Ok, devils advocate... (could this give us hope if he don't sign another forward??)

Could it not be reasonably argued that our main problem this season has been that we have given a lot of cheap goals away because our defence has been rubbish.

This has left a situation where we have needed to score a lot of goals to scrap a draw.

If our defence becomes better and we leak less goals. Then the odd one or two we tend to score (from all over the squad) will start to earn draws and wins, and this will be enough to avoid the drop.?

Grinding out results as Brewster likes to call it..

I'm no stats man but I believe, Saint Mirren have frequently in their historry score'd the least number of goals in the spl and still avoided religation.

Anything in this also:

Username (Roby) "Why the hell would we bring in another striker . We already have 4 on our books and our manager only ever plays one at a time . As long as he is still here there is no point as he is obsessed with this 1 up front system which has brought him so much success! We have capable strikers, if he would allow any 2 from 3 to form a regular partnership. Off course that would be like admitting you were doing something wrong and i have yet to hear Brewster accept the blame for anything to do with our current prediciment."

Edited January 14, 200917 yr by kiltarlity

The need for an experienced striker has been obvious since before the season started. I still think that Rooney has huge potential but, like the other young forwards on our books, he's not going to realise that either by playing as a lone striker or by being paired with another rookie.

Spot on - but I suspect that Brew thinks that we can survive with our strikers and Morais. It will be interesting if he adheres with Barrowman on Saturday - at least that would be a bit of consistency. If he goes back to Rooney or Wood it would be a shure sign that Brew is truly a numpty.

From what I have seen this season Rooney is my first choice but he is still raw - I would certainly be using him from the bench earlier that we have been - Wood is still to really impress me and he should wait in the wings - Barrowman is the more stylish but he is a penalty box forward and does not appear to relish the target man / holding forward role.

Me - I would have bought in an old head and put Wood back out on loan.

But it may be a case of lets see what Barrowman can do with a wee run of games.

One wonders what a Niculae / Morais pairing would have done ?

personally i think rooneys been our most impressive of the strikers and should have been given a run by now but with a big game coming i can see the sense in starting barrowman again for some stability but it doesn't make it right.

brewster's going to get slaughtered whoever he chooses i'd say unless they score and we win but he's only got himself to blame for being a tit with this striker rotation crap he's been inflicting on us all season