The feel good factor is strong, BUT

festa5 said:
In all those seasons forwards came in in January and made significant contributions (Rhodes/Ramirez, Branca/Armstrong, Fjortoft/Fuchs) so although the number of goals scored by the top scorers in each of those seasons weren't particularly high (think it was probably Hendrie and Beck in the other 2 seasons?) the number of goals scored by the strikers overall, was probably pretty decent. It's just they effectively only had half a season each.
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And none of those mentioned that we brought in went on to be prolific scorers for us. As in the majority of promotion seasons I've seen the goals come from across the board.

Funnily enough, when we had a scorer at this level who topped the scoring charts regularly we missed out. John Hickton, king of Ayresome Park.
 
I saw a stat knocking around after our game on Saturday which probably gives some context to our lack of goals.

We have only had a XG of 3 twice in our last 200 games and Wilder took 6 games to reach that. Given their keeper had a bit of a blinder on saturday we were probably quite unlucky not to have had a couple of goals.

Logic would suggest that if our XG remains at a higher level we will score more goals.

I'd be interested to see what our XG was like under karanka and I'm not sure how many managers 200 games would cover but you can already see the impact wilder is having.

Got to be honest I've been really impressed with him since he took over. Even our passing stats are through the roof compared to under warnock (average of 200 vs 500)and to think that has come about in 6 games is just outstanding.
 
We went up in 1991/92 with Wilko on about 24 and Bernie on 17 or so. We had cups runs as well of course. But factor in Hendrie, Ripley, Falconer. I still maintain that was a beautifully balanced and very well constructed football team. The goals and creativity came from several areas and players, we could go long or play the pass, we had speed and trickery out wide and plenty of energy and aggression in the middle.

For me it’s always about balance. Is it better to have one man on 24 goals or three on 8 each? Does it actually matter? As long as everyone is contributing and the team is on the right track then I don’t think it does really. We took the tally of Bamford, Vossen et al away and replaced it with Nugent and Stuani, plus the January players, and went up under Karanka because the team as a whole worked incredibly well. The balance was right.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
We went up in 1991/92 with Wilko on about 24 and Bernie on 17 or so. We had cups runs as well of course. But factor in Hendrie, Ripley, Falconer. I still maintain that was a beautifully balanced and very well constructed football team. The goals and creativity came from several areas and players, we could go long or play the pass, we had speed and trickery out wide and plenty of energy and aggression in the middle.

For me it’s always about balance. Is it better to have one man on 24 goals or three on 8 each? Does it actually matter? As long as everyone is contributing and the team is on the right track then I don’t think it does really. We took the tally of Bamford, Vossen et al away and replaced it with Nugent and Stuani, plus the January players, and went up under Karanka because the team as a whole worked incredibly well. The balance was right.
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For all that, only 1 team (Brum, 08/09) has achieved automatic promotion to the PL scoring fewer goals than that Boro team. We scored scored a grand total of 58 goals, an average of 1.26 per game (we're on track for 50 this season). In fairness, Wilko only got 15 in the league; we had some great cup games than year. I still remember it as my favourite Boro season.

I do think the game has changed, in that teams expect to share goals around rather than have 1 or 2 main men. Plus it's more of a squad game, and the teams who wins promotion often have brought in goalscorers in January.
 
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