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5 - Mckay, Watkins

4 - Tansey

3 - Doran, Christie, Meekings

 

I suppose our current top scorers table is far more evenly distributed than any of us would have predicted back in the summer, and in some respects that's no bad thing.

 

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It's certainly no bad thing. But equally, it's no good thing....We're normally a club who has a leading goal-scorer. So for us to 'celebrate' having goals-spread-throughout-the-team would be strange.

Regardless of league, or position in league, every club has either a runaway goal scorer or spread-out goals. Logically.

When Billy was grabbing 80% of our goals, I didn't hear any voices suggesting that it was a bad thing!

A prolific scorer = good; goals spread about = good. It's the same for every club.

So to suggest that having the goals spread about the team is 'no bad thing' is happy clapping to the extreme!

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It's certainly no bad thing. But equally, it's no good thing....We're normally a club who has a leading goal-scorer. So for us to 'celebrate' having goals-spread-throughout-the-team would be strange.

Regardless of league, or position in league, every club has either a runaway goal scorer or spread-out goals. Logically.

When Billy was grabbing 80% of our goals, I didn't hear any voices suggesting that it was a bad thing!

A prolific scorer = good; goals spread about = good. It's the same for every club.

So to suggest that having the goals spread about the team is 'no bad thing' is happy clapping to the extreme!

 

Well the last 2 seasons Billy's been far and away our top scorer which is good when he's in form but you saw what happened after last December, Billy got something like 5 goals(?) from then till the end of the season and as a team we paid the price for it. Surely as a squad when you see the guy whose scoring all the goals stop scoring some of them might be thinking "Oh ****, now what?" whereas now you've got the likes of Marley, Ryan and Greg and a few others going "Well if he doesn't score, I will". I don't care whose scoring them as long as we're winning, that's all that matters surely?

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When Billy was grabbing 80% of our goals, I didn't hear any voices suggesting that it was a bad thing!

 

Luckily for us he was never injured. I guess the point is we seem less dependent on him than before as our only significant source of goals and therefore points.

 

I still want him to get 20 this season though!

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On the subject of goal stats, it struck me after Billy's goal at Dens that there probably aren't that many strikers who have scored a perfectly valid goal with their hand.  I also wondered if the stattos, who record how the world's top strikers have scored each of their goals, have a category for hand and it seems they do. 

 

When Messi broke La Liga's scoring record, his tally was announced as: left foot 206, right foot 36, head 8, hand 1.  The difference is that his one was a deliberate handball that should have been a yellow card not a goal. Couldn't get his head to a cross so he punched it in and the ref never noticed.

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I've been very slow starting (actually getting to a game or two) this season, but my first game in the flesh (against Accies) saw:

        Mckay's first goal since a wee while.

        Our first real comeback (at home) (conceding first, then winning) since fireworks night many moons ago.

 

I've since seen, in the flesh:

        Mckay scoring again (and again).

        Our first real comeback (away, at Dens) (conceding first, then winning) since the aforementioned Accies game.

 

If anyone wants to sponsor me to go to more games this season, please DM me for my sort code and account number (ticket, pie, Bovril, petrol/fare when necessary, I'm not greedy).

 
PS - I fecking love Subway sandwiches (everything except lettuce - they're my sisters' fingers behind my head, not real rabbit ears).
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Is there actually a hint of people getting annoyed or whatnot that we are enjoying the fact we have more than one player scoring goals?

Get a grip. Aye like anyone else.. I'de like Billy to have popped more in, it's his trade specialty after all, it's what you expect! But I can't see past the enjoyment of not going into a game and basing it all on wether "Billy has his shooting boots on or not?"

If most players finished on equal goals at the end of the season.. Or 5/6 on 10 each.. I'll be over the moon..

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Is there actually a hint of people getting annoyed or whatnot that we are enjoying the fact we have more than one player scoring goals?

Get a grip. Aye like anyone else.. I'de like Billy to have popped more in, it's his trade specialty after all, it's what you expect! But I can't see past the enjoyment of not going into a game and basing it all on wether "Billy has his shooting boots on or not?"

If most players finished on equal goals at the end of the season.. Or 5/6 on 10 each.. I'll be over the moon..

Me too.

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Is there actually a hint of people getting annoyed or whatnot that we are enjoying the fact we have more than one player scoring goals?

 

Nah...it's just me!

But to clarify, I also don't mind where the goals are coming from.

 

If we compare our leading 3 marksman with Aberdeen, for example (both add up to 23 goals)

 

5 - Mckay, Watkins                                        15 - Rooney

4 - Tansey                                                      4 - Pawlett

3 - Doran, Christie, Meekings                        4 - McGinn

 

Which is 'better'?

Well, neither, in my book. Both achieve the same end...23 goals.

Most seasons we've had a 'runaway' leading marksman, Iain Stewart, Dennis Wyness, Adam Rooney, Billy McKay etc. and that's absolutely fine - it's a 'pattern' at many football clubs.

This season, we're witnessing the goals being spread around - also great. But neither 'pattern' is preferable to the other.

So I had a wee 'pop' at what I perceived as an inference that our current spread of goals was an improvement on our more familiar pattern.

 

But aside from that, I was 'due a go' at Yngwie after that picture he posted of me. :lol:   (post # 7) My glasses do NOT look like that!

I'll stop digging now.

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Goals being spread around is absolutely the preferable option.  If for no other reason it removes the risk of injury/suspension to one player nullifying a teams scoring threat.  If you want a second reason, then it means the opposition don't know where the goals are going to come from and who to "cover" which makes us tough to defend against.

 

The latter is something which John Hughes uses to great effect....it's no coincidence that Meekings has chipped in with a couple of goals recently....and who knows which player will be next to do similar?!

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From the angle the ref was at, I wondered if he saw Billy's goal as coming off his head. It's only the shot from behind the goals that makes it a clear handball.

They never mentioned it on Sportscene but I'm sure he would have disallowed it, intentional or otherwise, if he'd spotted it, to avoid any fallout.

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Goals being spread around is absolutely the preferable option.  If for no other reason it removes the risk of injury/suspension to one player nullifying a teams scoring threat.  If you want a second reason, then it means the opposition don't know where the goals are going to come from and who to "cover" which makes us tough to defend against.

 

The latter is something which John Hughes uses to great effect....it's no coincidence that Meekings has chipped in with a couple of goals recently....and who knows which player will be next to do similar?!

Gazing into my crystal ball...three-years-hence...a young starlet, carefully nurtured, has developed into a natural predator. Calum Ferguson leads the SPFL goalscorer charts with 17 strikes. Doran and Tansey have 4 each.  

CaleyD posts "as commendable as it is to see young Ferguson leading the way with the lion's share of goals, it would be preferable, as I intimated 3 years ago, if the goals were shared around throughout the team."

:smile: Merry Xmas.

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