Top ten - best goalscorers for Sheffield United (blatantly plagerised from Match Of The Day podcast).

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SelbyBlade said:
I would go for;
1. HARRY JOHNSON Jnr - in 351 appearances got 252 goals, wow he was lethal.
2. BILLY SHARP - Top scorer in the 21st Century has scored in the top three divisions.
3. BRIAN DEANE - Scored in top three divisions for us we declined when he left.
4. DOC PACE - 301 Appearances with 175 goals over 1 in 2 great record.
5. JAMES BEATTIE - Was a great finisher and England level quality amazing free kick v the pigs and great penalty taker.
6. KEITH EDWARDS - Great finisher, had very little other involvement but even celebrated before he scored his fourth against Gillingham, such was his confidence.
7. TONY AGANA - Fast had a great turn and a 1 in 3 record brilliant partnership with Brian Deane.
8. JAN AAGE FJORTOFT - Brilliant finisher in the second tier and worked well with Brian Deane.
9. CHED EVENS - Shame about his career would have gone on to better things but prolific in the third tier.
10. BOB HATTON - Some great memories of Hatton he was mainly a lower league striker.
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What about Jimmy Dunne? 143 goals in 173 league games
 



SelbyBlade said:
I would go for;
1. HARRY JOHNSON Jnr - in 351 appearances got 252 goals, wow he was lethal.
2. BILLY SHARP - Top scorer in the 21st Century has scored in the top three divisions.
3. BRIAN DEANE - Scored in top three divisions for us we declined when he left.
4. DOC PACE - 301 Appearances with 175 goals over 1 in 2 great record.
5. JAMES BEATTIE - Was a great finisher and England level quality amazing free kick v the pigs and great penalty taker.
6. KEITH EDWARDS - Great finisher, had very little other involvement but even celebrated before he scored his fourth against Gillingham, such was his confidence.
7. TONY AGANA - Fast had a great turn and a 1 in 3 record brilliant partnership with Brian Deane.
8. JAN AAGE FJORTOFT - Brilliant finisher in the second tier and worked well with Brian Deane.
9. CHED EVENS - Shame about his career would have gone on to better things but prolific in the third tier.
10. BOB HATTON - Some great memories of Hatton he was mainly a lower league striker.
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It's your list, obviously, but if you're going to have players you haven't seen, surely Jimmy Dunne needs to go in. 41 goals in a single season, 30 or more goals in three consecutive top flight seasons (I think that wasn't matched until Shearer did it).

He must be our most prolific striker (in terms of goals per game) in Division 1.

Edit: Typically beaten to it by Silent!
 
Since the OP is in respect of goal scorers rather than strikers , surely the achievements of Alf Ringstead and Alan Woodward deserve serious consideration .

The former scored 101 goals in 247 appearances for us whilst Woody scored 90 goals in the seasons '69 to '74 alone , averaging 18 per season and twice scoring more than 20 . Both of these were achieved in the top two tiers and the fact that both were wingers rather than out and out strikers makes these figures even more remarkable .

If you add to these the innumerable assists that both players provided for others , there is a strong case for either one of them to be a serious contender for the accolade of being our most potent attacking player ever .
 
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Guesty said:
It's your list, obviously, but if you're going to have players you haven't seen, surely Jimmy Dunne needs to go in. 41 goals in a single season, 30 or more goals in three consecutive top flight seasons (I think that wasn't matched until Shearer did it).

He must be our most prolific striker (in terms of goals per game) in Division 1.

Edit: Typically beaten to it by Silent!
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You are right I would put him 1st and drop all the others down one. Just had a read up of him and he was more prolific than Harry Johnson close to 1 for 1.
 
grafikhaus said:
I'd agree. Brownie had one of 'those' seasons (2002-03 'Triple Assault') when he scored 22 goals. His career lasted 22 years and he scored a total of 58 goals, explain that! True, he took his fair share of penalties and I still blame him for missing a penalty in the PO Final at Cardiff, he always seemed to put it in the same place and the Wolves 'keeper had obviously done his homework. :(

Ched was phenomenal in the 2011-12 season - scoring 29 league goals in 30 starting appearances (+ 6 on as sub.) until his season was cut short with three games left. :(

Like the MoTD stitch-up, it's an impossible argument. Brownie cost us £400k, Ched £3m and Brian Deane - later to play for England - cost us £25k from Donnie.

