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Never said he was best target man in the division.

I said those that said he was League 2 quality, pub league quality or a carthorse etc were all wrong. The facts prove that those critics were wrong - he played in League One (dunno if he got a game in the champ) after leaving City for several years. How can he be L2 class or worse when the market shows he had L1 takers!

As I said at the time, for all he’d been brilliant for us, the time had come for him to move on. Things can get stale after a while and the criticism he got was ridiculous. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t good enough for the club or the division anymore. Clearly he was.

But a move suited all parties. Hanson bettered his wages and provided security for his young family. City got a transfer fee. Blades got another striker to rotate in their promotion push and City got chance to take a new approach with Wyke coming in and offering good link up play and goals.

Cba arguing any further on the matter now though tbh as its like being stuck in a time warp.

Bore-yer out etc is more pertinent now!

 

Top find, Billy Clarke's finishing position surprised the hell out of me!

 

Look at the rate compared to Windass, Thorne and Wells. Hanson's bar was at a snails pace compared to theirs.

 

Great stuff
A couple of games /goals ratio stand out for me
Charlie Wyke and Nakhi Wells

 

Must be a mistake on this cant see patrick anywhere ha

 

And shortly after went almost a full seasons worth of games without scoring a goal.

Perhaps his "critics" knew more than you thought?

 

That’s not what I said.

If Hanson was as bad as his critics made out he wouldnt have moved to another L1 side and certainly not THE best team in the league that year.

They were already strong but bringing in a unit like him enabled them to rotate and play direct when needed. He gave them another option.

That they turned to Hanson to play that role shows you he was respected in the game and L1 quality.

They, like us, knew he wouldnt cut it in the Champ but it didnt matter. It was job done. For a small fee, get up, coin in the increased revenues in the Champ and his fee pales into insignificance.

Upon leaving City, if he was a carthorse crock as many suggested, he’d have moved to League Two, if not non league, given some said he was a pub player.

Of course, his critics went way OTT. The reality was he was a decent L1 target man at the time.

 

Ah, so you're using 15 games as your example rather than the next 43 goalless appearances?

It's as bad as park pretending that we're averaging 2 goals a game purely on a 4 game extract.

 

Not a valid point I’m afraid.

At the point he left City you need to assess his ability. Was he good enough to stay at City, move to a better club or to a worse club?

The market would tell you how good he was and his destination club validates the argument.

He moved upwards from City, bagging us a fee, and boosting his own wages.

What happened after Sheff Utd matters not. We are discussing what fans said about him in his final months at City. That was that he wasn’t good enough for League one anymore in the year he departed. That was bollocks.

Even when he left the Blades he got another few years at a League 1 club, rubbishing claims he was L2/pub league player!

 

I remember the same argument with Park when Joe Colbeck got a move, for a fee, to a club in a higher division.

He wasn't good enough either and sure enough fell down the leagues just as I said he would.

History proved me right then and history also proved me right that Hanson was past his shelf life for city.

 

What was your assessment of him? Legend, top L1 target man? L2 class? Pub league?

The time was right for him to move on but he moved up from us, not down, and held his own in L1 after he left. He had the last laugh at the fans who got stuck in. Still don’t understand it now. He delivered on the big stage in big games.....not like Ashley ward, andy cooke, Conlon etc - just battering rams

 

My assessment was that he wasn't delivering for us anymore.

I was right, the sentimental majority like you, seemingly refused to move on.

 

Incorrect. He was a legend for us but I said at the time the time was right for him to move on.

 

So you're championing his move to a club higher up the league than us as a sign he was the best target man in the division and at the same time saying we were right to get shut?

How does that work?