Exactly. Hence the need to sign a goalscorer if we have any money, which from Mowbrays interview, sadly we do not. 14th in terms of goals scored with 31 goals, but only 22 without Dack, with only Wigan scoring fewer.

Good stat. If we have genuine intentions of breaking the top 6, we should be going there tomorrow expecting a win. No being happy with a draw, we are playing the worst home team in the League.

Yeah, strangely if Buckleys regular inclusion in the team led to poorer results, people, or as you would like to state in your intention to wind folk up, "haters" would indeed criticise the manager as a result, heaven forbid the manager is judged based on results.

Neither Gallagher or Brereton have scored goals anything like with the regularity that Dack did and Armstrong cannot play up front until he learns what the offside rule is.

Absolutely. Technically not up to it and a ticking time bomb desperate to slide and dive in at every given opportunity.

Apart from Graham who is on the wane, none of them have history of goalscoring. Its ok saying that they should all chip in but it would be presumptuous to expect it when theyve never shown in the past that they can do it. Downing is playing at left back, people like Johnson and Holtby are unlikely to get more than a couple, Armstrong is having a good goalscoring season for him but even with that we havent scored that many goals. The onus is on our strikers, Graham is on the wane sadly it seems and will miss Dack buzzing around him, and then we move onto the 12m strikers that should and have to be able to step into the breach. My worry is that this is the time when the aforementioned 12m blown on 2 non scoring, ineffective strikers will come to bite us on the arse. Up until now, because we have had a proven goalscorer in Dack, Gallagher and Breretons inability to score has been a frustration but one we have been able to work around. Now that simply is not the case. Mowbrays quotes about not having the funds to sign a direct replacement are a concern but understandable, the majority of the money he has had to evolve the side has been poured down the drain. Signing a goalscorer should probably be top priority in the transfer market, even with Dack we dont score enough goals.

Because I dont think he is good enough to play for our first team at the moment.

What has he shown in the first team to warrant an extended run in the team? id love for him to come good and he might one day with age on his side but so far hes looked well, well off IMO and a loan spell away is not a derogatory insult to him, its for me the best way to develop for him.

I dont think so but I know that Bennett is absolute shite wherever he plays so what is the harm in trying it?

What happens in the future is irrelevant to the fact that when hes played in the past, including yesterday, he has IMO and other peoples opinions looked like a little boy lost. He may come good in the future and I have not said he wont, of course i hope he does.

A huge problem with Armstrong front is that he is constantly offside. This regularly stifles our attacks.

Slaughtered? People were quite justified in saying that he doesnt look at home in the first team, like a little boy lost. He needs a loan spell.

Walton Nyambe Lenihan Adarabioyo Downing Travis Johnson Armstrong Holtby Rothwell Graham Subs: Leutwiler, Williams, Evans, Chapman, Gallagher, Brereton, Rankin-Costello If Nyambe doesnt make it, I would put Travis at RB and Evans next to Johnson, not ideal but better than having Bennett in the team. Holtby has to start and be given a run as a number 10. He was a bit of a coup when we signed him but the problem was always that he played where our best player plays and it was about fitting him in as best we can, with minimal success. Now is the time with very poor alternatives to play alongside Graham to give him a run there. Armstrong up front means that half of the attacks we muster are broken down by his inability to understand the offside rule, and our 12m pair are not up to it.

Where are the goals coming from?

Holtby should be number 10. Gallagher couldnt score in a brothel.

We have the 10th best defence on the League and the 14th best attack and that is with the goals of Dack included. Bennett is a bag of shit. League 1 player. Get shut ASAP.

Our defence is the 10th best in the league and our attack is the 14th best and that is with Dack. Our team isnt top 6 standard at either end and I know its not ideal that our new additions going back are temporary but now is not the time to address that. Our defence was the 20th best last season so we have improved but our attack is really worrying without Dack. A left back is needed to allow us more flexibility with Downing but we need attacking reinforcements.

Really boring and ultimately dismal display against a poor side. We have lost far too many points at home to shit teams and we look toothless without Dacks goals to bail us out. We have to sign a goalscorer in January. Too many changes and too many ultimately not good enough players in that 11. Walton was fine again. Nyambe ok. Bell crap, simply not up to it and stupid for the penalty both with his initial header and dangling a leg. The centre backs cant pass a ball but were fine in defence against a really poor attack. Johnson was good, Bennett is absolute shite but we all knew that. Rash and technically rubbish. Buckley is quite simply not ready, nearly cost us a goal due to pissing about on the edge of his own box and needs loaning out. Holtby isnt a winger as long as he has a hole in his arse and should play centrally. Up top, Armstrong offered a threat but cant play up top because he doesnt understand the offside rule. Gallagher is hopeless and not up to it. The subs were made far too late and had no time to make an impact. I would bring in Adarabioyo, Downing, Travis, Rothwell and Graham against Huddersfield, yet more wholesale changes but back to our best side. Drop Bennett, Williams, Bell, Gallagher and Buckley and if Nyambe isnt fit I would probably put Travis RB and bring Evans next to Johnson. No chance of play offs.

To be fair I think he adds balance on the side. There are certain points in his Rovers career when he can point at things that others have done notably Mowbray but ultimately he doesnt contribute enough when he does play. He scored 2 very good goals last season but aside from them theres been no real end product throughout his time here. Im getting a little frustrated because he clearly has talent but he is not contributing at all in terms of scoring and assisting. I like him as a player and he can excite but its starting to feel like hes a bit of an enigma, and someone whose reputation increases when he isnt starting and people including me demand his re-selection. There is an onus on him to start scoring and assisting, especially with Dack injured, even the correctly derided Armstrong contributes to goals and assists.

Rothwell never plays on the right and I dont see where the goals are coming from in either of your teams. If you played Armstrong and Gallagher together youd have a hell of a lot of offsides though. Theres no getting away from the fact that Dacks absence is a monumental blow, and thats acknowledgable without talking about forfeits. Any team losing their primary source of goals is automatically weaker as a result.

Buckley isnt up to our standard, neither is Brereton. Hopefully that will change when they are older. None of the strikers we have signed have been up to scratch and with our only goalscorer seriously injured that becomes a big problem. I would like defensive and attacking reinforcements. I love to add players to the squad, I want 4 but 2 as priority, you want 3 so thats a bit rich!

Absolutely. The ability to score goals has somehow become underrated. It was the same with Rhodes, people focused on what he couldnt do even though he was scoring goals consistently at an unparalelled rate to the extent that that alone guaranteed his merited place in the team. Dack has consistently scored goals for us at a rate of not much shy of 1 in 2, for 2 and a half years. Mulgrew had 2 seasons where he would get to double figures from set pieces, hes gone now (rightly so) and Graham has consistently scored a healthy amount but seems to be somewhat on the wane. Dack is our only reliable source of goals and now he has gone and unless someone steps up in a way that is totally at odds with how they have done in the past, then we are going to struggle to get near the sort of goal total that will see us challenging for the play offs. Dack is our best player ywt somehow underrated.

He consistently scores and assists, as talented as Holtby is until he starts having the level of tangible effect consistently on games then he can be compared favourably. Dack is our only goal threat of any consistency.

Goals are the most important thing for a striker so if he is indeed a poor mans Jordan Rhodes, sign him up. We need goals to compensate for Dacks loss. Cant see Waghorn being available but would have him here yeah.

Wonder if Jack Marriott might be a target? Good player available from Derby who could help to score some goals in Dacks absence?