Anoraks 32 - it's always good to be first!

Sainghin Green · Jan 16, 2020

Anoraks is back from its winter break so here's one to get you going again.

Joe Edwards is the most recent but I was the first. In the previous season one of my goal scoring feats also registered a first in the history of the Greens.

Who am I?

Vampires11 · Jan 16, 2020

Brian Taylor?

Dreamgreen · Jan 16, 2020

Well I guess it is scoring two goals on debut (?). If so that is the easy bit .

Gary S · Jan 16, 2020

Does the previous season mean last season SG ?

Sainghin Green · Jan 16, 2020

The 'previous season' refers to the season before the one in which the first part of the question is set.

cheshiregreen · Jan 16, 2020

Dreamgreen":3jroemq1 said:
Well I guess it is scoring two goals on debut (?). If so that is the easy bit .

Edwards didn't score on his debut.

Gary S · Jan 16, 2020

Get the feeling that what Joe Edwards did had nothing to do
with scoring goals. So what has he done that's unusual ?
Moved here from Walsall ?

Green guile · Jan 17, 2020

Jack Leslie.

He was the first to do what Joe is currently the last to do. (I'll leave out the what for others to discover)
Jack reached a significant Argyle goalscoring milestone in the season before.

Never looked at one of these Anoraks before and I may not have the answer you were looking for. However, whether I am right or wrong I enjoyed the research journey that led to my answer. Many thanks for the question, I will look out for the next one.

Sainghin Green · Jan 17, 2020

Thanks Green_guile! Jack Leslie is not the answer I have in mind but may well be a possible answer given the clues - sometimes it happens that an alternative is possible just inadvertantly. I've not had time yet to see how the Jack Leslie suggestion would work.

Green guile · Jan 17, 2020

Oh well I enjoyed finding out my answer.

First and last Argyle goals vs Bradford. Jack scored his 100th Argyle goal the season before.

May need another clue to find your answer.

Sainghin Green · Jan 17, 2020

Wow Green_guile! That's a Premiership answer - mine's more Championship if that!

Here's a clue - Joe Edwards may still be the last at full time tomorrow but it could be any one of the starting line-up -'Who' knows!

Green guile · Jan 17, 2020

Are you Frank Lord?
Your additional clue led me to the 31st August 1965 when one K J Hore became the first ever substitute for the Greens. I am not 100% certain who he replaced but your goslscoring clue leads me to Frank. He was our joint top scorer in the 64/65 season which included the feat of scoring 6 goals in 6 league cup games as we reached the semi finals of the 1964/5 League Cup.

Gary S · Jan 17, 2020

That looks like good work G_g.
First player to score a hat-trick in a cup game ?

Sainghin Green · Jan 18, 2020

Yes - it's Frank Lord! Replaced by Johnny Hore against Charlton in August 1965 in the first substitution in Argyle history. Frank also scored the first - and only (?) - Argyle hat trick in the League Cup in Nov 1964 against Stoke at Home Park.