Seems inevitable at this point. It's hard for me to recall a Rovers team this devoid of goalscoring ability. Even when Coyle was here we could score, we just couldn't keep the ball out of our own net. Just shows how incredibly reliant we were on BBD. Unhealthily so.

I'm relieved we only lost 2-0, which probably says enough when we're 4th in the league. Luckily Fulham seemed content to see the game out at 2-0 and spent the second half in first gear for the most part. We still couldn't score and maybe we just won't score from open play again this season. We certainly haven't looked capable since 2022 began. Not the kind of match our manager has the nous to get anything out of I'm afraid. Now back to hoping we can scrape a goal and keep a clean sheet against teams more on our level. Looking like a painful and tedious end to what had been an enjoyable season. Well done to the supporters who got down to Craven Cottage today. Credit to the club.

You need a solid, clever gameplan to get something from Fulham away. Whatever we're doing, it isn't solid or clever. Fulham certanly know their way around the dark arts, but should probably consider whether it's a good idea to make that so obvious on national TV against a team like us. Anyway, we just need to keep the score respectable and move on. This was always a 'bonus' match and we rarely get anything from those kinds of matches.

Agreed, men vs boys stuff here. In a way it makes all the silly diving they're doing even worse, because they really don't have to. They've got our number as far as quality and organisation is concerned, there's zero need to dive for an advantage.

Well we just conceded our second in less than 35 minutes so I think they're doing OK. As I said, need to try and keep the score down here and not end up getting destroyed again.

Wow, if that's a booking for Dolan then Mitrovic should have been sent off at least twice already.

They've been completely dominant and our defence is all over the shop every time they come forward. Was a matter of time until either they got a chance or we gifted them something. If Mitrovic hadn't tried to dive earlier instead of pushing forward he would have had a clear and open shot. We just need to keep the score down here.

Been coming tbh. We look very much a division below Fulham as far as quality is concerned. Really poor from Kaminski there though.

Gallagher has some good points. He's just not a particularly good pure footballer or striker, which is a shame as we are desperate for the latter especially at the moment.

Defence continues to be our anchor. Kaminski stepped up when called upon today, back three solid as always. Zeefuik also gave his best performance in a Rovers shirt so far after replacing Nyambe.

Could have been 3 or 4 with a striker on the pitch, but considering I was convinced this would end in a 0-1 sucker punch I'll take a 1-0 to us all day long. Still gravely concerned about our inability to take chances, but a win was vital today and we got what we needed. QPR were absolutely terrible and on that evidence will struggle to finish in the playoffs. We looked better without Rothwell and Buckley. It's surely Dolan's spot to lose now. Johnson however I expect will drop for Rothwell as and when the latter is fit again.

Still looking like we'll never score from open play. We really, really need to work on our set pieces in training over the next couple of months, because without BBD that is what will get us over the line.

Get them in for who though? Gallagher who struggles to anticipate at the best of times and is usually somewhere on the right wing? Dolan who is 5 foot nothing? Trav and Johnson who score once in a blue moon? All three centre-backs also struggle to head the ball on target, so I don't think the crossing game is one that'll bear much fruit for us.

Looking like another game where we'll get hit by a sucker punch and lose 1-0. It's truly incredible how abysmal the current side without BBD is at scoring goals. We've probably never had a collection of players on the field who are this incapable of putting the ball in the net. It's impressive in some respects but intensely frustrating to watch. 495 minutes without a goal. 495 minutes! And it'd actually be over 500 if you take injury time and such into account. What's sad is that we're actually doing well at most other aspects of the game (other than set pieces, which have been pathetic as usual). We look good in many respects, but if you can't score it really doesn't mean anything. Dolan has brought some real energy to our front line and shown just how little Buckley was contributing in terms of effort lately (playing poorly out of position I can accept, lack of effort not so much). Something needs to go in off an arse or an elbow.

I give up. I can only conclude we are doing this on purpose, and we actually don't want to score goals. How else do you make sense of such incredible ineptitude in front of goal?

Hook Khadra and half time and send him back to Brighton. This is ridiculous.

Khadra, lol. Two awful corners and then can't even control the ball. Lad is having a stinker. And yet still 475 minutes + since we last scored a goal. This domination counts for nothing if we can't put the ball in the net.

Fuck me. We are never going to score again. After missing a penalty in the last match and then missing that one, Khadra is proving costly.

We might as well not even bother taking corners. Just give the oppo a goal kick. Do we practice set pieces at all in training?

Dolan doing more in that false 9 position in the first five minutes than Buckley did in the last 5 matches.

Based on post-Bournemouth form Rothwell won't be much of a loss. Barely noticeable in the past five games and much like Buckley has not stepped up when needed. The latter certainly can't complain about being dropped, the main problem is we have so little in reserve to replace either Rothwell or Buckley. Still, something had to change. Gallagher will play whenever possible because Mowbray wasted £5m on him, sadly.

We all have different opinions and that's certainly fine. It wasn't all bad tonight, but honestly despite some nice play I never felt like we were going to score, and that's very concerning. Considering our current form and our lack of goalscorers we simply have to score penalties. If Khadra is the best we've got then that's a big worry. We really need to work on our set pieces too. They are simply awful, and when a team is struggling to score from open play set pieces become absolutely vital.

Our trajectory this season actually isn't too different to previous seasons. A middling start followed by a peak around November-ish into January, followed by a trough in February-March. We usually enter another peak around April, although by that time it's usually dead rubbers. Main difference this season is that our peak period was a lot stronger than previous seasons, elevating us to 2nd as opposed to usually biting at the heels of 6th. That's what makes this trough seem so much worse. We can only hope that we have another April bounce back, and that by then we aren't already too far away from the playoffs to re-enter contention. I'm not optimistic but I suppose we will see.

8th and 70 points in 13/14 is the best we've managed, if memory serves. You don't win any awards for half a season.

After the 0-0 with WBA I remember saying we'd be out of the playoffs in a month's time. Genuinely didn't think we could be out of them before February even ended. Remarkable incompetence even by Mowbray's standards.