Tony Thorpe’s scoring record for Bristol City compares favourably with most of the strikers to have worn the red shirt over the past 25 years.
But it is fair to say that John Ward’s £1 million signing from Fulham in 1998 needed to overcome a lengthy settling in period at Ashton Gate before producing his best form on a consistent basis.
City spent big on strikers that summer after winning promotion to what is now the Championship, also paying £1.2 million for Gillingham’s Ade Akinbiyi and £400,000 to recruit Soren Andersen from Danish club Aalborg.
