Alan Biggs: How does Tony Pulis solve Sheffield Wednesday's problems in front of goal?

But will he need to find a square peg to solve the team’s most chronic need?

More goals desperately needed. But who and where from?

Pulis’s teams have always been tight enough not to need many. But you do need some.

And I’m beggared if I can think of an answer, writing ahead of tonight’s game at Swansea.

The man most likely to is gone for now.

That’s Josh Windass, whose self-inflicted suspension takes in Pulis’s first home game this Saturday, against his former club, Stoke

A real pity. Whether he plays deeper or not, Windass is Sheffield Wednesday’s best and most dangerous forward, in my opinion.

Only one Championship goal since his transfer from Wigan became permanent is a record that needs improving but Windass is always nagging away, threatening the opposition.

Who else? Well, Adam Reach has still to register and repeatedly divides opinion. But I thought his performance, driving from behind the front two in Garry Monk’s last game, the goalless draw with Millwall, offered a ray of light.

Reach had shots well saved, as did Windass.

Callum Paterson? Here’s a riddle. The versatile striker signed from Cardiff has occasionally looked like the physical handful Wednesday lacked - and yet did not start either of the final two matches of the manager who signed him.

Subsequently new boss Tony Pulis has indicated he may not see Paterson as a striker and started him in midfield for the new boss’s first game, the narrow defeat at Preston.

Without Paterson leading the line, the Owls played some more constructive, pleasing looking stuff, more to feet - albeit without a goal from open play - against Bournemouth and Millwall. But that is not typically the Pulis way, of course.

And Paterson is starting to look the best striker bet again - except he needs to be on the end of his own long throws!

When Wednesday have worked a position to cross, there’s been no height. As for crosses generally, there have been too few early enough and accurate enough to inflict damage.

Jack Marriott struggled on loan from Derby and has gone back through injury, although you can’t remember much service.

It’s been the same story, frustratingly for far longer, for Jordan Rhodes.

And Elias Kachunga has been largely ineffective since signing as well.

What all the forwards had done, however, was to defend well from the front in what looked to be a more solid team unit in the final throes of Monk’s reign.

It was a small start and a very modest one.

No easy solution for a team that lacks pace.

With the next transfer window six weeks away, it will need all Pulis’s ingenuity to work a way around a gigantic problem and it can surely only be temporary.

But, in the approach to another window, it’s good to have Izzy Brown and Massimo Luongo back to ease the creative load on skipper Barry Bannan, who is playing as if his life depended on it.

Square peg for up front? Simply can’t see one in this squad.

Kadeem Harris might get behind defences with his pace but would need a physical presence alongside.

Not to mention finishing is not his forte.

Can Wednesday grind out some results in the interim?

While wins are needed, draws have more value than normal for the time being