In the nine games since we lost to Fulham we have outplayed, outshot, outchanced and out cornered our opponents by a significant margin. We have only let in four goals but we have only scored five. We are scoring at a rate of one goal every 19 shots. If we had someone who could actually score goals we would easily be first by about a dozen points and we would all be congratulating ourselves on what a great manager Val is. The real problem is we have no decent strikers (except Grant who is doing ok and is not a center forward anyway). How is the lack of strikers and the inability to score Vals fault? My only complaint is he might have tried bringing in some of the younger players as he has nothing to lose by playing them. But young players provide no guarantee of success and other than that, i don't see how you can lay the blame at Val’s feet since what more can he realistically do?