You may as well pull on a blindfold and run a pin down the list of tomorrow's runners, as spend any time studying form.

And there are just as many pitfalls trying to select the final top six in the Championship.

Or more precisely who will finish sixth, with it looking like Bristol City, Stoke, Hull, West Brom and Watford needing an catastrophic finish to not even take their place in the white knuckle ride which is the play-offs.

That leaves just five points separating Wolves in sixth and Cardiff in 12th.

As much as my heart says it, will Town be ready to make a burst for the line to sneak that final spot?

My head says we won't have the legs or, more precisely, we won't have the firepower, as Saturday's 0-0 draw with QPR showed.

To be fair, Jim did his best to remedy the problem even before the enforced absences of Jon Walters, Pablo Counago and Shefki Kuqi
but came up blank when he tried to hook a David Nugent, David Healy or a number of other strikers on the fringe of Premier League clubs.

It is all the more frustrating when you see what Magilton's rumoured top striker target in the January transfer window, is currently doing.

If the speculation is to be believed, Burnley's Andy Gray was earmarked to get the goals for the Blues but although we were prepared to pay the same £1.5million fee for him as Charlton, we were not prepared to match the Addicks' wage offer, twice what he was getting at Turf Moor.

But Alan Pardew seems to have quickly lost faith with the man who he pulled out all the stops to get, as Gray is now warming the bench at The Valley.

Of course hindsight is a wonderful thing but I wonder when Jim was hunting for a striker he ran the rule over Sylvain Ebanks-Blake.

While we were haggling for a month to get David Norris out of Plymouth, Wolves sneaked in and got the former Manchester United striker out of the back door of Home Park by activating his £1.5m release clause.

He's since repaid them with nine goals in 14 games.

So if I was pushed to take a punt in the Championship chase I would go for Wolves, fuelled by Ebanks-Blake's goals to take the final coveted spot in the top six.

At this stage of the season, more than any other, it is the quality of your strikers that wins points and I fear Town just don't have enough in their armoury.