The questions surrounding Cardiff City's attempts to sign a striker towards the end of the summer transfer window bordered on tedious. But they had to be asked because it was the biggest piece of the jigsaw puzzle which was missing.
Cardiff's reliance on unproven goalscorers was a glaring weakness at the start of the campaign. Max Watters was given the shirt, despite having only one Championship goal to his name.
In the first eight games of the season, all of which Watters started, Cardiff scored only four goals. It was the single metric which undermined all the positive which had come before it with the largely solid recruitment and encouraging change of playing style.
