Beattie - 'never had a fair chance' with England

[SaintRobbie]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21660313#asset

 

Can't see another thread with this in...

 

Interesting timing and parallels with Rickie Lambert and, of course, Matt Le Tissier. I wonder what it will take before Saints are able to see their players wearing England shirts regularly again? An Argentinian perhaps?

[Turkish]

He just simply wasn't good enough.

[Saint_clark]

He just simply wasn't good enough.

 

This has been posted before, but I agree with this anyway. He had one outstanding season and the rest were OK.

[Horley CTFC Saint]

Never a great fan but I thouight when he did play the team tended not to pass to him coincidence?

[Saint Garrett]

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?t=43670

[Andre]

A great striker in a ****e team, it's always the same story. Shame, but tbh I don't think he'd've helped the England side.

[scotty]

He had one very good season for us, apart from that he was always poor. Never would have cut it as a regular starter for the national side, maybe a last-ditch 3rd or 4th choice backup sub, nothing more.

 

The thing that grated more with me was when Ericsson took Walcott along for the ride, and in the game we got knocked out, chasing the game and crying out for an unknown quantity with terrifying pace, he subbed on a midfielder instead.

[Hamilton Saint]

He had one very good season for us, apart from that he was always poor. Never would have cut it as a regular starter for the national side, maybe a last-ditch 3rd or 4th choice backup sub, nothing more.

 

The thing that grated more with me was when Ericsson took Walcott along for the ride, and in the game we got knocked out, chasing the game and crying out for an unknown quantity with terrifying pace, he subbed on a midfielder instead.

 

Really? His job was to score goals. He scored 10 goals in ten games in 2000-2001; 14 goals in 2001-2002; 24 goals in 2002-2003; and 17 goals in 2003-2004. He was inconsistent - suffered several long droughts, but there's no arguing with those stats.

[david in sweden]

Really? His job was to score goals. He scored 10 goals in ten games in 2000-2001; 14 goals in 2001-2002; 24 goals in 2002-2003; and 17 goals in 2003-2004.

He was inconsistent - suffered several long droughts, but there's no arguing with those stats.

 

Many strikers go thrrugh droughts of one sort or another. Sure they can be good -when on form - but looking at the top men historically you can see that very few were consistant ALL THE TIME.

 

For me the yardstick is always Ron Davies (1966-1972) who netted 37 league goals scored in 26 diff. games including equalling a league record by scoring in 10 consecutive matches.

(Ironically in the prev. season 65-66..his strike partner Martin Chivers had scored 30 goals by end of Feb.......but failed to score in the remaining 11 matches:(

 

In Mick Channon's long career - even at his best - he barely scored in half of the League games, and frequently went 5 or 6 games without scoring at all.

 

One of our most consistant scorers (in a relatively short Saints career) was Ted Mac Dougall 1975-78 - who managed 42 goals in 86 league matches, and frequently scored in 2 - 3 match sequences .once 14 goals in 11 games.

 

Very few players score on a "regular basis " and even MLT's enormous goal-haul had long dry spells. In 1995/6 he went 16 games without scoring - and 5-6 match " droughts " were not unusual.

as you quoted James Beattie stats..it's interesting to note that ....in 2000-01 (actually 11 League goals) but 10 came in a 10 match period, and in 2001/02, he'd scored 10 by mid january...but his best season that 2002-03 season was remarkable in the fact that JB went the first 9 games without scoring at all.... and then scored 22 in the next 24 starts !

 

Rickie Lambert is one of our most consistant scorers in recent years, but be grateful for the likes of Marian Pahars and Billy Sharp who took up the slack when the main scorer had " a dry spell."

Edited 22 March, 2013 by david in sweden