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Tell you what chaddy, stick your user name and the word 'stats' in the search function and then let's see who is obsessed with stats.

Haven't got the players to cope with a press, we need to hit Graham and work off that

Second best all over the park at the minute, seriously need to up their game.

I seem to recall he played alongside either Kazim Richards, Nuno Gomez or Rochina early doors and then Gestede later on when he was at his most effective. I can hardly ever remember him leading the line on his own although I could be mistaken.

Yes 3 great goals there and validating what we Rovers fans already know. He's a great penalty box finisher and he has to play in a front 2.

Got to admit though I like 4-4-2 and there is still definitely a place for it in this age of weird and wonderful systems. The problem is, our best player in Dack, does not fit into such a system.

Held back from commenting after the team selection but safe to say I wasn't particularly thrilled with it. However, that is a great result and really opens up the league for us now. Can't believe I'm typing this as these players looked 'gone' a few weeks ago, but I think we look as strong as any team in this league right now. There's absolutely no reason why we can't realistically think top 6 now and, for that, huge credit has to go to Mowbray - for the change in mindset as much as anything.

For what it's worth I wouldn't blame Mowbray on this one. Dack is a grown up and should've known better than to give the ref a opportunity. He's also our best player and if there's one person in our team who could've exploited the extra space it was him so right to keep him on if we wanted the win.

Apart from the goal which was an excellent piece of play we were far too passive and indecisive with the ball. The amount of times we broke but had absolutely no idea what to do once we got to the final third was frightening. A point isn't bad on the face of it but it feels like an opportunity lost as they were as poor as we were and there for the taking.

Agreed. Seems to get the ball in space, drive forward for 10 yards, loses belief then goes sideways or backwards.

Really poor this

Need to move the ball quicker, far too pedestrian here

Blimey. We've just, like, completely stopped playing.

Just a great goal

Well in Merce

Rooney will be the manager there by the end of the season, no danger.

Don't know about keeping faith with Evans as he'd only started 3 games prior to Brentford.

Ffs, I'm not saying he does, nobody is!!!!

I honestly believe he reacted to pressure on his performance after the no show against Barnsley, the tide was turning. Now, do you seriously think that Mowbray 'stuck to his guns' when he dropped Bennett and Gallagher and then picked an unchanged team for the next 2 games?

Just had a read through the reaction to, what I consider to be the watershed moment, the team news in the Brentford thread. Hardly any dissent on there and pretty much universally positive which, you have to admit, is pretty unusual on here.

I never stated it was the side 'the fans wanted' you'd get hundreds of permutations for that one, it's who he left out in Bennett and Gallagher and that both were shoehorned into positions to accommodate their selections. You're right though, I'd have dropped Armstrong, I look at him as a head down merchant, but he was the match winner today so well done to him.

Did you type that with a straight face? He made changes based on fan pressure and at odds with all his previous team selections, then picked an unchanged side for the first time this season!! Hardly 'sticking to his guns', if he had I'd wager the results would be very different.

Get in!!!!!

Yes yes fucking yes!!! Shit or bust every week now come on!!!!

Or bending a sublime free kick onto an upright. I think you may well eat those words, he will play in a top division in Europe next season or the one after - guaranteed.