SouthWest Boro

Against Tottenham it will probably be 5-5-0

So, what now? Maybe he'll show his tactical nous and throw on Johnson for one of the defensive minded players? Or bring on Wood for Fletcher to keep the score down.😐

If Spence turns his yellow into a red now, i'll know who to come back too 😂

I find it so sad that these days i'm hoping we just don't lose (and heavily). I know it's no secret, but I really hope we get some new blood in January, particularly in the final third.

Nice to see Lille have benched their best players against Chelsea. I bet Ajax and Valencia aren't too happy. Barca playing their reserves at Inter too, when it's between Inter and Dortmund for second place. Barca are winning though and I don't blame Lille or Barca when they don't have anything resting on the games and they want to rest players for future games, but why did Lille even bring their top players if they aren't going to play them? I doubt European competition even has a 'play your best side' rule, as both Lille and Barca have broken that tonight.

Have to hope Spurs put out a weakened side or we'll be ripped to shreds.😱 On the plus side, not going out to a lower league side.

The half time report on BBC was pretty damning. Boro looking like a non league side. Changes are needed in January.

Phew!

Aaah Clayton. Squeaky bum time.

1-0 undeserved will do - a win is a win. No silly red cards now.

Lay the blame where people like, were 2-0 up and looking half decent. Johnson was stupid, Woodgate hasn't set the team up second half and has reverted to his Pulis training manual, some of the players don't look like they know how to defend and where are the leaders in the team? Positively, when we had 11 men we looked better than our league position, so something to work with going into the Barnsley game. If we don't win that, then we're in even bigger trouble.

I hope you are including Randolph in the 5, as we don't need a points deduction right now 💀

2-0 up and it was actually enjoyable watching us for a change, but the red card means we will likely revert to holding on to the lead in the second half, which i'm never convinced we can do. We just have to dig deep and hope we can hit them on the break on a few occasions.

The other way to look at it is that he brings the best out of players so they overachieve, but he does tend to bleed clubs dry. The whole Palace debacle tells you all need to know.

Everything you don't want from your team was on show tonight, and it's happening far too often. From Sheff Weds last week, to this. Had we not done alright v Preston, it would have been the worst week for Boro for many a year. Something needs to change.

Ah, crap! Back to type.

? Totally deserved. Woodgate's plan was to make Brum think they were world beaters and then we hit them when they didn't expect it! Would love to take something from this game, but it let's Woodgate and the players off the hook slightly, when in reality, heads should roll.

Even he feels sorry for us!

We'll get once chance and we'll have to take it and hope Randolph saves us at the other end. It could be Leeds v Derby where Leeds battered Derby and Derby scored late on.

This team can't even pass the ball 5 yards to each other. It's almost like 20 players (squad) thrown together on a reality show trying to win a contract at a League Two club. I can't believe Gibson wants this for the club he loves.

What changes at half time? Needs 10, but we only have 3 and i'd rather keep 1 for later. Johnson for Browne and maybe Saville for Tav. Let's get an extra man in midfield and we can then think about a striker for Clayton/Howson later in the game.

Is Terry Venable available?

Trying to see 3 worse sides than us, based on the first two months. Our two wins are against sides near the bottom. Two scrappy wins at home. And we are now linked to another League One player in Clarke-Harris. We may as well just plan our trips to Rochdale and Fleetwood now. It's early days, but this is the worst Boro side for many many years. We're paying for years of overspending.

We're still 0-0 thanks to one man!

Hopefully Randolph will still be with us February 1st, but it will be hard to keep him.