Strikers We Had Between Slaven and Akpom

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Air Resistance

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Just to put into context of how much of a fantastic achievement Chuba has achieved, check out the list of strikers we’ve had between him and the last player to get 20 league goals. Some of my all time favourite boro players on this list who never even came close. So much money spent and it’s the guy who wasn’t even training with the first team preseason, who had only scored about 5 goals in English football before this season. Watching him celebrate recently has been akin to the like of Duncan Watmore, where you can tell how sincerely he’s enjoying it. No one can ever take this season away from him, and if I was a betting man, I’d say another 9 goal in his next 11 games isn’t out of the question.

Ian Arnold
Ian Baird
Paul Wilkinson
John Hendrie
Willy Falconer
Andy Payton
Dwight Marshall
Neil Illman
Craig Hignett
Ian Johnson
Paul Forrester
Jan Age Fjortoft
Chris Freestone
Uwe Fuchs
Jamie Moreno
Andy Campbell
Mikel Beck
Fabrizio Ravanelli
Alun Armstrong
Hamilton Richard
Kris Trevor
Marco Branca
Brian Deane
Alen Boksic
Joseph Desire-Job
Dean Windass
Noel Whelan
Szilard Nemeth
Benito Carbone
Massimo Maccarone
Malcolm Christie
Micheal Ricketts
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Mark Viduka
Danny Graham
Yakubu
Tom Craddock
Jason Euell
Lee Dong Gook
Mido
Jeremie Aliadiere
Afonso Alves
Tuncay
Ben Hutchinson
Marvin Emnes
Marlon King
Jonathan Franks
Scott McDonald
Leroy Lita
Chris Killen
Caleb Folan
Lee Miller
Marcus Bent
Dave Kitson
Kris Boyd
Bart Ogbeche
Curtis Main
Lukas Jutkiewicz
Alex Nimley
Ishmael Miller
Lee Tomlin
Kei Kamara
Kike
Patrick Bamford
Jelle Vossen
Bradley Fewster
Jordan Rhodes
Cristhian Stuani
Kike Sola
Alvaro Negredo
Rudy Gestede
Britt Assombalonga
Martin Braithwaite
Jordan Hugill
Ashley Fletcher
Steve Walker
Lukas Nmetcha
Duncan Watmore
Uche Ikpeazu
Andraz Sporar
Josh Coburn
Rodrigo Muniz
Cameron Archer
Marcus Forss
Matthew Hoppe
 
Its amazing the difference in calibre we've had over the years, from the pure class that was Alen Boksic and Ravenelli (their attitudes aside), as well as JFL and Viduka who were probably the best we've ever had in the modern era, to the utter dog turds that were Lee Miller and Dook Gong Lee 😖
 
Air Resistance said:
Just to put into context of how much of a fantastic achievement Chuba has achieved, check out the list of strikers we’ve had between him and the last player to get 20 league goals. Some of my all time favourite boro players on this list who never even came close. So much money spent and it’s the guy who wasn’t even training with the first team preseason, who had only scored about 5 goals in English football before this season. Watching him celebrate recently has been akin to the like of Duncan Watmore, where you can tell how sincerely he’s enjoying it. No one can ever take this season away from him, and if I was a betting man, I’d say another 9 goal in his next 11 games isn’t out of the question.

Ian Arnold
Ian Baird
Paul Wilkinson
John Hendrie
Willy Falconer
Andy Payton
Dwight Marshall
Neil Illman
Craig Hignett
Ian Johnson
Paul Forrester
Jan Age Fjortoft
Chris Freestone
Uwe Fuchs
Jamie Moreno
Andy Campbell
Mikel Beck
Fabrizio Ravanelli
Alun Armstrong
Hamilton Richard
Kris Trevor
Marco Branca
Brian Deane
Alen Boksic
Joseph Desire-Job
Dean Windass
Noel Whelan
Szilard Nemeth
Benito Carbone
Massimo Maccarone
Malcolm Christie
Micheal Ricketts
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Mark Viduka
Danny Graham
Yakubu
Tom Craddock
Jason Euell
Lee Dong Gook
Mido
Jeremie Aliadiere
Afonso Alves
Tuncay
Ben Hutchinson
Marvin Emnes
Marlon King
Jonathan Franks
Scott McDonald
Leroy Lita
Chris Killen
Caleb Folan
Lee Miller
Marcus Bent
Dave Kitson
Kris Boyd
Bart Ogbeche
Curtis Main
Lukas Jutkiewicz
Alex Nimley
Ishmael Miller
Lee Tomlin
Kei Kamara
Kike
Patrick Bamford
Jelle Vossen
Bradley Fewster
Jordan Rhodes
Cristhian Stuani
Kike Sola
Alvaro Negredo
Rudy Gestede
Britt Assombalonga
Martin Braithwaite
Jordan Hugill
Ashley Fletcher
Steve Walker
Lukas Nmetcha
Duncan Watmore
Uche Ikpeazu
Andraz Sporar
Josh Coburn
Rodrigo Muniz
Cameron Archer
Marcus Forss
Matthew Hoppe
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The drop off of quality between Yakubu and Kike is nightmare fuel 🫣
 
Bernie Slaven
Fabrizio Ravanelli
Hamilton Richard
Marco Branca
Massimo Maccarone
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Mark Viduka
Yakubu
Mido
Patrick Bamford
Cristhian Stuani
Alvaro Negredo
Martin Braithwaite
Chuba Akpom
 
This the highest total goals since hickton in 70-71, 52 years ago. So 26 is the next target for Chuba to go for to beat that.

It would also mean only 9 other strikers would have had higher total league goals in a season for us (they did it more than once though). Camsell, Clough, Fenton, McClelland, Wilson, Peacock, Elliott, O’Rourke and Pease. Not a bad set of names to be in with! Currently there 14 players who’ve scored more in a season than Chuba but top 10 is the one to go for
 
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To be fair, we'd probably shudder at the name Chuba if we still had someone like Pulis at the helm. I believe Carrick would have made half of those strikers above into world class players had he been head coach in their era.
 
Youngest goalscorer - Arthur Horsfield aged 17 years & 64 days against Grimsby 17th April 11963

Oldest goalscorer - Bryan Robson aged 38 years and 2 months against Port Vale 1995

Youngest hat-trick scorer -Tony McAndrew aged 20 years & 6 days against Sheffield United 1976
 
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