Rank our old championship strikers

[Rain King]

1 minute ago, Lambert09 said:

jeez completely forgot about Horsefield. 
 

Scored a hattrick against west brom but that’s about all he did in blue 

He scored 2 at home to Cov and that was it.

[foxile5]

4 minutes ago, Rain King said:

He scored 2 at home to Cov and that was it.

Horsefield turned us down at some point, I think before Fulham, and when he joined the expectation was so high. Failed to deliver.

 

Fans of a certain vintage will remember Zamora turning us down when we were in the championship. He would have been mustard if he had signed.

[GUTIH]

Collins John needs to be on the obscure list.

 

 

[Arkie Bennett]

11 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Bednar is genuinely the worst player I've ever seen play for Leicester. Was it a cup game v Grimsby he got subbed at half-time? I was begging for him to be subbed after about 15 mins. Awful, awful player.

Joined us not long after his coke episode. At his last home game he obviously didn't want to be there, walked around totally disinterested until he was substituted.

[Raj]

Howard

Fryatt

Hume all have to be up there.

[Gazza M]

James Scowcroft played a big part in Micky Adams side drifting in from wide. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bluearmyfox28]

Waghorn scoring away at Scunthorpe, is always a fond memory for me!

[Sampson]

I remember Cadamatri scoring an injury time winner/equaliser too but I can’t remember who against 

[SheppyFox]

Baldy Bednar 

[Fox92]

3 hours ago, Sampson said:

I remember Cadamatri scoring an injury time winner/equaliser too but I can’t remember who against 

Fulham in the FA Cup?

[Fox92]

Dickov was the man. Alongside Izzet my favourite player when I was growing up. Gutted when he went to Blackburn (and then scored to knock us out the FA Cup!).

[Stadt]

Nugent

Vardy (as a championship striker) 

Yakubu

Fryatt

Wood

Howard 

Vassell

GTF

Waghorn

Beckford

Hume

Kermogant

Campbell

Kamara

Kane

Bednar

 

Edited 8 June 2023 by Stadt

[Sampson]

11 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Fulham in the FA Cup?

Yes that must have been it. Weird signing he’d just failed in league one and dropped down to non league but we signed him as a back up. He was really hyped as a youngster at Everton but was pretty crap for everyone he ever played for at any level 

[jonathan_ross]

18 hours ago, CrazyKopCorner said:

Yakubu Ayegbeni

Gary Taylor-Fletcher

Iain Hume

DJ Campbell

Darius Vassell

Mark Devries

Jermaine Beckford

Trevor Benjamin

Elvis Hammond

Martyn Waghorn 

Barry Hayles

Kermorgant

Roman Bednar

Danny Cadamarteri

 

Some of them were outright crap and some I can't even rememebr playing for us so they get a even lower ranking 

 

Beckford although crap gets a slightly higher rank for scoring a hat trick against the red filth 

Does Trevor Benjamin still hold the record for the most sub appearances? 😂

[Sampson]

5 minutes ago, jonathan_ross said:

Does Trevor Benjamin still hold the record for the most sub appearances? 😂

Demarai Gray must have had more surely?

[SouthStandUpperTier]

11 minutes ago, jonathan_ross said:

Does Trevor Benjamin still hold the record for the most sub appearances? 😂

 

6 minutes ago, Sampson said:

Demarai Gray must have had more surely?

I would think Kelechi has the most sub appearances now (104 sub appearances against 102 starts in all competitions).

Edited 8 June 2023 by SouthStandUpperTier

[ParkerPen]

the only answer 

[Arriba Los Zorros]

Oh crikey will try and categorise

 

Good

Yakubu

GTF

 

Good but inconsistent

Waghorn

Vassell

Kermorgant

 

Serviceable/average 

Hume

Beckford 

 

Journeyman 

Benjamin

Mark de Vries

Dj Campbell 

Cadamaeteri 

 

Shite

Elvis

Hayles

Bednar

[SpacedX]

So I'm guessing that the old Division Two doesn't count? 

[Sampson]

34 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Nugent

Vardy (as a championship striker) 

Yakubu

Fryatt

Wood

Howard 

Vassell

GTF

Waghorn

Beckford

Hume

Kermogant

Campbell

Kamara

Kane

Bednar

 

I like this is a good list if we're including only "Championship" strikers and not players like Dickov or Deane who played when it was still Division One.

 

Nugent was a quality player at Championship level. Although I hear people say he was a player who was "too good for the Championship, not good enough for the Premier League", I always thought he actually had a decent season during our great escape season too and actually kept Mahrez out the side playing that number 10 role in the 3-5-2 for a while too.

[An Away Move]

I must be getting old because I am thinking about the absence of Julian Joachim, Tommy Wright and ‘Rooster’ Russell on this thread!

[SouthStandUpperTier]

2 minutes ago, An Away Move said:

I must be getting old because I am thinking about the absence of Julian Joachim, Tommy Wright and ‘Rooster’ Russell on this thread!

Bobby Davison.

[Thommo]

Everyone forgetting Sir Les Ferdinand scored 12 in 29 for us at the end of his career....CLASS!

[Sampson]

13 minutes ago, Thommo said:

Everyone forgetting Sir Les Ferdinand scored 12 in 29 for us at the end of his career....CLASS!

No one is forgetting him, you are forgetting he played for us in the Premier League though.

[Stadt]

1 hour ago, Sampson said:

I like this is a good list if we're including only "Championship" strikers and not players like Dickov or Deane who played when it was still Division One.

 

Nugent was a quality player at Championship level. Although I hear people say he was a player who was "too good for the Championship, not good enough for the Premier League", I always thought he actually had a decent season during our great escape season too and actually kept Mahrez out the side playing that number 10 role in the 3-5-2 for a while too.

His all round game was good, he was never particularly prolific. Scored 15 non penalty goals twice in the championship. managed 50 championship assist which is a good return.