None of the current injured and unavailable players are expected back for this one. So pot luck and hope for the best.

This might be useful: Teams that finished 21st in the Championship over the last decade 2022/23 - 22nd 44 pts. 21st: Cardiff City - 49 points. Gap between 21st and 22nd: 5 points. 2021/22 - 22nd 37 pts. 21st: Reading - 41 points. Gap between 21st and 22nd: 4 points. 2020/21 - 22nd 43 pts. 21st: Derby County - 44 points. Gap between 21st and 22nd: 1 point. 2019/20: 22nd 47 pts. 21st : Barnsley - 48 points. Gap between 21st and 22nd: 1 point. 2018/19 - 22nd 40 pts. 21st: Millwall - 44 points. Gap between 21st and 22nd: 4 points. 2017/18 - 22nd 41 pts. 21st: Bolton Wanderers - 43 points. Gap between 21st and 22nd: 2 points. 2016/17: 22nd 51 pts. 21st: Nottingham Forest - 51 points. Gap between 21st and 22nd: +2 GD sending Rovers down. 2015/16 - 22nd 40 pts. 21st: Rotherham United - 49 points. Gap between 21st and 22nd: 9 points. 2014/15: 22nd 41 pts. 21st: Rotherham United - 46 points. Gap between 21st and 22nd: 5 points. 2013/14: 22nd 44pts. 21st: Birmingham City - 44 points. Gap between 21st and 22nd: +15 GD. Average 22nd 42.8 points Average 21st 45.9 points

Got to remember the West Brom game followed the Man U home game where we held on to the 84th minute at 0-0 and nothing got past Scott Danns. Against West Brom, in the first 7 minutes, Danns missed THREE easy defensive headers and Orr was practically showing the West Brom winger where to cross from. The first goal saw Danns go up for the ball then crane his neck to get his head out of the way of it giving West Brom a free header which deflected off Olsson and in. Robinson and Nzonzi immediately confronted Orr who sheepishly walked away offering neither an apology or an argument. Their second and third goals were equally created by Rovers errors and Modeste got himself sent off for a nothing reason in the 89th minute 12 minutes after coming on as a sub.

Before Millwall I said I was looking for a win and two draws in the 3 games coming up. We have avoided catastrophic defeats against fellow strugglers Plymouth and Millwall so Boro has to be the win, please. Boro are virtually safe. We need them to be motivated to finish the job against Brum and not us.

Boro have a job to do at Birmingham on Tuesday evening. A Boro win with a few injuries and a sending off please.

I like Huddersfield letting 4 in in 20 minutes.

Kean was far worse than lacking class.. I am worried but we are over doing writing Eustace off.

Of all the injured players, Carter and JRC are needed back the most. We are still in the lap of the injury Gods- continue to have a bad run of absences and we are facing huge problems. With 5 clubs below us and 3 within 3 points above us, we are looking for 2 of those 8 to perform worse than us in the last 9 matches plus Brum and Huddersfield not getting unlikely wins in their game in hand.

And West Brom away. I was right behind the goal and saw exactly what happened there. And Swansea away And both Man City games There were two other games which were very dodgy. Plus Scott Danns 5 own goals Plus that dodgy right back we bought. And the fights in the dressing room, arguments on the pitch with players accusing each other of not trying....

Is Hayden Carter back for Good Friday?

Thankfully we didn't lose. Now it is worry about Huddersfield v West Brom and Brum v Boro and hoping we are still 3 points above the drop when we go to Boro. Let's see what Eustace manages with a week with the players.

Incidentally, betting and fixing is not uniquely a football problem. I visited the Economist offices to speak with an investigative reporter there. His boxing file was the same size as his football file and his cricket file was three times thicker than either football and boxing and in his opinion was by far the most corrupt sport.

I am not dismissing match fixing and betting. The cash flows are so enormous and tax free that a decently funded fixer can make handsome returns. The season we were relegated, the Hong Kong betting market alone was bigger than the Premier League and Champions League combined turnovers on its own. Lower leagues are particularly susceptible. The Malaysian and Maltese leagues are globally renowned to be fixed- yet another Malta Premier League player was jailed this week... The 2010/11 Nationwide League South stank to high heaven. On the dark web in 2011/12, I found a list of that week's fixed games across Europe. There were 112 games but you had to subscribe to find out what the fix was in each case. I remember Wigan's Premier League fixture was on the list along with other English games going down to the 6th level. When I did a similar search two years later, English games were remarkably absent. There had clearly been a recognition of the problem and things done in such a way to lessen the problem without ruining the reputation. Serie A never recovered from the first big Juventus scandal.

Good result for us. I expect the Wednesday game to be one of the tougher ones in our run in...

Whoever came after the class act that was JDT was going to look inept in comparison. From what I can see, Eustace is playing the type of pragmatic football essential in our circumstances. The more the opposition has the ball the greater their opportunity to test Wahlstadt. So against Millwall we needed 70% ball possession and that is pretty well what we got. I fully expect plenty of tippy tappy stuff today too.

Nobody but nobody will argue with these propositions - we are facing Plymouth without key outfield players and with an extremely dodgy keeper - if we lose this one, our survival prospects will take one hell of a blow So I am hugely relieved Eustace is prioritising protecting the keeper and not losing

Don't forget Ash Phillips will be giving a defensive masterclass.

No need to bet illegally in India when there are legal markets all over East Asia. My personal opinion is that games were rigged in our Premier relegation season. Why rig them?

Apparently the Indian illegal betting market is the biggest with over a billion being wagered in a single day more than 12 years ago.

Sticking to my guns- must not lose. Not losing to the club most likely to slip into the bottom 3 if we don't is absolutely paramount. The other fixtures see fellow travellers in distress either playing each other - Millwall v Birmingham QPR v Boro OR facing opponents at the top end desperate for 3 points - Wednesday v Leeds PNE v Stoke Huddersfield v West Brom So a point is unlikely to lose us ground to 22nd place. Incidentally, Brum v Boro which is those two sides' game in hand on everybody else is played on Tuesday night so we face Boro a week on Saturday after they have played two tough away games without having a midweek fixture ourselves.

I know Jon Dahl is youthful looking for a man in his late 40s but sitting on the under 16s bench!!!

There were a bunch of fees paid including 5m to the tantric agent (official no doubt plus plus) so cost of 43m is about the number I had in mind.

Sure the fixture list looks intimidating but the position Rovers are in makes us the sort of fixture clubs pushing for promotion really don't like. Plus the chances are we will raise our game with Carter, JRC and Hedges back from injury.... If you gave me a draw now or 50/50 win/defeat, I take the draw because Plymouth are one of the more likely clubs to do worse than us in the run in. So must not lose rather than a must win. Must win would be if we were starting on Saturday 2 points below 21st, not 2 points above 22nd. But of course a win would be very very welcome and apt compensation for playing them off Home Park and losing 3-0 under JDT. That Hedges miss!!!

With ten out injured, how can the argument be made the squad is not good enough?

Another must not lose. I understand the frustrations but this is the reality of our situation. We must not lose against fellow travellers in distress. I would like to see us taking more shots on the basis of if you don't buy a ticket, you won't win the lottery.