Long - time for a change?

[Snowball]

Appearance Minutes

Assists/Goals/Minutes

7 20 3420 127 Minutes per Goal/Assist Long

0 5 3195 Mills
7 3 3172 317 Minutes per Goal/Assist McAnuff
1 8 3166 352 Minutes per Goal/Assist Harte
6 6 3132 289 Minutes per Goal/Assist Kebe
0 0 3046 Federici
2 2 2997 749 Minutes per Goal/Assist Karacan

0 0 2462 Griffin
0 1 2061 Pearce

7 8 1869 124 Minutes per Goal/Assist Hunt
7 0 1756 251 Minutes per Goal/Assist Howard
1 4 1525 305 Minutes per Goal/Assist Church
1 2 1512 504 Minutes per Goal/Assist Elwood

1 0 1444 Tabb
0 0 1360 Zurab
2 2 1096 274 Minutes per Goal/Assist HRK
0 0 0965 Ingimarrson

0 0 0770 Cummings
0 0 0501 Armstrong
1 1 0439 220 Minutes per Goal/Assist Antonio
0 2 0360 180 Minutes per Goal/AssistGylfi
0 2 0121 060 Minutes per Goal/Assist Mansett

[Wycombe Royal]

Who are Elwood and Mansett? You've taken all that time to type all that but you don't have the respect to write their names correctly.

[Snowball]

Goals and Assists Ranking


Assists/Goals/Minutes

0 2 0121 060 Minutes per Goal/Assist Manset

7 8 1869 124 Minutes per Goal/Assist Hunt
7 20 3420 127 Minutes per Goal/Assist Long

0 2 0360 180 Minutes per Goal/Assist Gylfi
1 1 0439 220 Minutes per Goal/Assist Antonio

7 0 1756 251 Minutes per Goal/Assist Howard
2 2 1096 274 Minutes per Goal/Assist HRK
6 6 3132 289 Minutes per Goal/Assist Kebe


1 4 1525 305 Minutes per Goal/Assist Church
7 3 3172 317 Minutes per Goal/Assist McAnuff
1 8 3166 352 Minutes per Goal/Assist Harte

1 2 1512 504 Minutes per Goal/Assist Elwood
2 2 2997 749 Minutes per Goal/Assist Karacan

[Snowball]

Who are Elwood and Mansett? You've taken all that time to type all that but you don't have the respect to write their names correctly.

I don't respect them? Ha bloody ha.

[Wycombe Royal]

Who are Elwood and Mansett? You've taken all that time to type all that but you don't have the respect to write their names correctly.

I don't respect them? Ha bloody ha.

[Snowball]

Shane's goal for Ireland last night was his FIFTIETH senior goal (23 this season)


Well done Shane

[Snowball]

Man of the Match too.

And I see Long and Harte made the Football League Team of the Week Mar 7th and Ingi the week after.

[Big Foot]

10 HARTE Reading FC


League goals only. Totals can include goals scored for other teams in the same division.

Harte scored 8 for Reading, 2 for Carlisle....which division do they play in again?

[West Stand Man]

10 HARTE Reading FC


League goals only. Totals can include goals scored for other teams in the same division.

Harte scored 8 for Reading, 2 for Carlisle....which division do they play in again?

Harte is a left back, how many of them are there in the goals list?

[Big Foot]

10 HARTE Reading FC


League goals only. Totals can include goals scored for other teams in the same division.

Harte scored 8 for Reading, 2 for Carlisle....which division do they play in again?

Harte is a left back, how many of them are there in the goals list?

That's not my point

[Snowball]

Shane is now competing with the top RFC goal-scorers since 2002-03

2010-11 22 Shane Long (still at least 8 more games to play)

2005-06 22 Dave Kitson
2009-10 20 Gylfi Siggurdson
2005-06 19 Kevin Doyle
2004-05 19 Dave Kitson
2008-09 18 Kevin Doyle
2002-03 16 Nicky Forster
2005-06 15 Leroy Lita
2003-04 14 Shaun Goater
2006-07 14 Leroy Lita
2006-07 13 Kevin Doyle
2003-04 11 Nicky Forster
2007-08 10 Dave Kitson

[brendywendy]

and for a lower quality team as well

fair play

[Terminal Boardom]

I will openly admit I have slated Long in the past & am delighted to be proved wrong as he is a different class this year.

