I think we are skirting around the issues a bit. This is not a season 23/24 slump but it in fact started in November last year. In the comments above you have picked out Hester, McAllister, Dillon, Steeves and Waddell so that is half a team sorted in a breath. Why did Montrose allow/release Allan, Milne and Whatley to move on?
Previously McAllister has been mentioned as the issue and if Montrose didn't play him they'd be less likely to just lump the ball up field and play some brand of glorious football. From watching McAllister in the past for other teams he was rarely the recipient of long ball football so it would appear to be a choice that Montrose use him this way. The question is therefore are the midfield not creative or being prevented from being so? Are we now saying Webster, Gardyne, Brown, Lyons (slump in form excluded!) have suddenly become dull uncreative players?