With Joe Gelhardt clearly struggling to lead the line by himself, Tony Mowbray has discussed the idea of playing someone like Jack Clarke as a striker, to give our attack a new dimension and a bit of pace.
STEWART
"The tactics on Saturday [against Stoke] would undoubtedly have been different if Ross Stewart had been fit and playing down the middle, we would have played longer - either off him into his body, or down the channels for him to chase and run people down."
EVADING PRESSURE
"Because it would have taken Stoke's press out in one fell swoop. Teams with a high press, if you play longer balls against them they can't press because they've got nothing to press."
SMALL FORWARDS
"We're not stupid, we know that. But we've got Gelhardt at 5ft 7in up front, Patrick Roberts is 5ft 6in, Jack Clarke isn't a header of the ball, so we haven't got a target, we can't release the pressure."
SOLUTIONS
"If you keep on kicking it back to your opponents all game, it makes for a terrible game and that's not how we play football here or how we want to play football here, or how I have tried to coach teams throughout the years. We're trying to play with the players we have got and, as I've said since the day I came in when we were looking to score goals when Stewart and Ellis Simms were injured, we have to find a way. Generally we have done alright at that, we have been scoring goals."
