Toney’s 39 goals in 63 Football League starts starts works out as a goal every 1.61 games for the club.
The Peterborough Telegraph looked at all the club’s strikers who have scored 20 or more Football League goals for the club to work out the hottest Posh shots.
We used starting appearances and goals scored in Football League matches only and calculated a games-per-goal ratio.
Star names from successful Posh teams like Ken Charlery and Tony Adcock didn’t even make the top 20. Others who were considered weaker all-round forwards did make the list.
Dwight Gayle, widely recognised as one of the top strikers in the club’s history, didn’t qualify as he ‘only’ scored 13 goals in his 27 appearances at a goal every 2.07 games which would have placed him 12th in our list.
Toney’s lofty ranking would come as no surprise to Posh manager Darren Ferguson who rates the 24 year-old highly. Ferguson said: “I’m lucky enough to have managed some outstanding strikers at this club and Ivan is as good as any of them. He’s more than just a goalscorer as his physicality and quality helps create goals for others.
“Ivan is also a terrific defender at set-pieces. One of the best I’ve managed.”
Club record signing Mo Eisa has 14 goals in 27 Posh starts (a goal every 1.93 starts).
The top 20 in reverse order are...
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12th. AARON MCLEAN. Posh years: 2006-15. Posh starts: 159. Posh goals: 72. GPG ratio: 2.21. How fitting that Mclean and Mackail-Smith sit side-by-side in this list. Mclean was a superstar as Darren Ferguson led Posh to back-to-back promotions to the second tier. Keith Alexander signed the striker after being tasked to recruit the best player in non-league football and Mclean quickly became a living tribute to Alexander’s talent-spotting skills. Great in the air for a relatively small man and a lethal finisher.
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11th. DEREK DOUGAN. Posh years: 1963-65. Posh starts: 77. Posh goals: 38. GPG ratio: 2.03. It was quite the coup when Posh boss Jack Fairbrother persuaded Dougan out of semi-retirement to play in the Third Division. He scored on his debut on the opening day of the 1963-64 season and he stayed for two seasons which included a club-record run to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup. Dougan scored in the famous 2-1 win over Arsenal.
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10th. KEITH SMITH. Posh years: 1963-65. Posh starts: 55. Posh goals: 28. GPG ratio: 1.96. Smith spent most of his early Posh days in Dougan’s shadow, but he improved his goals-per-game ratio with 14 goals in 18 Third Division appearances at the start of the 1964-65 season. Unfortunately for Posh that form attracted the attention of Crystal Palace who prised him away from London Road for £12k. Posh signed Smith from West Brom.
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9th. JIMMY QUINN. Posh years: 1997-99. Posh starts: 47. Posh goals: 25. GPG ratio: 1.89. Northern Ireland international Quinn didn’t join Posh until he was 37, but for three-quarters of his first season at London Road he and Martin Carruthers looked sure to shoot Posh to promotion from Division Four. Unfortunately they and the team faded badly, although Quinn’s superb finishing with head and foot still delivered an excellent 20 goals. Photo: Midlands