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  1. Re Braithwaite and his World Cup chances. Surely, it's just a rumour, right? Hareide picked Andras Bjelland (Brentford), Lasse Vibe (Brentford), Jonas Knudsen (Ipswich), Mike Jensen (Rosenborg), Bendtner (Rosenborg), Viktor Fischer (Mainz, and has barely played) for Denmark's games against Ireland.

     

    We are not exactly loaded with players on the attacking positions. But, perhaps he feels that way and wants to leave. In the end, it's down to his own performance and not the level of the Championship.

  2. I've made my views very clear on this topic, but as I've not been inspired by any names put forward, or thought some realistic. Johnson at Bristol is probably the most interesting name - but would he leave them, a club very close to his heart, in this position? Not to mention he's essentially the Garry Monk of this season...

     

    OSCAR GARCIA - Ex-Watford boss, recently sacked by Saint-Ettienne in Ligue 1.

     

    PACO JEMEZ - Was considered the 'next big' La Liga coach once. Led Vallecano to their best finish ever. Didn't work out at Grenada and he's decided not to renew his contract with Cruz Azul in Mexico.

     

    MURAT YAKIN - Struggled a little in Russia, but did a fantastic job at Basel and again at Grasshopper in Switzerland.

     

    NICKY BUTT - Riskier one, but he's done consistently phenomenal work with the Man Utd youth & reserve teams.

     

    Looking at the Football League, there's not a lot of names to write home about...

     

    I was actually at the stadium when St. Etienne lost 0-5 against Lyon. He bought 8-9 players and failed miserably. I don't think he necessarily fits our bill. He plays naïve football.

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    erm i disagree completely. we are doing okay, just outside the playoffs. but the zombie's wont be happy unless we win 5-0 every week. even though we had a garbage record breaking top flight season and have a major squad overhaul in the summer. 

     

    honestly, are you disappointed because we are not in the top two? or are you more bothered about looking good?

    because karanka had winning ugly down to a tee for 2/3 years. because we were always there or there abouts nobody cared.

     

    now monk has us struggling a bit considering our squad. but if we were top 2 nobody would give a monkeys how we played, but now its a thing.

     

    delusional if anyone thinks the performances are the main concern over the results.

     

    More rubbish and pretty patronising aswell. You're clearly well out of touch with how other fans are feeling.

     

    maybe so. or maybe i was reacting to some who shot down my reasoning attempt as ''a load of garbage'' and a little patronizing tone slipped into my reply.

     

    s this more to the main stream opinion?;

     

    i'm losing interest in football altogether. i want to like it, i hope boro can somehow respark the fire(karanka had promise, but failed). 

     

    but i know deep in my heart they wont. i knew deep down we had absolutely no chance of getting straight back up after the utter shambles of last season(looks like my heart was right).

     

    i didnt want monk at all. (reminds me of southgate) i like him, like i liked sgate at first. he's saying the right things, seems to be trying to do the right things. but in deep in my heart i think he will fail. i hope i'm wrong. also to add of the similarity that both teams showed a lack of discipline, now individual errors have come back big style. i think this is why my heart says monk will fail, the players are not giving 100% its like karanka the strict teacher has gone and a stand in has turned up and the kids are taking the mick out of him. if we got a new man in asap who the players respected we'd get better instantly.

     

    For what it's worth Kev I far preferred reading your honest opinion and think it relates badly on others who feel entitled to bully you into submission

     

    No one is bullying him into submission, he calls anyone that criticises Monk delusional/zombies not happy unless we win 5-0/plastic fans etc.

     

    You can't have a reasoned debate with someone like that. I said yesterday the critics are forced to argue every single point to the nth degree before anyone will even listen to them. Then in return you get called a plastic fan, its the last defence of someone, just destroy the argument by calling them delusional or not a proper fan.

     

    Some members of this board are so far out of touch with the majority of Boro fans. Talk to fans on Teesside or look at the replies to Gazette articles on social media. A large majority are seriously not happy with Monk. They are real fans who go to the game not people who should be just ignored.

     

    I'm not gonna argue about this anymore, I'll leave it there.

