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What does it matter what foot he used? 7 goals in one game is some return, does that beat even George Best?

Officially credited with six. Mind you the official gate was 78.

Not such a good night yesterday in respect of number of scorers but another good total thanks to Jake, Alfie 1, Rob Maddox 1, Greg Ling 1 and Jake either 6 or 7 possible confusion due to Welly fans being at the other end of the pitch where the goals are normally scored this season.

Alfie, Jake and Dunks were fantastic strikers that clearly had the the upper hand on the majority of defenders they faced at UCL1/P. I miss having finishers like them.

Oundle Diamond #2 wrote:Alfie, Jake and Dunks were fantastic strikers that clearly had the the upper hand on the majority of defenders they faced at UCL1/P. I miss having finishers like them.

Given we played against Welly 2 2/3 times last season and again in per season recently and as good as Jake is he mustered 3 long range efforts in all that time, it is I presume safe to assume your comments are the latest attempt to provoke comments. The only other explanation I can think of is our defence was far to good for him, though given your previous desire to change some of them I doubt that is the case. I personally feel the strikers we have had in the past were indeed good in the league we were in, and ditto for our current ones. I also miss finishers like Justin Jackson, Duane Darby, Darren Collins, Adrian Foster and Onandi Lowe but sad as it may be, those mentioned above may like my list now be part of our`s and the old Clubs history.

To be fair Brownie, you'd have got three of Jake's six last night. I'd have got two

SouthRushdenJFC wrote:To be fair Brownie, you'd have got three of Jake's six last night. I'd have got two

Not with my left foot I wouldn't.

SouthRushdenJFC wrote:To be fair Brownie, you'd have got three of Jake's six last night. I'd have got two

That I'd like to have seen.

Oundle Diamond #2 wrote:Alfie, Jake and Dunks were fantastic strikers that clearly had the the upper hand on the majority of defenders they faced at UCL1/P. I miss having finishers like them.

Fantastic strikers for the UCL, probably not for any higher though, Jake scored bags of goals in his season here, but mainly because the defences were so weak, if anything he should have scored more that season I thought, he could be quite hit and miss at times and I wasn't surprised when he didn't last long with K*ttering in the SL. Alfie at his best could have done a job for us at SL level I think, but sadly he never managed to find the form he had in Division 1 for us, so was probably rightly let go, as was Dunks.

I completely agree those 3 wouldn't cut it at SL1. But boy did they more than cut it at the level they played at.