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Would be typical Rovers to sign a player in one position we have 2 good options in already.

The symptom of no money (not a big budget waiting just to be asked for) and big delays with things needing to be approved by owners miles away who dont care sadly.

We was talking about league goals. Not a goal against a Stockport youth side when prolific Jack Vale also scored. You clearly dont rate him either hence recently basically saying he isnt good enough.

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Obviously. But we will need to score to win.

Same story in the LT today. Eustace has asked for signings and contracts to be sorted. Nothing happening yet.

Same question to you. If Gueye finishes the season on 2 goals and 12 assists of a similar nature. Is that a good season for a striker?

You seem to think that you have really high football understanding and that anyone who doesnt share an opinion is just not very well clued up though. Gueye isnt regularly getting into goalscoring chances though, he has missed those 2 sitters but its not a constant churn of misses. You speak as if he is a natural in terms of anticipating where the ball is going to go. He isnt. And either way he is an appalling finisher as we have seen. Gallagher is a poor technical player but Gueye makes him look like Harry Kane in front of goal somehow. "Goal contributions" are only being used because people know his goal tally is so bad. Ohashi has scored 5 goals, he has done far better as a result. To show up the reliance on assists and how they dont rank equally with a goal, Ohashi made a great run and squared a perfect ball for Gueye v Luton. The latter miskicked it, Beck followed it up. Ohashi has made a far bigger contribution to that goal, yet if you base it on goal contributions, Gueye did. Ohashi scoring one of his goals doesnt equal Gueye winning a header 30 yards out or playing a 5 yard pass. If he carries on the same rate and ends the season on 2 goals and 12 assists of a similar nature, is that a good season for a striker in your eyes?

We are at home so to try and actually offer some sort of attacking threat. As difficult as it is with the current set of attackers.

I obviously dont see Weimann as who I want up front. We dont have a striker available who comes close to what I would perceive to be a Championship standard striker. A strikers primary job is to score goals and Gueye has 1. It feels like this "goal contributions" metric that people are using is to try and convince ourselves that Gueye is anything other than a poor striker. As I said, a header 30 yards out, a missed tap in, a couple of 5 yard passes, those contributions arent on par with goals. In terms of the assist stat, one of his main contributions as a Rovers player was the header back across the face of goal yesterday. That ISNT an assist apparently. Whereas him embarassing himself missing a tap in but it hitting his heel is. That shows that the assist stat needs to be taken with a pinch of salt and doesnt accurately measure a strikers contribution.

Im not saying we had the wrong approach specifically against Leeds, we clearly didnt. I am saying that Eustace is massively restricted because our underfunded squad lacks attacking quality and if our owners gave a shit and backed him, it could potentially give us a different dimension. As I have said and backed up with the stat of only 3 times in 17 in which we have scored more than 1 goal, we need better attackers. Its not a hard thing to grasp. Eustace has done excellently to have us so well organised, and its led to us being as high as we are. We can see that if we dont keep a clean sheet, something Eustace is very good at getting but something that is impossible to get in every match. Then we will always struggle to score more than 1 which we would need to win. I feel like you are arguing for the sake of arguing. You clearly feel like we need better attackers hence why you keep saying we need a striker and a winger.

The back 7 picks itself. The front 4 is really difficult due to the lack of quality.

There was very little money yet it seemed like we were flush with cash compared to last summer.

Its a sorry choice and not one I would be comfortable with. Due to the constant budget slashing, any choices feel like scraping the barrel in attack.

He can actually finish unlike calamity Gueye. And Leonard proved again yesterday that he is nowhere near ready.

Why do you think they are doing anything other than refusing? I know you are forever keen to deflect criticism away from the owners where possible but surely even now you must realise its not just a case of them not being asked. They have been actively slashing the budget for years. As if its just a case of them not being asked.

Pears Brittain Hyam Batth Beck Tronstad Baker ACD JRC Dolan Weimann Really difficult to select an attack.

