You want Dolan at wing back and Buckley up front? Tony, get off the forum and manage the game!

The other day I saw a bunch of Rovers fans claim he was the best FB at the club, not Nyambe. Yeh ok sure.

Johnson is an inch shorter than Hedges.

The place it will get you is severe disappointment. Absolutely the players need to have the attitude that they can win every match, beyond that there's not much point them fixating on whether it's automatics or playoffs. Thinking too far head like that can sabotage you mentally too. But they're paid handsomely to give their all. Individual fans not only pay instead of being paid, but the impact of a single fan is considerably lower than the impact of a single player. We're allowed to just be realistic on a forum. And realistically, our chances of finishing 2nd are very, very slim. I'm going to be generous and say they're about 5-10% at best. We do have a generous run-in, but our last result aside, we are in very poor form, whilst Bournemouth have returned to fine form and have a deep squad. Thankfully the ship may have turned against QPR, but in a way it came at the wrong time as we now face a team who are very likely to put us right back in our place. We are also missing our best striker for a few more games yet, barely scoring without him, and vulnerable to injuries in a few other areas. Oh and of course, we are 4 points behind, with Bournemouth having 3 games in hand and even if they slip, a few other teams in better form with a chance of catching them. Save yourself the heartache and worry about landing top 6 instead (which may also result in heartache).

1-3 in the end, late goal from Gamble.

It was hard work finding the score, but we seem to have exited the FA Youth Cup in fairly embarrassing fashion. Game nearly over I think, score 0-3 to Forest, at Ewood. A team near the bottom of the league our lads are near the top of. Our U18s form has dipped off badly lately. Think this is the fourth straight defeat? Although two of them to City, who top the league.

/\ This post was how I learnt that they allow full internet access in asylums.

Aye, and he said he has never hit one like that even in training, so I wouldn't expect a recurrence any time soon lol

Hayden Carter scored from 30 yards (looks a bit closer to 25 to me but who is counting?) for Pompey. Carter goal LT Article

I suspect it was always the plan. Replace it with a product at a price nobody will pay, then say that isn't viable either but 'we tried and it just wasn't workable'. Echoes of our transfer policy...

It says they want confident fans, so in this case the two requirements should align nicely...

I haven't criticised his overall use this season, although as you say there have still been a handful of bizarre decisions around him (some of which may just be injury related). But those two statements still apply as far as I'm concerned. The damage was already done. Nyambe isn't a better player than last season, and the manager doesn't rate him any more than before. He's playing all the time this season because the woeful Bennett is gone and JRC can't stay fit long enough to finish his breakfast. If I were Nyambe, and not a Rovers fan, I'd have decided over a year ago I was leaving. But from the rumours, it's actually his agent calling the shots here.

The shoddy treatment was in the past, not really this season. But you knew that.

Gonna say, Fulham 2 -1 Rovers. The goal is only really because I think we will be very up for it and in a way the game has very little pressure as most won't expect us to get anything. It won't 100% surprise me if we sneak a draw, but I'm expecting defeat.

We might be seeing Davenport soon. Travis is going to pick up that 10th booking in the next 3 games for sure you would think. Davenport is the most similar player to Travis and should be his backup, but I worry we will use Johnson in that role instead. Edun approaching fitness though I think, so a possibility it's him instead, depending when the 2-match ban comes in.

You're doing great work but I see a problem. According to this, Gallagher has been as good as Brereton, which I'm sure only a madman or Gally's mum would believe. I may have said this previously, but I think you should give higher weighting to goals than you currently do.

For all the talk of him not pushing himself and not playing that well, it should be remembered he has still scored 2 goals.

If we want anything from that game... Well, I do, but quite frankly as long as we don't lose it by more than 2 I will just shrug my shoulders and move on to the next game. They can be beaten on the right day, but they're also comfortably the best side in the league and we're going to their turf. As a reminder, they drubbed us 7-0 on our own turf. We have improved remarkably since then, especially at the back, but we have to admit they are heavy favourites for this one. It's the hardest game on paper we will have all season. We have already lost some much easier games.

Again, we will have to disagree. I don't think he is without his uses, but he didn't impress me today. The only player I'm glad is out of contract in the summer, I hope we don't renew. A few people saying he had a good game, so he must have done some things I missed. I can only go off what I saw, and that was shit.

Aye, I don't mean that we will start banging them in, just that hopefully we don't have another 5 goalless games run. With how solid we are at the back, even the odd goal could make a big difference to our points haul.

I think the goal should do our attackers the world of good. Their confidence in front of goal has looked shot lately, especially today. Think it will be a huge confidence boost. Just a shame our next opponents are the best side in the league, so every chance we fail to score again which may bring the old doubts back in their minds.

We'll have to disagree, thought he was bobbins. Missed an absolute sitter and played some clumsy passes. Was largely anonymous otherwise. He'll be getting a 3 from me when the scoring comes up.

Johnson was shite, Gallagher put a shift in but did nothing of note in attack (which is his main job).

Yeh, might as well review that game before it happens, it's a write off as far as I'm concerned.

It's going to feel like someone is writing a farce if we don't win this now.