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...3 away league hat-tricks in one season.

I knew he'd do it. I am so proud.

...in fairness you have been saying its coming for the last few games now.

Please don't go :(

He's definitely gone in the summer I reckon.

We'll just have to make the most of him while he's here.

Yes for sure mate. Wayyy too good for league one

Replacing him will be a very hard job, but as long as we get cash up front (no "If he plays X games we'll pay you £2 million) I'll be happy.

And because he has shown he is too good I'd think the average fan will be understanding of him wanting to leave. Particularly if he keeps us up!

Scary thing is he still has improving to do, he's missed some sitters!

It'll still be a bit of a gamble that he'll be effective in the Championship, but all the signs are he will.

It's all about getting good money for him now. Particularly if Reading have a good sell on %.

How long does he have left?  Is it a year or 2 at the end of the season?

Pretty sure it's just 1.

If it was 2 more years I don't think the majoirty of us would be so resigned to his pending departure. He's put in a great season and to his credit he didn't bugger off in January.

I hope Cox gives us a chance and maybe stays until January..... Just to see how we are doing next season and maybe be in a position to play in the championship with us assuming we get a decent side together. I think he will go in the summer.

Thing is if that happens we will get less for him.  If he only has 1 year left and will not sign an extension then the wise thing to do for STFC is sell him at the end of this season for as much as we can get.

he should really end up our record transfer fee.

Should and will are two completely different things though Dan.

We either need to sell him in the summer or get him to sign a new deal.

No point in keeping him til Jan, the goals he scores in the 1st half of the season wouldnt be enough to guarantee us doing anything and we'd end up getting a shit fee.

I think Fitton knows he's got a live one and will be prepared to push the boat out on wages if he can get Coxy to agree a contract extension in the summer. From everything Cox has said he's a patient lad and might well be prepared to do that, give it until January and see how the side is shaping up under Wilson.

He seems a smart lad and he'll know that his chances of getting a good move will be better after two seasons of consistent scoring than one, and better again if he's scoring goals in a Championship side than a League 1 side. If he's confident about the direction the team's going in, and the money's right, he might be prepared to hang about for another year or so.

I believe that Newcastle are watching Simon Cox - Calderwood was there scouting him last night.

Calderwood was there last night, but then it was two of his former clubs playing. Who knows really.

Swap plus cash for Nile Ranger? (TCP must be getting damp.)

They're going to have to sign some new players for the championship otherwise they'll be in serious shit. Well, they'll be in serious shit regardless if they go down. They'll have to transfer list most of their players for pennies just to soften the blow of going down.

Cox for Owen seems a reasonable swap...

No. Cox > Owen.

I reckon how Cox values our chances next season will be important. If he thinks we'll be in the playoffs and challenging for automatic promotion there is a chance he'll sign an extension and hang around, especially if we offer him a large enough wad of cash.

Wilson will need to work quickly and hard over the summer sorting the squad out to come up with something that will have a chance of being at the top. Though I reckon out first team are pretty close at the moment.

Agreed,but so much needs to be taken into account.Our players are playing the best they've played all season, is this because they want a job next year and want to stay up. Also if people think we can get play-offs next season with teh squad we have now we will have to buy the players we have on loan - Greer and OTJ are possibilities with Greer out of contract & OTJ out of favour (and hasnt had too many good games according to some TEFers), and Kanu - he has just signed a 2 year deal at Reading, i don't think we stand much chance of buying him unless STFC and Kanu really want it to happen. Even if we do keep cox, the rest of the team will be out of place if we lose the loanees.

 The magnitude of Cox's achievement can be gauged by the fact Harry Morris only ever scored 3 away hat tricks in his career at STFC....he did bag a good few at the CG, mind.

 Even scoring one away hat trick is quite rare...plenty have scored them at the CG.

 Dennis (Bullets) Brown managed 2, but not in the same season....others who've scored 1 include, Duncan Shearer, Peter Thorne, Kevin Horlock, Dave Mitchell, and Steve White, all of which I was at the game to see.

 One of Brown's was a 4, at Bormuff one of my earliest away games, a feat I saw Shearer repeat at Plymuff

 Before that famously Alan Mayes on debut..

