Boro's top 12 strikers.........................apparently

How can this topic even be discussed when most of the players none of us will have seen hit a ball or any old archived footage

Then you have the level they played at everyone has fond memories of Bernie Slaven but all but one and a bit seasons were not played in England's top division

If JFH is 'one of the best strikers Middlesbrough have ever had, too' then how does he scrape in at No.10?
 
What's it based on though? Most goals? The best actual striker we've had regardless of amount of goals or appearances?
 
GibbosEmpire said:
What's it based on though? Most goals? The best actual striker we've had regardless of amount of goals or appearances?
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When you're including Camsell and Bloomer you can only be going off stats really.

I reckon Camsell was a flat track bully anyway.

The whole time Bloomer was here his heart still seemed to be in Derby. Aitken should have got him off the wage bill much sooner. He couldn't even be bothered in 1909-1910. We deserved to go down really, if it wasn't for Jack Hall we would have done. Bit dodgy what we did with Harry Kent though.
 
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atypical_boro said:
Personally I don't think Boksic was miles clear of Viduka, or even Jimmy. They were all in the same league imho. Boksic was never really a prolific goalscorer in his whole career either.
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Good little article on Boksic this:

www.planetfootball.com

A tribute to Alen Boksic, sometimes wonderful & football's Rubik's Cube

If Erno Rubik, creator of the famous Rubik’s Cube, had ever branched out and sculpted a footballer, he’d have surely created Alen Boksic.
www.planetfootball.com www.planetfootball.com

Particularly like Bilic's comments:

Asked who of Boksic or Davor Suker was the better striker, international colleague Slaven Bilic once said: “I don’t know who is better.

“If you ask me as a centre-back, when you play against Boksic, he would have slaughtered you. Running, dribbling, going left in the channel. He’d kick you, beat you, whatever. But maybe he wouldn’t score.

“But Suker? You’d have a good game against Suker, but then he’d score a couple.”
 
I like the comparisons between prime football players past and future.. only d at one sort of Time Machine would allow it to happen and the later day players would clearly struggle in the modern game.

If we’ve going Time Machine.. then we can easily go like for like training conditions etc.. would the old school hardcore players thrive in a modern academy environment? Probably not

The likes of Lee Tomlin would have been absolute kings in the 1980’s.. born in the wrong era! I dare say a few more technical English players we’re probably born in the wrong country to be recognised on the world stage.. maybe Tomlin would have been better off playing for France or Italy?

Players who could have been saved by Star Trek like medical treatments..
Rhys Williams? Matthew Bates?
 
Davey_C said:
How can this topic even be discussed when most of the players none of us will have seen hit a ball or any old archived footage

Then you have the level they played at everyone has fond memories of Bernie Slaven but all but one and a bit seasons were not played in England's top division

If JFH is 'one of the best strikers Middlesbrough have ever had, too' then how does he scrape in at No.10?
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Yeah the idea that Slaven was better than Viduka is ludicrous and who knows how good a player Fenton or camsell where compared to today?
 
atypical_boro said:
Personally I don't think Boksic was miles clear of Viduka, or even Jimmy. They were all in the same league imho. Boksic was never really a prolific goalscorer in his whole career either.
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Agreed, they’re all similar level, I’d put Viduka slightly above them both but they both had spells where they they were unstoppable
 
The dismissive comment on Clough - only second tier is not entirely true. He did in fact score all of the Football Leagues 5 goals in a 5-0 over the League of Ireland.. He was the best I ever saw and it was not even close.

Campsells record is a good one though sadly a bit before my time Micky Fenton was much talked about but he'd gone before I got to Ayresome Park.

I've seen most of the rest and still believe that Clough was the best
 
Great how the tired old "media" hashes these pieces when there`s nothing Boro to talk about ......................................(n)
 
Mayor Goldie Wilson said:
In terms of pure ability Boksic is absolutely miles clear of anybody else. An absolutely outrageously talented footballer, destroyed by injuries
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No he wasn’t at all.
He was the player you describe at Marseilles at the start of his career. He was never a goalscorer after that one prolific season in France.
A scorer of excellent goals, not an excellent goalscorer.

Viduka the best I’ve seen.

Wish I had seen Clough, Dad’s fave by an absolute mile.
 
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