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  1. As much as I'd love Callum O'Hare, especially on a free, he's seemingly ruled out a move to Celtic or Rangers and has his heart set on a move to the Premiership - Fulham and Everton have both scouted him. So I reckon, sadly, he's a step too far. I'd also like Josh Brownhill - though Burnley are reportedly looking at activating his one year extension.
  2. Lloyd Kelly has already had discussions with Juventus. He's absolutely not playing in the Championship next season. There's a good few names coming up as Free Agents - though what we have to remember as fans is that Free Transfers aren't always necessarily more cost effective as there's generally higher wages, signing fees, and agents fees associated with the deals, which means they sometimes end up just as expensive as regular transfers, in some cases even moreso, which is why you see so many Free Agents being left afloat for months and months.
  3. That's not even remotely true. I've worked in the areas people say "white people cannot go" - Nechells, Lozells, Aston, Balsall Heath - and can tell you categorically that it's bullshit made up by racists who've never even been in those areas, or likely even to the city itself.
  4. I've got to say that moving to Birmingham when I was younger highlighted to me how endemic racism was in Teesside during my childhood. The difference being that then I believe it was caused by ignorance - which is a very loaded term now, but I mean in it's purest form of just not knowing or having experience with, in this case, multiculturalism. Now, though? Boro is far more multicultural - particularly with having the uni - but there's a generation who still thinks in the old ways. Contrary to what CT says, it's not biological - that theory has been proven to be pseudoscience time a
  5. As I was saying, prior to Leicester: Without Rogers - 1 point from 3 games. With Rogers - 4 points from 3 games. With Leicester it evens up, which is what we're saying about Azaz stepping up, but my point still stands. Because statistically he absolutely didn't struggle to impose himself on games. My whole point is fans sometimes fans say things "as they see it" but what they see, statistically, just isn't true. It's not about superiority, it's just about every piece of evidence and analysis pointing to something which is contrary to what some fans believe.
  6. It was well documented that Rogers creative more chances that lead to goal opportunities than any other player in the Championship by the time November/December came around. That's part of the problem of stats - you can manipulate them to tell any story. For example, Boksicdink saying purely about goals. But chance creation is one of the few stats I'd happily rely on being accurate. End product stats only rely on the final player in that stat finishing, where as chance creation looks at lead up play as a whole, which is a far more robust statistics. I'd say that Rogers suffers because so
  7. I'd have loved to have seen Rogers and Azaz together in the system we played on Saturday. Let's not pretend we haven't missed Rogers in the games prior to Leicester. His creativity was well documented as being amongst the best in the league. His absence, along with a lack of leadership in the middle without Lenihan or Howson, was a big contribution to our poor form. Overall and in the long term , I think Azaz for Rogers will be a great deal. But it's one which has contributed to our short term struggles.
  8. I think it's the best system we have with the players available. McNair at the back was a much needed leader on Saturday - which we've lacked with Lenihan and Howson out in the centre of the park. Loading the midfield also meant Leicester weren't able to utilise Ricardo as well in his cutting inside, and we were able to stifle their creativity whilst also nullifying Mavididi and Fatawu by enabling ourselves to double up on them in wide areas when needed. Plymouth are a very different side, obviously, but I think it could prove effective. Particularly in trying to nullify Whittaker.
  9. Mainly fans, but Dennis Praet came up after the game and mentioned about the Boro tactics making it hard to find space as well as their missed opportunities. The host - ex-Leicester player Ali Mauchlen - also bemoaned the missed chances, but made a point of, essentially, "fair play to Boro for getting it right tactically on the night." Got to say though... Really wished I was in the away end. Amazing atmosphere those lot created. The Foxes fans around me were very impressed - especially because their atmosphere is pretty flat.
  10. Having been in the Leicester Executive Suites, here's a few take aways from the away fans POV: 1 - Boro's structure and discipline won us the 3 points today. "They weren't incredible, but they were structured and disciplined, and we couldn't break them down effectively." 2 - Finn Azaz is "a player" 3 - Boro's "tactical approach" nullified Leicester's threat. "5 at the back and waiting for inevitable mistakes worked well. Ridiculously, simply well." 4 - "Boro aren't a good team, but tactically were very astute." Very interesting to hear it from the other sides perspecti
  11. Ill be watching from the executive suites with my mate - An LCFC mate with membership. Reckon he's going to be much happier than me. 😅
  12. Aye, I see that thinking - but by that literally nothing in the current transfer window could ever be considered a highlight. I suppose the correct terminology would be, In terms of Azaz, Thomas, and Ayling - *at this stage* I believe they can be considered highlights. I totally agree there's be no real disasters. Deals like Silvera and Gilbert we're still waiting on seeing what comes, but they were relatively low-risk signings financially. Overall I do believe the club is stronger from this season's dealings, regardless of what the league table says.
  13. Regardless of how the window ends, what a positive season we've had with tranfers. HIGHLIGHTS: - VdB - Rogers - Profitability of Rogers - Azaz - O'Brien - The potential of ELL - Ayling & Thomas bringing quality and Prem experience The lowlights are the injuries and the fact we haven't nabbed a main striker, but overall, the club is stronger than this time last year. The table might not agree, but realism is the key. The Rogers deal is a marker for what this new blueprint is capable of.
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