He scored the 64th hat-trick or better by a Posh player in the club’s 64-year Football League history. Sixties legend Terry Bly and the club’s all-time leading goalscorer Jim Hall managed it seven times apiece, way clear of the next prolific hat-trick scorer Peter Price (3). Remarkably Bly claimed all seven of his hat-tricks in the 1960-61 Fourth Division title-winning campaign when he finished with a club record 52 goals for a team who scored an EFL record 134 goals in 46 matches.
Giuliano Grazioli is the only Posh player to have scored five goals in a game (v Barnet, 1998, in a club record 9-1 win) but Bly (twice), Hall (twice), Price, and Wayne Andrews have managed four goals in a game. Andrews scored his goals on his debut (v Barnet, 1999 in a 5-2 win),
The Posh hat-trick scorers in EFL matches in the current Millennium are...
5. JACK MARRIOTT
v Bristol Rovers, away, 12/8/17, 4-1. His first three goals for Posh arrived in the same game. Photo: Joe Dent
6. JON TAYLOR (left).
v Blackpool, home, 8/5/16, 5-1. The last game of a disappointing League One season. Posh were 1-0 down at half-time. Photo: Joe Dent
7. CONOR WASHINGTON
v Scunthorpe, away, 28/11/15, 4-0. A hat-trick in the middle of a run of 12 goals in 12 games for Posh. Photo: Joe Dent
8. NICKY AJOSE
v Notts County, home, 21/1/14, 4-3. A former Manchester United striker who only scored seven League One goals for Posh. Jack Grealish scored for Notts County in this game. Photo: Alan Storer