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Can hoof the ball up to Gueye all they want, the fella can't time his jumps properly and is more likely to elbow a defender in the face than connect with the ball.

Is Baradji genuinely injured or is that just a rumour?

What do you mean 'but'...I didn't mention them because the club are clearly trying to offload them. Man it's like having a debate with the Riddler 😂.

I would now what? I don't understand what you're saying there. Every signing we have made so far is pretty much a replacement for an outgoing player. No stock piling there. Most people on here are saying we need a RW and a Striker, and then a Trav replacement, and I think that's entirely fair. The striker would essentially be a replacement for Weimann. The RW is a spot we are clearly lacking in as we only have one recognised right winger, and then the Trav replacement is again (drum roll).....another replacement. Again, not really stock piling is it. 🙂 I haven't even said we should be stock piling, I don't think anyone else has either(?). You're the one who said "we can't keep stock piling players" as though that's what the club have been doing. My point was simply this - the club haven't been stock piling anything. I don't think the concept of needing to get rid of players when you bring new ones in is anything anybody disagrees with, but you're the one who said "we can't keep stock piling players", which I found to be an odd statement to make given we haven't. 🙂

But they haven't been doing that. Your point is only relevant if Rovers are doing that. 🙂

Appreciate that but the way your post was phrased implied that Rovers have been stock piling players....and they definitely haven't been. 🙂

Keep stock piling players? Rovers haven't stock piled anything. They've literally just replaced what they've lost, haven't they??? JRC - Alebiosu Brittain - Miller Batth - McLoughlin De Neve - Beck Henriksson - Dolan Tavares - soon to be departing Travis Nobody - Weimann I don't see any stock piling. Please give context.

Rovers recruitment reminds me of the The Simpsons monorail episode. It won't be long before Rudy is bragging about bringing players in from Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbook. 😂

Well I don't expect to see any new arrivals in time for this one, so pending injuries I reckon it'll be the same starting XI as Birmingham game, which is probably as good a team as can be managed right now. Hull 1 - 1 Rovers (Ohashi)

Alebiosu and McLoughlin look like the picks of the new signings so far. Long throw aside, not been that impressed by Miller. Looks a clumsy type defensively. Axel and De Neve well off it.

Hyam and Tronstad were Broughton signings, so that checks out. More grim times ahead.

Pickering has his limitations but I'd have him on over De Neve every day of the week.

It can.

Right winger, Trav replacement, and a centre forward are all desperately needed. Even then, the quality in squad depth is so poor. De Neve and Axel are not good enough options off the bench. If Alebiosu has a bad injury then we've only got one right back at the club, who's actually better as a right sided CB anyway. Shambolic.

I think it can be both. The team didn't deserve to lose, but you're completely right, this is exactly what happens when the core of solid championship team is removed and replaced with inexperience. Only McLoughlin has played at this level previously from all the new players, and it shows. Agreed - relegation battle it is. Hull away is already a big game next weekend.

2011/12, 2016/17...both seasons felt like there was an inevitability that Rovers would go down and I'm getting the same feeling again with this one. Credit to the players in that they put in a shift and didn't really deserve to lose...but you make your own luck and Birmingham took their chances. Rovers are far too soft in attack to do that. Hope Alebiosu is ok, seems like he has started the season well overall. Ultimately though...it has a feel of a ragtag bunch of players thrown together, and that doesn't bode well at all for the season. I struggle to see where the first win comes from.

Horrible.

Hopefully this time next week there is a new right winger at the club and that's the last time Hedges starts for a while.

CANTWELL

Suspect Rovers need to score to get anything from the game. Birmingham have been kept quiet but they'll likely get a chance or two in the 2nd half as defensive legs get tired. The problem is if Rovers go behind, they'll be very unlikely to come back at all.

True....so then maybe Travis has simply had a falling out with someone, Suhail and Gestede probably, and Ismael has been told not to pick him. Its irrelevant either way. We know the club have messed up with the player contracts so it's ultimately on them to not be so utterly incompetent.

Very early on in the summer, pretty much as soon as he returned from Milan.

Club are hardly going to come out and say Travis wanted to play are they. They're in the process of selling him, can't risk an injury to happen.

He struggled as captain in his previous stint when JDT gave him the armband. Don't recall him ever wearing it since. Don't think he wants the pressure of it.