Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
I'll bow to your far greater knowledge about Davies - whenever I've seen him play he's occupied various positions, including out wide, so I've never really been sure what his natural position is.

As regards Reindorf, I've only read a little about him but some of the stuff from Norwich referred to him as a midfielder, such as this report:

https://www.canaries.co.uk/content/r...e-to-kettering

Perhaps it's an indication of how the game is generally these days or maybe it's something that is exaggerated at this club in recent years, but we seem to have a lot of players who are not out-and-out strikers but can play in that position. I'm thinking in particular of Robinson, Meite and Grant. We seem to be short of strikers because we're signing utility forwards rather than dedicated strikers. If that makes sense.

At the moment I'd say we only have Kanga and Etete on the books who are out-and-out strikers, and there was some doubt about the former before he arrived, although having seen him now I can't imagine him playing any other position.
To be honest, I'm not sure how many out-and-out strikers you should have if you only play one up top. In terms of balance (if not quality) I'd say we've got it about right. Surely there'd be no point in having 5 or 6, say, Keiffer Moores match fit and ready just in case four of them drop out at the same time. If a number of them are utility players then that increases their chances of game time and gives the manager more options too.

Always a danger that those players become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none, of course, but a degree of flexibility can be a useful asset to have, whatever the position.