[Exile on Spencer St]

Professor Coleman clearly likes ‘strikers’ such as Billy Kee (of blessed memory) and Bishop, who can be up front on their own but can hold up the ball under pressure, when it’s booted up to them, to give time for reinforcements to arrive.
Maybe the current situation is because he hasn’t had a striker for several months, so the existing strategy has been the only option and the players have begun to make it work, and Coley doesn’t feel the ones who are currently available could play the Kee/Bishop role?