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Adam29 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 6:04 pm On that same level who is to say a player who scores 20 goals for a team last season would do the same at a different team the following season.

Ask Chelsea fans what they think of Chris Sutton

Robwez10 wrote: ↑Tue May 31, 2022 2:26 am Kian Spence at Halifax, out of contract

Adam29 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 6:04 pm On that same level who is to say a player who scores 20 goals for a team last season would do the same at a different team the following season.

Ask Chelsea fans what they think of Chris Sutton

Sea Dog Sam wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 2:06 pm Plymouth's top goal scorers were all strikers - Ryan Hardie with 13, Niall Ennis with 12 and Morgan Whittaker with 9. I watched a few of them go in too

Pedro made a valid point. We need a proven goal scorer. Over the years we've had some cracking strikers - Jimmy Mulholland, Jimmy Mulvaney, Tony Field, Cowps, Andy Cook, Byron Harrison and Scott Quiqley to name a few. Of the aforementioned, only Quiqley didn't have a good track record. And we all know who got the best out of him. Not sure if Peter Wild has that quality of man management - yet.

We're not going to attract proven goal scorers from the leagues above or from our rivals. So why not sign a young 'proven' goal scorer from the leagues below? I'm sure there's a future Vardy or Bowen out there somewhere just waiting for an opportunity to excell at a higher level.

Unless we sign a 'quality' striker soon I've a feeling the 2023/24 season is going to be a struggle...

Big_Bluebird wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 6:32 pm

Robwez10 wrote: ↑Tue May 31, 2022 2:26 am Kian Spence at Halifax, out of contract

What’s the lottery numbers

Sea Dog Sam wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 2:06 pm Plymouth's top goal scorers were all strikers - Ryan Hardie with 13, Niall Ennis with 12 and Morgan Whittaker with 9.

Pedro made a valid point. We need a proven goal scorer.

bluessupporter wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 1:34 pm

Lancaster Branch wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 12:07 pm

Grimsby’s chairman wrote an interesting piece in the Guardian t’other day, pointed out the obsession people have with WE NEED A 20 GOAL A SEASON STRIKER!!! before pointing out that Plymouth won L1 with a top scorer with 13 goals; Orient won L2 with nobody in double figures. We need more goals in our team but it doesn’t necessarily mean signing a proven bagsman. If we can work out how to get more goals from midfield and the defence, that’s just as good.

Good points. Perhaps Pedro should take note!

Pedro wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 12:21 pm

bluessupporter wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 1:34 pm

Good points. Perhaps Pedro should take note!

Will take that but waters left and he had scored 9 goals

Alhosk wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 11:53 am

Sea Dog Sam wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 2:06 pm Plymouth's top goal scorers were all strikers - Ryan Hardie with 13, Niall Ennis with 12 and Morgan Whittaker with 9.

Pedro made a valid point. We need a proven goal scorer.

So we need a proven goalscorer, as proven by Plymouth winning the league without one. Got it.

Sea Dog Sam wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 3:07 pm

Alhosk wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 11:53 am
So we need a proven goalscorer, as proven by Plymouth winning the league without one. Got it.

They had THREE strikers who could all score goals
Not sure if they were 'Proven' strikers - you'd have to study their stats before they played for Argyle.
Not sure if you even understood my post?
'Proven' as in PAST goal scoring feats...Get it?

olefogey wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 8:46 pm

Sea Dog Sam wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 3:07 pm


They had THREE strikers who could all score goals
Not sure if they were 'Proven' strikers - you'd have to study their stats before they played for Argyle.
Not sure if you even understood my post?
'Proven' as in PAST goal scoring feats...Get it?

Think the point being made is just that they didn't have the magic 20 goal striker, but did have more than one person scoring a reasonable number of goals. Can argue it either way, I suppose!