Well no because we score about 20 goals with the attack we currently have. Scoring goals will keep us up.
Scoring goals won't keep us up! We could get by with scoring 1 a game, but conceded every game 2/3 and then we are relegated before we start.
Our first season last time we got promoted - we scored 49 and conceded 60. We have to score goals. We're not going to win games 1-0.
It doesn’t matter who is goal if with continually give the ball away in and around our own penalty area, then we’ll concede a lot. We need goals first and foremost
In fairness I think the overly cautious approach this summer is the right decision. The last thing we need is another 3 month injury.
Patience does run thin when he was supposed to be being brought back cautiously towards the end of last season, and he's gone from, in the words of RM, potentially featuring in the play offs, to not even being fit/injury free enough to even take part in open training with the rest of the squad in pre-season months later. Let alone build up his fitness in less intense games of pre-season. No real shade on Ross Stewart because it's not on him, I've no doubt he's more frustrated than anyone and just wants to be able to play football, but it's another expensive lesson hopefully learnt by the club. We can't go into this season relying on him featuring in any meaningful way at all. We need sufficient strikers and if Ross Stewart ever appears (and is then good enough) then that is a bonus.
I don't think the issue is how we have managed his return though. We just shouldn't have spent £8m on someone that had a very serious long term injury. Unless of course the fee is dependant on appearances. Completely agree though that we have to assume he will be injured again this season and can't rely on him at all. Any minutes or goals he gets is a bonus.
