Ross Jack
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | James Ross Jack | ||
| Date of birth | 21 March 1959 | ||
| Place of birth | Avoch, Scotland | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1974–1975 | Ross County | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1975–1980 | Everton | 1 | (1) |
| 1979–1980 | → Cardiff City (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 1979–1983 | Norwich City | 56 | (10) |
| 1983–1985 | Lincoln City | 60 | (16) |
| 1985–1988 | Dundee | 38 | (4) |
| 1987–1991 | Dunfermline Athletic | 130 | (46) |
| 1991–1993 | Kilmarnock | 55 | (13) |
| 1992–1993 | → Sligo Rovers (loan) | 7 | (2) |
| 1993 | Montrose | 9 | (2) |
| 1993–1994 | Ayr United | 18 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1993 | Montrose (player-manager) | ||
| 2009–2014 | Elgin City | ||
| 2014– | Turriff United | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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James Ross Jack (born 21 March 1959) is a Scottish football player and manager.
A striker, Jack began his career in the Highland Football League with Ross County where he made a handful of appearances in the 1974–75 season before joining Everton, initially as an apprentice before graduating to the professional ranks. He made only a solitary, goalscoring appearance, for Everton and, after a fruitless loan spell at Cardiff City, he joined Norwich City for £20,000 in December 1979. He would have to wait almost a year before making his Norwich debut against Ipswich Town in the League Cup in September 1980. In the 1981–82 season, he scored 10 league goals for Norwich and, with two in the FA Cup and two more in the Football League Cup, was the club's leading scorer for the season. In the summer of 1983, a fee of £15,000 secured his transfer to Lincoln City where he remained for the next two seasons. His last game for Lincoln, and in England, was in May 1985, against Bradford City, in a game overshadowed by the Bradford City stadium fire, which killed 56 spectators. In July 1985, he returned to Scotland to join Dundee. In October 1987, Dunfermline Athletic's manager Jim Leishman paid £15,000 to secure Jack's services and he made an instant impression, scoring on his debut in a 3–2 away defeat to Motherwell. In each of his three seasons at the club, Jack would finish as Dunfermline's leading scorer, his most successful season being the 1989–1990 campaign when he was the second highest goalscorer in the Scottish Premier League, his 16 league goals placing him just one goal behind John Robertson. In July 1991 a fee of £45,000 was sufficient to see Jack move to Kilmarnock. Following a brief loan sojourn to Sligo Rovers (January – March 1993), Jack was appointed player-manager of Montrose in March 1993. His spell would last only six months and in October 1993 he moved on to Ayr United before retiring from the professional game at the end of the 1993–1994 season.
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