davulsukur

Gueye out and a new striker in seems fairly obvious, if we can shift him out. I suspect we'll shift both Pickering and Ribeiro out, with the intention of bringing in 2 new defenders in. O'Riordan has been recalled so that'll be one and the emergence of Litherland might have stopped them looking at a backup RWB option. LWB is a concern as Hedges is injury prone and also leaving in the summer (as it stands), De Neve as we know, isn't good enough. Assuming we'll look to address that, should both Picks and Ribeiro leave. Centre mid is a bit of a mess, Tronstad is off in the summer, as is Forshaw. TGH and Baradji are only on loan, Montgomery is injured and Taveres is injured and rubbish. Garrett is injured and probably not up to this level but if assume he's not currently registered anyway. We need a Tronstad replacement (even if they are signed now and loaned out for the season). Realistically any of Forshaw, Garrett, Kargbo, De Neve, Taveres, Gueye and 1 of Ribeiro or Pickering, could leave to free up a squad place/wages but finding takers will be tough as they are injured or just rubbish (or both).

He had a good first 45mins, set Whittaker up for what should have been a goal. Dropped off a cliff edge in the second half but so did the majority of the Boro team.

Agreed. Worked hard but anytime it came to needing any quality he didn't have it.

We really need another striker. Henriksson worked hard today but he's not really a striker and we need better if we're going to stay up.

Solid point that.

Oxford now 2-1 up

Hackney should be off.

Crazy decision to take Tronstad off.

Was just thinking he needs to subbed off but who for?

Oxford is 1-1

Pompey 1 up.

Incredible luck to not be 1 down!

Great little ball around the corner by Henriksson but Ohashi should do a lot better.

Why on earth would Cantwell want to/be allowed to play with a necklace in his glove?

Correct

We'll be very lucky if we get anything out of this. We've barely been in the game at all.

Yes, I'd swap back if I'm being totally honest. Just to be clear, I'm not saying Alebiosu is bad, he's great.

I think he'll play Henriksson up with Ohashi.

Leagues ahead is some overstatement. Alebiosu is decent, no doubts. Brittain is much better in regards to technical ability, Alebiosu looks almost clumsy but still gets past his man and has a knack of digging out a cross when it looks like he shouldn't be able to. A game of opinions of course, though.

Merry Christmas Rovers fans!

I wonder if they are planning to offload Kargbo somehow? (How long is he out for?) Can't see where he plays in this team.

I've watched a couple of Boro games this season and Brittain was really good in both. Brittain is the better player as it stands right now but Alebiosu might develop into a better right back given time.

Makes it look so easy.

Agreed but when does this club do logic?

De Neve won't be going anywhere Gueye & Pickering the most likely only outgoings I'd say.