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There are countless examples over the past couple of seasons. Cuereton, Trevor Benjaman, Deon Burton. I thought of about 10 earlier but now I have come back from the pub only those 3 are left in my brain. It is true though. Cuereton is the best example he couldn't even get in our side now he is top scorer in the Championship. I think it has something to do with lack of creativity in our midfield.

In the old days it used to be the other way around strikers used to be good for us then they would leave and other teams would find out they were actually crap like Craig Maskell or steve Finney.

Am I making sense I am a bit pissed. :beers:

monkhouse? oh hang on he's banned for the last game. what a shame, i feel so sorry for him.

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 cunt did.

Deon Burton and Big Trev are also both still gash.

He wasn't shit for us once he got picked it was only kingy didn't pick him. Maybe Kingy wanted to get us relegated so that he could move to Grays which is in Essex the same county as Colchester. It is all begining to make sense :shock:

...and that Parkin has just got better and better

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

Peter Thorne did alright for himself....

lets get rid of blair sturrock he's bound to buck the trend, in that he's utter shite

take roberts and peacock with him and we're laughing  8)

He was shite the whole season.

penalty straight at the keeper at hartlepool
open goal miss at yeovil
open goal miss at city
lazy half arsed performances
7 goals all season.

utter.shite.

wanted us down, so he could get out

but did he improve?i know he went to clubs that were doing better than us.i'm saying individually

dont be daft.he tried for us.i'm in no doubt whatsoever about that.but he did want to move,and i dont blame him

   Pretty much agree with that, in fact, most either seem to fade or do no more than tread water....there are a couple of notable exceptions, namely Jack Howarth and Ray Clarke.

  Howarth,  we got as a youngster from Chelsea around 63, he played a couple of games in 64, but was not considered up to it...he moved on to Aldershot and scored something like 180 goalsfor them in about 400+ appearances in 2 spells...think he was their all time leading scorer when they went bust.   Of course Howarth mainly scored in Div 4, but we spoent a lot of that time in Div 3.

 Clarke, we got from the traditional Spurs source, he scored a couple, in Div 2 in about a dozen matches....but was not thought good enough and moved on to Mansfield....he became prolific, and Feyenoord signed him, I think he then was leading scorer in Erie Divisie, and got a move to Ajax, then Bruges before returning to England, for spells at Brighton (then probablytop flight and Newcastle.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

Became top goal scorer in the championship with 23 goals.

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.

Don Rogers played well for Crystal Palace.