Thank Christ I don't have to watch Morton any more. Sad times I still have to watch Gallagher.

We were better without him for a period of time. I'd take him off and replace him with Dolan but there are worse players on the pitch.

He hasn't got many options imo, although he should have started Thomas. Buckley is injured. Wharton hasn't played for a while but I still would have started him ahead of Morton. We've got zero options to bench Gallagher.

Get Gallagher off, what an absolute shambles of a footballer he is.

Yep because he signed donkeys like Gallagher and Hedges and decided not to strengthen in January when others did.

Their lad showing Costelloe how you do it.

Well that was utterly shit. Why is Sorba suddenly dropped? Hedges isn't the same player. And why is Morton playing again? Why am I still watching Sam Gallagher plod around? 😩

Because the club fucked up the O'Brien transfer, Buckley is injured, Edun is really poor and the manager thinks Garrett isn't ready to play every match. But yes I agree, for much of the time with Morton on the pitch it's like we're at least one man down.

He wasn't outmuscled, he just didn't seem to have the match fitness to play more than one match a week. I'm surprised he hasn't had more games.

I hope so, he's not much competition for what we've got. I think Mowbray brought him in as a full back, but he's not very good in either position.

The first match I saw him in live this season was the 2-1 win against West Brom in which he came on for Phillips and every pass/touch seemed to lead to West Brom pressure. He had an absolute nightmare for about 20 minutes and when he wasn't in possession he was jogging about.

Well I can see the league table, but I don't watch every other teams matches as religiously as I do Rovers because I simply don't have the time. As I watch Rovers weekly, sometimes twice weekly, I think I know the players pretty well and combined with the knowledge that we don't score enough goals, and have suffered from inept recruitment, I think it's quite amazing we're still in with a chance.

Well we've disagreed about that before. I think we're at least three first team players away from being genuine promotion candidates and beyond that need more depth in areas. The difference this season is having an ambitious manager and for me he's done an excellent job with relatively little backing. January was a travesty, players continue to deliver inconsistent performances, goalscorers contrinue to misfire, but yet we're still in the play off spots. I rarely follow other teams progress but at a guess, I'd say they are in the same position because they have decent managers too, excluding the parachute payment teams.

Where did I say they weren't different standards? But even so, in both of those squads we still had some poor players just as we do now, the big difference is that we had far superior first choice attacking options which is the point I was making and you seemed to miss.

No idea, but I do know the two players I highlighted are massively lacking in quality for a play off push. I find myself comparing the current squad to the promotion squads of 1992 and 2001, and both were far superior with notable strikers in both teams. Speedie, Newell and Wegerley, Jansen, Bent & Hughes - Brereton, Gallagher and Dack. It's quite amazing this team is still in with a chance.

Morton and Gallagher in the play offs 😩 If we did make the play offs I'd see it more as progress rather than any belief we could go up. Also a hope that next season JDT may get backed as it must be obvious to Gregg and co that if we had a good midfielder and a goalscorer or two, we'd be challenging for the automatics. Fingers crossed this is like Souness's first "season" (it was actually only a few months) with Rovers where we had a squad littered with poor players, and the following season we actually go for it thanks to the club backing the manager and bringing in the required players/getting rid of the ones who aren't up to it.

With a GD of 0 at this stage of the season, I'd say it's obvious.

Just another match for him then.

And a CM.

Has Brereton come on for Dolan?

You can't have a team with the likes of Gallagher and Morton in it and expect to keep getting results. We're better without Morton and even on a good day Gallagher struggles to keep up for the majority of the game.

Morton and Gallagher both passengers, we're pretty much playing with 9.

Really poor.

From what little I've seen we're trying to pass quickly and instead after a couple of passes giving it away. I thought it'd be a poor game today.

Not sure about that.