Country Fox
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looking at a lot of the stuff written on here the past week or so the implication seems to be that having a prolific striker is essential to promotion or indeed even coming anywhere near the playoffs
last time we went up though we didnt have anyone particularly prolific and the key was a tight defence and lots of contributions from all round the team
dickov got 20, only 12 of which were from open play
deane got 13
scowy 10 or 11
tricky trev 8
matty elliot 6 or 7
muzzy and jordan about 10 between them
so IMO as long as at least a couple of our strikers can at least get into double figures, which at least 3 out of the 4 are certainly capable of doing, then what it really needs is for the defence to click together, which i think it will and for the rest of the side to weigh in with a few goals, joey knows where the back of the net is, as does stearman and maybury, hopefully the CBs will develop a taste for scoring and i think hughes could well bag a few. in other words while it would be nice to have a striker you can look at and say yeh its a definite possibility hell get 25 goals this season i dont think not having such a player is crucial to our chances of success
last time we went up though we didnt have anyone particularly prolific and the key was a tight defence and lots of contributions from all round the team
dickov got 20, only 12 of which were from open play
deane got 13
scowy 10 or 11
tricky trev 8
matty elliot 6 or 7
muzzy and jordan about 10 between them
so IMO as long as at least a couple of our strikers can at least get into double figures, which at least 3 out of the 4 are certainly capable of doing, then what it really needs is for the defence to click together, which i think it will and for the rest of the side to weigh in with a few goals, joey knows where the back of the net is, as does stearman and maybury, hopefully the CBs will develop a taste for scoring and i think hughes could well bag a few. in other words while it would be nice to have a striker you can look at and say yeh its a definite possibility hell get 25 goals this season i dont think not having such a player is crucial to our chances of success