Just to add when we had Burns and Krishna as a front two (and thus more central than when they play in a front three) in the 14/15 season they scored 13 and 9 goals. And we scored 45 goals in total.
I tend to prefer those two to be up top by themselve, rather than having to do some defensive duties in a front 3.
That's interesting. So to explore that 2014/5 as a comparison:
McGlinchey got 5
Bonevacia and Kenny Cunnigham scored 4 each
Boyd, Brockie and Boxall 2 each
Muscat, Hicks, Griffiths, and Durante 1 each
Interesting that we got the four you'd expect from your defensive players.
But we got another 19 from starting and back up mids/strikers that season.
If Krishna and Burns do the same again as that season, and we don't sign a striker, you need 19 goals from Nichols, Singh, Williams and ..... others.
Plus four from your defensive players.
It was a good year, but unless I'm missing something I think it'd be a big ask to do it again. First Burns and Krishna need 22 between them. Definately possible. But you are already asking for the two of them to both go pretty well.
If you then match up Singh, Nichols and Williams this year with McGlinchey, Bonevacia and Cunningham's 13 goals in 14/15, again which is possible, but is asking a bit, you still need the likes of Griffiths, Brockie, Boyd and Hicks to contribute another half a dozen (plus those four defender goals). And so far I don't think we have those sort of players. But I guess we'll see.
If you have a striker getting around ten goals then the pressure on everybody else having to have a good year comes off a bit.