Strap's Stats 1 - October 1997

Striking Partnerships...

Strap, I recall the legendary strike force of recent years - Quinn/Lovell and Senior/Bremner. Now I know that the Quinn/Lovell partnership bagged 60 goals in that championship season, but I cannot remember the stats of the Senior/Bremner partnership! A question here: What are their overall number of games and goals every time they played together and what's the ratio?!! That should get you going! :-)
cheers
Chris Bennett

Chris, we've got to remember that Trev and Mad Max were only paired for 2 seasons, the first of which Mad Max was crocked for a good part, and the second we were in a higher league, ie Div 2. I think we should actually be giving due defference to Dean Horrix, who died in a car crash shortly after he left us back in 86. He and Trevor spent 3 very successful seasons as our front pairing, from 83-84 to 85-86. It's worth comparing the records of these two pairings and you'll see what I mean.

To start, I'll just summarise the apps and goals of some key players for the four seasons, I'll stick with league games only as it's fairest for all!

1983/84	games	goals
Senior          	45	36
Crown           	45 	 7
Sanchez         	45	10
Horrix          	43 	 8
Beavon          	32+4	 7

1984/85
Horrix          	40+3	19
Senior          	31   	22
Sanchez         	15     	 2 
  (ever present then sold to Wimbledon for peanuts - good old Branfoot!)
Crown           	42+1	 7
Beavon          	45+1	 2

1985/86
Senior          	46	27
Bremner         	18+4	 7
Horrix          	38+3	 6
Beavon          	44	 3

1986/87
Senior          	42	17
Bremner         	42	14
Beavon          	41+1	 3

Couple of interesting points here before we go onto your query, notice the part played by Stuart Beavon in all this? Virtually ever present for the four years of Trevor's reign! Also, Trevor never made a sub league appearance in his first stay with us! Can't confirm whether he ever got asked to sit on the bench and was never called on, but I'm sure someone can tell us.

Anyway, back to the question.

Taking each pair in turn, games played where both players played in the same match are shown below, together with the total number of goals scored as a pair when playing together. (I've included subs as an appearance). Senior/Horrix 1983/84 43 games 43 goals (1 goal per 1 game) 1984/85 28 games 32 goals (1 goal per 0.88 game!) 1985/86 41 games 32 goals (1 goal per 1.28 games) Total 112 games 107 goals (1 goal per 1.05 games) ie a goal was scored by one or other of the pair every 1.05 games that they played in together. Obviously Trevor was the "senior" partner (pun intended!) but it's still an impressive record against their respective individual totals for the 3 years, which were :

Senior          	122 games	 85 goals
Horrix          	121+6 games	 33 goals

Senior/Bremner
1985/86          	 22 games	 18 goals	(1 goal per 1.22 games)
1986/87           	 42 games	 31 goals	(1 goal per 1.35 games)
Total            	 64 games	 49 goals	(1 goal per 1.31 games)

ie a goal was scored by one or other of the pair every 1.31 games that they played in together. Obviously Trevor was the "senior" partner again, but again it's still an impressive record against their respective individual totals for the 2 years, which were :

Senior           	 88 games	 44 goals
Horrix           	 60+4 games	 21 goals

Now Quinn and Lovell are a different kettle of fish altogether! It's true that they had a great year in 1993-94, but their record since is shite! Keeping the same format, their overall league performances can be summarised as :

1992-93
Quinn	 42 games	 17 goals
Lovell	 18+4 games	  8 goals

1993-94 (Will we ever forget it!)
Quinn	 46 games	 35 goals
Lovell	 43+2 games	 20 goals

1994-95
Quinn	 31+4 games	  5 goals
Lovell	 25+5 games	 11 goals

1995-96
Quinn	 28+7 games	  7 goals
Lovell	 20+15 games	 11 goals

1996-97
Quinn	 10+14 games	  3 goals
Lovell	 17+9 games	  5 goals

Again games played where both players played in the same match are shown below, together with the total number of goals scored as a pair when playing together. (I've included subs as an appearance, but not where one of the pair replaes the other during a match).

Quinn/Lovell
1992/93	 20 games	 18 goals	(1 goal per 1.11 games)
1993/94	 45 games	 55 goals	(1 goal per 0.82 game)
1994/95	 22 games	 10 goals
1995/96	 22 games	  9 goals
1996/97	  8 games	  3 goals
Total	117 games	 95 goals	(1 goal per 1.23 games)

So on average, Quinn and Lovell were a better strike force than Senior and Bremner, and both pairs were bettered by Senior and Horrix! Now who would have thought that!

Still, Quinn and Archie can lay claim to the best individual season, the 1993/94 Championship winning year!

I'm actually looking at a few more combinations, namely Kerry Dixon and Pat Earles, Kerry Dixon and Neil Webb, Les Chappell and Gordon Cumming, and of course The King and Percy! I'll bore you with that another day, but initial searching tends to favour Senior/Horrix for the best average, and Quinn/Lovell the best one season record! Still can't quite believe that!

Strap

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