     

    Honestly, it doesn't matter what any club in the world does. There will always be hate on social media. That doesn't mean they can't be ignored, but .. I'd be very hesitant to measure the general vibe of any public reaction based on 5-20 comments on Facebook/Gazette - especially when it comes to sports. 

     

    The whole plastic fan thing is ridiculous anyway. Can someone actually be a plastic fan of Boro? If so, then I am definitely one. I've seen two live - in person - Boro matches in my entire life.

  4. Currently sat in the Madejski stadium hotel bar and payed £6.50 for a bacon and egg bap. Really hope that’s the only mugging that happens in here today :(

     

    I paid £12 for a Dark n' Stormy yesterday in Copenhagen. Mind you, this bar was not exactly posh. 

     

    As for the game today, I'd be happy if we actually kept a clean sheet. Here's hoping water can turn into wine Jesus style.

  5. I agree and sadly we are beginning to see the norm from Boro, we are not as good as all of us hoped we would be and we are not a team that seems capable of pushing for promotion, play off's at the best.

     

    Glad to hear that Monk seems very irked about the performance he has a lot of work to do but I no longer think he is the right man

     

    Holy.. How DARE you say that? Quickly now, ninja edit that away before the Monk brigade sees it. How can you judge a manager after just 12 games?

     

    Nics... don't be that guy

     

    Not long ago Sanddancer, or some other guy or girl, criticised Monk. He was shot down for his comment, and possibly for having his own opinion on the matter. I don't see what has changed so much after 2 games. 

     

    My comment is clearly tongue in cheek, but it seems many is hopping on sanddancer's (?) train. Choo chooooooo

  6. I agree and sadly we are beginning to see the norm from Boro, we are not as good as all of us hoped we would be and we are not a team that seems capable of pushing for promotion, play off's at the best.

     

    Glad to hear that Monk seems very irked about the performance he has a lot of work to do but I no longer think he is the right man

     

    Holy.. How DARE you say that? Quickly now, ninja edit that away before the Monk brigade sees it. How can you judge a manager after just 12 games?

  7. The interest for international football has been declining for many years. There's probably not a right answer to why. Sociologists will tell you it's a shift in the type of society. Others will tell you it's just more interesting to follow club football.

     

    Or maybe the players and other personalities have become so out of touch with the working class that following them is hard.

     

    I, like Humpty, don't really follow international football all that much. Many years of boring football, disappointments and the ***ing insane prices for tickets.. Interest has been going up here in Denmark, but I guess that has to do with a certain Eriksen scoring for fun - and some hefty investment in marketing.

  8. He simply has to get us promoted this season, anything else and he deserves to lose his job.

     

    Except that's not what you're saying. You're getting at the idea of him losing his job right here, right now. And that is precisely what some fans can never come to terms with.

     

    I'm sure quite a lot of Boro fans would agree with this particular statement but you're not saying give him the season, you're labelling him a failure in September, 11 games into a 46 game season.

     

    Yeah I've made up my mind, I've seen enough already. I'd cut our losses before he does anymore damage to the club.

     

    If he gets us promoted I'll look pretty stupid at the end of the season won't I? However I've never been so certain of a manager before.

     

    Good for you. But you're encouraging the terrible culture of sacking managers when they've not been given enough time to do the job asked of them and I will never stand by that.

     

    Would you sack Sunderland's manager Simon Grayson? 

     

    I wholeheartedly agree we should not endorse nor encourage said culture of sacking managers. We know next to nothing of what is happening behind the scenes, but surely there is a threshold. I am all for giving Monk a chance, but he has to prove what he wants to do with the team. So far, I've just seen that he likes to have pseudo 3 strikers in the team.  He's had a short lived adventure with wing backs. He's had his romance with Shotton. 

     

    I can live with ***ty displays, ***ty results, and god awful interviews looking every bit of a cocky ***. But I need to know where he is going with this team, what he wants us to do. Call it vision or whatever. If he fails to give me some sort of indication (besides 3 strikers), then I would not care seeing his contract terminated.

  9. I'll be honest I don't feel too put out by that decision. Lansbury' certainly wasn't a red in my book. Traore's was borderline given the pace he was going

     

    Traores wasn't even a tackle.

