It's often argued that we are not creating the sort of chances Yates would stand a good chance of scoring from. That's fair enough and I wouldn't totally disagree but that surely means he's not the right man to have in that position in the system we are now using so to persist with him is completely pointless and nothing is going to change no matter how many times we try. I don't think Cullen as a 9 is the answer either as both he and Yates are similar in that role i.e not tall enough, not physical enough and not able to hold the ball up well enough. Both are the sort of player who would do well playing off a big target man who would occupy central defenders while the likes of Yates and Cullen would feed off the space that creates in the box and any resulting knock downs. They can't create enough of their own scoring opportunities.
