A slightly curious list, with a lot of players from the 70s, while there's nobody from the late 90s, despite us having some good strikers in that period, as none of them hung around long enough, sometimes due to injury/illness (Mendonca, Hunt)
Leaburn the most recent player in the list. What does that tell us? That Carlo was much better than many give him credit for? That players' lifespans at clubs are much shorter nowadays? That all our strikers this century have been crap? All of the above?
Leaburn the most recent player in the list. What does that tell us? That Carlo was much better than many give him credit for? That players' lifespans at clubs are much shorter nowadays? That all our strikers this century have been crap? All of the above?
Mainly due to 2 and 3 - players often only stay for the length of their original contract (2-3 years) and then move on to another club for free & so get a signing on fee. Also that we have signed some pretty crap strikers over the past 10 seasons, and before that (when in the Prem) it was harder for us to score that many goals due to better opposing defences full of International players. Since Killer retired I can really only name 4 players that if they had stayed for a length of time would have got past 100 goals - Mendonca, Hunt, Bent (D) and BWP.
Leaburn the most recent player in the list. What does that tell us? That Carlo was much better than many give him credit for? That players' lifespans at clubs are much shorter nowadays? That all our strikers this century have been crap? All of the above?
Our strikers never seemed to hang around, whereas our more defensive players did.
The Curbishley teams were also more defensively minded than the attack at all cost teams of the 70s!
Can't be many teams where 4 of your top 20 all played in the same team/match (Killer, Flash, Keith, Arthur). You'd need either two high-scoring/long-serving midfielders or, in our case, a forward playing out of position.
I saw 10 of them and Leary play cricket for Kent but not football for Charlton quite.
EDIT: I didn't realise Martin Robinson scored as many as he did for us. He was a decent winger and tends to be overlooked when discussing past players.
I think Leaburn's average must be 5/6 a season still. Only one on that list I've seen in the flesh - love big Carl, had a model skeleton named after him as a kid.
Goals/ game. The best- well that amateur CF came from Scandinavia in the late 50's. Played less than 15 games i believe, sorry forgot his name - was it Johanson ?
Can I challenge you stattos to find out Charlton's best players list for goals per game?
Despite the "statto" insult I will try.
Dean Chandler 100% as scored in every game he played.
Later played for an England disability side.
But for players who played more than one or a handful of games.
George Tadman scored 50 (47 league plus 3 FA Cup) goals in 93 games (87 league, all top flight and 6 FA Cup) in the three seasons before WW2 when we were very good but that is beaten by Fred Whitlow who got 65 Goals (61+4) in 100 games (95 + 5) in the 2nd and 3rd divisions from 1927 to 1931.
However I think the winner is, until @shirty5 corrects me, is Ralph Allen
54 games and 48 goals (2 and 1 in the FA Cup) in our two consecutive promotion seasons in 35 and 36
In 1934/5 he scored 32 league goals in only 28 league games. This is still a club record for most goals in a season.
Seed sold him to Northampton but did replaced him with Tadman.
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That Carlo was much better than many give him credit for?
That players' lifespans at clubs are much shorter nowadays?
That all our strikers this century have been crap?
All of the above?
The Curbishley teams were also more defensively minded than the attack at all cost teams of the 70s!
EDIT: I didn't realise Martin Robinson scored as many as he did for us. He was a decent winger and tends to be overlooked when discussing past players.
The best- well that amateur CF came from Scandinavia in the late 50's. Played less than 15 games i believe, sorry forgot his name - was it Johanson ?
Dean Chandler 100% as scored in every game he played.
Later played for an England disability side.
But for players who played more than one or a handful of games.
George Tadman scored 50 (47 league plus 3 FA Cup) goals in 93 games (87 league, all top flight and 6 FA Cup) in the three seasons before WW2 when we were very good but that is beaten by Fred Whitlow who got 65 Goals (61+4) in 100 games (95 + 5) in the 2nd and 3rd divisions from 1927 to 1931.
However I think the winner is, until @shirty5 corrects me, is Ralph Allen
54 games and 48 goals (2 and 1 in the FA Cup) in our two consecutive promotion seasons in 35 and 36
In 1934/5 he scored 32 league goals in only 28 league games. This is still a club record for most goals in a season.
Seed sold him to Northampton but did replaced him with Tadman.
Hales, Flanagan, Peacock, Robinson, Leaburn, Lee, Horsfield