Strikers. As I said quite a while ago, I think the change to playing just one up to

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

As opposed to 4-4-2 has made it harder for pure CFs to come through.

At one point, we had Titi, RvP and Ade, all of who managed to score 30 goals in a season.

When you have two strikers, it basically ensures that three will be playing every week as one will come off the bench. So you can have three people of equal ability all fighting for the two starting places.

But nowadays, it's so much harder for a young striker from the youth team to break into the first team. And it means there are far fewer strikers to sign.

It's also meant that because they were a pairing, if one scored in the other didn't, it was still a good day at the office for your strikers. There wouldn't be any media noise.

In the PL for the last several seasons, teams have signed World class players in every single position. Except Centre Foward, where it's really only the Norgie at City who's blown everyone away.

Does anyone else think this is a reason why there's been a relative dearth of World class Centre Forward is coming through in football generally? It's why so many of them can play wide as well, as it gives them another route into the starting XI.

[John Bunnell]

I've never seen a striker perform so badly and score 30 goals than Adebayor that season. It's a mystery to me how he managed it.