Since we signed Peter Thorne

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Here's a list of all the strikers who cost us more than we paid for Peter Thorne. Back in 2002 we paid £1.7m, which seemed like a fortune at the time for a 3rd tier club who had only won promotion a year before.

Chopra - scintillating in his first spell with us, was great until the final few months of his final season - 34 goals.
Velikonja - apparantly signed without Mackay's consent - 0 goals.
Maynard - showed great promise early on but suffered a bad injury - 2 goals.
Odemwingie - crap - 1 goal.
Cornelius - apparently one for the future - 0 goals.
Le Fondre - proven goalscorer in the Championship, never happened for him here - 3 goals.
Lambert - coming to the end of his career - 4 goals.
Madine - shite - 0 goals
Sala - sadly we will never know RIP
Glatzel - divides opinion - 10 goals
Vassell - does he exist? - 1 goal
Moore - the most promising striker we've signed for several seasons - 8 goals

Peter Thorne scored 38 goals for us. Chopra apart, our other £1.7m+ strikers have scored 29 goals between them, the vast majority by Glatzel and Moore.

Looking at it, our recruitment of strikers when we've paid decent money for them has been pretty shite.

[Der Kaiser]

I may well be wrong, not sure what league one is like generally but £1.7m feels like it would be a lot for most 3rd tier teams even now, forget 18 years ago!

Moore is one of our best signings full stop in the last 10 years, given the timing and need. He could push on to cult status.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Moore is a right lump

Imagine chopra playing off him

[Eric the Half a Bee]

I may well be wrong, not sure what league one is like generally but £1.7m feels like it would be a lot for most 3rd tier teams even now, forget 18 years ago!

Absolutely. I can't say I follow League 1 at all, so have no idea of what teams are spending, but I'd be surprised if they're forking out a couple of million on one player.

[life on mars]

I reckon at £250,000 the mighty Steve Thompson was a bargain, he scored 16 ?

PS Thorne was a class act .

[Pedro de la Rosa]

I reckon at £250,000 the mighty Steve Thompson was a bargain, he scored 16 ?

PS Thorne was a class act .

Bothroyd cost 350k, as well. The best striker I've seen at the club.

[splott parker]

Did Helgusson cost anything? What a warrior he was for us in a promotion season.

[MOZZER2]

Bothroyd cost 350k, as well. The best striker I've seen at the club.

agree total value for money

[Eric the Half a Bee]

I reckon at £250,000 the mighty Steve Thompson was a bargain, he scored 16 ?

PS Thorne was a class act .

16 from nearly 100 appearances. Pretty crap.

[198bore]

I thought Chops only cost around half a million?

[Eric the Half a Bee]

I thought Chops only cost around half a million?

Not when we bought him back from Sunderland.

[Rjk]

Bobby decordova Reid?

only him and Cornelius seem to have done anything of note since leaving us as well

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Bobby decordova Reid?

only him and Cornelius seem to have done anything of note since leaving us as well

Got the feeling we bought him as an attacking midfielder, hence I left him out. Good point about Cornelius. Malky got a lot of stick over signing him, but Malky always said he was one for the future. He was right, just that future wasn't with us.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

Got the feeling we bought him as an attacking midfielder, hence I left him out. Good point about Cornelius. Malky got a lot of stick over signing him, but Malky always said he was one for the future. He was right, just that future wasn't with us.

Mackay didn't say that when he signed him, he started saying that when it was clear he was way off the pace. Promoted sides don't break their transfer record on a project.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Mackay didn't say that when he signed him, he started saying that when it was clear he was way off the pace. Promoted sides don't break their transfer record on a project.

Correct.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Mackay didn't say that when he signed him, he started saying that when it was clear he was way off the pace. Promoted sides don't break their transfer record on a project.

True. I don't think it made much difference in the end, we were well off the pace most of that season, especially when Solskjaer turned up.

[Rjk]

I still think Velikonja could have been good if he'd been given a chance

[BlueArmy 86]

While we are talking about strikers, who was the last player to score under the Ninian Park floodlights?

Just read this on Wiki when looking up a player.

[Rjk]

While we are talking about strikers, who was the last player to score under the Ninian Park floodlights?

Just read this on Wiki when looking up a player.

Eddie!

[Rjk]

Dave Jones signed Chopra, Bothroyd and McCormack for a combined sum of less than £1 million.
as well as some bad signings too.
nobody since can match that kind of success rate though.
was he better at spotting a striker? or did his team's play football that was more likely to let a striker thrive?

[BlueArmy 86]

Eddie!

Correct! Congratulations, you win a Xmas get away..oh wait

[surge]

Dave Jones signed Chopra, Bothroyd and McCormack for a combined sum of less than £1 million.
as well as some bad signings too.
nobody since can match that kind of success rate though.
was he better at spotting a striker? or did his team's play football that was more likely to let a striker thrive?

Or did he, and the board, trust his ability to manage difficult personalities moreso than modern managers are given chance to?

In Malky's first season he spoke about complying dossiers on players to reduce risk of it going wrong/increase odds of it going right. Watching careers of Bothroyd before he came and Chopra/McCormack after they left, they would all likely raise significant red flags.

[Optimistic Nick]

Where is BDR?


Kenwynne Jones should arguably be here too - we swapped him for someone who cost a fair few quid.

[Optimistic Nick]

Dave Jones signed Chopra, Bothroyd and McCormack for a combined sum of less than £1 million.
as well as some bad signings too.
nobody since can match that kind of success rate though.
was he better at spotting a striker? or did his team's play football that was more likely to let a striker thrive?

And Whitts for a few £000k.

Proper fire power back then.

[Cyncoed Slumdog]

I still think Velikonja could have been good if he'd been given a chance

I don't know if that was tongue in cheek but I agree! I watched the U23's regularly when him and Healey were up front for them and their finishing made it worth the effort going to games.