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[quote author=grjt link=topic=45904.msg1357379#msg1357379 date=1309360380]
Didnt McManaman regularly top the league assists table at this time?
That would blow apart any argument that if Collymore wasnt scoring he was setting everything else up wouldnt it?
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According to Modo's preferred source (
http://www.liverweb.org.uk/assists.asp?season=199697) Collymore had a grand total of 6 assists that year.
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Your point was that Collymore wasnt even on the pitch for 20 of Fowlers goals.
6 assists is pretty good. He was never gonna be behind every goal Fowler scored but their understanding and the threat they posed together was what made that partnership lethal.
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Yes I did say that, and linked to the stats. Your response was to link to another site showing the same information!
So, this lethal partnership resulted in 31 goals for Fowler. More than half of them scored when his partner was not playing. Of the remainder he assisted, at the most, half of them (though it could have been none of course - we don't know the details of those 6 assists do we?)
Doesn't sound that lethal to me you know......