Ross Hannah!?

Quoted from JMT

Honestly, do we really need a 20+ goal striker?

My opinion is we have got Hannah who can score goals and with him falling 5 short off 20 goals last season, especially with the service he got was pretty good i'd say.

But now we have got the added pace and a more attacking team surely he can push on and become our 20+ striker, even LJL may nick more goals with this team.

My opinion so don't hate!

Hannah does require service, wingers who can get to the by line and fizz a ball across, let him attack the near post. With the wing options we have that might just be the case this season.
The wingers running in behind should negate Hannah having to be on the shoulder and off side as much.

Quoted from moosey_club

Hannah does require service, wingers who can get to the by line and fizz a ball across, let him attack the near post. With the wing options we have that might just be the case this season.
The wingers running in behind should negate Hannah having to be on the shoulder and off side as much.

You mean like the countless balls Thomas put in which were perfect for him to do this but he was still stood on the penalty spot?

Quoted from Tom13

You mean like the countless balls Thomas put in which were perfect for him to do this but he was still stood on the penalty spot?

It's ok because Dizza seemed to mop those ones up into the net on a few occasions

Providing he gets a good run in the team i can't see why he can't get 20 goals this season. When he's in form he's just as good as any other striker in this league (like when he was here on loan)

But to answer the original question. Yes I do think we need another 20+ striker, you never know what's going to happen this season.... injuries, form etc

I also believe we'll see a lot more goals coming from our midfield with some getting 10+ goals

Quoted from marinerdean

I agree that he could get 20 goals a season. But I'd like a striker who can get 20 goal without penalties, like Hearn could.

Hannah scored 15 last season, but how many we're penalties?

So are we aiming for play offs and a 20 goal striker or the title and a 30+ goal striker?

To be fair, some of the balls into the box last season were utter garbage, and that's without mentioning corners!!!

Hannah seemed o start scoring when Rodman and Nielson started playing well , He's a great finisher but unless he gets the service then he'll never score

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

To be fair, some of the balls into the box last season were utter garbage, and that's without mentioning corners!!!

Exactly,  and Hannah being flagged offside was caused by him making good runs but they were fowled up by a pedestrian midfield passes, Hannah is a goal poacher nothing else but is good at it  as his passed record shows. personally  I like him never complains or grouses and always a trier  like LJL we could do a lot dammed worse

As someone else said Ross goes through periods where he has a real purple patch but seems to follow that up by going on a massive goal drought which is not going to win us the league which is why I'd like to see us sign another goalscorer.

It would be interesting to see if we ever made contact with Brett Williams, surely a decent manager could have sold the club to him with probably a bigger wage that what he's on at Aldershot and a bigger chance of going up etc. I'd hope that we were on the phone to his agent a good few months ago being pro-active trying to tap him up so to speak rather, than just sat there waiting to see if he triggered an extension or not? And he just made his decision based on location etc rather than the fact we didn't really approach him!

Feel like if we'd have signed Williams we'd be favourites without a doubt.

Quoted from Garth

Exactly,  and Hannah being flagged offside was caused by him making good runs but they were fowled up by a pedestrian midfield passes, Hannah is a goal poacher nothing else but is good at it  as his passed record shows. personally  I like him never complains or grouses and always a trier  like LJL we could do a lot dammed worse

I like Hannah too - works hard, decent finisher, with an extra yard of pace would be very dangerous.

If we play Hannah (alongside the Shop), we should recognize that he's the one who'll get us the goals - so we should set
out to get the ball to him in dangerous areas. Too often it looked like the only plan was to hoof it to the Shop and see
what happens. In general I felt our front two were too far apart.

As for this season, I think it could go either way - Hannah scoring 25+ goals if our midfield gives him the service, or him
losing his place to a quicker striker (Arnold, perhaps Pittnall) and generally being a supersub type. Time will tell...