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I am not sure how you can be so sure or he could have proven that this is the case, but ultimately he is absolutely nowhere near Championship level so I suspect the answer is somewhere in between. I havent seen anything about him that makes me overly excited about the player he can become, I would suspect that League 2 may be the answer, because I am unconvinced that he could get regular football in League 1. I am not saying necessarily that he should be brought back but it is a little hypocritical and ironic that Scott Whartons potential return to help ease our lack of defensive depth has been rubbished, because he needs to "become a man" when he has played over 50 games in the football league and has recently won the player of the month in League 2, whereas Buckley, a player quite clearly far less physically capable in comparison is immediately in a position to be regularly featuring in the Championship, in Mowbrays mind.

Gallagher has mainly played up front for us, its a myth to suggest that hes spent all season toiling out wide, although the fact that he has played there at all is bizarre. As @RevidgeBlue says he is a poor player and ultimately, having had him before, the blame falls at Mowbray mainly for actually signing him in the first place.

The thing is, Breretons goals record (obviously at a very young age) was very infrequent at Forest. A video can make anyone look good, albeit I do appreciate that some attributes seem to be on show that have been nowhere to be seen here. I lose a lot of sympathy with Brereton because I am unconvinced that he is busting a gut to succeed, he often appears half arsed like he is going through the motions. Gallagher is really poor too but he does try his best. To be honest, I would take any sort of fee for either of them, a loan to come back a different player still seems a bit unlikely to me, I would be prepared to take my losses on either player as I dont see potential in either.

Impossible to get excited over the rest of the season to be honest. Our squad is horribly lacing without Dack and with mid table status almost certain and our FA Cup position meekly surrendered, our season feels like it has little riding on it already in early January.

Where is this from? Not a particularly encouraging record although better than Brereton and Gallagher on account of not being Brereton or Gallagher! So get him in.

Mowbray said he will be training Tuesday. Considering how bad everyone else is playing JRC may be worth a go. Cant see us winning tbh.

We created some chances but missed them all because our strikers are shit. Theres no way that we can do without signing a striker. Defence wasnt good enough either specifically that idiot of a keeper for both goals. For the first much of the blame goes to our absent midfield. Armstrong was our biggest threat but outstanding is a massive exaggeration. Was a depressing watch. Both teams had no quality and to say neither side is a bottom 3 Championship side says a lot about the league in general this season.

We need them all back and I hope they will be. Rothwells trial run in CM as you suggested was not a success. Regarding Bennett, that would be good news in terms of removing the option for Mowbray to play a player not up to it. Although I wouldnt be surprised to see him on crutches still playing!

Agreed. He was dreadful yet again. Glad to see you acknowledge a point you have previously disagreed with regarding anticipation. That being said, he actually did have 4 or 5 very good chances today and didnt take them. Useless. He is absolute shit, is he even better than Varney? I cant see him developing to anywhere close to a competent level and he shouldnt be anywhere near the team. Badly need a new striker.

Its more, people can clearly see that the player is well out of his depth, and can you believe it, are stating that on an internet messageboard.

Based on the players we have now, I would have to go with the following, we need some in this week: Walton Nyambe Lenihan Adarabioyo Downing Travis Evans Armstrong Holtby Rankin-Costello Graham Subs: Fisher, Williams, Johnson, Davenport, Chapman, Rothwell, Samuel Dont want to see Brereton, Gallagher, Bell or Bennett near the squad, all absolutely awful. Buckley nowhere near up to it either. Chapman poor in todays cameo, and Rothwell has been all season, and Samuel is shite full stop, but there is no alternative bar 2 strikers no better than Varney and Brown, so they can be on the bench. Ideally a new manager by next weekend too.

But he has only scored 2 goals. You cant use a header he had that hit the post and came away.

Embarassing yet again. Our squad is packed full of dismal players that without Dack are being shown as absolute shite. Gallagher missed 4 golden chances, absolute dog shit, no wonder he has the worst strike rate in the league. On par with Varney. Brereton is as out of place on a football pitch as anyone ive ever seen, we should check Ali Dias family tree. Armstrong the best of the 3 but still half arsed and the bit in the first half summed them up. Rothwell might as well have not played again, not good enough. Bennett often AWOL at right back, messing up simple passes and trying to play on injured. His injury is todays only positive. Bell technically dismal on the opposite side. Downing a class above on the ball but in general our midfield was non existent allowing them to break at will at our defence. And Leutwiler is embarassing and worse than Walton somwhow. Buckley is nowhere near up to it either, too soft and Chapman is not the same player. Just keeps running off the pitch. Time to go Mowbray.

Intriguing is one way of putting it!

That team makes me feel a bit sick. Brereton and Gallagher both starting sadly, at least one wide I suspect too. And them 2 at full back. Can some of these misfits actually start performing against a Birmingham reserve side? No Chapman either, suppose he didnt cost millions of pounds.

Has Rothwell? He has done nothing all season. Has Buckley? Only been in the first team picture for a lshort while and I havent seen much improvement. Did Raya? Went backwards to the point of being criticised and dropped. Has Bell? I have seen no improvement whatsoever, Mowbray has seemingly lost his patience with him. Armstrong? Not sure, suppose he has scored more this season so maybe. Dack has always been good but Mowbray deserves praise for that. I think Lenihan is more refined than when Mowbray joined too. Williams probably yes. Evans has always had spells of decent performances. Both maybes.

I think Bunn has done well to make that first list!

I think the thing he had going against him is that Conway and Gestede signed soon after and ultimately he was never going to get the number 10 position at the expense of one of our 2 20 goal strikers. That said, he would have been far more useless wide left compared to the awful Chris Taylor.

Thats ifs, buts and maybes though. His header hit the post and came back out, he missed the target. That last season he was still only scoring 1 in 4 and that season is references as some sort of benchmark for him, as if its proof that hes good enough. It was by far his best season to date and he was still decidedly average and didnt come close to winning player of the season in a dreadful campaign.

I think that second sentence could apply to either keeper. Leutwiler is awful too.

No idea if this random journalist is in any way reliable. Would be a very peculiar signing, 31 years old, has had injury problems and has failed here twice already.

I didnt see the positive feedback, but if you think a front 3 of Chapman, Armstrong and potentially Sam "worst strike rate in the league" Gallagher can fire us into the top 6, I suspect you are setting yourself up for a big fall. I think my team would be Walton, Nyambe, Lenihan, Adarabioyo, Downing, Evans, Travis, Holtby, Chapman, Armstrong OR Rothwell, Graham. So it is not massively different to yours, I am not necessarily saying that your team is massively wrong, I just think our attacking set of players is piss poor without Dack. It is ok to say move on from him, but the quality isnt good enough. Only Wigan have less goals than us if you take Dacks goals out. Brereton, Gallagher, Samuel, all shit. Rothwell, never scores or assists. Armstrong, occasional contributions, more poor games than good. Chapman, you have slagged him off all season, talented but again unproven. Graham, our best bet, but very old.

Midfield playmaker? Hopefully he can slightly improve on his record of 2 assists last season and 0 this then... I think we are miles away without Dack and will finish roughly where we are now, no real improvement on last season.

That would have only been a potential workable game plan with Dack in the side. Gallagher and Brereton couldnt score in a brothel.

A left back to replace Cunningham and free up Downing and someone to score some goals to fill the Dack void are the 2 priorities. Our attack is statistically worse than our defence and thats even with Dack in. In an ideal world some one would take Gallagher and Brereton off our hands but Christmas has past sadly.