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simple, which one do you rate more.......and why.  For me its parkin, he was immense, dont get me wrong Fjortoft was a great player however I never felt it meant as much to him as it did parkin.

Fjortoft by a mile for me.

Parkin would never even score a international goal and play in world cups neither will ever score 1 goal in the premier league.

Not having a dig at parkin just being realistic

Parkin for me, although I never saw Fjortoft.

Sammy was the highlight of some otherwise drab seasons and without him we'd have been bored to death.

Fjortoft: was of International class and showed it - on his day he was sublime, when I played junior football I did the aeroplane in his honour when I scored! The sad thing is both of his seasons at Swindon resulted in relegation.

Parkin: I will always looks back at Parkin's career at Town fondly though.

Its hard to compare as they were both legends in there era at swindon.

It's not hard to compare!

Fjortoft played for us in the premier league, was successful and got a move to another premier league club.

Super Sammy played for us in the third tier.

Much as I loved Parkin, you've got to say that Fjortoft was the better player.

Fjortoft without a doubt

No contest, Fjortoft by many miles, he also did it at the highest level (premiership and international level)

i agree fjortoft by miles but most of the youngsters only have seen parkin play and so think he is a legend. I have seen both play and think jan the man is the legend FACT.

Now be quiet doorknob. You have put me off my stroke


 :soapy tit wank:  :D

Fjortoft, the fact that I never saw him play and know all about him says it all

Cavpete.

WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST SAY THAT IN THE FUCKING FIRST PLACE!

Because after reading all the posts. It seems to wind you up so i did it soapy tit wank


only joking love you really

Neither - The correct answer is Duncan Shearer 8)

Shearer was class, agreed.

Shame we never got to see him in the top flight after the stitch up.

Which year was it when he scored 27?

Quality finisher.

Fjortoft by a country mile, Parkin was good in League One and has not proven himself any higher (admittedly he has been injured) where as Fjortoft proved himself at the highest level. It looks with the way Luton is going Parkin may once again be playing in League 1 next season.... shame its with Luton and not us though!

Parkin was a legend in a low level team, achieving more and immediately became a hero in his time here.  For almost half of JAFs time he was seen as a flop, but once he started doing it he offered a quality that had scarceky been seen at the CG ever.  A goal machine but a chracter too, unlike some of our 'greats' who were past there best (Hoddle), JAF was immense, and single handedly nearly got us to a league cup final.  Bearing in mind how destitute the team he played in was, and that his main strike partners were Keith Scott and Andy Mutch, that shows the quality.

Jan aage, jan aage wooow what a player i also copyed the areoplane at youth team footy. Class.

Jan the man was something special. Parkin, although quality, wasn't fit to clean his boots!

I am going to resurrect that plane celebration if I score this weekend. Just after I've hopped off the bitch

Someone as old as you really ought to know better!

Thats not to say Parkin isnt also a hero though. He also left the club in an improved state to when he arrived (of which Sam had a massive contribution to) and you couldnt say the same about Fjortoft.

I think Parkin was the more significant striker in terms of STFC history than Fjortoft. For one his transfer fee kept us going...

I think Jan Aage had the ability to excite me as a fan more though, and his celebration was ace. So it has to be Fjortoft for me.

Parkin was more of a legend, because he stuck around....scored more goals, was here longer....and he clearly loved it and made the best debut ever...

Fjortoft wasnt even here 2 season. A better player than Parkin, of course....fond memories, damn straight....

I hate them both tbh.

So many people over-rate Parkin. He was very good at a mediocre league 1 side, no doubt - but he's not even proven at championship level FFS.  That said I hope he makes it

Fjortoft was easily the better of those 2, by a whole country road map.

Shearer, as mentioned, was probably the best of my era though on the basis of his consistency and ability combined.

completely agree.

Shearer was my original hero, and I'd have loved tp have seen him in teh old top flight if 1990 debacle had never happened, the ultimate goal getter, he'd score fom all angles and had a knack of doing nowt but score the winner.  A great record for us, more in the Parkin mould as a player only much better, he perhaps lacked the audacious flare jan had though.

If not workrate.  :D

My ultimate front 2 would be Fjortoft - Shearer.

all different opinions spencer, to me parkin was part of a promotion push (one of the seasons that really made me get this club in my blood), fjortoft was always ina relegation battle.  Fjortoft scored some cracking goals though....also fjortoft was when I was 12 and its rather vague now

oooooh, I think I've just creamed my pants.  Parkin can be on the bench if he likes.

In my town watching are those two up top with Nicky Summerbee hammering crosses in!!!

Jan the man. Because he was etter than Parkin. Fact.

Let's not forget, Fjortoft had NO SAY in being sold...I think he would have stayed at least for the remainder of that season because he did love it here.  Perhaps if we still had been relegated he would have had to leave for the good of his career, but I don't think you can lay the blame on him for leaving as it was a management decision (and what a bad one!).

Fjortfot is the bigger legend IMO but I still have enormous respect for Sammy P.

