West Stand ManSeal Unless the plan is to plan N Hunt in the middle and Smith + one of the youth boys out wide.
You've answered your own point. Smith isn't a central target man. I think we are largely agreed on that. We may or may not need a central striker (one rather hopes that at least one of the current crop can benefit from better service), but let's not confuse Smith with that person. We certainly do need a Smith type of midfielder, able to link up defence and attack and set up chances.
.........Davies
Smith.............Kebe
..........NHunt
creativity and threat on both flanks with a reliable strong player with a good jump on him in the middle and a energetic player with a great long shot bursting through the middle.
We've suffered upfront (IMO) from having little threat on the right, which causes Kebe to be the only outlet. Which allows teams to double or triple up on him. Given his tendency to arse chances up that basically marks him out of the game because he just isn't good enough to take on three people at once (few are).
Then because we've not been creating anything good on the flanks, or passing well enough in attack through the middle the lone striker has looked isolated.
Take pressure off Kebe and bring equal threat to both flanks and that should bring the middle and lone striker more into the game.