I have never said that they dont deserve credit for our position. Obviously they do. The stand outs are all players behind the front 4 of the team. Tronstad, Travis, Beck, Hyam, Batth, Brittain have all stood out. If Ohashi is stand out in our attack considering hes a striker with 1 goal since mid September, it tells you a lot. The fact that we have such difficulty in scoring more than 1 goal highlights the impotency of our attack. Youve dismissed that stat because it shows in black and white what I am trying to say. Eustace is doing brilliantly to leave us so well organised but when we dont keep a clean sheet, and you cant in every game, as we have seen lately as we cant often score more than 1 goal, its hard to get positive results, certainly wins. If he had some attacking quality then that could change. But he doesnt.

Its Venkys that are forcing this on us with their lack of investment.

His header for the Weimann goal was obviously a good contribution. But people are only measuring his output in goal contributions because goals alone (1 in the league, not including a goal against a Stockport youth team where Vale also scored, or a penalty against Blackpool) paint him in a terrible light. Assist is such a flawed stat to judge a striker on. For Gueye they range from a totally fluffed tap in, to a good header but one that only became an assist because someone smashed in a worldie from 30 yards, to a 5 yard pass. A striker who was signed to be the main striker can simply not be deemed a success when he has a solitary league goal at this point of the season. Thats the top and bottom of it. You often resort to "people who understand football" because you seemingly have a particularly high opinion of your own knowledge of the game. You are saying that about knowing after 20 minutes because you yourself said after 45 in a friendly that it was clear. Gueye doesnt miss 2 sitters a game through excellent anticipation, he has missed 2 sitters in his time here. And ones that he had no excuse not to put away. He is a terrible finisher and striker of the ball. His shot against Hull and also one earlier in the season that ended up back in Belgium show that. Hes not a goalscorer who seems on the cusp of going on a goalscoring run. If he does then the whole narrative obviously changes, because he would be scoring goals. Until if and when that happens, its not good enough. If he got close to a usual Gallagher 8 or 9 goal a season, then we would see that as a success. Which says a lot as Gallagher was below average. As it is, the only way to defend him is considering assists which include missed tap ins and headers 30 yard out as on par with goals.

Gallagher got 8 or 9 goals 3 seasons running. Below average but still well above how many Gueye is in line to get IF he continues as we have seen so far. Its this "goal involvements" nonsense where headers 30 yards out from goal and 5 yard passes are being treated on par with actually scoring goals. Gueye has missed only 2 sitters that I can remember, he doesnt regularly get into good positions. Both times, he embarassed himself. You were hyping up Gueye beyond belief (Buckley £10m levels) after 45 goalless minutes in a friendly at Stockport. If Gallagher is the benchmark and people are having to chuck in "assists" including headers miles out and 5 yard passes to put Gueye past Gallagher, and he is our main striker signing from the summer, somethings gone wrong. He is the worst finisher and technical striker of a ball that I can remember.

You can only have 5 loans in a matchday squad. That being said, Stewart is never available anyway so wouldnt be an issue. JRC is the worst footballer since our League squad? No chance. Got plenty of worse footballers in the current squad alone.

This.

If he dramatically improves and has a really good couple of seasons then I will happily praise Gueye for being a good striker who scores goals. So far he hasnt been which is what I am basing my opinions on.

You keep saying that about Gallagher, when I keep saying that he is below average when fit and the fact that he is now turning into a walking injury makes him no use to anyone. And I was happy to see him go. You said your main issue about Gallagher was that he didnt score enough goals which was fair. But your dislike of him clearly grew so strong that you are doing mental gymnastics to avoid the question of why you dont seem to think Gueye is even worse when you consider that he has 1 solitary goal. He never looks like scoring, he has missed 2 chances from a combined total of less than 10 yards. Gallagher might be Gueye without the nuisance factor when Gueye starts scoring 8 or 9 a season which Gallagher did for us in MOST seasons he was here.