Goal of the Season 2020-2021

[JR]

Can I suggest we keep it as a rolling Top 5? Think it will be a bit unwieldy otherwise.

[Snowball]

Can I suggest we keep it as a rolling Top 5? Think it will be a bit unwieldy otherwise.

I'm easy. Would prefer a ten myself, but whatever people want.

Not sure how it's unwieldy though

We would have five or ten, (sorta fixed, the early benchmark)
then any time we get a good goal people post to say it should
be on the list and the lowest one drops out (if enough peeps agree)

Obviously, there'd be argument.

By season's end we might have to vote out Ejaria's cracker and Joao's goal v Colchester to squeeze in the 74-pass move involving every player three times and a nutmeg of the Arsenal CB for our FA Cup final92nd minute winner

[SouthDownsRoyal]

I’m cool with five or ten.

Here’s hoping we struggle as the season progresses as we have so many Reading goals to choose from!

[Snowball]

This was just to get the ball rolling.

Would you change the order?



1. Ejaria's Goal for 0-2 at Derby

2. Joao's great turn in the six yard box versus Colchester

3. Joao's sneaky near-post goal at Derby (training routine)

4. Joao's equalising header after an excellent Araruna cross (V Colchester)

5. Joao's cool goal after being put through by an excellent Olise ball.

[Hendo]

I'd just swap 1 and 2 round, but agree with the rest.

[SouthDownsRoyal]

This was just to get the ball rolling.

Would you change the order?



1. Ejaria's Goal for 0-2 at Derby

2. Joao's great turn in the six yard box versus Colchester

3. Joao's sneaky near-post goal at Derby (training routine)

4. Joao's equalising header after an excellent Araruna cross (V Colchester)

5. Joao's cool goal after being put through by an excellent Olise ball.

Id keep that order

[Snowball]

Doddle for me to keep a spreadsheet if people score the above goals outa 10

Then the average gives the ranking

I'd go

9 Derby Ejaria 0-2
7 Colchester Joao-turn
7 Derby Joao-Near-Post
7 Colchester Joao-Olise
6 Colchester Joao-Header

[Snowball]

This was just to get the ball rolling.

Would you change the order?



1. Ejaria's Goal for 0-2 at Derby

2. Joao's great turn in the six yard box versus Colchester

3. Joao's sneaky near-post goal at Derby (training routine)

4. Joao's equalising header after an excellent Araruna cross (V Colchester)

5. Joao's cool goal after being put through by an excellent Olise ball.

Id keep that order

Thanks. ATM this wouldn't need some kinda mark system, but once a top five or ten is "fixed" we'd need marks for new-contenders to see if a new goal "deserves" to oust an old goal.

[SCIAG]

Jesus, you lot must be so proud.


A thread about football, that actually might have interested a reasonable
percentage of Nobber and you managed to reduce it to shite in an hour

To be fair, when you start a goal of the season thread after the second match there isn’t much to talk about.

The idea is a ROLLING top ten or twenty, which to me sounds like a cool idea

We score a good goal it goes into the top ten, one gets moved out

Also gives Nobbers a chance to speak more specifically about how goals have been scored, about team v individual, training routines, luck etc (all in one place)

And surely, for those who are interested, they join in,
those that aren't, don't. Not rocket science

Ah, that makes sense. I didn’t immediately cotton onto that, but it could be interesting.

[Snowflake Royal]

Jesus, you lot must be so proud.


A thread about football, that actually might have interested a reasonable
percentage of Nobber and you managed to reduce it to shite in an hour

To be fair, when you start a goal of the season thread after the second match there isn’t much to talk about.

The idea is a ROLLING top ten or twenty, which to me sounds like a cool idea

We score a good goal it goes into the top ten, one gets moved out

Also gives Nobbers a chance to speak more specifically about how goals have been scored, about team v individual, training routines, luck etc (all in one place)

And surely, for those who are interested, they join in,
those that aren't, don't. Not rocket science

Where are all these people who are interested and crying out in horror at what the thread became?

