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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Dave on December 07, 2012, 10:13:57 PM
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While quietly checking a reply to another post, I came across a list of the 100 top Premier League goalscorers. I was surprised to see that of that 100, 18 have played and scored for us. Of those hundred, two of them have played exclusively for us.
Off you go.
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I'll take wild guesses at John Carew & JPA
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Agbonlahor?
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That's the two that have scored only for us. Carew is a no on both counts.
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I'll have a punt on Gabby and JPA as the exclusive scorers.
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PS - that's still sixteen to get.
Edit - fifteen. Pires only scored in the cup. Blackburn I think.
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Yorke
Saunders
Atkinson
Merse
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Pires
Dion
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Keane, Heskey... Barry?
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Bent
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Seven to go.
No to Atkinson and Pires.
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Crouch. Phillips. Sutton?
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Vassell? Taylor?
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Crouch. Phillips. Sutton?
Yes. Yes. Forgot that he played and scored for us.
So five to go.
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Vassell. Four to go.
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Collymore, Yorke, Saunders, Dublin, Merson, Agbonlahor, Vassell, Bent, Keane, Heskey, Berger, Townsend, Downing, Young, Crouch, Sutton, Phillips and Joachim.
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Baros
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Harder than you think!
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This could be laughably wrong, but Harewood?
I know he got 15+ for West Ham one year, and 4 or 5 for us. There's 20 odd so he can't be far off.
Similar thinking for Carlton Cole...
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Collymore, Yorke, Saunders, Dublin, Merson, Agbonlahor, Vassell, Bent, Keane, Heskey, Berger, Townsend, Downing, Young, Crouch, Sutton, Phillips and Joachim.
Collymore and Joachim.
Two to go.
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Fashanu?
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Similar thinking for Carlton Cole...
One to go.
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Luke Moore?
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I know he got 15+ for West Ham one year, and 4 or 5 for us. There's 20 odd so he can't be far off.
Hundredth place has 41 (Paul Ince).
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Ashley Young?
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Kevin Richardson?
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Carbone?
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All no.
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Guy Whittingham?
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Solano?
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Robbie Keane or Super Kev?
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Ray Houghton?
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Kevin Phillips.
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Solano finishes the game off. Phillips was mentioned on page one.
Time gentlemen please, haven't you all got homes to go to?
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I'm surprised David Ginola wasn't one of them.
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one for the road?
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As a final thought, I find it quite impressive that of the top hundred goalscorers of the last twenty years, nearly a fifth of them were scoring goals for us. Even if one of them was Carlton Cole.
When you consider that twenty of them scored for ManYoo, nineteen of them scored for Villa.
Post-script: Arsenal goalscorers - eleven. Chelsea goalscorers - nine. Man City goalscorers - eight.
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We're Aston Villa, we'll score when we want.
Night.
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Dave, forgive me if I'm being a bit thick, but was it nineteen? Or eighteen as you said in the OP?
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Dave, forgive me if I'm being a bit thick, but was it nineteen? Or eighteen as you said in the OP?
Nineteen - I realised halfway through (end of the first page) that I forgot Chris Sutton.
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Oh yeah. Should have clocked it having read the whole thread (a very good one too BTW).
Ta.
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Dublin
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I've seen the list and I still don't know!
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None of them are fit to lace Pongo Warings boots though !
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Question stolen from another forum - who is the Villa player with the best win percentage (subject to playing a minimum of 20 matches) since football was invented in 1992?
We won 53% of that matches in which he played.
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Steve froggatt?
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Gary Parker
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Salifou surely?
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Sidwell
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Tommy Johnson?
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Has anyone mentioned Deano yet?
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Gareth Barry?
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Ashley Young Steve Sidwell
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Doubt it. More likely to someone who was only with us during a really good period such as '92/93 or '95/96-/96/97 or possibly '07/'08/-09/10 but Gareth was also part of sides that finished 16th (in '03 and '06).
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Ashley Young Steve Sidwell
Interesting change mr E - found the answer have we then?
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Stan Collymore
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Kyle Walker, Zat Knight, Colin Calderwood, Daveeeeed Ginola, Steve Stone, Moustapha Hadji are my guesses.
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Ashley Young Steve Sidwell
Correct to Mister E at the second time and PWS at the first time.
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Boom! Purely a guess I must admit.
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Ashley Young Steve Sidwell
Correct to Mister E at the second time and PWS at the first time.
Damn I was going to ask that, saw it on the Opta Twitter feed yesterday.
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I'm not surprised by that, I remember saying on here at the time that he was a lucky charm at one point.