Will Shearer measure up to the Newcastle nines?
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1897-1902
Goals 78 Appearances 136
Signed from: Third Lanark for pounds 135
One of the Scot's notoriously powerful shots ripped out the net pegs at St James' Park
Bill Appleyard
1903-08
Goals 87 Appearances 145
Signed from: Grimsby Town
A 14-stone former fisherman from Cleethorpes, "Cockles" Appleyard had a penchant for bundling the keeper as well as the ball into the opposition net
Albert Shepherd
1908-1914
Goals 94 Appearances132
Signed from: Bolton for pounds 800
Broody Lancastrian, once walked off the pitch and straight out of St James' after being barracked by home fans
Neil Harris
1920-25
Goals 103 Appearances 194
Signed from: Partick Thistle for pounds 3,300
The Glaswegian scored Newcastle's first Wembley goal, in a 2-0 FA Cup final win against Aston Villa in 1924
Hughie Gallacher
1925-1930
Goals 142 Appearances 174
Signed from: Queen Of The South for pounds 6,500
The 5ft 5in firebrand Scot guided Newcastle to their last championship success in 1927, was charged with being drunk and disorderly on the pitch during an end-of-season match in Budapest and brought a premature end to his turbulent life when he stepped in front of the York- Edinburgh express train in 1957
Albert Stubbins
1937-1946
Goals 237 Appearances 218
Signed from: Whitley and Monkseaton
Immortalised on the cover of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band because of the fame he found on the Mersey beat, Stubbins is nevertheless still a legend in his native Tyneside for his wartime goalscoring feats
Jackie Milburn
1943-1957
Goals 200 Appearances 395
Signed from: Ashington
The statue on Northumberland Street stands as testimony to the place "Wor Jackie" won in Geordie hearts as the hero of Newcastle's three triumphant FA Cup campaigns in the 1950s
Len White
1953-1962
Goals 153 Appearances 268
Signed from: Rotherham for pounds 12,500
Discounting Stubbins's wartime goals, only Milburn stands ahead of the former Doncaster miner in the pantheon of plundering Magpies
Wyn Davies
1966-71
Goals 53 Appearances 215
Signed from: Bolton for pounds 80,000
Built in the classic target-man mould, "Wyn the leap" was the towering totem of Newcastle's Fairs' Cup- winning side in 1969
Malcolm Macdonald
1971-76
Goals 121 Appearances 227
Signed from: Luton for pounds 180,000
The barnstorming "Supermac" was a Tyneside idol from the day he scored a hat-trick against Liverpool (which included a penalty conceded by one K Keegan) on his home debut
Mick Quinn
1989-93
Goals 63 Appearances 126
Signed from: Portsmouth for pounds 680,000
The burly Liverpudlian scored four goals on his debut at St James' and topped the league scoring charts in his first season but was sent to Coventry after criticising Kevin Keegan's managerial methods on the eve of a crucial Second Division
relegation clash
Andy Cole
1993-95
Goals 68 Appearances 84
Signed from: Bristol City for pounds 1.75m
Cole's strike rate is bettered only (in peacetime) by Gallacher, whose club record for one season he broke with a tally of 41 in the 1993-94 campaign
Les Ferdinand
1995-96
Goals 29 Appearances 44
Signed from: Queen's Park Rangers for pounds 6m
The former painter and decorator made an instant splash with 20 goals in his first 20 games but, after a disappointing 9 goals from his last 24, has agreed to pass on the No 9 mantle to his new strike partner
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