The same Brereton who has plodded his way along recently?

We were better with Thomas and Wharton in the team. Those two have to start against Hudds. And just don't play Gallagher, start with ten it'd make no difference - it may actually help.

So would I but having never played in a senior match it's not ideal is it? We shouldn't be putting that much pressure on the kid when the grown ups at the club could have solved the issue months ago.

Serious answers though - there's fuckall apart from a kid who has never played or sticking someone who isn't a goalscorer upfront. January has cost us again.

If we begin next season with Sam Gallagher in the squad I'm done.

He tried that and everyone moaned that he was too small to be a centre forward.

He shouldn't be forced to play a 19 year old without a senior goal to his name. Same with A Wharton. Gregg and co carry the blame for this, and a proper CEO wouldn't allow it to happen.

Who does he pick instead of Gallagher?

We started the season with no decent centre forwards and we're going to end it without one. At any other club recruitment would be given their marching orders for failing to secure a better midfielder than Tyler Morton and a better centre forward than Sam fucking Gallagher.

I hope Gallagher is the first out of the door. He's a terrible footballer and a disgrace of a goalscorer.

Gallagher with all the commitment of Dirty Den there.

Thank Christ I don't have to watch Morton any more. Sad times I still have to watch Gallagher.

We were better without him for a period of time. I'd take him off and replace him with Dolan but there are worse players on the pitch.

He hasn't got many options imo, although he should have started Thomas. Buckley is injured. Wharton hasn't played for a while but I still would have started him ahead of Morton. We've got zero options to bench Gallagher.

Get Gallagher off, what an absolute shambles of a footballer he is.

Yep because he signed donkeys like Gallagher and Hedges and decided not to strengthen in January when others did.

Their lad showing Costelloe how you do it.

Well that was utterly shit. Why is Sorba suddenly dropped? Hedges isn't the same player. And why is Morton playing again? Why am I still watching Sam Gallagher plod around? 😩

Because the club fucked up the O'Brien transfer, Buckley is injured, Edun is really poor and the manager thinks Garrett isn't ready to play every match. But yes I agree, for much of the time with Morton on the pitch it's like we're at least one man down.

He wasn't outmuscled, he just didn't seem to have the match fitness to play more than one match a week. I'm surprised he hasn't had more games.

I hope so, he's not much competition for what we've got. I think Mowbray brought him in as a full back, but he's not very good in either position.

The first match I saw him in live this season was the 2-1 win against West Brom in which he came on for Phillips and every pass/touch seemed to lead to West Brom pressure. He had an absolute nightmare for about 20 minutes and when he wasn't in possession he was jogging about.

Well I can see the league table, but I don't watch every other teams matches as religiously as I do Rovers because I simply don't have the time. As I watch Rovers weekly, sometimes twice weekly, I think I know the players pretty well and combined with the knowledge that we don't score enough goals, and have suffered from inept recruitment, I think it's quite amazing we're still in with a chance.

Well we've disagreed about that before. I think we're at least three first team players away from being genuine promotion candidates and beyond that need more depth in areas. The difference this season is having an ambitious manager and for me he's done an excellent job with relatively little backing. January was a travesty, players continue to deliver inconsistent performances, goalscorers contrinue to misfire, but yet we're still in the play off spots. I rarely follow other teams progress but at a guess, I'd say they are in the same position because they have decent managers too, excluding the parachute payment teams.

Where did I say they weren't different standards? But even so, in both of those squads we still had some poor players just as we do now, the big difference is that we had far superior first choice attacking options which is the point I was making and you seemed to miss.