[SouthDownsRoyal]

To be fair, when you start a goal of the season thread after the second match there isn’t much to talk about.

The idea is a ROLLING top ten or twenty, which to me sounds like a cool idea

We score a good goal it goes into the top ten, one gets moved out

Also gives Nobbers a chance to speak more specifically about how goals have been scored, about team v individual, training routines, luck etc (all in one place)

And surely, for those who are interested, they join in,
those that aren't, don't. Not rocket science

Where are all these people who are interested and crying out in horror at what the thread became?

They will probably start posting later, after school.

[Simmops]

To be fair, when you start a goal of the season thread after the second match there isn’t much to talk about.

The idea is a ROLLING top ten or twenty, which to me sounds like a cool idea

We score a good goal it goes into the top ten, one gets moved out

Also gives Nobbers a chance to speak more specifically about how goals have been scored, about team v individual, training routines, luck etc (all in one place)

And surely, for those who are interested, they join in,
those that aren't, don't. Not rocket science

Where are all these people who are interested and crying out in horror at what the thread became?

By all those people, you mean OMA. He's at school still.

[Nameless]

Can’t we exclude any goals that are flukey strikes from more than 20 yards out ? These are not ‘good goals’. Goals need to involve multiple touches, an element of skill and the scorer to have his eyes open.
Speculative punts that would have cleared the terraces 9 times out of 10 should not be eligible.

[Snowball]

Can’t we exclude any goals that are flukey strikes from more than 20 yards out ? These are not ‘good goals’. Goals need to involve multiple touches, an element of skill and the scorer to have his eyes open.
Speculative punts that would have cleared the terraces 9 times out of 10 should not be eligible.

No need to include or exclude

If someone suggests a hopeful long shot is worthy of the top ten, so be it

People like me (or you) would give it a low or middling score and it would probably fail to break in to the top ten.

In the end like Long John Silver’s wooden leg, it’s a matter of opinion.

Some people LOVE the thirty yarder (they usually win Goal of the Week Comps) and if these get voted up, well, I have to live with it

Sometimes (Gylfi or GMac’s gorgeous volley a coupla seasons ago) it’s quality and class. Let the people decide!

[Nameless]

Can’t we exclude any goals that are flukey strikes from more than 20 yards out ? These are not ‘good goals’. Goals need to involve multiple touches, an element of skill and the scorer to have his eyes open.
Speculative punts that would have cleared the terraces 9 times out of 10 should not be eligible.

No need to include or exclude

If someone suggests a hopeful long shot is worry of the top ten, so be it

People like me (or you) would give it a low or middling score and it would probably fail to break in to the top ten.

In the end like Long John Silver’s wooden leg, it’s a matter of opinion.

Some people LOVE the thirty yarder (they usually win Goal of the Week Comps) and if these get voted up, well, I have to live with it

Sometimes (Gylfi or GMac’s gorgeous volley a coupla seasons ago) it’s quality and class. Let the people decide!

Now we’ve had this ‘let the people decide’ nonsense before and look where it got us....
Much better to leave these tricky decisions up to a small number of self appointed experts who will get it right (as far as I am concerned anyway.) and then inform the populace of the correct result.
I’ll let you know who has won at the end of the season ....

[Snowball]

Thanks, Nameless

That’s really helpful.

Also, you could award me the Prediction League now to save a lot of time and effort

[Old Man Andrews]

Oh good Snowball has started typing in caps again to reinforce his points..... Awful.

[Nameless]

Thanks, Nameless

That’s really helpful.

Also, you could award me the Prediction League now to save a lot of time and effort

Sorry, I’ve predicted an away win for Michael Gove in the prediction league....

[SouthDownsRoyal]

I love a twenty/thirty yarder. I get what you mean about them not being massively skilful as a team effort/team build up as such but when struck well, it’s a skill

[Hendo]

I love a twenty/thirty yarder. I get what you mean about them not being massively skilful as a team effort/team build up as such but when struck well, it’s a skill

Swift's goal against QPR last season on Boxing Day was very technical. You have to be a technically gifted player to stick that in the top corner, a very high level of skill.