The poor kid was recovering from 2 broken legs for god sake, it's no surprise his pre-season was quiet. I don't think Burke et-al based their research solely on the pre-season performances on injured players.scored no goals in pre-season whareas the C/F had scored quite a few(I cannot remember now but more that 10) statistics said he was very unlikely to score ....................................he went on to score about 40 goals that season