The Crouch Debate: the stats you wanted

2009/2010 season

Peter Crouch
PL Starts: 22
Points achieved when started: 34 points
Starts/Points Ratio: 1.5 points per start

Roman Pavlyuchenko
PL Starts: 8
Points achieved when started: 18
Starts/Point Ratio: 2.2 points per start

2010/2011 Season

Peter Crouch
PL Starts: 12
Points achieved when started: 18
Starts/Points ratio: 1.5 points per start

Roman Pavlyuchenko
PL Starts: 9
Points achieved when started: 21
Starts/Point ratio: 2.3 points per start

My two main sources for these stats are:
http://www.myfootballfacts.com/Tottenham_Hotspur_FC.html and http://www.premierleague.com/page/Home

I will add more stats if needed. As you can imagine getting these stats involved a lot of number crunching and I have tried to be as accurate as possible but you can never rule out human error. If someone can be bothered to verify the figures and prove me wrong or right then please feel free.

Hopefully this will show you that despite Pav being a lazy git him starting is a lot more beneficial to Spurs then the “hard working” Peter Crouch.

However, if we want to be Champions one day neither are the answer. I hope that we can get that big name striker and we will never have to discuss Peter Crouch again. Until then, I say we should stick with

and we play football when pav plays

How many Goal assists has he had??

another person who listens to this myth about crouch and vdv. crouch is there to score goals and he dont do that.

yea a few assits from crouch for vdv but id swap him for somone that can shoot

Loughtonlegend wrote:another person who listens to this myth about crouch and vdv. crouch is there to score goals and he dont do that.

yea a few assits from crouch for vdv but id swap him for somone that can shoot

So would I , But 3MP does do a job for us.

no sid. read the stats. the 2ndhalf of last season he stop scoring and it was pav that started scoring and played in the big wins aganst chelsea and arsenal. crouuch did score the goal aganst man c but i rekon we would of hang on for 0 0 if he had missed that and stil got 4th.

ifs and buts. crouch done the biz when it mattered most, hes done more for spurs than pav imo. pav runs around a lot with no end finish for me. dont get involved enough. crouch has been there and done it, ok hes not ideal but hes done more for spurs than pav i reckon. they both miss to many for my liking but like i said crouchies got more important goals for us than pav.