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Earnie
Classic fox in the box
In my lifetime no one comes close
Jeff Hemmerman-Thread over.
A player who doesn't get much of a mention from the early eighties is Gordon Owen. A winger with good feet and an eye for a goal if my memory is correct. Sure he was Top Scorer for us in the old 2nd division, the year after we were promoted under Ashurst. I was pretty young at the time, maybe my judgement is clouded. Does anyone else remember him?
Carl Dale, Chopra,
Carl Dale
Chris Pike knew where the net was
He also knew where the pub was
Eddie Johnson.
What a player..
Tony Evans
First spell with us Michaerl Chopra, Earnie, Carl Dale and Tony Evans, who, although nowhere near the player Greaves was, was the most Greaves like of the four for me.
I’m also going to say Tony Evans.
Almost certainly looking at it through rose tinted glasses for the past but as a youth I thought he was dynamite.
Not sure if the stats will back me up but I am sticking to my guns.
greavesie was a long time before my time, but clips I've seen of him he seemed a lot more rounded player than earnie ever was.
sometimes earnshaws first touch was so bad he looked like some random guy who'd won a competition to play for the first team. other times defenders just couldn't live with him.
absolute one of a kind
Peter Kitchen knew where the goal was. Did nothing outside the box.
None. As much as we love our decent strikers none could even come close to Greaves. All his League goals came in the top flight too.
Clearly those who have posted their suggestions are too young to have seen John Toshack play. He was not only a goalscorer in the second stream but in the first tier as well. While he was not a "Greavsie" type of player he scored for us at will alongside Brian Clark. Perhaps a more "Greavsie" type of player was Tony Evans who came along a few years later but he was not in the same class (or league?)as John Toshack.
The first to come to mind as a similar player was Carl Dale.
An interesting chart...
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Personally I l always liked Joe Bonson...even if he doesn't figure here...I can always remember a diving header v Leyton Orient away where we won 4-3 away in our promotion season 1959-60!!! Also same season Johnny Watkins volleying in from a Brian Walsh Cross!! Not prolific bit Peter Hooper was also a memory in the making....