When will the first be signed

Quoted from LocalLadGTFC

Rather harsh on Ryan given the fact this is the first prolonged injury he’s had and played nigh on every game last season.

It’s not harsh on Ryan - the point isn’t really about him. It’s about the conflation. When he’s fit there are some on here (who make me wonder how long they’ve been watching football) who post ‘we need better than Taylor. He’s finished at this level. He doesn’t score enough goals’ and so on and so on. As though 25 year old prolific, line-leading units are actually available?! Taylor enables us to play a certain way that makes the most of others in the team - others who contribute plenty of goals - McAtee, Clifton, Holohan, Khan etc.

We do not struggle for goals. We let too many in. Every club in this country would like a prolific number 9, but the’yre fast becoming a myth. I don’t know why. I’m drawing attention to the conflation. I think we would benefit from a strong, mobile type to lead the line and play ahead of McAtee, Khan, Clifton etc…hold it up and bring them into play. We are proven potent in that regard. Whether they’re a ‘goalscorer’ or not is somewhat immaterial and probably exceedingly rare and unlikely to be coming to a mid table L2 club near you any time soon.

Quoted from pontoonlew

Khan has hit a purple patch, hopefully he’ll kick that on. The point is though, none of those players are strikers..

Most of the big teams don't play strikers anymore, it's a dead concept in football to have the one or two strikers who just stay up front looking for goals, nobody plays like that anymore. Everybody has to play and score from all over the pitch these days to be successful.

If we got a striker in and he scores a shitload of goals for us he would be gone in the summer and we'd be back to square one

You could see yesterday especially in the first half that we needed someone to either arrive in the middle at the right time or check a run into the box to find space etc.. etc.. some of the things strikers do well. We’re actually quite good at getting in behind teams we just need something extra than what we’ve currently got.

Quoted from ginnywings

We managed to get promoted without the fabled 20 goal striker. We did under Buckley too.

There are strikers out there but they are difficult to procure. The better they are, the more difficult they are to recruit.

I don't think fans are saying they don't exist, just that they are scarce unless you throw tons of cash at it and the new owners wont do that.

I don’t know how loudly I need to shout this, but nobody is asking for a 20 goal striker. That’d be nice, but I’d snap your hand off for 12

Quoted from Kris2

Most of the big teams don't play strikers anymore, it's a dead concept in football to have the one or two strikers who just stay up front looking for goals, nobody plays like that anymore. Everybody has to play and score from all over the pitch these days to be successful.

Haaland , Kane  Salah ... I can go on if you like

Quoted from mimma

If we got a striker in and he scores a shitload of goals for us he would be gone in the summer and we'd be back to square one

Good point, no point then!

Quoted from chaos33

It’s not harsh on Ryan - the point isn’t really about him. It’s about the conflation. When he’s fit there are some on here (who make me wonder how long they’ve been watching football) who post ‘we need better than Taylor. He’s finished at this level. He doesn’t score enough goals’ and so on and so on. As though 25 year old prolific, line-leading units are actually available?! Taylor enables us to play a certain way that makes the most of others in the team - others who contribute plenty of goals - McAtee, Clifton, Holohan, Khan etc.

We do not struggle for goals. We let too many in. Every club in this country would like a prolific number 9, but the’yre fast becoming a myth. I don’t know why. I’m drawing attention to the conflation. I think we would benefit from a strong, mobile type to lead the line and play ahead of McAtee, Khan, Clifton etc…hold it up and bring them into play. We are proven potent in that regard. Whether they’re a ‘goalscorer’ or not is somewhat immaterial and probably exceedingly rare and unlikely to be coming to a mid table L2 club near you any time soon.

I meant your point on him not always being available, I’m a big Ryan Taylor fan. You have to be an idiot to not see how he enables us to play. He’s the Gary Jones to Mcatee’s Reddy.

Quoted from Kris2

Most of the big teams don't play strikers anymore, it's a dead concept in football to have the one or two strikers who just stay up front looking for goals, nobody plays like that anymore. Everybody has to play and score from all over the pitch these days to be successful.

Worth noting that 5 of the top 7 in our league have a striker in the top 9 goal scorers in the league.

If you go down a bit further, it’s 8 of the top 10…

Quoted from It Bites

Haaland , Kane  Salah ... I can go on if you like

Yes, go on. Name more. What you’re doing is illustrating the point. There aren’t that many. There are 20 prem clubs and nigh on 60 other clubs above us in the pecking order. Do share all those line leading, big unit 20 goal a season strikers that exist.