Fjortoft gets my vote although I remember him taking about 20 odd games before he started scoring.  Also he really pissed Graham Taylor off by diving all over the place in the Norway vs England world cup qualifier - leading to some classic quotes on that video!

The question was - which one is more of a legend ?

I think the word 'legend' is over used, neither were a 'legend' in the true sense. Fjortoft was lightyears better than Parkin. In terms of footballing skill and ability, it would be like comparing John Terry to his brother Paul at Yeovil. Yes they were that far apart.

sammy was a good player in the third tier but how many prem goals
has he scored and how many caps . :soapy tit wank:

fjortoft was the better player by such a distance it's not funny. whether that makes him more of a legend or not i'm not sure but it's good enough for me

I dont know. I dont think he was enjoying his football under McMahon. Macca was a total knob to him. I think he was glad to go.

Exactly Spence, McMahon practically forced the great man out of the club.

Fjortoft was and remains my No1 STFC favourist ever player, ever, ever.  Amen.

I think legend implies more than the football stuff... I can think of 4 instances that stand out in my mind from his first season alone to make the case for Fjortoft:

1. Celebration of 1st goal at Ipswich in the cup after his half season drought... Not the aeroplane (that came later) but a simple double clenched fist shaking manouevere... a relieved man!

2. Interview after the Tottenham home game, with Jan displaying a Wiltshire Sound-esque level of bias. "The fact that we were drawing at half time was a disgrace to be honest... we were much better than Tottenham" or words to that effect.

3. The aeroplane

4. Bizarre Cossack dance celebration after scoring in an away game (early goal to take the lead vs Blackburn?)

I remember the extra big cheer when Fjortoft scored his first goal against Spurs - It was a kind of 'hooray we've scored' combined with 'hooray, Jan's scored at last, thank God' cheer. You can't help but wonder what might have happened had he flooked one in off his back side on the first day of the season :?

I remember a similar sort of cheer when Charlie Griffin scored for us against Barnsley. The extra cheer in his case was because he was a local(ish) lad who had been plucked from non-league obscurity.

Yeah, Allan Young used to get those sort of cheers as well. We were totally deluded, and fooling no one. Neither player was anywhere near good enough.

Fjortoft was so much better than Parkin.  International quality and scored goals for us at the top level.  SSP has been the best striker we have had since though (although I was gutted when the Chief went).

I had completely forgotten about the weird Cossack dance!

What about George Ndah, Peter Thorne and Judas?

thorne may have got close if he hadnt started sulking towards the end.
fuck judas off completely. one season and even then he bottled it towards the end, absolutely quality and everything but parkin beats him easy.

George ndah was quality but not all that prolific.

now parkin, hatrick on debut. bingo. he was with us when we were mediocre then when we went shit and then hit another 20+ in the playoff season. i honestly think if we didnt have him we wouldve got relegated much earlier. remember when he got injured for a month or whatever then when he made his 'comeback' as a sub against barnsley or someone  there was a proper buzz about the place. he was always scoring and he always made the right noises, even up to when he left which was all important in why he is remembered with such fondness.

to be honest i can't say a bad word against him the man was fucking quality and i'd love to see him back here in a swindon shirt or not.

nowhere near fjortoft in terms of quality though.

or even chris hay

would have loved to have seen how good he'd have turned out for us if it wasn't for the injuries

Id still have Parkin over all of them!  :mrgreen:  I thought Thorne was a class act, probably better than Parkin. but his head/heart wasnt in it for us. Probably McMahons fault.

Fuck me what next - Moncur or Pook?

No contest whatsoever. I can't believe Parkins got anything like 30% of the vote. Christ how old are you lot?

it's funny how steve white was named as our legend on the bbc a year or so ago and yet nobody really mentions him.

he was no way near the same quality of some of the players mentioned on here but he was a bit of a legend

OK, then....Chalkie!!

Cost nothing, scored 111 goals.

When he signed Macari told him he wasn't much good and should shoot hard and low when he got a chance....

He also contolled the ball with his arse before scoring against Millwall (we were great that day!) :D  and wore his shorts too high.

And he once made me a cup oftea in his house  8)

As for the vote, it's got to be Jan...he was looking directly at me when he counted to three against Coventry...

Cheers for the goals, celebrations, skill, first touch, vision and ability to help Keith Scott score a lot (possibly the chant that no=one singing it believed).

Cheers

Donkey

Plus...

Missing teeth

Hailing from an amusingly named place.

Having a west country accent.

I must have been standing about three feet away from you that day :shock:

Don Rogers won the BBC Cult Hero thingy - with Chalkie 2nd and Shaun Taylor 3rd... But yes White was a legend  :D

And who'd a thought we;d have ended up a couple of posts apart on tinternet....mind you I don't think I knew what the tiniternet was back then.... :oops:

What was class though, was I lived in Coventry at the time...really pissed off the locals 8)

Cheers

Donkey

The Chief!