I agree, imagine if we had a striker last season that put away 12 goals.

Although that would have taken the pressure off the midfield and let them play their usual role, but still, a few goals wouldn't have gone a miss.

I actually want to go back to the pre holloway days (i believe) where we had strikers that could and play with the ball. Armstrong, Freedman, McKenzie, Svennson, Jansen, AJ, Morrisson, FFS wonder season.

I miss that.

This was once a quality forum....

7 goals between the 3 of them , a good return?
Don’t fool yourself mate. Without Lukas penalties the chances are we would have been relegated. We need a striker that can score. We created chances, Benteke missed the most decent chances out of any striker. If he has a similar season , Wickham remains injured and Sorloth , still an unknown quantity, is used from the bench. If we don’t buy we will have the worst set of front men in the league.

Yeah and I miss Alan Lee. So gifted.

And Shefki Kuqi. Gave everything, every game. We miss this.

COYP

Perhaps I want clear enough, I meant we still got a good team wide return of goals with good midfielders on the pitch i.e. a good midfield creating scoring chances is more important.. not that a striker isn't, just at this point in time, sorting the midfield to be properly creative and hold possession, is more beneficial to the team overall, and therefore the results.

We created chances, but have lost 2 of the midfielders that were crucial to our end of season run, a largely Bentekeless run.

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I so want this to be true!

So I manage a Workshop which provides a safe learning environment for blokes struggling with PTSD and other mental health issues. Being a Palace fan isn't listed yet.

McKenzie and Svensson? Add Ndah to that as well. A trio of utterly inadequate strikers.