(14-01-2021, 10:32 AM)Pangus Wrote: How important are 'natural' goalscorers to a team, those who you can rely on  to come up with over 15 goals a season. Who's the best finisher you have seen? Not necessarily through stats but from your perception.

Ron Saunders was in a poor team generally but scored a phenomenal 156 goals in 258 games
Mick Quinn was in a decent team and scored 64 in 129 
Alan Biley ditto scored 65 in 119
Yakubu  was in a very good team scored 36 in 78
Todorov was in an excellent team scored 33 in 75

Add anyone else you can think of.
Its interesting from the stats to see the most of these players constantly scored in half of the games i.e. one in two (the hallmark of a top scorer)
My vote goes to Toddy because his goals brought a top promotion

(14-01-2021, 10:54 AM)ForeverPompey Wrote:

(14-01-2021, 10:32 AM)Pangus Wrote: How important are 'natural' goalscorers to a team, those who you can rely on  to come up with over 15 goals a season. Who's the best finisher you have seen? Not necessarily through stats but from your perception.

Ron Saunders was in a poor team generally but scored a phenomenal 156 goals in 258 games
Mick Quinn was in a decent team and scored 64 in 129 
Alan Biley ditto scored 65 in 119
Yakubu  was in a very good team scored 36 in 78
Todorov was in an excellent team scored 33 in 75

Add anyone else you can think of.
Its interesting from the stats to see the most of these players constantly scored in half of the games i.e. one in two (the hallmark of a top scorer)
My vote goes to Toddy because his goals brought a top promotion

Dave Kemp would be my number one.. in a terrible team. I guess Guy W has to be in the running. I suppose we can't really count Teddy S can we?

(14-01-2021, 10:32 AM)Pangus Wrote: How important are 'natural' goalscorers to a team, those who you can rely on  to come up with over 15 goals a season. Who's the best finisher you have seen? Not necessarily through stats but from your perception.

Ron Saunders was in a poor team generally but scored a phenomenal 156 goals in 258 games
Mick Quinn was in a decent team and scored 64 in 129 
Alan Biley ditto scored 65 in 119
Yakubu  was in a very good team scored 36 in 78
Todorov was in an excellent team scored 33 in 75

Add anyone else you can think of.
Its interesting from the stats to see the most of these players constantly scored in half of the games i.e. one in two (the hallmark of a top scorer)
My vote goes to Toddy because his goals brought a top promotion

(14-01-2021, 11:02 AM)bluebollox Wrote: Toddy was a exception footballer. Reminded me of Sheringham, such a quick brain.

(14-01-2021, 11:42 AM)DeepBlue Wrote:

(14-01-2021, 11:02 AM)bluebollox Wrote: Toddy was a exception footballer. Reminded me of Sheringham, such a quick brain.

Toddy was great and had one exceptional season. 

But Whittingham scored 22 goals more than Todorov in his best season ... quite hard to beleive when you think how many Toddy seemed to get every week.

(14-01-2021, 02:14 PM)Wightblue Wrote: From the posts so far, I’m guessing that none of you are old enough to remember Messrs Ike Clarke, Thunderboots Reid, Peter Harris and Jack Froggatt, scored loads and loads of goals at the very highest level, played of course in an outstanding side (in fact the best Pompey team in my lifetime of supporting The Blues).

Different time but Johnny Gordon and of course Ron Saunders were good finishers in teams that were not particularly outstanding or downright poor.

King Kemp and Colin Garwood always put a real shift in and scored plenty without ever being outstanding.

Of the later years I’m with those who rate Biley, Corporal punishment, Toddy and of course Defoe, a truly instinctive finisher. I must finish with Pitman whose first season with us was outstanding considering he had an average midfield behind him to say the least of it.

(14-01-2021, 03:12 PM)Wightblue Wrote: Maybe your right Deep but my mind was focussed on his early days with Pompey when he was a regular scorer, I couldn’t believe I was so wrong so I have just looked up the period, Johnny Gordon scored:

54/5 13 goals from 38 starts ( no subs in those days
55/6  5                  21
56/7 13                  39
57/8 13                  38
        44                136

He then was sold to Birmingham and returned much later, I agree that he shouldn’t be on my list, it’s nostalgia dulling my memory.

I don’t think your own stats do Johnny any justice, 10 goals in 800 games ?????? 

Wouldn’t 800 games make him Pompey’s all time record holder for appearances ? I thought that would be more likely to be Jimmy Dickinson (764) or Alan Knight (683 if it’s goalkeeping ), I confess I didn’t know anyone had made 800 appearances for Pompey ?

(14-01-2021, 04:22 PM)bluetagagain Wrote: Jimmy Gilligan
Scott McGarvey

(16-01-2021, 01:04 PM)Northstander Wrote:

(14-01-2021, 04:22 PM)bluetagagain Wrote: Jimmy Gilligan
Scott McGarvey

I'll add Donkey Baird to that pair Blue Tag

(16-01-2021, 09:09 PM)66zoolane Wrote: I remember what what my Mum said - it was Peter Harris.