the club's only Wembley win, in the 1996 Auto Windscreens final, he was sold, following a fall-out with then manager Archie Gemmill, just as we began to get a glimpse of the player he would become.

4. Alan Lee (2000-03)
An old-fashioned No9 in a modern setting. Lee's game was built on physical strength and courage, but with a subtlety of touch that made him, at his best, virtually unplayable. He was responsible, too, for arguably the finest moment in the club's history. In added time in the final home game of the 2000-01 season, a deft turn and firmly placed shot into the bottom left-hand corner of the Railway End goal at Millmoor sealed promotion and sparked the most exuberantly joyous scenes ever witnessed at the Millers' former home.

3. Ronnie Moore (1980-83)
Charismatic, whole-hearted and energetic, no one captured the imagination of the Millmoor crowd quite like Moore. The goalscoring soul of one of the finest ever Millers sides, he helped the team to the Third Division championship in 1980-01 and came heartbreakingly close to promotion from the Second Division the following season.

2. Jack Shaw (1945-53)
If Walter Ardron, who tops this list, epitomised the physique-based game of the classic No9, Shaw was the quintessential artisan. A player of classic efficiency, the 46 goals he scored in the 1950-51 season remains a club record, unlikely ever to be surpassed. 

1. Walter Ardron (1939-49)
The archetype: the powerful, determined, brave, focal point of the team, contributing, on average, just shy of a goal a game in the three post-war seasons he spent with his home-town team. A name that still resonates, more than six decades after he played his last game for the club. 

And the worst…
Stewart Evans (1978-79 & 1988-91)
Released by the club as an 18-year-old, Evans spent a decade doing little of note for various clubs before Billy McEwan paid £40,000 to re-sign him for his hometown team. Combining the poor touch stereotypically expected of 'a big lad up front' with an aerial ineptitude surprising for a 6ft 4in forward, Evans spent three seasons defining haplessness, before signing for Crewe, where, unexpectedly, he transformed into an accomplished sweeper for their 1993-94 promotion-winning side.

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