Keith Edwards is my favourite. As 1973Blade says, I remember standing on a freezing cold, foggy terrace at Spotland in the fourth division. This game v. Rochdale was heading for 0-0 and a bloke stood along the crush barrier from me shouted 'Edwards! Tha's a lazy ***!' We won 1-0 with a late goal from...

Billy Sharp is a very similar kind of poacher and will go down in Blades folklore - rightly so.

I suppose the only positive to come out of the loss of Ched is that - unlike the other the other four - we didn't flog him to Leeds.
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Billy is a much harder worker than Keith Edwards, but agree that they are both poachers supreme. Along with Deane, they are my top 3 in the following order. I think

Deane
Sharp
Edwards
 
My personal Top 10 of players I've actually seen and for a variety of reasons. (no particular order)

Billy Sharp
Ched Evans
Keith Edwards
Brian Deane
Tony Agana
James Beattie (1st spell)
Jan Aage Fjortoft
Nathan Blake
Steve Kabba
Danny Webber
 
Upton_Blade said:
My personal Top 10 of players I've actually seen and for a variety of reasons. (no particular order)

Billy Sharp
Ched Evans
Keith Edwards
Brian Deane
Tony Agana
James Beattie (1st spell)
Jan Aage Fjortoft
Nathan Blake
Steve Kabba
Danny Webber
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Kabba and Webber are fondly remembered but their goalscoring records were pretty poor.

Kabba scored 18 league goals in 78 matches.

Webber scored 23 league goals in 114 matches.
 
Wards said:
Ched seemed to score with every chance he got in that one season (often made for himself). I know it was third tier but he was utterly unplayable.
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He’s the best player I’ve ever seen for us proportional to the level they were playing at.

He was absolutely untouchable at that level for that season.
 
PeterNdlovu081 said:
Sharp by a mile in my time.

Slim pickings after that on the whole but honourable mentions for Beattie, Evans and Clarke.

For about 10 years from 1995 to 2005 our strikers were shit. You could count on one hand the number of players who scored 20+ goals for us.
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Its always tricky to make a judgement.
Initial judgements on the best goal scorers I’ve seen since 76 is

Edwards the best finisher....very similar style to Sharp. He used to make me laugh because he could be having a poor game hardly touching the ball
Then he’d tap one in after a goal mouth scramble. Edwards was poor in many games, he did very little apart from score.
To be fair though Edwards did benefit greatly from Morris setting him up.

Evans the most impressive allround striker- but only in the final 4 months of his spell.
Still remember the home match against Orient (think it was his last game for us) he was brilliant....miles too good for league 1.

****** The really important factor that prevents Edwards and Evans being the best is due to Edwards showing his best form at league 1 and league 2 level.
and Evans was also in league 1 and only hit superb form for a few months of his entire spell at SU.

Using logic the best allround striker we’ve had since 1976 is Brian Deane
and the best finisher we’ve had since 1976 is probably Billy Sharp.
Really pleased Sharp came back to SU for a very successful 3rd spell because he was underwhelming in hid first 2 spells.
 



In my time it has to be James Beattie. Nobody else even close, I expect that to change soon though.
 
1973Blade said:
5. Bobby Hatton, my first hero, we were relegated to the 4th division my first season, but he was still banging them in. His goal when through against Arsenal my favourite.
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Started a year before you, 1973Blade, and Bob Hatton was my first hero too. He came to us towards the end of his career, having been a handful for defences (including ours) in higher divisions, but was still an excellent finisher.

The badge that I bought from the old club shop/kiosk on the corner of Shoreham Street and John Street...

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LS16Blade said:
Started a year before you, 1973Blade, and Bob Hatton was my first hero too. He came to us towards the end of his career, having been a handful for defences (including ours) in higher divisions, but was still an excellent finisher.

The badge that I bought from the old club shop/kiosk on the corner of Shoreham Street and John Street...

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What a legend he was! He was probably the same age as Billy Sharp in that photo, yet he looks about 70!
 
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