The PT and the Peterborough United fans have picked the best club strike pairings of all time
Harry Leonard and Danny Ormerod made quite a splash when starting a Peterborough United match as a strike partnership for the first time this week.
They scored all three goals between them in a 3-3 Carabao Cup draw with Barnsley at the Weston Homes Stadium on Tuesday night.
It was an impressive start, but can they keep going and break into the PT’s top 10 attacking partnerships of all time, a list created with help from followers of @PTAlanSwann on X?
In reverse order of combined effectiveness…
10: Jason Cummings and Matt Godden.
Electric together at the start of the 2018-19 season, scoring 13 goals between them in the opening nine League One games during which they kept a certain Ivan Toney out of the starting line-up.
9 Jimmy Quinn and Martin Carruthers
The golden oldie and his mate scored 35 goals between them in the 1997-98 season, 33 of them before the end of January.
8 Derek Dougan and Peter Deakin
‘The Doog’ played beneath himself in Division Three with Posh. He and Deakin scored 18 goals apiece in the 1964-65 season.
7 Jim Hall and Peter Price
Posh weren’t great in the late 1960s, but these two forwards bagged 78 goals between them in just two seasons. Hall contributed 44 of them. A couple of seasons later they scored 44 goals between them in a single season with Price scoring 28!
6 Jim Hall and John Cozens
These strikers teamed up in the last Posh team to win a title, the Fourth Division in 1973-74. Captain Cozens with 19 goals took advantage of Hall’s power. The big centre forward scored 13 goals in the title-winning campaign.
5) Ivan Toney and Siriki Dembele
These two plus Sammie Szmodics were an outstanding strike force in the Covid-wrecked 2019-20 season. Toney dominated the scoring with 24 League One goals in just 32 appearances, but the other two were superb foils for him.
4 Jonson Clarke-Harris and Sammie Szmodics
Toney had left London Road before the following campaign, but Posh went up in second place largely because Clarke-Harris (31) and Szmodics (15) dovetailed so well, scoring 36 goals between them.
3 Terry Bly and Dennis Emery
Centre-forward Bly took most of the plaudits with a 52-goal season as Posh won the Division Four title in 1960-61. but inside forward Emery was, to many fans, the best player in the team.
2 Craig Mackail-Smith and Aaron Mclean.
The ‘Mac Attack’ was unstoppable in back-to-back promotion teams between 2007 and 2009, scoring 82 goals between them in those two seasons. They had pace, power and finishing skills in abundace. George Boyd was a big help also!
1 Tony Adcock and Ken Charlery
The sheer majesty, class and vision of Adcock was complemented perfectly by the power and aggression of Charlery. Adcock’s goal numbers weren’t huge, but he played a major part in the second half of the 1991-92 season which saw Posh promoted to the second tier for the first time. Adcock was top scorer in each of his two second tier terms with Posh, while Charlery left and then came back!