Do people not agree that this season has seen the best individual performance from a Reading player...specifically a striker for many a year?

Long right now gives Doyle at his peak a run for his money IMO.

I am struggling to rememeber a season where an individual's contribution has been so great.

Well done Shane.

Gylfi Sigurdsson 2009/10 season. HTH.

[Snowball]

and for a lower quality team as well

fair play

I think that's the clincher for me. No Doyle, Kitson, Shorey, Little, Convey at his best etc etc etc

22 goals (with another 8 games to go) is easily the best contribution of the last ten years
and is probably up there with the best in the last few decades. (Not total number, perhaps
but in terms of goals at a good level in a makeshift team put together on a low budget)


Incidentally, what are the best totals for RFC players since WW2 (and in what league?)

[Ian Royal]

I will openly admit I have slated Long in the past & am delighted to be proved wrong as he is a different class this year.

Do people not agree that this season has seen the best individual performance from a Reading player...specifically a striker for many a year?

Long right now gives Doyle at his peak a run for his money IMO.

I am struggling to rememeber a season where an individual's contribution has been so great.

Well done Shane.

Gylfi Sigurdsson 2009/10 season. HTH.

Caskey or Morley 20 goal plus seasons... Kitson's first big scoring season maybe?

[TFF]

a makeshift team put together on a low budget

I'm not sure I can remember a Reading team that would have been regarded otherwise.

[Snowball]

To Be Regularly Updated



OFFICIAL CLUB STATS


OS: Shane is now our second highest scorer in terms of goals scored in the second tier of English football.

Snowball: Shane has a better strike rate when starting than Kitson!!


83 Championship Starts 44 Goals (SR 1.88) KITSON
70 Championship Starts 38 Goals (SR 1.84) LONG
80 Championship Starts 36 Goals (SR 2.22) DOYLE


The above EXCLUDE goals scored as a sub, so clearly Long scores significantly more than Doyle when starting,
and he has a reasonable chance of passing Kitson's total by the end of this season.

Remember this is the man who is "useless" when starting,
and "will NEVER, EVER score 20 goals at Championship Level "(Copyright Ian Royal)

[SLAMMED]

Why would you exclude goals scored as a sub

[Ian Royal]

I'm enjoying the way I'm being singled out as part of some sort of snowball vendetta.

Just to share the lols around my fellow "got it wrong in the long-runers":

The bloke is f*cking useless. A basic, average striker should be knocking in a goal every 3 games at the least yet our "main" striker has one. From the penalty spot.

He's like a poor man's Emile Hesky.

Many years ago Schards posted that he was and would remain woeful, I may not have seen him live that much, but never has he looked any real use to me either, time to move on Shane, sorry as you are a nice guy.

Long has started just about every game this season and has managed to score one measly bloody penalty. You'd think even the most incompetent striker would have managed to divert the ball into the net at least once from open play this season off his arse or something. Long's performance at Bristol was typical; hard work, zero quality on the ball and an abject failure to get any shots away. Not good enough...
He doesn't have the intelligence to get into goalscoring positions, and frankly if he didn't 'work hard' (literally the bare minimum I'd expect from any professional footballer) he wouldn't have anything to his game whatsoever.

We don't have anyone worse either, their all very average Championship players who might have the odd good game but won't do enough over a sustained period to carry the burden of being our first choice strike force.

All of our strikers are shite. Long in particular.

Piss off Long and take Madejski, McDermott and Church's shit finishing with you.

He's useless- plain and simple.

Shane isn't a good player imo. He's had 4 years to prove himself and he hasn't.

Nice lad. Completely out of his depth.

Sorry chaps and chapess, but if I'm going down I'm taking you lot with me.

[Snowball]

Why would you exclude goals scored as a sub

1 The CLUB OS, gave the Championship starts/goals when starting.

2 It's a fair comparison, especially as all Doyle's goals were when he started

3 Once sub appearances and goals as a sub are included the comparisons get foggy.


Starts - Goals when starting is a decent comparison. And fair.