Massive blow but I feel like it tells you something that a player that our manager has trusted only once to start a game being out for a couple of months is such a huge setback. A couple of months of turgid, boring football seemingly await due to the haphazard recruitment strategy that Mowbray applied during the summer, meaning that our only player that can stretch teams is a loan youngster who cannot even get into the team and is now missing. We are now reliant on Conway who has had numerous injuries and is missing again this weekend because although he has the quality, his body is packing up, and Bennett who has been well below the standards we all expected in a lower league, offering nothing. This is because the 2 other players who can play these positions that Mowbray signed, in Antonsson and Gladwin, both signed from Championship contracts, lack the ability and pace that was evidently lacking and obvious to all but the manager in the summer. Quite simply, despite an incomparable budget to all of our rivals, we have been left with a squad that missing one attacking player is now sorely lacking in the threat and number of goals in the team to get us to where we want to be.

You should only get loans to either give you something that perhaps you couldn't afford to buy outright, or to cover someones injury. No padding the squad out full of loans. Chapman gives us pace we are sorely lacking, thats a good loan. Antonsson, although he looked awful at first, he looks better wide and has got 3 goals and deserves to be starting, potentially a good loan. Downing, only here to cover Lenihan, not convinced he has the quality to cover for a long period of time for a team at the top of the league, but hes done ok so far. It's the Harper one that baffles me. The 3 main central midfielders above him are very good at this level, Harper is well away from the team but its strange to sign a kid to fill the squad when we have our own youngsters such as Tomlinson who can surely do a job as a 4th choice in case of injuries.

I dont think Caddis has been that bad personally, much better than Williams.

Rhodes is 1 in 2 whenever he gets a regular run of games. He's currently lacking confidence after joining Boro when they already had Nugent etc scoring to get them promoted, and now hes joined a club with Gary Hooper scoring regularly. The point I disagree with the most is not if he deserved to be dropped at the time, but that he is better than the strikers we have now, miles miles better. I know now that Josh King is a better player, pretty easy in hindsight. I give up because you are quite clearly on here as a wind up, and this cant be interesting for others to read. No wonder you wind so many people up

But we arent a Premier League team, we were a Championship team and the first full season after selling him, we were relegated and now are in League 1!!!

Genuinely feel like banging my head against a brick wall talking to you. The most amazing aspect is not that you seemingly dont appreciate a striker who scores every other game, which is priceless. Its that in a hypothetical and unrealistic situation, you wouldnt pick him over the strikers we have now.

I find it totally baffling that you seem not to see goals as a priority in a forward. Rhodes has shown throughout his career, you give him a run of games and he will score goals at a higher level, pace and strength is no good if theres nothing consistent on the end of it. That last sentence is enough to pull your hair out about. They were averaging a goal a game between us. Are you saying that King would have scored 30 goals? Sorry Jordan, you've scored 20 goals again but we dont need you now because Chaddy will realise once Josh King leaves that he can get more than that. The problem laid in the 9 players behind it and the man in the dugout.

So you are telling me that if Rhodes was available on Tuesday against Rotherham, he wouldnt be the first name on the team sheet? Talking out of your arse. As good as King is, at the time that was a 40 goal strikeforce. Problem was the defence was leaky, and the central midfield was Lowe and Williamson. And to answer "How many goals and apps since he left 21 months ago?" hes barely played but a similar amount to Samuel and Antonsson, 2 players youd start on Tuesday.

Kings better on the ground than in the air, you have to play alot of crosses for Gestede so maybe Rhodes and King would have been better?

One game against 10 men. The fact that you wouldn't want him back is laughable, he scored more than a goal every other game in the division above for us, and has only struggled since because hes not had regular game time. He proved even with little service for us that he would score goal after goal, but you'd prefer the blunt strikeforce we have now? Gestede and Rhodes are both subs at that level, but both were scoring 20 a season for us, how could you possibly improve on that? KIng was unlucky but it would have made no sense to break them 2 up.

Legs were going? Have you added 10 years to him? He wouldn't come back and we could never afford him, but he'd score more than the 3 we have now combined, as he did consistently here. If you had taken Rhodes and his 20+ goals out of the team, we'd have been further away from promotion, not closer.

Rhodes scored goals in some terrible teams during his time here, especially when he first came, and continued when we got some better players, he was the main man, the fans favourite, he played every week, his confidence was up and it got to the stage where we took for granted the fact that he was guaranteed to score on average a goal every other game. He was right to seek a team chasing promotion, but since hes left hes been unable to get a regular run in the side for a manager who trusts him, he cant make an impact of the bench, hes very much a confidence player who needs to play regularly. One thing is for sure, we havent come close to replacing him and if he came back hed be first name on the team sheet and go on to score 30 goals at this level. Obviously theres not a cat in hells chance hed come back or we could afford him sadly.

If only he came back where he belongs.

Would have said no up until Wednesday, now I'd have him as 3rd choice behind Graham and Samuel who should both start.

How are we going to make major changes, with no money and in League 1?

Based on?

Stokes scoring again, yet what a good idea to bring in Joao as a 5th striker and ignore a lack of competent right back.

You are using the argument that he doesnt seem them which is fair enough, but I do and rate neither. Raya is somehow more of a liability than Steele, and Nyambe is nowhere near ready either.

Just wondering, but how come you go to watch Villareall but not Rovers?

Wales are definitely the 2nd best home nation, Bale, Bellamy, Ramsey, Allen, Ashley Williams, Ben Davies, Neil Taylor, Joe Ledley and Jonny Williams is a decent core of players for a small nation.

I doubt any team will want Gomes. Like Murphy, a 2 year deal is a risk that may have backfired.

Markus Olsson was one of our weak links, I still haven't seen him cross accurately that I can ever remember. Swap him for his brother. Anyway: Sandomierski - A couple of decent saves when needed. 7/10 Kane - Caught out of position once or twice again but good energy. 7/10 Givet - Outstanding, we should try and keep him. 9/10 Dann - Solid again, and part of another clean sheet. 8/10 Markus Olsson - No composure, has pace to get him out of trouble but technically lacking. 5/10 King - A real threat IMO when he was driving through their midfield at pace. 8/10 Williamson - So composed yet assertive with it. Very impressive, MOM. 9/10 Lowe - The weak link in the midfield but yesterday we got away with it due to the good performances around him. 5/10 Jones - Very comfortable on the ball if very left footed. I'd slot him alongside Williamson. 8/10 Best - Rusty but did provide a threat at times. 6/10 Rhodes - Superb finish and worked hard, but did little bar the goal. 8/10 Pedersen - A liability with his careless passing when he came on. 5/10 Goodwillie - Very sharp, made some superb runs and occupied defenders. 7/10 Dunn - Often went for the difficult option. 5/10

Sight injury = No chance of seeing him.

I've noticed that Etuhu is a real fans favourite, he has his song and he seems very popular, despite having an indifferent start, whereas Murphy is hated by almost everyone and much of our lacklustre performances is pinned down solely on him.

They both have been sitting back. Their problem, especially Murphy's has been a lack of attacking movement has left nothing on in terms of passing the ball forward. With them in central midfield we will have the edge over teams at this level, players need to make runs in front so we can use the passing range of in particular Murphy.