Wimb I can't be bothered to dig it out Snowball but I'd suspect very strongly that if you took out the 3 in 2 games at the backend of 08/09 and the 7 in 7 scored in Jan/Feb last year, that Long's goals from open play per minutes on the pitch looks fairly dreadfull. Not taking away those purple patches and he needed talent/ability to have them, but I believe the stats would show URZ to be correct.
I can't be bothered to dig them out, Wimb, but if you remove the ...
or remove this 4 goals in 4 games, a 4-week spell, Doyle managed 2 goals in the rest of the season!
01 12-08-2007 English Premier Man Utd 0-0 Reading 0
02 15-08-2007 English Premier Reading 1-2 Chelsea 0
03 18-08-2007 English Premier Reading 1-0 Everton 0
04 25-08-2007 English Premier Bolton 3-0 Reading 0
06 05 01-09-2007 English Premier Reading 0-3 West Ham 0
07 22-09-2007 English Premier Reading 2-1 Wigan 0
08 29-09-2007 English Premier Portsmouth 7-4 Reading 0
07-10-2007 English Premier Reading 1-0 Derby 1
20-10-2007 English Premier Blackburn 4-2 Reading 2
27-10-2007 English Premier Reading 2-1 Newcastle 0
03-11-2007 English Premier Fulham 3-1 Reading 1 09 12-11-2007 English Premier Reading 1-3 Arsenal 0
10 24-11-2007 English Premier Man City 2-1 Reading 0
11 01-12-2007 English Premier Reading 1-1 Middlesbro 0
12 08-12-2007 English Premier Reading 3-1 Liverpool
1 GOAL13 15-12-2007 English Premier Birmingham 1-1 Reading 0
14 22-12-2007 English Premier Reading 2-1 Sunderland 0
15 26-12-2007 English Premier West Ham 1-1 Reading 0
16 29-12-2007 English Premier Tottenham 6-4 Reading 0
17 01-01-2008 English Premier Reading 0-2 Portsmouth 0
18 12-01-2008 English Premier Aston Villa 3-1 Reading 0
19 19-01-2008 English Premier Reading 0-2 Man Utd 0
20 30-01-2008 English Premier Chelsea 1-0 Reading 0
21 02-02-2008 English Premier Reading 0-2 Bolton 0
22 09-02-2008 English Premier Everton 1-0 Reading 0
23 24-02-2008 English Premier Reading 1-2 Aston Villa 0
24 01-03-2008 English Premier Middlesbro 0-1 Reading 0
25 08-03-2008 English Premier Reading 2-0 Man City 0
26 15-03-2008 English Premier Liverpool 2-1 Reading 0
27 22-03-2008 English Premier Reading 2-1 Birmingham 0
28 29-03-2008 English Premier Reading 0-0 Blackburn 0
05-04-2008 English Premier Newcastle 3-0 Reading 0
29 12-04-2008 English Premier Reading 0-2 Fulham 0
30 26-04-2008 English Premier Wigan 0-0 Reading 0
31 03-05-2008 English Premier Reading 0-1 Tottenham 0
32 11-05-2008 English Premier Derby 0-4 Reading
1 GOALMaybe if we add in Doyle's international that season it would help,
after all he got 2 goals in 7 starts. What does that make it,
4 goals in 36 Starts?But then I'm not allowed to add Shane's goals for Ireland...
08-09-2007 European Championships Slovakia 2-2 Ireland 1
12-09-2007 European Championships Czech Rep 1-0 Ireland 0
13-10-2007 European Championships Ireland 0-0 Germany 0
17-10-2007 European Championships Ireland 1-1 Cyprus 0
17-11-2007 European Championships Wales 2-2 Ireland 1
06-02-2008 International Ireland 0-1 Brazil 0
24-05-2008 International Ireland 1-1 Serbia 0