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  1. Pears made WhoScored team of the week, so he must have been good statistically at the very least.
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  2. I think it's a lie, mate. I'm not sure how you can think otherwise even with the rest of your analysis there? There are 20 Premier League clubs and then after that we'd have been viewed probably as somewhere in the next 10 best clubs. Are you seriously saying that we couldn't do better than Woodgate on that basis? The club weren't looking to do better than him, that's the problem, and suggesting that he was the best candidate is a lie because of this. I don't believe for a second that they looked around with any real interest in appointing anyone else (after the actual first choice, Pulis
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  3. QPR V Middlesbrough Sky Bet Championship Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium Saturday 9th November, KO 15:00 Middlesbrough travel to QPR on the back of a horrendous winless run which has seen us drop into the bottom three with no real sense of where our next point, let alone three points will come from. QPR sit in 9th but they've lost their last two games so could be there for the taking if Jonathan Woodgate can somehow manage to convince our players that scoring goals is both cool and good. Hey lads, it's a goal! Remember them? Our opposition are already ta
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  4. It frustrates the life out of me that we refuse to look at europe at the moment. If they're using the premier league season as a reason not to, it's so so foolish. Theyd be better advised to look at what came in the couple of seasons before - nsue, kike, vossen, stuani were top quality players at this level for a lot less than youd pay for domestic players of similar quality. I also think we dont look at the youth teams of top half prem teams enough. There are a lot of players in there that arent good enough for them but could be really great in the championship- there are a lot of
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  5. I certainly agree with you that we have had much worse squads in recent times and survived in the Championship so Woodgate shoulders some blame why he can't get this set of players to be were we realistically see ourselves - Mid-table.
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  6. Perhaps we have exposed an affair.
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  7. What we really, desperately need is a long-term plan. Even if it means relegation to L1 while it's implemented, we need to stop the boom-and-bust cycle of spunking future earnings on unnecessary and disinterested mercenaries, before selling off the family silver and signing players for £100K under a manager whose main selling point is a few years as a Boro defender. I am completely unconvinced that Woodgate is developing a long-term plan. I think he had a plan for about a month, ripped it up in panic, and now has no idea how to fix our problems. And TBH, it's unfair to expect a rookie ma
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  8. This topic got exactly the right amount of replies 😉
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  9. I don’t post on here usually. More of a longtime lurker .. I much prefer to watch what goes on and enjoy decent sensible debate. However I have to say that what is going on currently and the running of the club since the Karanka hissy fit ,in the promotion season , has been and is absolutely woeful. the club is currently in the worst position in terms of Short and medium term prospects, league position, squad, aptitude and attitude ,that I can remember since the season we had to beat Newcastle to stay up, but , that said, even that team had a enough grit and ability to pull a r
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  10. Relegation is never a blessing in disguise and hopefully no one would ever think that. How could it be?
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  11. Are they poo? Or are they just struggling under a manager who can’t get the best out of them - much the same to the rest of the squad, which are mostly “better” players. I don’t know because I’ve not seen enough of them in action.
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  12. yes please....then I can finally say "Rhodes.....where we're going we won't need Rhodes"...........
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  13. I honestly think Gibson thought Woodgate would do a poundland version of Mowbray. Basically man the ship while the club gets rid of all the high earners. I don't think Gibson will accept Woodgate taking us down and I don't think its something he'll have expected either. A defeat on Saturday is probably what everyone expects given our current form, however I think the next 2 home games might be make or break for JW.
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  14. Exactly mate... Relegation is very rarely the 'blessing in disguise' some fans think it's gong to be. There's no chance we'll fly straight back up as an all conquering attacking side. Leeds have still never got back after their relegation. Would be a disaster and I can see us sleepwalking towards it like we've done in past Premier League seasons.
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  15. 2 million for Dijksteel on 1 year left for Boro at RB is premium come on. Who beats that price in our history for a RB? Reizeger? Barragan barely? Bola was 900k on 1 year left besides Franck and Fabio we've not had many more expensive LBs. We aren't make a wish, we don't have McManus and Bikey at CB we're Middlesbrough Football Club assets in tact for now the fact our managers got us points adrift of relegation in November with the squad he has is so inexcusable it can't be defended so everyone reverts to strange defense's like the Gazette saying it's finances or it's Britt I don't r
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  16. I'd just ignore the Gazette to be honest, their writers have zero credibility. The likes of Vickers and Tallantire will right whatever the club want them to right. I'm surprised so many people fell for the clubs/ Gazettes propaganda in the summer because it was just rehashing the same stories they wrote during the Southgate era.
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  17. Erimus where are you? we need some nostalgia to cheer us old supporters up.
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  18. Oh I wasn't arguing that Pulis was the right man for the job at that time...I was just saying the type of manager he is. I agree that, sadly, Gibson has fallen prey to the common disease of knee jerk reactions...pretty much ever since McLaren left. I honestly would've liked to see him keep faith in Karanka after we got relegated, try to keep the squad together (or make whatever changes were deemed necessary) and bounce straight back. After all he was another rookie manager, but one who did a hell of a lot better than we had any right to expect. Actually I still don't understand
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  19. I think most fans accept the PL gravy train days are over for the foreseeable future. We had our chance at re-establishing ourselves in the top flight and - unlike Burnley - we stuffed it completely. Right now, I'd settle for exciting attacking football in the upper reaches of the Championship, but even that seems hopelessly unattainable at present. Without a billionaire buyer coming in and turning us into a new Bournemouth, I think we're in real risk of becoming the next Nottingham Forest, Ipswich, et al. "They were good once, weren't they? Didn't they play in Europe?"
