Stand out strikers since 1990...

I would crawl b**lock naked over broken glass, just to stick matchsticks in Steady's turds. That's how much I love him.

 

Ward wasn’t shite, he just played in a shite team at the highest level of English football. A team that got relegated.
In contrast Wyke played for us in a team challenging for promotion in the 3rd tier.
Daft comparison.

 

Edited for accuracy ( in my opinion).

 

Spot on

 

Stead v Chelsea was the most complete performance from a striker, in any one game, that I have ever seen. Ever ever ever.

 

What a game that was.
Rory had Drogba in his pocket.
Fabregas and Hazard were marked out of it by our midfield.

 

Agree…Not for me either.

 

Was Wyke playing in the Prem ?…….must have passed me by?

 

Jimmy the tree as he's fondly remembered in these parts

 

Claus Jorgenson on that run of goals, shame he wasn’t a striker!

Can’t believe only one person mentioned Nahki Wells. Him and Hanson were a great partnership.

Robbie Blake for me is the standout, I loved watching him play, twisting and turning. Honorable mentions for Neil Tolson and Andy Tod the former scored possibly the best every city goal i’ve seen, a screamer at ninian park on a tues night we won 4-2. Volley from nigh on 30 plus yards.

good thread, brings back lots of good memories. When i started going it was Sean McCarthy and Paul Jewell era, Jagger often started the season flying then tailed off a bit, sad when Sean went to Oldham. Found out that he’d been sold at a midweek FA cup game at Chester City away, who were a league lower, and we went and lost that night 1-0 at the Deva Stadium. We always used to hammer them other times! Not happy

 

Smarmy …..? many call it knowledgable.

 

It’s about weighing up their performance versus expectation, in the league they signed in and at that moment in time and what they did for us, not a measure of their total level of ability or what they did elsewhere.

if it’s just a measure of pure ability then Carbone is the greatest striker ever to have worn the claret and amber and Ward would be in our top five.

Waddle and Saunders were top class players before they arrived here, but that’s irrelevant. Both did well for us too though.

Windass for, me, was probably the best when you measure performance vs expectation. He did well for us in the Prem and he smashed it under Todd when we were subsequently relegated and when he returned. A character (sometimes to his detriment) but such a gifted player who read the game superbly. Blake/Mills and Wells/Hanson partnerships were also class, while Wyke was superb too.

McCarthy was sold not long after I started going but remember the kop chanting super sean mccarthy!

 

Ive made my point, nothing more to add.

That’s a very simple response

 

By the way it’s ridiculous, not ridicilous.

 

As a target man, of course he was because he played all his football at a higher level. Campbell was immense for us, but bombed out at Derby and left us almost as soon as we got promoted because he knew he couldn't perform at that level.

Wells is a different type of player altogether.

Put Ward at age 30, in a league one team that produced the chances, with the wingers we had, and he would have ripped up the league.