City Goalscorers Nerd Out

[PeteUSA]

Yes there was a Wilkinson who replaced Ted Calland around 1960/61

Correct. John Wilkinson signed as more a less a straight replacement for Ted Calland, who I believe saw out his career at Port Vale. Wilkinson more than filled the spot at No 9, as his goal return reflects. What I do find puzzling is that he signed from non league Poole Town, and left us for Wellington. (Not sure if that's the Somerset one) I thought he came from a Football League club, but the 'Bible' cant be wrong, can it?

 

[grecIAN Harris]

It's 2021 and Ian Harris is still going on about Mackie

And in other news elsewhere in 2021, certain indviduals are still banging the drum about Tisdale. There is one of me and dozens of them. Neither is any more relevant than a piece of City history.

 

[haka]

Top stats there from Rosencrantz.

One factor is the standard of the team they were in. Alan Beer was a better striker than Ray Pratt, but Beer played with Kellow at his peak, and Lammie often took the penalties, so the goals were shared around.

Keith Bowker was a fine goalscorer who was unlucky that in his 2 spells he missed out on both promotion and the 81 cup run. I remember him being on the bench for a game in the Brian Godfrey era, and the Cowshed chanting "we want Bowker" as City were drawing or losing, forget which. In the days of one sub you would only have one name to chant!

Bowker came on, duly scored, and Godfrey had to insist afterwards that the crowd had not influenced his decision. Probably true but we enjoyed feeling we had!

 

[grecIAN Harris]

It's one in the eye for all the Bowman knockers out there. He's hitting sub one in three, which is what decent strikers at their respective level aim for. Yes, they might come in streaks but they've got to be pretty regular streaks for that.

 

[JJ red&white]

Yeah I had a problem with Nev's. All the online stats I could find for him from Grecian Archive (individual profile and total goals list), Wiki and a profile on the club website had different stats. Weirdly they all agreed on total appearances, 305, but not goals. They variously state 86, 98 and 101. My feeling is that they are probably league goals, league and cup goals and league, cup and trophy goals respectively.

In the end I decided to go with the stats in the ECFC bible to be consistent for those playing before 1990 but of course Nev's had another season in 90/91 which I couldn't find stats for. From foggy memory he was our top scorer that season in double figures so I do think he got around a hundred goals, but the appearances would have obviously been more as well than the 305.

But even if it was say 98 from 340 games, it was a great record for someone who played a lot on the wing early on for us as well as up front.

Yeah I found some players tricky, especially for the 'other cup' games which are essentially FL Trophy & FA Trophy games, as soccerbase was not always great at including all of those. This was my list, so would be interesting to compare.

PLAYER	LEAGUE	CUP	TOTAL	LEAGUE	CUP	TOTAL	Ratio
Tony Kellow	332	53	385	129	22	151	2.55
Alan Banks	258	28	286	101	8	109	2.62
Darren Rowbotham	238	25	263	84	17	101	2.60
Stephen Neville	305	50	355	88	12	100	3.55
Fred Binney	177	12	189	90	8	98	1.93
Steve Flack	373	50	423	86	12	98	4.32
Graham Rees	345	25	370	85	7	92	4.02
Harold Houghton	207	18	225	79	4	83	2.71
Angus Mackay	257	13	270	78	5	83	3.25
Keith Bowker	212	29	241	66	10	76	3.17
Douglas Regan	206	18	224	63	7	70	3.20
Fred Whitlow	83	6	89	61	7	68	1.31
Raymond Pratt	172	15	187	61	5	66	2.83
Charles Mcclelland	183	14	197	60	5	65	3.03
James Bell	105	17	122	51	12	63	1.94
George Purcell	227	22	249	51	12	63	3.95
Alan Beer	114	12	126	52	4	56	2.25
Raymond Carter	105	4	109	50	4	54	2.02
Archibald Smith	113	12	125	43	9	52	2.40
Richard Ebdon	138	10	148	50	1	51	2.90
Edward Calland	105	3	108	49	2	51	2.12
Jayden Stockley	91	7	98	46	5	51	1.92
Harold Kirk	140	14	154	45	5	50	3.08
Ryan Harley	241	22	263	42	8	50	5.26

 

[Grecian 1901]

The Grecian archive has the following
League Cup goals
http://grecianarchive.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/5307

FA Cup goals

http://grecianarchive.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/5305

League goals

http://grecianarchive.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/5315

And finally

http://grecianarchive.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/5342

I think the latter is up to date, we are checking.
All from here our stats collection
And our All seasons all games all results collection, only 1946 to 1967 to still upload

 

[Red Devon]

Two of the best I’ve ever seen were Gary Alexander and Lee Bradbury though sadly only loan players.

 

[DawlishBouy]

Yeah I had a problem with Nev's. All the online stats I could find for him from Grecian Archive (individual profile and total goals list), Wiki and a profile on the club website had different stats. Weirdly they all agreed on total appearances, 305, but not goals. They variously state 86, 98 and 101. My feeling is that they are probably league goals, league and cup goals and league, cup and trophy goals respectively.

In the end I decided to go with the stats in the ECFC bible to be consistent for those playing before 1990 but of course Nev's had another season in 90/91 which I couldn't find stats for. From foggy memory he was our top scorer that season in double figures so I do think he got around a hundred goals, but the appearances would have obviously been more as well than the 305.

But even if it was say 98 from 340 games, it was a great record for someone who played a lot on the wing early on for us as well as up front.

From Rothmans Yearbook
1990/91 League: 40 apps [5 as sub], 11 goals. League Cup: 1 app, 1 goal. FA Cup: 2 apps, 0 goals. Leyland Daf: 4 apps, 1 goal.
For City: 305 League apps in total, 98 goals.

 

[Grecian 1901]

1990/91

The Grecian Archive - ECFC 1990/91

Explore the History and Heritage of Exeter City Football Club

grecianarchive.exeter.ac.uk

 

[Grecian Max]

And in other news elsewhere in 2021, certain indviduals are still banging the drum about Tisdale. There is one of me and dozens of them. Neither is any more relevant than a piece of City history.