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  20. There is literally no reason why we should entertain the idea of dropping down to League 1 for even one minute. We just finished 5th and 7th, and are historically a good second division club. We're playing s*** and have a s*** manager but our team is plenty good enough for mid table. It would be disastrous to be relegated. And anyone who thinks we'll fly back up as the next Sheff Utd... remember when we just popped down to the Championship for a rebuilding season with Southgate? That went brilliantly didn't it.
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  21. I'd like to say Talking Heads - Road to nowhere but sadly we know where Boro are likely to be going, down, so... As the table apparently lies I'll go for The Hollies - Can't tell the bottom from the top. For a feel good factor how about just cranking the volume up on Pigbag - Papa's got a brand new pigbag, feeling good and not giving a flying :D
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  22. I don't think anyone was suggesting Crosby and Clark were coming in, staying at Rockliffe isn't exclusive to future MFC employees. 😂
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  23. Given the way the club has been run recently, The Idiots Are Taking Over by NoFX seems very appropriate. Some of the lyrics are bob on as well: "It's not the right time to be sober, now the idiots have taken over." "Insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason." "Now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening." "Now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule, and I'm starting to feel a lot like Charlton Heston, stranded on a primate planet. Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground, with generals and the armies that obeyed
    1 point
  24. Britt thinking about big chances, listening to Puff Daddy - I'll be missing you ♫
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  25. What a sad state of affairs. I used to be a car nut but I knew when a job was too big and when to call in a professional. I do wish the owner could do likewise but maybe that's a comment for another thread. Reading your comments in this thread guys just makes me think Boro are in a very sorry state.
    1 point
  26. Wow this could be the start of a new era! 🙄
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  27. So it's a baseless accusation then, because he's not in the squad very often he must be faking injury, well done on making that jump. I'd love to understand the link between him and Rodwell here, Rodwell is currently without a club, he's hardly 'doing OK now'. The only link is that nobody else would pay him what he was earning and that's not down to either player, that's down to ridiculous spending from both us and Sunderland respectively. As far as I can tell, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the lad's personal motivation to get in the team. He keeps getting injured and keeps comin
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  28. What sane attacking/wide player would want to come here after van la Parra's wretched experience, or the very public collapse of Britt's confidence? Who would want to risk being paired up front with Gestede, or endure being serviced by makeweights like Johnson? And that's assuming we're still in trouble, which means anyone joining us faces the very real prospect of playing in the third tier of English football. And we'd be trying to sign them on the cheap, so it's not even like we can tempt them with good wages.
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  29. Says it all... They were hoping not to recruit in January 😂 totally trying to wing this season ain't we boro!?
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  30. But did Pulis steady the ship .. When he took over, we were just outside the play off spots and had a still happy Braithwaite and other quality players ... If a Jockanowich type of manager had been given that half a season .. we might have been promoted, which would have fixed a lot of economic trouble for the club.. Gibson has a tendency of pulling the hand break at the wrong times .. The January window when we were a prem team .. And when Monk turned out a failure .. Karanka should have had the 50m, not Monk. But when Monk had splashed the cash .. we shouldn't have pulled the
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  31. I don't want Woody sacked .. But I really want an experienced head to take control an be a mentor for Woody, who might come good with a little help.
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  32. Steve Round was on Boro's coaching staff. I seem to remember it being reported that he applied for the Boro job when Mac got the England job. I think he went to Everton after that
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  33. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths Its Grim Up North - The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Down In A Hole - Alice In Chains Nothing Ever Happens (for 90 minutes) - Del Amitri Can't Buy A Thrill Goal - UFO No-one Knows (what they're doing) - Queens Of The Stone Age Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming - Deep Purple SOS - ABBA / Fozzy This Is the New S**t (same as the old s**t?) - Marilyn Manson Or instead of getting all angsty and depressed, you could lay your hands on some ganja and a packet of Rizlas and let your cares drift away with:
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  34. Not that it's something I'd ever listen to but this sounds pretty apt: Fall Out Boy - "Sugar, We're Goin Down"
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  35. Sheffield Utd were in League One for six seasons. We have been down to the Third Tier twice and come straight back up on both occasions. Unless Gibson sorts things out in January, it's looking like we will be visiting League One for an extended period.
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  36. Randolph is 100% injured. Not that I have a problem with playing Pears over Mejias. He's been good and will only improve. For me Fry, Saville, Tav and Assombalonga are playing awful. I'd be looking at every-way possible to get them out the starting line up. Changing the shape, playing more youth lads, whatever it takes. Fry is costing us so many goals. He loses his man, gets pushed off the ball and has an awful first touch. Saville has literally no positives. He's like a lead weight around the teams neck. Slow, can't pass, can't tackle, weak. Play Malley - he couldn't do worse.
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  37. I posted a few days ago that I believe the club are looking to sell Randolph which is why Pears has been thrown in instead of Mejias, to get him used to being #1 choice as he's got a bright future here. I'm not saying Randolph's injury is a cover....but we have seen the club do this before.
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