How do you solve a problem like Ross Hannah?

I think with Ross it takes him a little while to hit the ground running, we’ve seen it in his first stint with us, kept going offside and as the season went on he kept improving. Keep the faith

It's difficult because I feel that Akintunde is far better at holding the ball with back to goal, does it so well for a smaller lad, and is also better running at defenders than Hannah.

Hannah needs to be in the box, it's where he's best. His first season he had Rooney probably at his creative best for us and bigger lads like Hobson and Hattersley doing the dirty work. Hannah isn't a centre forward he's a striker. We are lacking any width or creativity in the middle to create chances, especially now with Mahon out.

At the beginning of the season I was worried for Hannah because Akintunde-Bell and Akintunde-White looked the better combinations up front. We've had some bad luck with injuries obviously but I'm still hopeful of White coming in and hitting the ground running.

Hope you're right, but with his injury record he will probably just hit the ground, and be out for another month !

Offer him to the Goats.

He'll come good. We're seeing a player who had a disrupted pre-season and has had a stop-start last few seasons.

I've no doubt he'll play his way into form. Talk of being finished is way off the mark.

I do wonder if maybe a 433 is our best formation. Use Hannah as a wide forward, Bell and Akintunde could also fill the role with their pace, I tend to think Harry White as the central forward in this system gets your best players on the pitch, Mahon would hold down the other side, allowing 3 of our 4 decent central midfielders to play.

It's an adaptable formation where the one on the opposite side to play can get central and offer himself as a second striker.

I just think it makes sense to get your best players on the pitch, Mahon offers very little defending anyway, we're constantly shoehorning a central player onto the other flank and we could be offering some extra protection in front of the back 4 if James was to sit in front of them, possibly helping with the lack of pace we have centrally by blocking teams from going through there.

Even if we end up quite narrow because of it surely it's worth a try short term, could offer a bit of creative spark because you look at the strikers we have and you'd think there are goals in them on paper but we just arent scoring them.

Do you think White will ever be fully fit? He was a high risk signing and we can't afford to be signing players who are always presenting sicknotes. He's already missed nearly a third of a season.

You won’t get the best out of Hannah if he can’t be arsed turning up for training. The fact that McCarthy and the board allowed such a deal with the player just to appease the fans beggars belief.

He looked good today at training, he will come good maybe we should consider him as a sub which was quite effective against Fylde he looked quite lively.

Chesters striker problem isn't Hannah.
We lack a fully fit striker who has height.


Omar Bogle on loan for a month to help his old mentor Marcus Bignot !

That couldn't have been Hannah as according to some moronic Goats, he doesn't train on Mondays 

Bored in work so just did a bit of maths to see how Hannah is comparing to the start of the 2015/16 season. Virgin behaviour I know.

2015/16
Played 14, Won 5, Drawn 4, Lost 5, Scored 15, Conceded 20, Points 19
Hannah started 9, sub 1, 826 minutes played, 3 goals. 275 minutes per goal.

2017/18
Played 14, Won 2, Drawn 6, Lost 6, Scored 12, Conceded 21, Points 12
Hannah started 6, sub 5, 718 minutes played, 3 goals. 239 minutes per goal.