Fin Roberts has a big Chester role to play, but why has he not featured much?
Calum McIntyre explains why the young striker hasn't been played regularly
In recent weeks, much of the chatter around Chester Football Club has been centred on the need for additional firepower.
The Blues have dropped too many points this season through their profligacy in front of goal, and the fact that the club’s leading scorer, Dylan Mottley-Henry, has just six goals is a stat that speaks for itself. There hasn’t been a clinical marksman in the building for the Blues this season.
In previous campaigns there has been a talisman. Tom Peers, while struggling this season, was a 20-goal striker last year, while other significant contributions from forward players under boss Calum McIntyre’s reign have come from the likes of Charlie Caton and Kurt Willoughby.
McIntyre still wants a striker, in fact he wants two. The Blues this week saw one target slip out of reach but they remain confident they will be able to get someone who can make a difference into the club before the end of the month, with the January transfer window, while Chester are not bound by it, being impactful due to the targets being with EFL sides, or National League teams who are waiting on their own deals involving EFL clubs before allowing players to leave.
The last two games, while there have been some big chances missed, have seen Chester plunder five goals. On Tuesday night, off the bench stepped Fin Roberts, a striker who has found himself frustrated by a stop-start season. He fired the winner with seven minutes remaining to hand the Blues a hugely important three points at Spennymoor Town as Chester secured a 2-1 success.
