Manager Gareth Ainsworth will be targeting a goalscoring striker in the January transfer window.
The Gills boss added strikers Seb Palmer-Houlden and Sam Vokes to the squad in the summer but has become frustrated at his team’s lack of ruthlessness.
That’s been highlighted in the past two games, where in both they’ve had good first halves but have failed to maximise their chances, leaving them with just a point from those two matches.
Ainsworth also has Elliott Nevitt, Marcus Wyllie and Josh Andrews, but he needs someone to start hitting the net more consistently, rather than relying on their star midfielder Bradley Dack.
“We weren’t threatening enough in the second half,” Ainsworth said, after a 2-1 loss at Fleetwood on Saturday.
“I know it’s been the story for a few years. I’m trying, I’m working hard.
“We’ve got the window just around the corner. We need to get somebody who’s going to score some goals for us because, at the moment, we’re relying on Bradley.
“He’s getting up to the fittest he’s been for years now. He probably wasn’t looked upon as the talisman at the start of the season, but he’s doing fantastically well. We need some help to get some goals, really. That’s what I’ll be looking at.”
Dack scored his sixth league goal of the season at the weekend and also hit the woodwork. He’s got as many as the club’s four main strikers put together.
Experienced front-man Vokes, 36, has had his minutes managed and has one league goal from 14 appearances – most from the bench.
Josh Andrews has three goals from 17 appearances, Palmer-Houlden one in 12 and Marcus Wyllie one in seven.
Ainsworth mentioned former Gills favourite Cody McDonald and about finding someone that prolific again.
He said: “Players like that just took their chances. We need to take our chances.
“You don’t get three or four (chances) as a striker in the modern-day game. The game’s very secure. The game’s very defensive.
“A lot of teams set up not to lose, so when you get those opportunities, you must stick them in. That’s been really frustrating all season, really.
“We’ve missed some golden opportunities. We really have. And in too many games, we’re missing chances that are easy to put in, in my opinion, and top strikers in this league will put them in.
“We have to think like top strikers and become top strikers in this league because there’s no way we’ll have any aspiration of finishing in these top seven, eight places if we haven’t got somebody who’s scoring week in, week out.
“We need to find that. At the moment, it’s eluding me.
“I don’t think it’s been just me. I think it’s been the last few years. That’s eluded us.
“We’re working hard with the recruitment and see if we can get one in. We’ll have to see what January brings.”
