Your so right, we've become a strikers graveyard. leo was maybe different as he could hardly have been played on the wing and became the sole attention of our midfield and focus on goal scoring. We're not all managers or ex pros, but many of us have watched football for many year and understand...
I can agree with your big picture thinking, but I do not set the same store in the academy as many. From what I read on here, I would be forgiven that we are the only club with an academy, this is not the case and I can't see that the premiership and championship are flooded with ex academy...