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To be fair I'm relatively confident that the dumbest AI in the world could look at the data and conclude Henriksson up front doesn't work.

Can't say I agree with that. Literal bull in a china shop that seemingly had no control over his own body at any time I saw him play. Scored a couple sure, but up there with the absolute worst players I've seen in a Rovers shirt in his general play. Now, if Eustace had continued with him that may have changed, but we'll never know. .

Now that's gone through there's really no excuses for having a striker in for the weekend.

We donate far too many points to teams in the bottom half and are completely reliant on turning up against the better teams. Even of our form picked up I have no confidence that this will be against the teams we really need them to be against. Not all 3 points are equal in this kind of position.

Give over, the squad isn't great but there are plenty of managers out there who could have got more points out of the games we've had in that run, which includes Wenesday, Oxford, Portsmouth and Charlton. One win against almost the entire bottom half ffs.

I wouldn't mind so much considering the squad available if we actually went for it, but it's clear he hasn't the foggiest how to get us to attack, regardless of who is in the squad. Still confident he'll take us down

What on earth is going on with Palace? So little effort (and unfortunately I include Adam in that)

I'm not exactly enamoured with our new players but I will disagree with you a little bit. Alebiosu to me seems to be able to get some kind of cross away in any position on the right, some that he had no right to do so. Not every one is perfect, but none of the rest of the squad seem capable and even on the occasions all ball does go into the box they've all been seemingly trained not to get in there to anticipate the ball in. In a league where his team actually know where to attack he could potentially thrive, though I'd expect him to take some time to acclimitise.

Sooo, hands up who actually thought Keith Andrews would do this good a job ar Brentford?

We have McCloughlin, Pratt, Atcheson, Miller, Pickering fit who have all played at CB sometime or other. One way of alleviating any issues back there would be to not play 5 at the back every single game no matter the opponent. However, if we are determined to keep the current formation we currently have one striker to cover 2 positions if you're going to refuse to play Tyjon and Gueye, and we arguably don't have a single player capable of playing either wing back position effectively with Hedges and Alebiosu absent. Now, if we pull in a couple of strikers and a wing back in before the Hull game I'll concede it's a redundant argument, but as others have pointed out we need to ship 4 or 5 players with likely few suitors out the door before we can do that without likely overloading our player budgets.

I'm not saying CB hasn't been an issue, but Pratt and Atcheson stepped up for some cover and statistically the defence is much better than the offence. Striker is by far the main priority followed by the wing back positions for me.

Complete waste of the budget for me and tells me that we're committing to this garbage 5 at the back formation. CB was never the main priority and I would argue to position of least concern outside of the keepers. Once Carter and Wharton are back any guaranteed playing time could keep 4 or 5 Rovers developed players out of the squad too.

Baradji off for Montogomery?

Baradji again! First two times in months I've seen someone follow the cross in and we have 2 goals from it - amazing how that works.

Don't feat everyone, Henriksson is here! (Hopefully that manifests some kind of actual contribution)

The fact that this is the best attacking play I've seen in quite a few matches says everything about us, because we still have no end product.

I think the point is it's perspective. It's like when United fans whine about how they have the worst owners in England when it's clearly not the case.

Atcheson with more attacking flair than our front 5 have in 3 months, hugely unlcuky there.

This is absolutely shocking, Charlton falling over themselves and not a Rovers shirt anywhere near. All season we've had a complete inability to challenge in the air for anything.

So we needed to make subs but yet again keep the same failing system? Amazing stuff.

None of those things applied to us, and even if they did you don't see that level of turnover at clubs who are in and around the play-offs. Find me a team that finished that close to the play-offs that has forced out an entire squad of players and replaced them with cheap no-experience no marks.

The other thing that really sticks out is that we're clearly one of the worst teams in a year where pretty much the entire league are evenly matched and in with a shout of promotion. If we'd built on last year's squad we could have made it over the line last year or this year but no, Gestede knows better.

Big Baradji! Actually a good attacking passage of play for once.

Yep, we got lucky that a couple of teams were out of form around October/November but we are quite possibly the worst team in the league at the moment.

Val needs sacking. I hear people saying that he's doing the best we can but honestly an under 15's team would have a bigger threat than we are under him.