However, it is the continued lack of incoming experience up front that causes most concern. Burley has been trying to recruit an experienced striker for a couple of months now with no joy.
A right midfielder would be another target with Dyer and Licka failing to hold down a regular slot and the mercurial talents of Djamel Belmadi confined to the treatment room.
Looking across the deadline deals, there were no players that we can say we genuinely missed out on. Patrick Berger is a talented player, but we have our own talented Czech left midfielder in Rudi Skacel. Likewise Ehiogu is a commanding defender, but Saints have been outstanding at the back with Lundekvam and Bale conceding a solitary goal in four games.
Former Saint Neil Shipperley might have been an experienced option, but given his age and failed medical at Hull we were hardly missing out. As it is Saints will now have to look to the January transfer windows to solve our striker dilemmas and hope that Rasiak can stay fit and one of our other strikers can find their shooting boots on a regular basis.
At least encouraging noises have been coming out of the board with Michael Wilde and Leon Crouch stating that money is available to the manager for the right deal, with the potential value of a quality striker priceless for wasteful Saints flirting with the play-off positions.