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Big John Sutton - Motherwell's No.9


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John Sutton's 2 goals last night equaled Stevie Kirk's 63 Premier League goal record, making him the joint top Motherwell goalscorer over our 30 year top league stretch since 1985/86 and possibly since league recontruction in 1975/76.

 

Unfortunately Willie Pettigrew straddled the 1970's reconstruction period and I'm not sure how many he scored in the old and new league systems. He scored 80 overall, does anyone have individual season tallies for Pettigrew?

 

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Anyway, here's Sutton's 63 league goals

 

1. 23/08/2008 - Dundee Utd
2. 30/08/2008 - Hibernian
3. 13/09/2008 - Celtic
4. 27/09/2008 - St Mirren
5. 05/10/2008 - Falkirk
6. 28/02/2009 - Inverness C. Thistle
7. 14/03/2009 - Dundee Utd
8. 11/04/2009 - Rangers
9. 13/05/2009 - Inverness C. Thistle
10. 16/05/2009 - Hamilton Academical
11. 22/08/2009 - Kilmarnock
12. 28/11/2009 - Dundee Utd
13. 23/01/2010 - St Mirren
14. 30/01/2010 - Aberdeen
15. 30/01/2010 - Aberdeen
16. 06/03/2010 - St Johnstone
17. 13/03/2010 - Hearts
18. 18/04/2010 - Dundee Utd
19. 18/04/2010 - Dundee Utd
20. 24/04/2010 - Hearts
21. 05/05/2010 - Hibernian
22. 05/05/2010 - Hibernian
23. 15/08/2010 - Hibernian
24. 25/09/2010 - Hearts
25. 10/11/2010 - St Johnstone
26. 26/12/2010 - Rangers
27. 19/02/2011 - Hamilton Academical
28. 27/02/2011 - Celtic
29. 27/02/2011 - Celtic
30. 19/03/2011 - Kilmarnock
31. 23/04/2011 - Hearts
32. 23/04/2011 - Hearts
33. 24/08/2013 - Partick Thistle
34. 31/08/2013 - Kilmarnock
35. 14/09/2013 - St Mirren
36. 28/09/2013 - Ross County
37. 28/09/2013 - Ross County
38. 23/11/2013 - Kilmarnock
39. 14/12/2013 - Ross County
40. 14/12/2013 - Ross County
41. 29/12/2013 - Partick Thistle
42. 01/01/2014 - St Johnstone
43. 11/01/2014 - Hearts
44. 15/02/2014 - Partick Thistle
45. 21/02/2014 - Dundee Utd
46. 01/03/2014 - Hearts
47. 08/03/2014 - Hibernian
48. 08/03/2014 - Hibernian
49. 19/03/2014 - Inverness C. Thistle
50. 22/03/2014 - Ross County
51. 05/04/2014 - St Mirren
52. 19/04/2014 - Celtic
53. 19/04/2014 - Celtic
54. 07/05/2014 - Inverness C. Thistle
55. 13/09/2014 - Ross County
56. 21/09/2014 - Celtic
57. 13/12/2014 - Ross County
58. 20/12/2014 - St Mirren
59. 27/12/2014 - Partick Thistle
60. 10/01/2015 - Dundee
61. 31/01/2015 - St Johnstone
62. 20/03/2015 - Hamilton
63. 20/03/2015 - Hamilton

 

v Clubs

 

Hearts :7
Ross County :7
Dundee Utd :6
Hibernian :6
Celtic :6
St Mirren :5
Inverness :4
Hamilton :4
Kilmarnock :4
St Johnstone :4
Partick :4
Aberdeen :2
Rangers :2
Falkirk :1
Dundee :1

 

He has a further 11 cup goals, giving a total of 74.

 

02/02/2009 - Inverurie Locos
02/02/2009 - Inverurie Locos
09/07/2009 - Llanelli AFC
09/07/2009 - Llanelli AFC
05/08/2010 - Aalesunds FK
09/01/2011 - Dundee
09/01/2011 - Dundee
05/02/2011 - Stranraer
13/03/2011 - Dundee Utd
13/03/2011 - Dundee Utd
16/04/2011 - St Johnstone

 

He's also a handsome big lad!

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I really hope we extend his contract in the summer. If McDonald doesn't hang around I think we could make a decent partnership out of Erwin and Sutton with Johnson out wide.

 

When he joined he was just a poacher but he's turned himself into a leader and one of the hardest working players i've seen in claret and amber.

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Some absolute peaches in there as well that fly in the face of the "penalty box poacher" tag. Scottish Cup semi-final against St Johnstone, and a left foot volley on the turn at Ibrox spring to mind.

 

Also his best performance i've seen was the 8-1 game against Flamurtari (which if memory serves, he didn't even get on the scoresheet?), where he was 100% the reason we steamrollered it...absolutely everything went through him, he ran the show that day.

 

It's funny to think the highest amount of goals scored in total by any Motherwell player in 40 years....Big Higgy scored half of that in one season. (loosely...obviously including cup goals).

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I really hope we extend his contract in the summer. .

I don't purely because he can't play in a team that presses high up the park and one that defends from the front, nor is he a type that links play particularly well. The rumours regarding his salary are pretty scary too. But theres no doubting he is a very good goalscorer. I'm pretty sure the renewal of his contract will divide fans views
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The guy's a goal scorer as he proves time and time again; even when he isn't firing on all cylinders. I'd definitely be happy if we kept him as he gives us options and I'm sure Moore and Erwin can learn a lot from him. If there is any chance of keeping Skippy, though, I fear one of our strikers will be released.

 

Not sure Skippy will be sticking around though.

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With Lasley, hammell, and mick signed up for next season, I can see value in keeping Sutton as part of an experienced core of players to help bring on the young ones. Stay or go, he probably deserves a bit more credit than he gets.

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I wonder if the experienced players like Sutton, Pearson and McDonald are giving Baraclough something to think about but personally it would not surprise me if none of the three of them are with us next season.

 

The budget that we're operating with now is not going to be the same as what the manager will be working with next season for one thing. And tied in with that of course is that the focus of the club is now meant to be about developing our own/bringing in youngsters with potential.

 

I may well be wrong but I would imagine that come the summer both Pearson and McDonald will have shown enough in their time back with us to have raised their profiles sufficiently to achieve deals acceptable to them. Even if they were amenable to taking what I would anticipate would be reduced terms, where does re-signing thirty somethings fit in with selling on at a profit?

 

Sutton is marginally different in that he isn't trying to re-establish his profile in Scottish football, but the point still stands that having, I would suspect, taken a cut to come back here in the first place even if a deal was offered is he likely to consider another cut when other teams will I'm sure be keen get someone with his scoring record on board. I could easily see him at somewhere like Firhill or back at Dens next season - which would be sad.

 

However I don't want to end my post on a negative when the thread is about celebrating one of our finest goalscorers of recent years. He's not everyone's cup of tea but our team have clearly benefited from his presence over a number of years as his goalscoring record shows.

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I think we can take it as read that McHugh will be gone. Scored for fun in the U20s, but doesn't seem to be able to cut it in the first team. Skippy and Sutton would be great assets - but only if we can stay in the top flight. Doubt we'll see Skippy next season, though.

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