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...
13. AARON MCLEAN
v Accrington Stanley, home, 15/1/8, 8-2. Mclean wasn't the only Posh hat-trick man that night. Photo: PT
14. GEORGE BOYD (right)
v Accrington Stanley, home, 15/1/8, Boyd also hit a hat-trick on a rain-sodden night. Mackail-Smith scored the other two goals in a great night for the 'Holy Trinity.' Photo: PT
15. AARON MCLEAN
v Brentford, home, 24/11/7, 7-0. Brentford had their goalkeeper sent off after two minutes. Mclean also missed a penalty. Terry Butcher was Brentford boss at the time. Photo: PT
16. LEON MCKENZIE
v Tranmere, home, 19/3/2, 5-0. Helgi Danielsson scored the other two Posh goals. Photo: PT