Looking at City, the difference this season is that they are playing Pep ball too slowly. Passes are not zipped around in the way which made them so potent. Fractions of time simply give opponents to be in position anticipating Pep stylled attacks. And whether he is a luxury or not, Haaland is now well enough known that he is being neutralised by opponents. Then their great players have aged together. Walker, de Bruyne, Bernardo, Gundogan have all gone sharly past their best.

Having just watched some Sunderland highlights they are very mobile up front and unlike us strike on sight. We will have to defend from the front much better than we did at Millwall. At the other end, their defence is not particularly secure. If we play Baker, I hope both he and Tronstad are encouraged to use their powerful shooting abilities.

Going to have to open the Darwen End Upper to Rovers supporters...

Huge test with the winning run punctured and key absences (that we know of- there may be more after the bruiser at the Den). Sunderland have that little matter of the 5-1 thumping at the Stadium of Light to exorcise before their noisy support. All three results a 33% chance by my reckoning with the 1% left over going on a postponement...

Millwall are extremely fit, knew exactly what to do to nullify us and have two extremely tricky and gifted forward players whom we couldn't take any liberties with. Cantwell had his most ineffective game since signing, ACD panicked when clean through and Eustace messed up his subs. Was particularly disappointed by what he must have failed to say at half time. Things needed changing but instead we got a repeat of the first half. Weather conditions and a ref who had forgotten his cards didn't help. Even so, it was very nearly an avoidable defeat. Now we face Sunderland, Leeds and Burnley with a crippled squad. There will be a lot of hurt bodies after that clash quite apart from missing Pickering and Travis.

This scrolls on as long as some Christmas songs

This great. Any incoming transfers are going to be a total surprise. Anyway back to the Ryan Hedges thread. I say give him a new contract to encourage the others...

Nobody seems to have clocked that a Hedges contract renewal creates a saleable asset. He might not be good enough for us but he's better than 50% of equivalent players in the Championship. If we sign the two players Swag will now be vilified for if we don't get, I expect Dolan will be sold at the end of the window.

The number of places available to the current front line players will be reduced by two sometime in January if JE and Swag are to be believed. That should focus minds in front of goal...

Mindset has to be we know what it takes to get the win. Now we have to go on the pitch and earn that win. It won't get easier because every club we face has all the technology and experienced brains working out how to stop the Eustace machine.

Maxwell Cornet and who else has been seriously linked?

Produce the performances which are now rolling off the production line and Millwall will have to pull a season best to beat us. Do what we did at Coventry.... First of 11 games in 41 days so let's keep yellows to a minimum, no red and hope all bodies and limbs are in one piece after a predictably bruising Championship encounter. Unlike Luton, Millwall are average sized so I am half expecting to see Dolan starting but providing there are no more midweek sniffles or training ground mishaps, Eustace has a very welcome selection dilemma in several positions. The bench should look awesomely strong.

Rohl has Southampton connections and apparently if Sheffield Wednesday don't reduce their compensation demands, Saints will look abroad. Eustace has been binned off once for a glamour appointment so doesn't have the Premier League cachet. I might be wrong but there are now no British managers outside Ipswich who came through the leagues at any Premier League club left now. Graham Potter is a distant memory. The others are either relegated last season or sacked yesterday. Eustace didn't work an instant miracle at either Brum or Rovers (we were never in a relegation position last season so it was a preservation rather than a salvation job) so given the player rabbles at both Wolves and Southampton, it would be a more than 50% chance he would get potted before April with a destroyed reputation if he went to either club. And absolutely no tears for Russel Martin from me. Gary O'Neill lost it at Wolves but was badly treated by Bournemouth.

Actually it is a bit more spectacular, we have 11 games from 21 December to 31 January!

Happy to answer my biggest fan. Beaten at his nearer post by a shot from the edge of the area which wasn't the most venomous although his view must have been impeded then after diving for Gueye's non-tap in, he seemed slow to get up for Beck clipping the loose ball straight past him.

