Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
But the percentage figures don't tell the story unless they are put against the actual number of goals scored.
When the percentage of striker-scored goals went down, did our total, which would explain the apparent rise in midfielder goals, for instance?
The simple answer would be that it made no difference.

For the 3 Dave Jones seasons we scored 57, 73 and 76. In Malky's two seasons we scored 66 and 72. Lennie's side scored 68 and Warnock's runners-up scored 69.

Chopra scored 22 goals in 2006/07, 39% of the tally. That's unhealthy. He went through a phase of scoring once in 14 games. During that time we won once and scored 6 goals in those games. Perhaps it might be interesting to see if, during those seasons when we were more reliant on strikers, did it affect our results more when they didn't score, as in did others step up to the plate or not? My guess is they didn't.