johnniericoh
Member
The posts recently are very vociferous as to our lack of goalscoring forwards with prolific goal scoring not seen since King Dion strutted our turf.
But lets take a step backwards and extend the arguement to where are the midfield goal scorers not just within the current squad but over the last ten years.
No one has really stood out as wow this guy can certainly score goals as per one Frank Lampard does for Chelsea.
For example let us look at a few previous midfielders to assess their prowess:
Gary McAllister - (2002-2004) - 10 goals in 55 games
Michael Doyle - (2003-2011) - 20/265
Stephen Hughes - (2004-2008) - 8/144
Don Hutchison - (2005-2007) - 4/38
Dennis Wise - (2006) - 6/13
Jay Tabb - (2006-2009) - 11/95
Aarron Gunnersson - (2008-2011) - 6/123
Sammy Klingon - (2009 - ) - 5/68
I may have missed one or two out BUT the underlying trend is there we seem to have NEVER had a free scoring midfielder for at least ten years - our record is pathetic and seems will never improve.
Don't use the excuse that some of the above are holding/defensive midfielders even they should have a poke now and again as we win games by scoring not holding.
Most successful clubs have a greater goals contribution from midfield - why can't we ?
We cannot continue to rely on one or maybe two forwards chipping in as we can see we are totally devoid of goals from anywhere at the moment.
So unless we unleash some of our halfway line midfield occupiers to venture into enemy territory and fire at will (like many of our rivals scoring 20 yarders against us) we are going nowhere.
PUSB
But lets take a step backwards and extend the arguement to where are the midfield goal scorers not just within the current squad but over the last ten years.
No one has really stood out as wow this guy can certainly score goals as per one Frank Lampard does for Chelsea.
For example let us look at a few previous midfielders to assess their prowess:
Gary McAllister - (2002-2004) - 10 goals in 55 games
Michael Doyle - (2003-2011) - 20/265
Stephen Hughes - (2004-2008) - 8/144
Don Hutchison - (2005-2007) - 4/38
Dennis Wise - (2006) - 6/13
Jay Tabb - (2006-2009) - 11/95
Aarron Gunnersson - (2008-2011) - 6/123
Sammy Klingon - (2009 - ) - 5/68
I may have missed one or two out BUT the underlying trend is there we seem to have NEVER had a free scoring midfielder for at least ten years - our record is pathetic and seems will never improve.
Don't use the excuse that some of the above are holding/defensive midfielders even they should have a poke now and again as we win games by scoring not holding.
Most successful clubs have a greater goals contribution from midfield - why can't we ?
We cannot continue to rely on one or maybe two forwards chipping in as we can see we are totally devoid of goals from anywhere at the moment.
So unless we unleash some of our halfway line midfield occupiers to venture into enemy territory and fire at will (like many of our rivals scoring 20 yarders against us) we are going nowhere.
PUSB