Gestede and team gave Eustace an unlikely platform of players to form the current squad capable of two good runs and one bad run. And delivered the cash in hand for Swag. The timing of the departure of head of recruitment rings all kinds of alarm bells for January. There is no forecasting what will happen beyond observing Eustace isn't a toys out of the pram sort of guy (remember the chorus of "he's just a yes man" on here ?) I think the Eustace comments about needing signings is slightly more likely to be because he is involved in the process of new signings being lined up than him politicking to try to force a signing or two.

Glad to be wrong. Remarkably didn't miss Cantwell (or the other 9 unavailable) and Kamimsky was suspect rather than a wonder show. Luton are a big side. Gueye didn't look the big man on a field of midgets he sometimes can appear. Gueye had a great game and as Eustace said, give him the benefit of the doubt for the back heel lay off for Beck's goal. Kaminsky bought the feint and that is what matters... The most impressive aspect of this 5 game run without conceding is I am struggling to think of many instances when I had that sinking feeling the opposition must score. Pears has made a few saves but no MOM performance or top drawer saves have been required from him. This marvelous organisation was summed up from the 79th minute yesterday when we kept possession for 2 minutes without Luton getting a sniff of the ball and effectively killed the game off We are in uncharted territory here. Plenty of excuses for not winning but they are not needed! Long may it continue....

FA Cup 4th Round is 8th February if we survive sudden death at the Riverside. In which case the QPR away game would be postponed (as it would be if QPR survive their visit to Leicester) Other February games are West Brom away on Wednesday 12th, Plymouth home on Saturday 15th and Swansea away on the 22nd - a holiday month in comparison!

Beg to differ. They came 18th after minimal investment in the team. They lost key winnable must win games to send themselves down. If you want self embarrassment, look at the £100m Dingles or gave up without a whimper Blades

Dangerous- expectations of a win but they have a fabulous keeper and came very close to avoiding relegation from the PL last season. Luton have been hit badly by injuries this season so will be even more dangerous opponents when players come back. On current form we will have too much for them but I fear we will miss Cantwell far more than we missed Travis at Hull.

Of course we all love the boss who pulls what is commonly regarded as a not quite good enough squad into a 5 run winning mean machine. But the unity of purpose he has engendered is there for all to see and he has done this at a time when all the pointers are to the non-playing side of Rovers being a bitter shambles. Exceptional achievement.

I bet the points progress chart is looking pretty again...

We are over doing the knocking of Gueye. The goal clip starts running with Beck performing heroics on the left but immediately prior to that Gueye had received and instantly controlled then passed accurately an incredibly difficult ball with. two Wednesday defenders close to him. There were at least two other "he's not going to control or even get to that" moments from Gueye in his brief cameo. He looks ungainly and a bit uncoordinated and when he messes up he is so big there is no hiding place but I haven't changed my opinion that Gueye can play and is a serious upgrade on Gallagher.

Really really happy- this 5 match run looked like comic book stuff before we went to Cardiff! Eustace is doing an excellent job organising and motivating this squad. Defensively even with a middling level keeper we are superbly set up limiting oppositions to virtually no clear cut chances. And there is enough quality in the side that the skill and application gel long enough to create a goal. The hard work on left and right in the build up to Gueye's header were exceptional. As for individual players, JRC was showing how good he is and creates a selection headache for Saturday. I fear we will find out how good Cantwell really is when he is missing on Saturday- for such a showy looking player he does a lot of accurate basic stuff really well. Dolan always struggles against a big physical side but his mobility means he is always rushing them- lost count of the number of misplaced Wednesday passes after Dolan chasing down. Talking of Wednesday being big, how many of the have bellies on them. OK Belly Bannan is perhaps understandable but... Talking of mistakes, Eustace seems to have coached Rovers out of making as many as we used to. Talking of selection headaches, 9 players unavailable last night yet we still were rock solid, had good Championship quality coming on in the second half and still John Buckley was sitting on the bench at the full time whistle. Loving it!

So, a multiple choice question: - club is successfully keeping moves for signings quiet - there are no signings - there will be signings but so underwhelming you can't find them on wikipedia