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  1. You can lead a horse to water you can't make it drink, if the rumour is right and Gibson didn't want to go to Watford then that's his personal choice. Gibson cost £15 million, but your hardly going to re coup anywhere near that from a player who has hardly played a competitive game for Burnley since his move. Burnley took a risk with Gibson it didn't pay off, it would also be a risk for Watford. With regard to the cheap Boro loan deal I honestly can't comment since I'm not in a position to know what the club actually offered. As for your comment on the homeboy, Gibson was superb for us in
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  2. Don't Panic Live footage from Rockliffe Park: Harold Moukoudi undergoes intense shooting practice: Assombalonga practices penalties: Meanwhile Woody and Leo work on discipline: But it's going to be fine, right? Surely there's no way the mighty Middlesbrough FC can be dragged into a relegation battle? Up next are bottom of the table dwellers Luton Town. Let's be frank, we should be beating these, but this is a transitional Middlesbrough FC side so who knows what will happen. A loss here and you'd have to expect the dreaded relegation fight
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  3. Here's some good ones I read on here about Fry: Fry doesn't win headers, he's not good in the air. In actual fact he's won more headers per game than any Boro player, including Ayala. Fry gives the ball away a lot. Actually he's ranked 15th in our squad for inaccurate long passes. Ayala, Shotton, Howson, Moukoudi and McNair are all ahead of him and thus give the ball away more in these circumstances. He's 17th for inaccurate short passes, only Ayala and Moukoudi are below him out of the defenders I believe. He's ranked 19th for unsuccessful touches and also for being dispossess
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  4. Blackburn got relegated with 51 points the season we were in the Prem. 4 of the last 5 seasons, 42 points has been enough. Comparing both 16/17, 18/19 and this season after ~32 games, the bottom 5 looks like this. 16/17 (Blackburn, Wigan, and Rotherham relegated) 18/19 (Rotherham, Bolton, Ipswich relegated) 19/20 The fact Blackburn managed to claw 21 points from their final 14 games, averaging 1.5 points per game, and still got relegated is quite something. But it does show how difficult it is to drag yourself out of the bottom 3 at this point in the season that 14 out
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  5. Maybe it's because people have/had a higher opinion of Fry than most of our players? His level has dropped this season but I don't think he's been our worst defender... playing on the left sided is probably good for his development to be honest, it might do him well for the rest of his career being challenged in a tough situation and being forced to develop both feet. Moukoudi looked very good in that Wigan game to be fair to him, I think everyone in the stadium thought that ball was going straight out of play before the wind took it. Similar with his own goal, it looked like an awful
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  6. I think Saville has been our best player since October. Fans expect more because they thought he was brought in to score goals from midfield, but he offers so much more than that and it's good to see us playing him a bit deeper and breaking and linking up play.
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  7. No excuses. We're playing the worst team in the league at home. If Woodgate can't put out a team with a coherent game plan to get a win (barring extreme bad luck)... then he really should just give up at this point.
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  8. Lots of stuff going around ref Gibbo... fell out with Dyche when no transfer materialised and then was sent into U23s but then fell out with the coach there who said he was lazy in training and no wonder he wont make it at Burnley was what I have been told has gone down.
    1 point
  9. I think so but then we signed Fischer and then Ajax signed Ziyech to replace him if I remember rightly.
    1 point
  10. With so many winnable draws I have not a clue which BORO will turn up. Statistically the money would be on a BORO win, but who among us would wager a bet? Of course we are good enough to win and I believe we will, but we are well capable of dramatics that we could shoot ourselves in the foot again, so a good bet would be on a BORO own goal or a sending off.
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  11. Interesting input from Jon Walters: https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/burnley-middlesbrough-ben-gibson-news-17740954
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  12. i agree with that @p_mards. I thought Saville was easily the pick off the bunch and none of the other players covered themselves in any great glory. I thought Saville did well in that deeper role and what I like about him there is when he gets the ball his first thought was to look up and try move ball forward. Hope it continues to get better. Paddy been off the boil lately but hoping he can put in a more dominating performance v Luton.
    1 point
  13. Yeah, as paradoxical as it sounds, he was awful aside from him scoring two 25 yarders. Our central midfielders don’t do the basics of the role we’ll enough. Well, other than Saville who has been brilliant lately.
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  14. I agree with you, but Barnsley are now the worst team. We need to be beating both.