 Notable goalscorers who never managed 1 include, Don Rogers, Sam Parkin, Peter Noble (did once do it in the LC) Jimmy Quinn, Andy Rowland, Arthur Horsfield, Ernie Hunt, David Moss, Paul Rideout and Jan Aage Fjortoft.

 Bronco Layne and Jimmy Kelly both scored on late 50's early 60's.

 Of those listed Horlock's at Bristol Rovers, is worthy of mention as the only example scored by a midfield player.

 I may well have missed something out...I'll leave it to the TEF nerds to do a detailed check.

Horlocks was also a perfect hat trick.

right foot, left foot, head

 A valid point, but I think to be absolutely perfect, there should be no other goals in between...Horlock's was interrupted by one from OST.

The other night Cox scored one with his head, one with his right, and one with his gut; is that an imperfect hat-trick?

 All Cox needs to do now is get a 4 or more. In my time I've seen it done 5 times, Brown and Shearer as previously mentioned, and at the CG, 5 by Keith East v Mansfield, 4 by Don Rogers v Southport and 4 by Andy Rowland v Rotherham

Which was the last time we scored 4 away from home, no?

One player, not the whole team.

BRUM!

I stand corrected, we put 4 past Stockport on 14th Feb 2004.

BRUM!

HONK!

Car noises are fun.

 WE scored 5 at Edgeley Park the season before. The previous 5 to that would have been at the Hawthorns in JAF's penultimate game.  6 ers are very rare...obviously Brum and before that in a league fixture...think it must go all the way back to a 6-2 win at Northampton in 68/69

Are you still just talking about away games? Cos we put 6 past Vale last season at home.

Yes.

If I'm correct, that season we went 3-0 up and almost chucked it away, winning 4-2 thanks to a late goal from Mooney. The next season we went 3-0 up again, and DID chuck it away with the game ending 3-3.

You'd think Kamara will give Cox L1 Player of the Month next week or whenever they announce it.

...you wont becase the nominations were annouced last week and Cox wasnt one of them.

The nominations for player of the month (for March) were announced on the 19th?  That's crazy.

That is insane. Oh well.

I'm just thinking, how many clubs have actually been 'linked' with Cox? Those that I know of that have been spoken about here or on TFF:

Huddersfield
Fulham
Bolton
Aston Villa
Sheffield United
West Brom
Reading
Newcastle

Any more? We could get a decent little bidding war going.

Derby

We put 6 past Torquay as well, was league cup though

We put five past West Brom in 1995 - good game that I missed.

We put 6 past Birmingham away did we not?

From those teams Coxy would only be a definite starter with Huddersfield, and I cant see him leaving us for them.

Derby is a good shout though.

Leicester have put him top of their purchases for next season, and would put my money on him going there.

I think Coxy needs to be targeting a team in the championship that has the realistic potential of challenging for promotion, otherwise he may as well stay here and bide his time until a better club come's along.

Ohh and add Man City to the list of potentials as they was scouting him a few weeks ago

I was at Kettering when we won 7-0 at their place back in 83 but that was an FA Cup game not a league one.

I'm fairly sure I saw Horsfield score 3 at Ashton Gate in his first season but maybe one was an og that ,these days,a striker would claim

Did Steve White get a hat trick at Ipswich when we won 4-1?

Would Trevor Anderson not be described as a midfield player when he scored his 3 pens-Eastoe and Syrett were the strikers I think

That would have been in the 3-3 draw...from memory Don Rogers skinned them down the wing got in a cross and Dobbin bundled defender, keeper and ball over the line...it was credited as an OG.

Think there may be one STFC player who has scored a hat trick at Ashton Gate...can't recall right now who though.

No Town player has scored a hat trick at The Manor....Mossy and Horsfield both did it at the CG.

That's the game Reg-Ashton Gate only had three sides to the ground at that time

 That must have been waiting for the opening of the Dolman Stand then.

 Notable for having an indoor bowling green underneath it, as a money earner.

No, i have that game on video somewhere. He got one, Calderwood, Taylor and Hazard got the others. He did get a hat-trick at Watford in 93 when we beat them 4-0. The 3rd was the best, a free-kick which once into the box was almost back-healed to him which he volleyed into the net.

Oh, yes. I was at the Watford game. Dunno why I thought he bagged 3 at Portman Road  :doh: