I thought you would mention Adebayor.
So this Adebayor is the player who has blistering pace and is as likely to come in with the ball himself from the wings or even from midfield as well as being a 'target' in and around the box for balls in from others. Or has he got a more cumbersome namesake?
It's probably just me, but I am struggling to equate Howards role with that provided by Adebayor.
I did say a target man of some kind. Adebayor is big stong and quick. They use him as a target when needed. As chelsea do with drogba.
I didn't say howard played the target man role in the same way. For from it. We are not in a postition get get a big strong quick target man, so howard is what we have and if you look back to when we got promoted we had deane and scowcroft very simular to howard. I personally think you need a target man type.