Top scorers in title winning seasons

[upthemaggies]

Players who scored 10 or more league goals in title winning campaigns

Barrow last season
Quigley 20, Rooney 17, Angus 10

Notts
2019/20 Munto season
Hughes 30, Davies 15, Rodgers 13

1997/98 Allardyce
Jones 28, Farrell 15

1970/71 Sirrel
Hateley 22, Masson 14, Barker 13, Bradd 11, Crickmore 10

1949/50 Lawton era
Lawton 31, Sewell 19, Johnston 15

1930/31 Tom Keetley's record breaking season
Keetley 39, Fenner 21, Andrews 17



Warnock Play Off winning years (includes play off goals)

1990/91
Johnson 18, Regis 16, Bartlett 13

1989/90
Johnson 20, Lund 10



Notts currently
Wootton 6, Boldewijn 3, Reeves 2, Knowles 2, Rodrigues 2, Sam 2, Doyle 1, Roberts 1

[Notts78]

Players who scored 10 or more league goals in title winning campaigns

Barrow last season
Quigley 20, Rooney 17, Angus 10

Notts
2019/20 Munto season
Hughes 30, Davies 15, Rodgers 13

1997/98 Allardyce
Jones 28, Farrell 15

1970/71 Sirrel
Hateley 22, Masson 14, Barker 13, Bradd 11, Crickmore 10

1949/50 Lawton era
Lawton 31, Sewell 19, Johnston 15

1930/31 Tom Keetley's record breaking season
Keetley 39, Fenner 21, Andrews 17



Warnock Play Off winning years (includes play off goals)

1990/91
Johnson 18, Regis 16, Bartlett 13

1989/90
Johnson 20, Lund 10



Notts currently
Wootton 6, Boldewijn 3, Reeves 2, Knowles 2, Rodrigues 2, Sam 2, Doyle 1, Roberts 1

Leyton Orient 2018/2019 - Bonne 23 and then one player on 11. 20 clean sheets that season helped them.

I won’t dispute that you need to score goals to win titles - but if you have a solid defence you can win titles without having to blow teams away.

[WarsopPie]

Leyton Orient 2018/2019 - Bonne 23 and then one player on 11. 20 clean sheets that season helped them.

I won’t dispute that you need to score goals to win titles - but if you have a solid defence you can win titles without having to blow teams away.

You win games by scoring more goals than your opponents.
We can’t do that unless it’s a 1-0 win courtesy of a penalty or a injury time goal if this team is as good as you lot reckon they should be finishing games by 70th minute in a game.
At the moment I’m glad we won’t go up this season as next season with Ardley in charge and some of these favourites he’d keep we’d be league 2 whipping boys.

[upthemaggies]

Lee Hughes was the last Notts player to score 20 or more for us. Paul Heffernan managed it in the season we went down under Dearden/Mills in 2003/04 but nobody else scored more than 4 in that campaign.

Something magical seems to happen in title winning seasons. Who would have expected Gary Jones to bag 28 goals for us in 1997/98? how much cash would clubs splash out if that number of goals from a player was guaranteed in a single season?

I think we're beginning to realise just how difficult it is to win any league, no matter what the level. There's almost always some club having that once in a blue moon special year that trumps anybody trying to buy their way to 1st place.
Chances are we're going to have to go up through the play-offs if we are ever going to get out of this hole.

[WarsopPie]

Lee Hughes was the last Notts player to score 20 or more for us. Paul Heffernan managed it in the season we went down under Dearden/Mills in 2003/04 but nobody else scored more than 4 in that campaign.

Something magical seems to happen in title winning seasons. Who would have expected Gary Jones to bag 28 goals for us in 1997/98? how much cash would clubs splash out if that number of goals from a player was guaranteed in a single season?

I think we're beginning to realise just how difficult it is to win any league, no matter what the level. There's almost always some club having that once in a blue moon special year that trumps anybody trying to buy their way to 1st place.
Chances are we're going to have to go up through the play-offs if we are ever going to get out of this hole.

Good old Heff he was excellent nether really went the places he was meant too

[slack_pie]

Something magical seems to happen in title winning seasons. Who would have expected Gary Jones to bag 28 goals for us in 1997/98? how much cash would clubs splash out if that number of goals from a player was guaranteed in a single season?

For sure. Even if you are one of the best teams in the division, you really need all the stars to align if you want to win it. That means top players avoiding injury, big decisions going in your favour, winning tight games, and having a couple of players who have freak seasons and perform at their very best, at least one being a striker (like Jones in 97/98). You also need momentum, so that means either getting off to a great start or going on an epic run at some point.

While some of those factors are out of your control (like injuries and key decisions), others are mostly down to attitude. Teams that have a win-at-all-costs attitude instilled in them by the manager are the ones that turn draws into wins or get last-minute equalisers. If you have a manager who is happy to play for a draw or set up in a way that is naturally cautious, you'll never be the type of ruthless machine that finishes top.

I just can't see us winning this league unless something fundamental changes in the way we approach games. We're just too easy to beat. If we play badly, we're almost guaranteed to lose. But if we play well, we aren't at all guaranteed to win.

[Glad2BeAPie]

Players who scored 10 or more league goals in title winning campaigns

Barrow last season
Quigley 20, Rooney 17, Angus 10

Notts
2019/20 Munto season
Hughes 30, Davies 15, Rodgers 13

1997/98 Allardyce
Jones 28, Farrell 15

1970/71 Sirrel
Hateley 22, Masson 14, Barker 13, Bradd 11, Crickmore 10

1949/50 Lawton era
Lawton 31, Sewell 19, Johnston 15

1930/31 Tom Keetley's record breaking season
Keetley 39, Fenner 21, Andrews 17



Warnock Play Off winning years (includes play off goals)

1990/91
Johnson 18, Regis 16, Bartlett 13

1989/90
Johnson 20, Lund 10



Notts currently
Wootton 6, Boldewijn 3, Reeves 2, Knowles 2, Rodrigues 2, Sam 2, Doyle 1, Roberts 1

Our potential top scorer is sat on a bench every game up in Scotland

[laddo]

"Sat on the bench" is the telling part of that sentence. I'm sure after scoring his first goal for his club he will get a start now

[BigFatPie]

11 goals in 10 games tells the story. Which is why we’ve only got 14 points from those 10 games.

I didn’t realise until the other day that Thomas has been out with ‘personal issues’, but if you take him, Roberts and Dennis out from the team from last season and don’t replace them, life is going to be a struggle.

[laddo]

True but only Dennis was known to be not available. You can envisage maybe one long term injury to one of our forwards but not two!

When all 3 were available we were scoring more than enough, both being injured at once and for some time has been a real hammer blow.