Actually looking at the strikers for each club in the Championship:
Arbroath: Kareem Isiaka - had him on trial, not good enough. Dale Hilson? No thanks.
Ayr: Dipo Akinyemi - would take him. A total shot in the dark though, and it’s not exactly a name you’d be sitting down and identifying pre-season. (What a truly horrific website btw)
Cove: Megginson - failed here before and it clearly suits him to be based up there.
Dundee: Zak Rudden - would take. However, just joined Dundee and likely on a fortune. Not a realistic target.
Morton: Robbie Muirhead - no, absolute huddie.
Hamilton: Literally no one. Children.
Inverness: Shane Sutherland - nearly signed him before he went to Inverness but chose to stay up north. Billy McKay - pretty old. George Oakley - might have been an option? Not sure.
Thistle: They have three actually very good options up front, and are the only club in the division to have so. No surprise they are top and look to be the favourites. Graham, Mullen and Anyon Dowds would all walk into our side. They are all very likely earning much more money with Thistle than they could with us.
Queen’s Park: Simon Murray would be a starter for us, no doubt, but given his reported salary, would not even consider a move to us.
There is a complete dearth of attacking talent across the division. There are very, very few options we could have actually got.