Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot?

It’s a new year with resolutions new hopes and aspirations, but what about a new striker?

 

Jon Stead’s four match ban has taken our “in form” goal scorer out of the frame for four games but given that ‘steady’ is joint top scorer on just six net bulging efforts with Jon Walters at the halfway stage of the season it would appear that the twenty goal striker we craved when the ‘Marcus Millions’ became available is not yet resident at Portman Road.

 

I still think that Pablo has a lot to offer, given a run out of games and Connor Wickham has only been given the opportunity of cameo appearances from the bench which may be due to keeping him out of the gaze of the premiership ‘hyenas’ looking for some free talent to nurture for future glory.

 

Whether or not their interest has any foundation can surely only be gauged by performances at championship level, so maybe giving Connor a couple of starts will either find our until now absent prolific marksman or give us a saleable asset when he’s old enough to put pen to paper.

 

Other options?

Stern John, on loan has not yet indicated a desire to die for the cause and but for Stead’s suspension would probably be back at Selhurst Park by now.

 

Tamas Priskin?

Can anyone tell me what happened to the player that we all watched scoring for fun on You Tube at the time of his signing.

Okay he hasn’t had any sort of run games wise, like the majority of Keanes squad but when given the opportunity however limited he has not shown any desire for the ‘Blue Shirt’.

 

So in summary.

 

While we are not now leaking goals and have become a very hard side to beat the one thing that every Town fan had top of their wish list when Marcus Evans injected some of his considerable wealth into the club still seems to be missing.

 

Attracting any sort of in form striker to a club, it has to be said, still languishing at the bottom end of their division will not be easy.

Hopefully what we have got will be sufficient to consolidate our position at least ready for a concerted effort next season.

 

The game against Leicester City at the Walkers Stadium will be a good yardstick as to how far the current side has come. The ‘foxes’ will almost certainly be in or around the playoff zone at close of proceedings while Town have a mountain to climb.

 

Mountains though are there to be climbed. The longest journey starts with a single step. A win at the walkers would be a big step towards climbing the mountain.

 

Might even see you at the summit.