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GREATEST STRIKERS
AFTER the selection of Glenn Hoddle and Alan McLaughlin in Swindon Town fans’ greatest-ever team, the time has come to pick two strikers to spearhead the legends’ attack.
Identifying two from a whole host of fans’ favourites down the course of the years is by no means a simple task.
For sheer fire-power, the clinical finishing of Jimmy Quinn, Jan Aage Fjortoft and Craig Maskell is hard to ignore.
Quinn managed 61 strikes for Town before eventually becoming manager at the County Ground.
Fjortoft, after a quiet start, bagged 38 goals, many of which came in the Premier League, before leaving for Middlesborough for an agonisingly small £1.3 million.
Maskell averaged over a goal every other start during his brief stint in Wiltshire.
For endeavour and physical impact, there is a case for the inclusion of Dave Bamber, Dave Mitchell and Andy Rowland - in their various ways.
Bamber’s strike rate was unremarkable, just 47 goals in 137 games, but his theatrical antics in the box won Town several spot-kicks.
Mitchell, the Scottish Australian, worked hard for a handful of strikes and formed a good partnership with Maskell before his bizarre switch to Turkey.
Rowland is a Swindon legend. He managed 98 goals in over 300 appearances - many of which came as a defender in the latter part of his career.
In the past 10 years, the likes of Simon Cox and Sam Parkin may only have been seen for brief spells at the County Ground, but in their respective periods with the Robins both played instrumental roles and contributed vital goals.
Going back through the years, as history books replace memories, the names Harold Fleming and Harry Morris come to the fore.
Fleming scored 206 goals and Morris 229, and the pair remain as the two most illustrious finishers in the club’s history.
In the famous 1969 side, Peter Noble linked beautifully with Don Rogers to create the strike partnership that sunk Arsenal on a marshy Wembley surface to claim the League Cup against all the odds.
Duncan Shearer gave his all for the club, hitting the net 98 times in his four-year spell.
Alan Mayes scored for fun in his days in Wiltshire, 83 times in fact, at better than one every two games.
Paul Rideout was a young sensation when he took to the field in a Town shirt in the 1980s. And who can forget Steve ‘Chalky’ White, a stalwart of the club who fired 111 goals in over 250 games in red.
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