Two New club achievements for Billy

[Dutch Uncle]

First reupping a recent thread I started a while ago, Billy has just become the 10th Rovers player to score for the club in three different League Levels (including Conference)

The others are:

First Ron Walker and Jim Fletcher who experienced Rovers double relegation between 1958 and 1960 from the old Division 2 to the newly created Division 4.

Walker scored 28 goals in tier 2, 9 in tier 3, and 9 in tier 4
Fletcher scored 2 goals in tier 2, 9 in tier 3, and 4 in tier 4

Then a few years later a returning Alick Jeffrey who had petrified Division 2 defences as a teenager in the 1950s, returned and was part of two title winning sides who won Division4, and thus played in Division 3 in between

Alick scored 34 goals in tier 2, 7 in tier 3, and 86 in tier 4

Then when we had two successive promotions from the Conference to tier 3 , now the newly renamed Division1, there were four players who scored in tiers 3, 4 and 5:

Paul Green: 17 + 8 + 1 (tiers 3/4/5)
Greg Blundell: 9 + 18 + 1
Marc Albrighton: 1 + 3 + 1
Steve Foster: 1 + 1 + 1

Chris Brown achieved it with an even longer gap than Alick. He scored 10 goals as a loanee in our tier 4 title winning season of 2003-4, played in two relegation seasons from the Championship (2011-12 and 2013-14) and the title winning tier 3 season in between.

In total Chris scored 11 + 8 + 10 league goals (tier 2/3/4)

Then finally James Coppinger played so many seasons that he also scored in our tier 4 promotion winning season in 2016-17, more than 10 years after arriving and still a few years before he left.

In total Copps scored 22 + 35 + 10 in tiers 2/3/4

Copps is the only one to score double figures in three levels which Billy will not be able to equal.






Secondly Billy has overtaken Alan Warboys whose first and last goals for the club were separated by 5719 days (1966-82).

Billy now has 5803 days between his first and last goal for club - the longest for any player, and of course highly likely to extend this.


As a footnote Glyn Snodin scored in the local Sheffield & Hallamshire Cup while deputy manager for us in 1998, a total of 7990 days after scoring his first goal for the club, but games in this competition are not normally recognised as a full first team matches 

[Chris Black come back]

Do you have the all time Rovers goal tally list to hand Dutch? Assuming this is likely his last year with us, where could he potentially end up?

[Dutch Uncle]

Tom Keetley         180 Lg +  5 Cup     = 185
Alick Jeffrey          127 Lg  + 12 Cup   = 139
Bert Tindill            124 Lg  +  9 Cup    = 133
Peter Kitchen        90 Lg  + 16 Cup    = 106
James Coppinger     67 Lg  + 11 Cup    =  78
Bren O'Callaghan     64 Lg  +  12 Cup   =  76
John Marquis           61 Lg  +   6 Cup    =  67
Colin Douglas          53 Lg  +   9 Cup    =  62
Colin Booth             57 Lg  +   5 Cup    =  62
Glyn Snodin            59 Lg   +   3 Cup    = 62
Peter Doherty          57 Lg  +   3 Cup     = 60
Billy Sharp              54 Lg   +  4 Cup     = 58

Billy's total includes todays goal
Tom Keetley also scored a goal in an FAC Qualifying round which is not included
No Goals in abandoned or annulled matches included
'Cups' includes Playoffs as well as FA Cup (proper rounds only), League Cup and Associate Members Cup



Only the top four positions would seem to be out of reach            
                              
                  

[Chris Black come back]

Thank you Dutch. You are indeed a glass half full man. I think Billy may struggle to get beyond Marquis. That would be an excellent season for him if he does.