6'4"   14st.
b. Sheffield 3 September 1970
 

Debut 14 April 1992 (21y 223d)
CAREER: All Saints RC Comprehensive School, Granville Rd.;Sheffield United Jul'89;Orient Jan'90 (loan);Lincoln City Feb'91 (free)[27];Blackburn Rovers Mar'92 (£250,000);Blackpool Jan'93 (loan)[19];Lincoln City Nov'93 (loan);Grimsby Town Sep'94 (loan);Rochdale Oct'94 (loan)[4];Stockport County Feb'95 (loan) Mar'95[12+1];Lincoln City '96;Altrincham '96;Boston United Sep'98 (loan);Sheffield FC Jan'99-Jun'00.
SQUAD NUMBER  13  Aug’93.
 

FL    1 app                                                      11 ns
Minutes per goal  45
Longest unbeaten 55m First conceded 55m
Most goals one game  2
 

Dickins was discovered playing for Lincoln having failed to make the grade in Sheffield. A hugely built young man with all the apparent attributes for a goalkeeper he came to Ewood on the eve of the transfer deadline. His debut was traumatic from the opening moment when he failed to catch a huge punt upfield, to the final minutes when he misjudged a harmless shot that became the winning goal. Loaned out to recover his composure his erratic form reappeared at most of his subsequent clubs, with the exception of Blackpool. He ended his career at the country's oldest club, Sheffield FC.