     

    They've basically said cynically taking out someone from behind is ok, but going for a block and mistiming it is a 3 game ban.

     

    Actually, if you think it's not a tackle it only makes the case stronger for a red card. He hit the man going at a reckless pace - If you don't even deem it as a tackle it only means it was - more - reckless. Traore was not in control of his action. All in all, he did the action with no consideration for his opponent, or with very little consideration.

     

    I'll say it for a third time. It was a red card in my book.

  10. I wouldn't appeal Traore's red card to be honest. We should have enough to beat QPR without him, the league cup game is irrelevant and that leaves us with one other game where we'll miss him.

     

    I can't see it getting overturned either, if the ref saw the incident and deemed it dangerous play then the likelyhood of getting it changed is very slim.

    It does seem very rare for red cards to be overturned... As you say, not sure its worth risking a 4 game ban even though we are most likely in the right. 

     

    You can see what they'll say already, player was 'out of control' and 'endangered an opponent'...

     

    I know I am in the minority, possibly the sole individual in the world along with the ref, but I understand the red card. I am not saying I completely agree with it, but it was reckless. The speed, the total inconsideration of the opposing player, and ultimately Traore - possibly - not having full control of his action means the red card is easily defended in a tribunal (or whatever you call these things). 

     

    I've only seen the Lansbury red card once, but it looked malicious to me. I know the Championship is widely branded as a 'tough' league, and commentators love to point out players should simply get accustomed to the harsh challenges. The rules are universal (by and large). 

     

    But, I'll happily take another two comments deeming me an idiot again. Or something along those lines.

  11. Just seen it, never a red in a million years, it's barely a yellow to be honest.

    for anyone wanting to see it https://twitter.com/TheVillaHome/status/907678315607191552

     

    It's silly, it's daft but that is never a red card in a million years. We'd be daft not to appeal.

     

    I don't know. You can easily defend the red card. Blistering pace going into that sliding tackle. Trailing leg or not, it ends up being a scissor tackle. Intent or no intent, he went into that one recklessly. 

     

    https://imgur.com/a/Y2QeW

     

     

    Y2QeW

  12. A few points from me, but won't go over any old ground - Traore excellent, Britt did the business etc, just wanted to make a few points about some of the players who won't get the headlines.

     

    Randolph is a superb keeper. His athleticism to get down to save a last minute shot that would not have affected the outcome of the game had it gone in shows what a buy he was. I feel very comfortable with the guy between the sticks.

    Fabio and Christie will face better opponents, but were accomplished in everything they did. Perhaps understandably, playing behind Traore and Downing respectively, Christie was more reserved and Fabio more adventurous. But it was good to see a more defensive side to Christie's game. I'm not ringing the death knells for Friend's place as a first team fixture just yet, but these guys are firmly in the driving seat.

     

    Rumours of Leadbitter's fade into obscurity have been greatly exaggerated. I confess to have been guilty of thinking his days as a starter were over, but he was fantastic today. Him and Clayton have lost none of their mutual understanding.

     

    Downing was playing pretty much the same ole he did under Karanka, left midfield but not bombing on, and coming inside a bit more than Adama did. He looked rusty, but his passing is still up there with the best. Not convinced he should be in the XI every week, but I'm glad we didn't sell him.

     

    It's not quite happening for Baker yet, but I'm not really too worried. Unlike Howson, who doesn't seem to know where he fits in, it's pretty obvious what Baker's role is. When it does click, his though balls for Britt will be a real weapon.

     

    Is it too early to be concerned about Fletcher? While I'm not massively worried, as if Britt gets injured we have Braithwaite and Bamford, his cameo today only added to the feeling that he may be a bit of a dud. When Braithwaite is fit, I wouldn't be adverse to giving Fletcher a few weeks in the U23s to get some football under his belt.

     

    Admittedly, I am not a fan of Downing. But I think you nailed it when saying he was "pretty much the same ole." But to me, 'the same ole (Downing)' is not something I want to see in this team.

