Scott7 6,168 Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 (edited) On 3 October Little General posted a list of players who scored 100 goals or more for Rangers. Here is the top ten from that list: Goals Appearances Jimmy Smith 382 411 Ally McCoist 355 581 Bob McPhail 287 465 Willie Thornton 248 410 Robert Hamilton 247 293 Jimmy Fleming 240 295 Willie Reid 226 262 Derek Johnstone 210 546 Ralph Brand 206 317 Alex Venters 205 407 Most of that is as expected, with good old Super in runner-up position but no Jim Forrest and no Kris Boyd. But have a look at the average/strike-rate and see what happens. Goals Appearances Average Strike Rate Jimmy Smith 382 411 0.92944039 1.075916 Jim Forrest 145 163 0.88957055 1.124138 Willie Reid 226 262 0.86259542 1.159292 Robert Hamilton 247 293 0.84300341 1.186235 Jimmy Fleming 240 295 0.81355932 1.229167 Max Murray 121 154 0.78571429 1.272727 George Henderson 161 223 0.72197309 1.385093 Billy Simpson 163 239 0.68200837 1.466258 Ralph Brand 206 317 0.64984227 1.538835 Kris Boyd 112 180 0.62222222 1.607143 Jimmy Smith is still out in front but Forrest rockets into second place and Boyd lumbers into tenth. Some surprises. The (by me )much maligned Maxie Murray is in this exalted company, also the respected but (by me) under-rated Billy Simpson. Willie Thornton and Bob McPhail don't make it. And what's this? Where's Super? He's twelfth after McPhail and just ahead of Thornton. Statistics - they tell you everything. Except of course the quality of the striker's inside men and the strength of the opposing defences and indeed the strength of his own defence to keep the ball up to him. Interesting, though. (The figures looked quite neat when I typed them but they don't read very easily on screen) Edited October 30, 2015 by Scott7 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno55 0 Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Good stuff Pete...and if you know the history.. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little General 80 Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Thanks for that Scott. How many on the list were regular penalty takers? Also,I often wondered how many the older players would have scored if they had European football as well. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 8,663 Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Unfortunately the forum software will strip the formatting of tables. Sometimes if you use the tags, it works though. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno55 0 Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Sorry, Scott not Pete 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearman 9 Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 You wonder how many Jim Forrest would have ended up with if he hadn't been blamed along with George McLean for that Berwick defeat. Forrest with 145 from 163 in just 3 and a half seasons kicked his last ball for Rangers at the ripe old age of 22. 4 months later Rangers played Bayern Munich in the CWC Final with defenders Roger Hynd and Dave Smith up front, losing 0-1 aet...Forrest's scoring record in European competition was excellent also - 6 (all in the European Cup in season 64/65) from 9 appearances (7 EC, 2 CWC) 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RabiDuck 89 Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 (edited) I assume there's some appearance limit to the average strike rate table, otherwise I'd have expected to see Marco Negri up at the top? EDIT Oh, yeah, players who scroed 100 goals. Just ignore me! Edited October 30, 2015 by RabiDuck Numpty! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearman 9 Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 (edited) ...sticking with Jim Forrest: He had a love affair with the League Cup, scored 50 goals from 37 appearances... 63/64: 16 from 10 (inc. 4 in the Final against Morton) 64/65: 18 from 10 (scored both goals in 2-1 win vs Celtic in the Final) 65/66: 10 from 10 (he did miss two gilt-edged chances though - before Celtic ran out 2-1 winners, both goals coming from penalty kicks 66/67: 6 from 7...Forrest got injured 11 days before the Semi Final against Aberdeen which was being played just 10 days before the Final, the game finished 2-2. 5 days later he missed out on the replay too, but Rangers won that 2-0. Forrest never recovered from his injury for the Final where we lost 0-1, again to Celtic. Nowadays, if you read the above about a player, you would probably be reading about Messi or Ronaldo. Edited October 30, 2015 by Bearman 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo 7,216 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Jim Forrest I think would have scored a barrowload if symon had not made the second biggest mistake of his managerial career his first by not keeping Baxter the mind boggles. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno55 0 Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 It was nothing to do with symon he went to the board to get more money for Jim and the board wanted rid of their troublemaker. Try reading Symons book compo before blaming the great man... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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