I take your point chris but I don't feel ash is a natural finisher and alongside heskey or gabby there is not that clinical finisher that we are crying out for, by all means vary things and chase the game when we need to but we really need someone who is going to put chances away.
We have been crying out for years for a natural goalscorer and that's what I'd like to see playing off gabby or heskey- one thing about ash is his workrate is a credit to him and the likes of carew should be ashamed in comparison.
I agree that most of our best performances have been when albrighton and downing have been the wide men and that bodes well for the future if we do lose ash, but the chances created by some of our excellent wing play are not being converted into enough goals and it is for that reason I do not think ash is the man to play off the main striker.