rentaghost
Striker
Well done to our players and Tony Mowbray for working miracles with the players at his disposal.
Lot of nonsense posted about tactics or players bottling it.
The cold facts are we were unable to counter their high press because we had no option to play long.
The reason for this is the abject failure to sign a decent physical striker in January.
Those responsible have let down the players who have performed amazing the manager and the supporters.
You need the tools to do the job.
It depends what you mean by 'a striker' if you mean a very good replacement for Stewart who was strong enough to come short and hold it up and quick enough to counter the high press then I agree. So I don't agree that your description of a 'physical striker' would have been much good at all unless they wwere quick and had god quality. The reason we went on a great run getting us into the play offs was the quality of our forward players. there are games we won to get there that we definitely wouldn't with any old 6ft 2 striker in. Would we have won at West Brom and Norwich with a Chris Martin in the side for example? So yes - if your argument is if we had a striker as good as or close to good as Ross Stewart then it would have made a difference - if you are taking any old six foot journeyman striker you are completely wrong.