How come strikers always improve once they leave Swindon?

[adje]

with the exception of paul rideout, i cannot think of a single striker that has got better after leaving here

You could make a case for joe kuffour who scored a few for Torquay and this year did well for a relegated side.The Chief has had a reasonable career since leaving us.

[mattboyslim]

Agreed adje - there is an argument than Jan the Man did ok elsewhere too - Barnsley fans love him and I get the impression we did well everywhere he went.

[Simon Pieman]

Didn't improve though

[Reg Smeeton]

Didn't improve though

  Which is the crux of the debate.....improve means playing and scoring regularly at a higher level than when playing for us....or at least scoring large numbers when not doing so for STFC.

 An interesting case would be Garry Nelson.....when John Trollope signed him from Sarfend, for 10K in 83 he was an out and out left winger, who scored 7 goals in a couple of seasons of Div 4.

 We sold him to Plymuff for 15K in 85, still as an out and out winger, but here the manager, who's name escapes me started to use him more as a striker and he scored 20 goals in the same number of games as STFC.

 Brighton paid 80K and used him solely as a striker and he scored 45 in 132 fro them....when he went to Charlton then second tier he still scored goals for example 93/94 he was their leading scorer with 15, in  a side containing Pardew with Curbishley on the bench for a few games.

[Mark Hanrahan]

It's not the case with all of them.
Super Sammy - nope
Shearer - nope... well, not at Blackburn anyway and Aberdeen doesn't count as it's Mickey Mouse Football
Maskell - nope
Mitchell - nope
Thorpe (snigger...) - nope
Mooney - Nope (IMO)

[Scot Munroe]

Cureton isnt a fair example, because he was playing shit for us on purpose so we would get relegated so he could get out of his contract and fuck off to Colchester

Guess what? thats exactly what the little Fatbury did.

Became top goal scorer in the championship with 23 goals.

[Crozzer]

with the exception of paul rideout, i cannot think of a single striker that has got better after leaving here

Mike Summerbee maybe? Although maybe more of a winger.

 Buzzer scored 39 in 218 appearances for us and 47 in 355 for City....definitely a winger who scored a few.

Mike Summerbee on the right wing, Don Rogers on the left, has any club ever had two wingers of that calibre in the same team.  I include today's Manchester United.  Mike Summerbee was more than a winger who scored goals, he was a constant nuisance to the opposition for 90 mins. a game, he was defender, midfielder, winger and a striker who could head the ball, all rolled into one.  He was Joe Mercer's best ever signing according to Joe., and of course played for England.  Great story about the equivalent of Nottons Cafe in Manchester when Mike arrived at Man. City, in Stanley Matthews book.

[Ralphy]

Don Rogers played well for Crystal Palace.