In my view ‘shots on target’ is an overrated statistic.
It includes lame efforts which trickle into the keeper’s arms which were never going to be a goal, and ignores glaring misses which go narrowly wide or efforts that hit the bar or post.
It’s not a true indicator of how threatening or dominant a team has been.

What I am more concerned about is lack of shots and efforts on goal in general.
We don’t have a clinical finisher and probably have a better chance of scoring more goals based on having more efforts on goal.
We need to get more players in the opposition penalty area and take more shots.
You can always get deflections , own goals or miscued shots that fall nicely for one of our other players.
I’m not talking of wild, speculative efforts from impossible angles but shots when in range of the goal.
Often our players in this position pass sideways or backwards rather than taking a shot.
This is one of the reasons that Gallagher was so refreshing as he was always willing to try for goal.

Of course “shots on goal” is key!

Without having efforts directed at goal, you do not score (unless opposition does it for you). Simple fact! And in most cases you need several just to score once.

We did not have as much as a single shots on goal on Saturday, we only had one against Brighton thanks to a gift from their goalie, and we didn’t have any against newcomers Notts F and Fulham!

Apart from a few goals from set pieces, it is very hard to see us scoring at all for the rest of the season.

Football is a simple game made complicated, two facts that are without question are, 1 when the ball is in the oppositions half they are unlikely to score, 2 the more times you get the ball in their box the more likely you are to score.

Precisely. The whole object of the game is to put that round thing in the net, and we've been shyte at it since Murray was allowed to leave.