     

     I might be wrong, but he lost the ball so, so many times. Sure, he's great at slowing down the counter attacks, which, to his defense, is sometimes great if we want to keep hold of the ball. But, we have Britt and Traore in that side. Why would we want to put a halt to a potential counter attack playing against slow CBs? 

     

    In the same vein, his crossing and passing is not superior to anyone (bar Traore.. except for today), I really see no point in having him in the starting XI. Perhaps a cameo here and there for the last 10 min, sure.

  13. We've bought 8 players. That's a lot of players - 6 (?) of them were in the starting line up in the first match. I know many on here don't care one bit for team chemistry, gelling period, and whatever fancy term we can come up with.

     

    I seriously don't understand the sudden Gibson talk. We've bought players and we've sold players who either didn't fit, didn't want to be here, or went back to their respective clubs after their brief period in the club via loan.

     

    This isn't about breaking even, net loss, or net profit. If anything, we can criticise the current activity based on the players we have signed or sold rather than being disappointed in 'Gibson not spending'

  14. Surprised to see so many people preferring Ayala and talk about trust in the same sentence. I always dread the odd two footed tackle, horrible passing, and the absolute blunder in mistimed challenges.

     

    I don't see why we should start him over Fry. He's hasn't been reliable since last time we were in the Championship. He's been forever injured ever since, or simply not featured at all. I'd rather put my faith in Fry and let him build some confidence.

  15. Yes, I think most fans would, wouldn't they?

     

    Not sure what I'd do, I have quite strong views on what we do wrong and what we could improve so I'd probably start there. I'd look into trying to properly implement a moneyball style system, targeting undervalued players from unfashionable nations or unfashionable leagues can give you an edge over immediate competitors.

     

    And use the expertise of members from OneBoro.

  16. I think we are being a bit harsh on ourselves, having had a look on the Wolves forum, almost every single one of them is relieved to get away with a win and says we deserved at least a draw.

     

    I wonder how many times this will be said during the season. This is probably why the Championship is so ridiculously hard, even for (on paper) stacked teams. 

     

    I only watched the highlights and listened to the radio during the game, I don't feel entitled to comment on anything - except for how dreadful Ayala is to make that sort of pass. It's something U12s do from time to time..

  17. aye flash scores had it as him after the game, checked and edited it now, id say one of the best in a group meritted a few good appearances, Demarai Gray Tammy Abraham and Josh Murphy id say are better examples of best in their group.

     

    Josh Murphy is 22 so 3 years older than Harry, Gray is 21 so 2 years older. Abraham is the same age group but do you really think he'd have been given the opportunities he has if the came through our academy instead of Chelseas? I don't think so. We desperately need to re-establish the pathway from our academy to the first team, in about 5 years only one player has really broken through properly and he's now being touted for a £25m+ fee by the best clubs in the country. Ben Gibson wasn't anywhere near as highly rated as Fry or Chapman were, so why did he get his chance where they don't?

     

    NEPOTISM CONFIRMED

  18. I'd second that. You wont get in anywhere apart from the designated away pub if you're wearing colours and even then you might not get in. I haven't got a Wolverhampton accent and regularly get asked to show my match ticket if I'm not wearing colours to prove I'm a Wolves fan. It'll also be completely mobbed in town with it being a sell out. Birmingham are away on Sat, Villa don't play until later and Albion are playing a friendly in Spain so it'd be much easier just to stay in Brum for a few hours and then get the train/tram into Wolvo.

     

    Lucky escape there

     

    Ha ha, bit rich that pal. As for Humpty, I'm guessing you'll be coming across to the M6, then south to junction 13, and down the A449 to Wolves. There are plenty of car parks in town, but near the ground, and Asda, will not be a quick getaway. As you approach Molineux, you could try your luck on a street near Wickes, KFC, but maybe worth parking in town, and having a jar after the game, to let the traffic die down, before heading back north.

     

    i think everyone in the country thinks if you live near birmingham you talk like your from Dudley. bit like up here, if your from the north east you must be a geordie. erm no i sound nowt like em. (to me)  :D

     

    I went to Wolves away some years ago. As a Dane, I was sure they didn't speak a word of English (black country, right?)

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