My point is I think it could. I accept there is a lot of pressure on our midfielders to get forward and get goals. Clearly they are not managing that too well either compared to other teams. I still believe as does our manager now that we lack a bit more composure and quality up front. New faces make a difference too ( Deegan) On other occasions numerous chances have fallen to our forwards who have significantly failed to score. Would you like Richards upfront , banged in 8 already?
Of course we want a player who can score hatfuls everyone does. We scored loads under Sturrock in that 2nd season , yet our top scorer that year got 12. Chesterfield went up champions and Corr outscored all of their players.
Also if it so pointless to have good strikers how come practically most of this league have 50% more than us? Are they all wrong then ? See my initial opening comments on this thread. Only 7 strikers at Luton ? obviously other teams / managers / directors value the quality of having a fair number of strikers contributing?
No one is saying its pointless, its a great thing to have.
Having a great striker would be fantastic, but people get too tunnel visioned that if you aren't scoring goals its solely because of your striker(s). There's more to it than that, but yes of course having players finish the chances they are getting is paramount.
Talking of Sturrock, isnt it rather odd he played a far more defensive style that year than Brown and scored far more, even without any one getting more than 12? Food for thought...