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  15. 1. Let's say 3-2 to us. We're basically the same team we were when we played Luton in August, so we'll score some decent goals and concede some howlers. 2. Who the f**k knows any more. Probably a 2-3-1-2-2 (be honest, you counted them to make sure they added up to ten, didn't you?) 3. I hope not. He could potentially become a really dynamic CB, commanding the box and breaking forwards with pace to launch counter-attacks, but his confidence doesn't need more knocks. 4. When it's time to party, he will party hard. So probably, yes. 5. No. 6. Never. You don't cure a migra
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  16. As a LB you need to make a better attempt to stop the cross and as a free roaming CB as Moukoudi was marking Kiefer Moore it's your job to cover the space across the front post. That's just my opinion and then If Moukoudi doesn't go for the header and leaves it as Fry did , Moore scores a tap in.
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  17. We don't do very well against teams who aren't confident, either. Basically, we don't do very well full stop. Luton's players must be licking their lips after watching us last night.
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  18. were deffo in a position of having to beware of getting relegated for me, that comes as no real suprise given the choice of manager the top man made. woodgate is a boy in a mans world and the way things have materialised adds smoke to that fire. its almost like woodgate recieves a special gift from a rich uncle but being not the brightest star in the sky and having a destructive nature ,he is way too thick and clumsy to work out how to operate the gift, how to look after it and how to understand how it even works in the first place. the first three months after getting it he coulnt get his br
    1 point
  19. I feel if i dont share this next stat i am jinxing us to lose at home so here goes. If my research is correct Luton have played 16 away games. Losing 14 and winning 2. They not won (or drew a game for that fact) away from home since end of Sept. We not lost at home since mid Oct. There. I said it. I could not bear the burden of carrying that stat with me for next 3 nights. By sharing it i hope the stat continues.
    1 point
  20. Is Nmecha a scizo? 😄
    1 point
  21. 😗 Oh good the threads getting interesting.
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  22. What are we transitioning to? That's my question.
    1 point
  23. The defense is far from blameless, but the main problem is the midfield, if you keep losing the ball, and stray passing you end up putting the defense under unnecessary pressure, its exactly the same when we sit far too deep and invite pressure, that again is either down to the midfield or poor instructions coming from the touchline
    1 point
  24. I'm concerned about relegation this season and also next season even if we keep up this season. The amount of soft goals that we have conceded this season is pathetic. The reason we can't string a consistent run of form or even a consistent 90 minutes is because we aren't organised enough to keep clean sheets, especially with the protection that our defence gets from midfield. It's amateur stuff. There's no way that we'd have conceded the goals against Wigan under a high quality coach like Karanka. Gibson has essentially given his mate Woodgate the job for the foreseeable future unless we
    1 point
  25. This Gibson thing could be simply that Burnley are gone on their winter break for warm weather training and Ben wasn’t invited along so he has permission to train with Boro for the week rather than the Burnley youngsters? There might be no conspiracy at all
    1 point
  26. I agree but given the squad and a rookie manager in charge, its the type of bet a bookie laps up, they slip up now and again but they love the mug punter, its why they're billionaires.
    1 point
  27. As far as bets on daft things go, you could have had plenty of laughs on the 5000/1 on Leicester at the time too. But that's the risk, those are the odds and if you're to win off it, someone has to beat the odds. There's a reason we were 33/1 and why he'd have won a wonderful £1.7k back from it if it had come off. Because it wasn't impossible to happen, just improbable.
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  28. Sat 15:00 Cardiff, Derby, Middlesbrough, Nottm Forest & Sheff Wed all to finish in the top half @ 16/1 Had this bet Jan Come on Boro 😁
    1 point
  29. Nice opening post. I'm proud of you, son 😢
    1 point
  30. Pizza delivery to the Boro dressing room... Woody giving a press briefing outside the Riverside...
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  31. Luton Town's first visit to the Riverside Stadium almost 25 years since being the last team to play Ayresome Park!
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  32. Over the last ten years 42/43 points has been enough although there has been two occasions of teams going down on 51 & 54. So there is a chance we may only need another 6 or 7 points, it would take a disastrous run not to achieve this! Get some results and end this talk!!
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  33. Boro flashback - This day 7th February 1987 Boro 1 Bristol Rovers 0 Paul Kerr, our 1st cash signing after liquidation which was £50k, made his league home debut this afternoon wearing the No9 shirt & his 3rd game for the mighty Boro, which included an FAC debut in our home defeat to Preston, a 3-0 win at Bury the week previous & this day If it was a good day for Paul Kerr it wasn't for Brian Laws, as the game was goalless Boro were awarded a penalty at the holgate end, Lawsy took the spot kick & put the ball wide of the goal & at that moment went down clutching his k
    1 point
  34. Luton won which will give them confidence going into the weekend and lord knows we don't like teams with confidence!
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