His goal against Exeter is one of my all-time favourite football memories.
Proper Roy of the Rovers stuff.
Over the course of the last few seasons he has scored some vital goals for us. A real old fashioned centre forward. Unfortunately injuries have slowed what little pace he had and he now seems to be a yard or two short to hit shots from crosses he would have got to before.
Give me a team of Barry corrs any day of the week though. Top man and top team player.
Thought I would bring reality to the world after the really sickening and blinded thread regarding Barry Corr. Barry's record for us is a goal every 2.9 games, Eastwood's was a goal every 2.77 games, so going on the poor twisting of stats as used in the other thread, Eastwood should never have been released.
Please don't see this as another "Eastwood should have stayed thread" nor an attack on Barry Corr or the guys queuing up to fellate him on the other thread. I just think stats are worthless unless those stats are consistent and neither player really had been for 2-3 years.
I love the club and the fans are awesome, I just want a dose of reality, Corr is not going to score enough to get us out the league, if he does, then I will apologise but he has done very little for me each time I see him than run around looking to hurt the opposition and get booked/sent off.
I'm probably going to get slated by the usual lot with poor one liners but hey!!
I just think stats are worthless unless those stats are consistent and neither player really had been for 2-3 years.
I love the club and the fans are awesome, I just want a dose of reality, Corr is not going to score enough to get us out the league, if he does, then I will apologise
Drastic™;1663591 said:Barry Corr has scored in double figures every season he has played. I think that's pretty consistent.
Just curious but what is the magic number a striker must score to get a team promoted? 20? Because history shows that's a myth. Since Southend have been in lg2 the last 4 seasons, 16 teams have been promoted, only 4 had a top scorer with 20 or more league goals. Infact 9 teams in the last 4 seasons were promoted with a top scorer with 14 or less goals. Barry Corr has scored 21, 13 and 13 in the 3 seasons he has been fit, as many as other teams have been promoted with. The teams that get promoted don't rely on one player but score from around the team. BBBC awaits your apology :winking:
Thought I would bring reality to the world after the really sickening and blinded thread regarding Barry Corr. Barry's record for us is a goal every 2.9 games, Eastwood's was a goal every 2.77 games, so going on the poor twisting of stats as used in the other thread, Eastwood should never have been released.
Please don't see this as another "Eastwood should have stayed thread" nor an attack on Barry Corr or the guys queuing up to fellate him on the other thread. I just think stats are worthless unless those stats are consistent and neither player really had been for 2-3 years.
I love the club and the fans are awesome, I just want a dose of reality, Corr is not going to score enough to get us out the league, if he does, then I will apologise but he has done very little for me each time I see him than run around looking to hurt the opposition and get booked/sent off.
I'm probably going to get slated by the usual lot with poor one liners but hey!!
If he didn't miss the 2nd season through injury and played instead of Dickinson, I reckon we would have easily been promoted automatically.
Corr has the odd good game but gets booked for petulance and is injury prone. He has a poor first touch and no pace, but otherwise when fit is good enough at this level.Over the course of the last few seasons he has scored some vital goals for us. A real old fashioned centre forward. Unfortunately injuries have slowed what little pace he had and he now seems to be a yard or two short to hit shots from crosses he would have got to before.
Give me a team of Barry corrs any day of the week though. Top man and top team player.
Corr has the odd good game but gets booked for petulance and is injury prone. He has a poor first touch and no pace, but otherwise when fit is good enough at this level.
So a team of Corr's would pick up bookings and injuries and give the ball away more often than not.
Corr has the odd good game but gets booked for petulance and is injury prone. He has a poor first touch and no pace, but otherwise when fit is good enough at this level.
So a team of Corr's would pick up bookings and injuries and give the ball away more often than not.
:facepalm:Corr has the odd good game but gets booked for petulance and is injury prone. He has a poor first touch and no pace, but otherwise when fit is good enough at this level.
So a team of Corr's would pick up bookings and injuries and give the ball away more often than not.