In his last 2 seasons at Fulham they scored 39 goals in each season so like us they were hardly awash with goals.

He did however take them up to 7th in the PL and to the Europa League final when they lost 2-1 to Atletico Madrid after extra time.

Spot on. If Kane had been playing for us today against that Spurs defence he would have had a hat-trick (at least). Indeed, any half-decent striker would have had a field day with the balls we were putting into the box today.
What baffles me is why we wait until Benteke is banned and we have no replacement no. 9 (Ayew's too small to be a proper CF) before we ping crosses in.

He steadied Fulham away from relegation the season before and then they finished 7th, Fulham are in the same boat as us in football ability terms and we are both clubs that cannot really afford to be flamboyant on the pitch in regards to gaining enough points for safety in this league, sadly today it sounds like the team played solidly in defence for once something they haven't been able to do since losing unluckily to Burnley, some lovely crossing today just wish we had a young Glen Murray type to bang them in, we would've beaten Spurs and many more this season with a fully aware striker ..cannot blame our manager for the sake of someone not able to be there to bang them in can we? Our cause of awful boring games has been purely down to failing to score when it would have been easier to do so, confidence is then slowly removed.

That has also baffled me as well all season, especially as Benteke’s best trait is heading. People have blamed Roy for lack of crosses but I think the players need to take the blame for that, as I can never imagine a situation where Roy would stop wingers crossing a ball to Benteke. Maybe Benteke’s lack of movement stops them crossing it to him?

But there was plenty of crosses today and from Townsend on the right so your point is not valid.