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Who is Town's greatest hitman?
           


  AFTER the selection of Glenn Hoddle and Alan McLaughlin in Swindon Town fans’ greatest-ever team, the time has come to pick two strikers to spearhead the legends’ attack.

           

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Fjortoft & Shearer for me with Chalkie on the bench

Noble and Fjortoft

 No contest really....Morris and Fleming.

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Having never seen them, on stats alone they have to be.  We've been a bit spoilt I suppose because both Shearer and Fjortoft could and should have played at the top league for a while.

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Fjortoft and Shearer.

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Could they have played together, both similar players and played better off a target man rather than as the main target man themselves. Would like to have seen Quinny and Fjortoft play together, as Quinny was a target man and with him and Jan they would be firing them all from all angles. Quinny made a big mistake in leaving Town for Leicester in 1988. Shearer was a goal machine as well and that goal a West Brom from about 40 yards sticks in the mind.

You would have to have Chalkie on the bench to liven it up if the game had gone a bit quiet. A true STFC cult hero.

On the basis that I'm choosing only from players I've seen (started in 1990), it absolutely has to be Shearer and White (with Fjortoft, Parkin, Cox, and possibly Dave Mitchell - very underrated, remember the FA cup goal against Watford - on the bench).

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They wouldn't be a partnership but that wouldn't matter, White and Shearer were never a partnership as such but they still got 27 goals each in the 89/90 Ossie Ardiles 'Samba Soccer' season. Fjortoft and Shearer would be a nightmare to defend, both could score goals from almost anywhere in the oppositions half and with either foot (and they both got a few with their head as well)

Shearer's goal against WBA was absolutely remarkable. Jan got quite a bit of publicity in his time but Shearer has to be one of the most under rated players in modern times (not by Town fans of course)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJOPr9uoZPI

And here it is..about 8 and a half minutes in..plenty of other corkers on there as well..Kenny Stroud v Everton..1977..Charlie Henry v Gillingham 10 years later..makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. I'm sure it's been posted loads of times before but you can never get too much of it, especially on derby day. Just the job to get the adrenalin pumping.

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Mayes & Rowland as they played together and worked well together.

But saying that Parkin, Shearer, Eastoe, Fjortoft, Morris & Fleming should all be in with a shout. All have different attributes if its on stats alone then Morris & Fleming it has to be.