Forest game

Rhodes gets bullied easily and sulks. He is a ***** in a mans league.

I am cautious by nature and would be reluctant to just get rid of Rhodes because of his obvious weaknesses. I think back to times when we tried numerous different strikers who were more physical but had a poor goals-per-game record. "Sniffers" are hard to replace.
I'd rather explore the option of finding someone who can do the physical stuff and lay on the half-chances for JR. It looks as if the support-striker, playing slightly deeper doesn't work. Obviously, Chris Brown was acquired for exactly this purpose, but his all-round game probably isn't good enough. As usual, all the UK-based possibilities will probably be very expensive. I wonder if someone fitting the bill can be found abroad.
Robin, you know our junior teams pretty well. We have a lot of promising strikers in those teams. Are any of them the big, strong, "bruiser" type? What about Forrester, for example?

[quote="AucklandRover" are hard to replace.
I'd rather explore the option of finding someone who can do the physical stuff and lay on the half-chances for JR. It looks as if the support-striker, playing slightly deeper doesn't work. Obviously, Chris Brown was acquired for exactly this purpose, but his all-round game probably isn't good enough. As usual, all the UK-based possibilities will probably be very expensive. I wonder if someone fitting the bill can be found abroad.
Robin, you know our junior teams pretty well. We have a lot of promising strikers in those teams. Are any of them the big, strong, "bruiser" type? What about Forrester, for example?[/quote]

Well Rhodes hasn't scored in open play for about 10 games

It's just that he is likely to "click" again suddenly. It's probably easier to find a target-man than a natural goal-scorer.
I have some vague memory of Rovers considering Vardy at some point. Am I imagining this?

Forrester certainly is that type sadly imo he just isn't good enough
we have a few good strikers but none that really fit the bruiser role
I think after Monday koita could be given a run in the team and that could be a huge benefit to us with his size and pace just a shame he can't hit a barn door.
on the bright side in a couple of years we have a youngster in Lewis mansell who is an instinctive striker in the Rhodes mould
his goalscoring record for the under 19s/21s is superb.