Palace No.9 Targetmen

Benteke is a proper old school number 9 and so far has fitted perfectly into our 4-2-3-1 formation, with his strength, aerial ability and link up.

I know it's early days but just searching through my memory over the years and it's hard to think of a better one, although I still think Mark Bright is ahead at the moment.

Here's some others to add to our list of targetmen of varying ability over the years:

Glenn Murray
Alan Lee
Shefki Kuqi?
Calvin Andrew :)
Sandor Torghelle
Neil Shipperley
Dele Adebola
Ade Akinbiyi
Matt Svensson
Lee Bradbury
Carl Veart
Iain Dowie
Gareth Taylor
Andy Preece
Garry Thompson
Trevor Aylott ;)
David Swindlehurst

Other than Glenn Murray & Mark Bright my favourite of these was Garry Thompson, proper hard striker. Overall though I guess it shows how far we've come.

Any others? I never had the privilege to witness the likes of McCulloch, Langley, Jones, Brown in the early 80's so have probably missed a few.