Brian Parkin is a former Rovers goalkeeper who has had two spells at the club. He has since retired from playing and is the Academy Director at Team Bath. He first joined Rovers in 1989 from Crystal Palace, when Nigel Martyn made the move in the opposite direction and became the first goalkeeper in English football to command a £1,000,000 transfer fee. This meant that Parkin had big shoes to fill, and he immediately firmly established himself as the first choice keeper at the club. He made a total of 241 league appearances at the club during his first spell, and later came back to end his playing career at Rovers as cover for Lee Jones and Nick Culkin.