I feel Boyd would have filled his boots. Just a hunch.
Firstly- it's a lot of respect to Ernie and the boys that CC came to disrupt our game rather than play theirs.
Second- we had Bonevacia, Krishna, Burns, Rodriguez all fail to make hay from good positions. That has to be unusual. I don't think we need the mythical striker. We just needed Boyd on the bench. We had 4 of our goal scorers have an off day at the same time. We needed one guy to have his shooting boots on. Or for Burns to square in back for Rodriguez.
Good news is A-Rod is starting to show his skills. It's hard to know if we actually have too many play makers now! McG, A-Rod and Roly...
Smeltz had a poor conversion rate when he started out. And I think Boyd's style is better suited to Ernie's Not A Striker policy of wing play and cut backs in the box than it was to Ricki's. He combined well with Huysegems last season and I genuinely thought this would be something of a break out season for him. Disappointed that it seems to have been curtailled by contract stuff. Or alternatively- brilliant coaching by Merrick so that he's mega hungry to make a point when Burns is out with Socceroo duty.