13-02-2015, 15:04
An additional sad thing is that of the players I have seen, some only did it outside the top division (Bannister, Wylde) and Hirsty's ratio wouldn't look so good without that brilliant scoring season in Division Two.
In my lifetime, the only genuine big scorers in the top flight were Fantham (only saw the tail end of his career), HIrsty, Chapman & Bright.
I presume you have included Cup Goals in the last ten years list, which has bumped up players like Mellor & Nuhui. Goals per game is less accurate now because of multi substitutions so to do a comparison over the last ten years, you would need to judge it against starts or minutes played. Also maybe show penalties in brackets because they distort figures for players like Maguire.
Interesting Thread!
In my lifetime, the only genuine big scorers in the top flight were Fantham (only saw the tail end of his career), HIrsty, Chapman & Bright.
I presume you have included Cup Goals in the last ten years list, which has bumped up players like Mellor & Nuhui. Goals per game is less accurate now because of multi substitutions so to do a comparison over the last ten years, you would need to judge it against starts or minutes played. Also maybe show penalties in brackets because they distort figures for players like Maguire.
Interesting Thread!
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