Goal scoring wingers

[KLOS]

Here is one for older Rs-

I was thinking of the strike rate of modern 'wingers' whom we now tend to designate 'wide players' and it seems to me that expectations are not that high. I was recalling some of our wingers in the late 50s and early 60s and my recollection is that some have a very respectable strike rate. Do you remember the likes of Pat Kerrins, John McClelland and Mark Lazarus? I don't have the figures but I reckon they all have a ratio about a goal in 3 on average. McClelland in particular was a playerI liked and seemed to score regularly for a wiinger. I think our overall performance with both he and Lazarus in the team was not what the inherent talent would have been expected to have achieved perhaps we just conceded too many.

[Gerryhatrick]

Wingers of the '60's were regarded as part of the attack, IIRC, whereas now they are more midfield I suppose. You've brought back memories with me of the typical '60's team formation, and how they weren't high scoring games I don't know.
Remember this?
...............................Goalkeeper
.................Left Back.................Right Back
............Left Half.........Centre half.......Right Half
Left Wing..Inside Left..Centre Forward..Inside Right..Right Wing

So a 2-3 5 formation should have meant average scores of 7-5. No such thing as a centre back, or sweeper, or even the word midfield then.

[KLOS]

I remember it well-

First school team in which I ever played, I was left back alongside a boy at centre- half named Malcom MacDonald- he went on to become a little famous- I did not!!!!

Thanks for your reply, pal

[qprted]

wingers

wingers i could talk about all day long my school position was right winger so my job really was to get down the line and get a cross in usually the goal scorers was the center forward and one of the inside forwards
if i only scored three goals a season knowbody cared as long as we won games and the strikers kept scoring
if you put lazarus under the microscope when i was a boy he was the king of loftus road
people like mark who could score loads of goals from the wing were called unorthadox wingers,people who used to just run down the wing like i did were called orthadox wingers
lazarus was very unusuall he could play as a maker or taker i rember one season he scored three braces in a rown then he got a single goal making him our leading scorer with 7 goals ,and we had only played five games ,then i think we sold him
i met mark at mike keens funeral and i told him he was my dads favourite and asked him if he ever played center forward he said wolves played him in that position
but most peoples favourite winger was stanley mathews

[QPRDave]

Wingers of the '60's were regarded as part of the attack, IIRC, whereas now they are more midfield I suppose. You've brought back memories with me of the typical '60's team formation, and how they weren't high scoring games I don't know.
Remember this?
...............................Goalkeeper
.................Left Back.................Right Back
............Left Half.........Centre half.......Right Half
Left Wing..Inside Left..Centre Forward..Inside Right..Right Wing

So a 2-3 5 formation should have meant average scores of 7-5. No such thing as a centre back, or sweeper, or even the word midfield then.

Flippin eck we played that formation in the 70s at the cub scouts I went to. Haha. Our football coach was an old fella.Used to have alot of high scoring games,7:4,5;3 that kinda thing,btw inside right for me,used to just drift into box unnoticed aah deadly. :yush:
ps, not a goal hanger I might add!!!

[davieqpr]

We sold him I think to the Orient,bought Mclelland as a replacement and then Vardy came back the following season.Whilst on the subject of wingers,seeing SWP reminded me of Balogun a small but very fast Nigerian winger we once had.

[qprted]

when

when you look at swp as a goalscorer he certainly can put the ball in the net this season i expect him to get between 10 and 14

a goalscoring winger i loved was barry bridges he was so fast,he got only two caps for england but could have had more really

[MattyRangers]

when you look at swp as a goalscorer he certainly can put the ball in the net this season i expect him to get between 10 and 14

a goalscoring winger i loved was barry bridges he was so fast,he got only two caps for england but could have had more really

SWP 10 to 14 goals? No way im afraid, if youre expecting that youll be sorely let down lol the most PL goals he has ever managed in a campaign is 10 and since 2005 he hasnt managed more than 5. I will be happy if he chips in with 5 goals personally as Im sure he will add a few more assists to that total too which is just as important