After those massively baffling cock ups the only gripe I have with Mowbray's 'new look football' were his tactics last year when we were guilty of 'over footballing' around the opponents penalty area. Any striker worth his salt will thrive off early balls down the channels or into the box. Passing football is fine and it seems to be the key to us being eyed favourably by local big clubs to bring on their talent but it has to have a purpose by scoring goals and winning points! ...................................
Wingers and overlapping full backs elected or were under instruction not to cross the ball early but to play it back to a basically non scoring midfield colleague. Either lost possession or a long cross from deep to a 5ft 7" striker by this time tightly marked by a resident six foot CH resulted far too often. Shame really because a number of goals last season were totally breathtaking in the speed the ball took to get from our area to the back of the opponents net! Armstrong's pace and Rothwell's too were being utilised all too infrequently and instead wasted. At times we were devastating but more often our possession and attacking was not productive.................................
Lastly I cannot begin to understand why Mowbray, Johnson et al couldn't recognise that failing and address the issue of what effectively became our wasted possession stats. I'd love a pint or two with any of them to hear the reason why..... and put em right to boot! 
Seriously though I don't know how Armstrong banged almost 30 goals in but I do know that if we'd played more to his pace and skills and allied them to a better attacking partner he'd have been nearer 40! No doubt he'd already have gone for that elusive 30m too.
Points echoed emphatically by the best striker the Prem (and BRFC) have ever seen, Alan Shearer on MoTD when commentating on the Everton v Soton match.
'Strikers like crosses most and particularly early crosses'. He commented that the Everton players were slinging '
them in to the danger area early without looking' and that Everton's turnaround was because of that.
If players did that before the defence can get 'settled' it's simply up to the strikers to be there. We can only guess how many Armstrong would have notched if we'd thrown crosses in early and without looking all last season instead of pissing about playing ever decreasing triangles on the wing before losing possession.
