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Post by nickpom on Aug 1, 2023 12:39:59 GMT
Ahadme 9 Kachunga 6 Fejiri 5 Morrison 4 Thomas 2 So you reckon we will only score about 30 goals all season?! At least you are very unlikely to turn out to be over-optimistic! |
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Post by hhabbin on Aug 1, 2023 12:43:41 GMT
Heaven help us if either of the first 2 predictions are anyway close. Today's new striker. 15 Ahadme. 12 Okenabirhie. 9 Thomas. 6 LBennett. 5 There we go a bit of crystal ball gazing. Today's new striker is Elias Kachunga |
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Post by El Goodo on Aug 1, 2023 12:44:06 GMT
Ahadme 9 Kachunga 6 Fejiri 5 Morrison 4 Thomas 2 So you reckon we will only score about 30 goals all season?! At least you are very unlikely to turn out to be over-optimistic! Our top 5 scorers from last season got 33. |
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Post by Tom Shaw's Fist of Rage on Aug 1, 2023 12:57:25 GMT
We've been spoiled by Mullin and a lesser extent Smith over the last few years, from memory about 12/13 seems par for top goalscorer.
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Post by El Goodo on Aug 1, 2023 13:01:35 GMT
Berry got 22 in one his seasons, but yeah since we've been back in the league low double digits is generally a "good" season for a top scorer. We've had a lot of single-digit top-scorers too. Let's not forget the truly terrific season where Knibbs was top with 7. Brown managed 9 I think.
Fun fact: Berry outscored Barry (Corr) in both seasons they were at the club together.
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Post by mike_CUFC on Aug 1, 2023 13:28:24 GMT
I remember that season with Knibbs (7), not one to brag about! Think we've had a couple like that over the years since being back in the league.
I'm still hoping for one more striker but as it stands I'll go for:
Ahadme 12
Fejiri 8
Kaikai 6
Lankester 5
Janneh 5
I think we'll have a much more collective effort this year with lots of players chipping with a few goals each.
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Post by burwellu on Aug 1, 2023 13:29:39 GMT
Ahadme 11
Okenabirhie 9
Kaikai 6
Lankester 6
May 5
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Post by El Goodo on Aug 1, 2023 13:38:14 GMT
I remember that season with Knibbs (7), not one to brag about! Think we've had a couple like that over the years since being back in the league. More than a couple, yeah. Smith would probably have been top-scorer that season (and likely in double figures) if glandular fever hadn't ended it for him in February. |
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Post by nickpom on Aug 1, 2023 13:40:42 GMT
So you reckon we will only score about 30 goals all season?! At least you are very unlikely to turn out to be over-optimistic! Our top 5 scorers from last season got 33. And Abbeyman has our top five scoring only 26, and anyone else getting one or two at most - my point is that last season was a very poor one for goal-scoring and yet we scored 42 league and cup goals, so predicting around 30 is deeply pessimistic; it implies expecting a truly dreadful season. |
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Post by El Goodo on Aug 1, 2023 13:45:45 GMT
Our top 5 scorers from last season got 33. And Abbeyman has our top five scoring only 26, and anyone else getting one or two at most - my point is that last season was a very poor one for goal-scoring and yet we scored 42 league and cup goals, so predicting around 30 is deeply pessimistic; it implies expecting a truly dreadful season. I meant more that the numbers, with the exception of Smith at the top, were fairly close, top 5 to top 5. (9, 6, 5, 4, 2 v 14, 6, 5, 4, 4) It was poor enough that Dunk's late-season run of 3 put him... 6th. But yeah hopefully he's a fair bit under there. I'd also hope we manage more than the 14 unique scorers of last year. |
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Post by squeeze. on Aug 1, 2023 13:54:44 GMT
Ahadme 9 Kachunga 6 Fejiri 5 Morrison 4 Thomas 2 So you reckon we will only score about 30 goals all season?! At least you are very unlikely to turn out to be over-optimistic! You know what I hadn’t actually twigged the correlation. I don’t think we’ll score a lot, but I’m confident about the defence. Think we’ll be one of them with the goals shared around. But maybe a little more than 30. |
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Post by kentishu on Aug 1, 2023 14:05:40 GMT
Our top 5 scorers from last season got 33. And Abbeyman has our top five scoring only 26, and anyone else getting one or two at most - my point is that last season was a very poor one for goal-scoring and yet we scored 42 league and cup goals, so predicting around 30 is deeply pessimistic; it implies expecting a truly dreadful season. To be fair, most of us predicting low totals from players already here, will be assuming that quite a few goals will be scored by players not yet signed up, at least that applies to me. Anyway, what's your prediction Nick?... Kentish |
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Post by Andrewlang on Aug 1, 2023 14:06:44 GMT
"But yeah hopefully he's a fair bit under there. I'd also hope we manage more than the 14 unique scorers of last year"
This is something I'm hopeful of. We've already had seven, I think, in the four friendlies I can think of - Ahadme, Janneh, Morro, Brophy, Okinabirhie, Cousins and goalscoring superstar hero Harrison Dunk - so reason to be mildly hopeful. (I don't know if it was ever mentioned who scored against Spurs (spit))
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Post by El Goodo on Aug 1, 2023 14:09:46 GMT
Ahadme got the Spurs goal, I believe.
I would hope this season we'll see Bennett, Bennett, Morrison, Ibsen Rossi, Andrew, Dunk, Kaikai, Cousins, May, Kachunga, Lankester, Thomas, Okenabirhie & Ahadme + whoever this last signing is all score at least once. Brophy really ought to too & who knows what'll happen with Janneh.
I don't think that's unrealistic.
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Post by kentishu on Aug 1, 2023 14:14:17 GMT
If anyone who replied before we got Kachunga wants to change their prediction, that's totally fine, cut off point for predictions is just before the Oxford game starts...
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