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The best Spurs team of all time - centre forward

Who was the second best centre forward to play for Spurs?

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Papercut said:
I've already mentioned my love of him and Crooks...

People say Archie was a bit of a recluse or at least socially awkward. Did you think that?
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Not sure about that but he was single minded and he and KB ( typical blunt Yorkie) had a few runs ins and fall outs, or so the storys suggested at the time.
 
Papercut said:
I've already mentioned my love of him and Crooks...

People say Archie was a bit of a recluse or at least socially awkward. Did you think that?
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My uncle knew him and I met him round his house a handful of times. He gave the impression of being quite a serious person. But not unusually so. Definitely wasn't socially awkward the times I met him and didn't come across as reclusive. He'd have a chat and a laugh along with everyone else at my uncle's get-togethers (though I don't ever remember him still being there at 2am for the singing... but the place always thinned out a bit by that point). And as I say, he was always happy to talk about the Spurs years which was a bonus from my perspective.
 
milo said:
I've totted up your votes and we've got Archibald, Duquemin and Klinnsman fighting over the final place on the ten man shortlist. Who should it be? I'll give it a couple of hours and go with whoever makes the best argument (or failing that, the most noise).
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Anyone want to make a case for Duquemin or Klinnsman?
 
Klinsman's two stints at WHL may have been relatively short-lived but wow, what a massive impact they both had on our fortunes. First time round he was a sensation from the word go with that celebrated dive-in on his debut, but arguably even more so the second time around, a rescue-mission that became mission-accomplished when he pretty much guaranteed our top-flight survival towards the end of the season, scoring four in our 6-2 away mauling of Wimbledon.

I get why people are sceptical but the German was not just world-class, he also had massive charisma that rubbed off on the club in a positive way. For me that comfortably overrides the brevity of his two stays, so I'd have him in on the grounds he had a better strike rate* than either Archibald or Duquemin.

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Spur of the moment said:
Klinsman's two stints at WHL may have been relatively short-lived but wow, what a massive impact they both had on our fortunes. First time round he was a sensation from the word go with that celebrated dive-in on his debut, but arguably even more so the second time around, a rescue-mission that became mission-accomplished when he pretty much guaranteed our top-flight survival towards the end of the season, scoring four in our 6-2 away mauling of Wimbledon.

I get why people are sceptical but the German was not just world-class, he also had massive charisma that rubbed off on the club in a positive way. For me that comfortably overrides the brevity of his two stays, so I'd have him in on the grounds he had a better strike rate* than either Archibald or Duquemin.

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Thanks. It's hard to deny his impact and charisma. I loved watching Jurgen but I am going to go with the majority and Archibald is the last man on the short list.
 
Gutter Boy said:
Cant' believe Defoe made the short-list when he never once established himself as first choice.
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We are not voting on the size of his feet ;) our 5th highest goal scorer of all time on 143 goals and our highest in Europe with 23 goals. I know you do not rate him but that is just vindictive.
 
parklane1 said:
We are not voting on the size of his feet ;) our 5th highest goal scorer of all time on 143 goals and our highest in Europe with 23 goals. I know you do not rate him but that is just vindictive.
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There's a difference between long service and quality. Just coming off the bench for a decade isn't really criteria for inclusion in a 'best ever'
 
Pandy said:
I never saw him but it baffles me how a man who scored 49 goals in a season is not in our top 10 shortlist.

Or are we just that good? ;)
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I watched the last season of his professional sporting career, he started shooting from miles out and kept hitting it way over the bar
 
defoe was (is?) a decent player, no more than that, you can't really make a straight comparison solely with stats bearing in mind that there wasn't a flat track european competition for Chivers or Archibald to play in
 
galeforce said:
defoe was (is?) a decent player, no more than that, you can't really make a straight comparison solely with stats bearing in mind that there wasn't a flat track european competition for Chivers or Archibald to play in
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Not getting into a big debate about this but check out who Chivers scored his Europe goals against, they were pretty much scored against the same type of opponents. There was 5 scored against those Europeon heavyweights Lyn Oslo for starters.
 
parklane1 said:
Not getting into a big debate about this but check out who Chivers scored his Europe goals against, they were pretty much scored against the same type of opponents. There was 5 scored against those Europeon heavyweights Lyn Oslo for starters.
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the relative quality of all continental sides was higher back then, imo, they had all won something, Lyn Oslo may not be much now but comparatively they would have been a tougher game than FC Pigfarmer who qualified for the EL because their chairman's wife won a croquet tournament, add in the difficulties with travel, accommodation, facilities and food, which were unquestionably a greater issue back then, and the land really doesn't look that level (to me at least), there is a reason away goals used to be so highly regarded and now seem a little silly

lets not forget that they scored 3 against us in the first leg by the way, if they were good enough to put 3 past that Spurs side they must have been handy, United were the only side to better that that year
 
galeforce said:
the relative quality of all continental sides was higher back then, imo, they had all won something, Lyn Oslo may not be much now but comparatively they would have been a tougher game than FC Pigfarmer who qualified for the EL because their chairman's wife won a croquet tournament, add in the difficulties with travel, accommodation, facilities and food, which were unquestionably a greater issue back then, and the land really doesn't look that level (to me at least), there is a reason away goals used to be so highly regarded and now seem a little silly

lets not forget that they scored 3 against us in the first leg by the way, if they were good enough to put 3 past that Spurs side they must have been handy, United were the only side to better that that year
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As I said above I am not getting into a debate about this, just lets agree to disagree.
 
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