Plain and simple: we need goals from our forwards and we’re running out of patience. You can argue about angles, movement and how the manager sets the team, but truth is goals win games and that’s the bit that’s been missing.

Don’t assume Rohl’s ordering everything

It feels like some on here state the manager’s tactics as gospel — as if every touch and drop is bought and paid for upstairs. We don’t know for certain that Rohl is telling the striker to sit deeper every time. To be fair, managers have ideas and shape teams, but you can’t point to a handful of performances and declare it a fixed instruction without evidence. Stop making it a neat excuse for why the goals haven’t arrived.

Is he a goalscorer? That’s the key question

Some players bring more than goals, and I’ll give the nod to link-up play and work-rate when it’s deserved. But when the striker isn’t putting the ball in the net often enough, that’s a problem you can’t paper over with talk of selfless football. If you think he will never be a natural goalscorer, say so — but don’t dress it up as tactical genius.

Reality check on our forward options

We can argue about who’s best and who offers what, and I’ll admit he might be the best we have just now. But it’s a sad state when the best of three strikers — and yes, we’ve spent money on them, over 15 million by my count — aren’t delivering the returns we need. Fans aren’t asking for miracles, just regular goals. Excuses and explanations are fine, up to a point. After that it’s accountability: players who don’t score enough cost us points, and that’s what matters.

So let’s keep the discussion about solutions rather than recycling the same defensive lines. Who finishes the chances we create? Until that’s sorted, debates about dropping deep or who penned which stat will keep feeling like distraction.

Written by Stromtrooper1: 18 May 2026

Tags: tactics transfers match-review