Who is Albion's leading League One goalscorer?

You must be thinking it is Jake Robinson, if not Alex Revell or even Bas Savage after his recent scoring spree.

In fact it is Dean Hammond and that helps explain why the Seagulls are not in the promotion hunt.

Don't get me wrong, Hammond has eight goals - 11 if you include cup competitions - which is a very good effort from the Seagulls' influential skipper for a midfielder.

To be in contention, though, for automatic promotion or a place in the play-offs you need at least one prolific striker.

It has taken Savage only 11 games to join Robinson on the six-goal mark. Although Robinson is Albion's leading marksman overall with 12, almost half of his goals came against Northwich Victoria, Stafford Rangers and Boston United in the FA Cup and Johnstone's Paint Trophy.

It is a similar story with Revell (six in the League, four against Northwich, Stafford and MK Dons).

The difference is that each of the nine teams still in contention for a place in the Championship next season have a front man into double figures.

The most obvious example is Billy Sharp. It is no wonder that Scunthorpe are top with his 25 goals.

That is more than all the Albion strikers have scored put together (Joe Gatting has three).

Phil Jevons and Grant Holt have hit 11 apiece for Bristol City and Nottingham Forest, who are second and third.

Fourth-placed Oldham have 18-goal Chris Porter, Leon Best bagged ten for fifth-placed Yeovil on loan from Southampton.

Blackpool, currently occupying the final play-off spot, have a double threat with Andy Morrell and Scott Vernon both on 11.

Seventh-placed Swansea, Albion's penultimate away opponents, have 16-goal Lee Trundle and 15-goal Chris Greenacre lies in wait for the Seagulls' hosts on Easter Monday, eighth-placed Tranmere Rovers.

Even Carlisle in ninth have been able to count on a dozen goals from Karl Hawley.

That is why, once manager Dean Wilkins has sorted his own future out and decisions have been made on the 15 players out of contract at the end of the season, the long-term quest to sign an established goalscorer will be re-ignited.

Wilkins said: "Of course it is going to be a target, although I've not really looked at the squad overall and made decisions on who is being retained and who is being released.

"If you have got somebody scoring 20 goals it could be the difference between going up automatically or at least being in the play-offs but we can't really look at that at the moment.

"We have to just look at what we are, where we are and what we have got and just try to improve.

"We've not had that regular goalscorer that scores maybe two in four consistently and one in one game and one in the next.

"Billy Sharp has done that at Scunthorpe, he scores singles. Jake when he is on a run has scored hat-tricks. We need that level of consistency."

No Albion player has scored in three League games in a row. The most is two by Robinson against Northampton and Huddersfield, Gatting against Yeovil and Carlisle and Hammond twice, against Cheltenham and Oldham and then Leyton Orient and Nottingham Forest.

Even the pattern of Savage's hot scoring streak suggests he will draw a blank against Doncaster at Withdean on Saturday and then find the net at Tranmere 48 hours later.

His ratio of a goal every other game is the requirement over the course of next season to turn Albion into promotion contenders.

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