Dayle Southwell

Quoted from pontoonlew

Tintowner, don't try address such sense into the strikers debate! The majority of the Fishy fail to see that not playing a game makes it difficult to score in it. Which is why Cook, Hannah & Southwell have all had stick in previous seasons. Quite how you can expect a striker to perform when he's not playing is beyond me but the well informed critics on this board seem well placed to make that call.

It is rather amusing that you go on like this for players who have left the club and slate others for suggesting they may not have been up to it. Yet we have a player currently playing for us, who has scored as many goals this season as Cook managed in his first season (and brings far more to the table than Cook ever did) and you are forever moaning about him. In fact, you are arguably his biggest critic on here. Why is that? The other thing that amuses me is your defending of Makreth (justified in my opinion) as being top of the assists table for us whenever people criticise his contribution but LJL being leading goalscorer doesn't get any support from you when people criticise his contributions.

In fact, scratch the same amount of goals, LJL has more goals, and more league goals in particular.

Dayle Southwell had very limited time on the pitch as a striker. When he was involved it was often wide on the right.

I've said it before but my opinion was that he showed enough promise and potential in the right areas to merit keeping on.

Not only is he scoring more goals but he never had a 10 page thread when he was here.  Why do we mythologize former players?

You can tell people are struggling to find summat meaningful to talk about whilst we all wait for something to happen when you see this thread has rambled on to 10 pages!

Quoted from Tommy

Dayle Southwell had very limited time on the pitch as a striker. When he was involved it was often wide on the right.

I've said it before but my opinion was that he showed enough promise and potential in the right areas to merit keeping on.

Maybe he lacked the right coaching here, nothing to do with their league position IMO, just wish him well as obviously Boston is a better fit for him our loss their gain sh1t happens

The Non-League paper this week shows Town links with 3 of the top 5 scorers in Conference North.

Omar Bogle was the league's top scorer for Solihull with 29 goals.  They finished mid-table.  They scored  68 goals league goals for the season. (Bogle got nearly half their goals).

Southwell got 28 goals for Boston.  They finished 3rd.  They scored 75 league goals.  

Cook got 23 goals for Barrow, who finished top,  They scored 81 league goals.

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On the above scoring stats and ratio's, Bogle looks the best bet, but he would not come to us.  The high number of goals scored by Southwell and Cook probably demonstrate that Conference North standard is well short of our division.   Difficult to reach any other firm conclusions and other factors impact as well for the individual strikers.    

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

The Non-League paper this week shows Town links with 3 of the top 5 scorers in Conference North.

Omar Bogle was the league's top scorer for Solihull with 29 goals.  They finished mid-table.  They scored  68 goals league goals for the season. (Bogle got nearly half their goals).

Southwell got 28 goals for Boston.  They finished 3rd.  They scored 75 league goals.  

Cook got 23 goals for Barrow, who finished top,  They scored 81 league goals.

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On the above scoring stats and ratio's, Bogle looks the best bet, but he would not come to us.  The high number of goals scored by Southwell and Cook probably demonstrate that Conference North standard is well short of our division.   Difficult to reach any other firm conclusions and other factors impact as well for the individual strikers.    

No!------------- Nobody here able to coach goal scorers in a defensive outfit

Speaking of Bogle, it seems he's hot property at the moment. MK Dons, Port Vale, Watford, Milwall and Sheffield Wednesday all linked with moves for him. He may have been the title winning signing for us.... what might have been.

Quoted from Tommy

Dayle Southwell had very limited time on the pitch as a striker. When he was involved it was often wide on the right.

I've said it before but my opinion was that he showed enough promise and potential in the right areas to merit keeping on.

I'd have kept him too....reminded me quite a bit of a young Terry Donovan. (Sadly I'm old enough to remember the young TD   )

Quoted from Youngy

what might have been...

...if he'd wanted to sign for us!

You're probably correct that Bogle could have made the difference. LJL has been able to score 16 in the Conference so another striker playing alongside him who bagged over 20 goals could certainly have earned the extra points. Just a pity Pittman isn't likely to be consistently fit because he ought to be a 20 goal striker if he was playing week-in, week-out. As it stands, 10 goals from 20 starts isn't bad.