Jon Stead may have only scored 8 goals for Rovers but the return on those goals was almost unrivalled during this era, as Stead helped fire Rovers to safety in the 2003-04 season. Despite his initial success, Stead struggled to recapture the form from that season and eventually departed when Mark Hughes was manager. Stead’s meteoric rise from the lower leagues to the Premier League is still a story worth telling all these years later.

Stead’s goals for Rovers: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oz15UC3IXow