Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
I’m much more sympathetic towards our strikers (actually, apart from when Lamouchi was playing any two out of Kaba, Etete and Wickham together, that should read striker) - they’re left to fend for themselves and I maintain that none of our recent strikers miss bucketloads of simple chances over the course of a season, so that proves the point that we’ve been useless at creating chances from open play for years.

If you go back to the only striker who has scored goals at what we’d call an acceptable rate, Kieffer Moore had a very good Championship quality attacking midfielder in Harry Wilson helping him out in the season he scored twenty - I accept that none of our recent strikers are as good as Moore, but it can’t be a coincidence that the one season we had a proven Championship quality number ten in the last four, we had a striker who scored more than twice as many as any other striker we’ve had in that time.
Agree with all of that, and pretty much all of us know that chances to score goals is scarce. But what about the things that they can influence Bob, there's more to playing in an advanced role than just scoring goals, especially in a team like ours. Do you have the sames thought on defenders, they're just there to defend? I'm not knocking it Bob, just curious