....but the fact is lots and lots of 'better than average' players from the league above (or equivalent) don't score for fun in League One. Listing a load of proven League One scorers like the one below is pointless.
It's like name dropping some decent championship strikers for a reason a PL striker will score for fun in that league because the gulf is so big.
I doubt he will join us anyway, so it does seem a pointless debate. We're only being linked with or even talking about him because he's an ex player.
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Well obviously not every forward that plays in League One having previously played in the Championship or equivalent is going to score for fun.
In the last three seasons there has been a large amount of forwards who have underperformed in the Championship or have had less than average careers elsewhere, that have scored regularly in this division - or if not regularly, at a higher rate than previously in their careers. More so than players of the same ilk that have come to this division and failed.
Some of them may have even played in League One four, five or six years previously and had a poor record, but the standard of the league has declined so much in the last three years that even those players have come back and done well.
Ultimately it's a case of the League being of such a poor standard that it doesn't take that special a forward to score a decent amount of goals. Obviously there will be anomalies, the likes of Nouble, Tudgay and Jackson are ones that stand out for us.
Michael Higdon flopped for Sheffield United last year but didn't play that many games, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake did nothing for Preston last year but again wasn't afforded many starts. Leroy Lita didn't cut it at Barnsley or County but according to their fans his pace - which his game relied on - had all but gone.
Here's an even longer list of players that have scored ten plus goals in a season over the past three seasons:
David Mooney
Paddy Madden
Matt Done
Ryan Lowe
Leon Clarke
Izale McLeod
Jon Stead
Joe Garner
Eoin Doyle
Ian Henderson
Aaron Wilbraham
Cody McDonald
Jonathan Forte
Billy Clarke
Nathan Tyson
Garry Thompson
Chris Dagnall
Freddie Sears
Carl Baker
JET
Sam Baldock
Kevin Lisbie
Craig Westcarr
Nicky Ajose
Franck Moussa
Danny Kedwell
Francois Zoko
James Henry
James Collins
James Hayter
Billy Paynter
Mathias Pogba
Jake Cassidy
Karl Hawley
Lucas Akins
Andy Robinson
Akpo Sodje
