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Boro vs Sunderland 2-3 (Burgzorg, Hackney)
ChipBarrington replied to Humpty's topic in Match Day Threads 2024/25 Season
Havent read though alll of the comments but my thoughts Hackney was class. I'm starting to actually like Burgzorg, didn't like him since signing but he's growing and delivering. Great run and finish. Not a perfect player but puts the effort in and seems to deliver. Travers made some ok positional saves and kicked long similar to Glover, no problem with that- thought the Sunlun keeper looker shakier. Got sat ddown for the goal far too easily for my liking. Unfortunate deflection from Edmundson and I can guess people blame him tonight but I don't THINK he's left footed and he's our LCB - we afforded Fry the benefit of the doubt playing on his wrong side so.... Iling Junior looked ***. Like really ***. Hopefully just lack of match practice but didn't look any better than myself out wide. Ayling looks good with the ball but hasn't got the legs to bomb and keeps getting caught out of position. Sunderland looked decent with the ball and I think a draw would have been fair. -
The in between transfer windows discussion period!
ChipBarrington replied to Humpty's topic in Boro Forum
Weirdly I was thinking about Morton, wondering if we can do a deal like we buy for 10m but they have a buy back of 9.5m valid for July if we don't go up. Circumvent loan at least -
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ChipBarrington replied to Humpty's topic in Boro Forum
From the little I've seen of McCabe I thought he looked good but as a back up to Hackney not Morris and it's Morris we need a replacement for IMO. I am intrigued to see how Iheanacho gets on but realistically I would prefer to see a CB or CM loan taking his place. I think if all the squad was sorted and we were then getting him in people might feel a bit more positive but as such there's more uncertainty about his record, financial, motivation etc which I think is partly driven by tension around those 2 positions not getting the focus they deserve. -
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ChipBarrington replied to Humpty's topic in Boro Forum
With the money we spent on Whittaker, I think he surely has to be a nailed on starter for now and not just Doaks replacement for next season? Was there any more on the other team that was seemingly after iheanacho? If that goes through as well as Illing J then all loan spaces in a first team squad gone, and as this time of the window I'd expect any CB or CM to be a loan which is a worry. I would like to see us use more youth as back up but the fact we haven't seen many regular first team minutes from anyone would be a concern in that regard. Don't worry though, Howson can fill in for most of our injury prone players. We will be lining up like Gk Travers RB Howson Cb Howson CB VdB LB Giles CM Howson CM Barlaser ACM Azaz LW Illing RW Doak ST Zorg -
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ChipBarrington replied to Humpty's topic in Boro Forum
I think the opposite. I don't want a striker that is going to link up, drop in, hold the ball up. I want one that gets 6 touches a game and scores twice. I almost got Iheanacho on FM23 but he chose Newcastle instead and did bits so if it's financially viable I am in for this alone. I can't actually recall if he is really any good. Seems like we're doing our standard get Giles then a Villa winger in January tactic. Hope the loan fees aren't too high as if we don't go up it's potentially a waste of the ELL cash. Assuming we bought Conway knowing he would be battling with ELL, and thought he was of decent calibre to rotate but also replace him, so let's not discount that spending when we analyse where the ELL money has gone. -
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ChipBarrington replied to Humpty's topic in Boro Forum
The annoying thing for me is if we don't make progress quickly, anyone we sign will likely play today and therefore be unavailable for Monday. -
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ChipBarrington replied to Humpty's topic in Boro Forum
Don't think Archer would come here to sit on our bench.... -
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ChipBarrington replied to Humpty's topic in Boro Forum
Isn't our away form better than home? Doak is very hit and miss. I actually think Downing and Johnson were better when they broke through, but think if Doak can learn to mix his game up and get better at beating a man when pace isn't enough he will be very good. A lot of player turnover for a Jan window - I would suspect Carrick has blamed players and not the system as to why we have dropped so many points, particularly at home, and is now being backed. -
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ChipBarrington replied to Humpty's topic in Boro Forum
I actually think Hackney would perform better in a 3 as well - he has a really good engine imo, progresses well with the ball and is a jack of all trades. Does need someone stable to cover behind him. Would have liked to see him in a 3 with Tav, who I think had a great engine too with a bit more grit. On ELL, wouldn't suprise me if he stayed here till the end of the season then if we don't go up, whoever does go up comes in for him. -
Boro vs Sunderland 2-3 (Burgzorg, Hackney)
ChipBarrington replied to Humpty's topic in Match Day Threads 2024/25 Season
Haven't we got one of the worst records for dropping points when ahead? Be nice to see any semblance of a defensive pattern though 😁 -
The in between transfer windows discussion period!
ChipBarrington replied to Humpty's topic in Boro Forum
Think for the wages those CB are likely to be on, I'd only be comfortable if we were in the top 2 and looking to sure up. -
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ChipBarrington replied to Humpty's topic in Boro Forum
Oh I don't disagree that a lot of our slip ups have been caused by individual mistakes and thats partly why I think calling for Carrick to go and/or go for a more defensive set up are a little over the top. If we are looking to be defense first then you probably leave Giles,Azaz and Doak out of the team for a start and I'd suggest 2 of those 3 on the bench against Sunderland would be met with uproar on here. You need to have the right players to be more defensive which I think Karanka got pretty bang on. I'm hoping we are just minor tweaks away, both in personnel and tactics, away for being a safe top 6 team but do think Carrick needs to alter his way of operating at times. -
The in between transfer windows discussion period!
ChipBarrington replied to Humpty's topic in Boro Forum
I would be suprised if we got more than 1m for Clarke -
The in between transfer windows discussion period!
ChipBarrington replied to Humpty's topic in Boro Forum
I seem to remember in the Karanka days there were a lot of comments from people wishing we would play more attacking football and lamenting the fact we were so boring, even going as far to say as they would rather watch us trying to attack and accept if we didn't win than win boring. And now people are calling for us to go more defensive, then we would likely go back to the Karanka-esque comments. I just think it comes down to the fact that our coaching set up is good but not the best, and our team is good not again the best. Most of this team wouldn't get into the Karanka promotion team. -
Boro v West Brom 2-0 (Hackney, Doak)
ChipBarrington replied to marvin's topic in Match Day Threads 2024/25 Season
I think he is saying Glover deserves to starts just to publicly back him. Shot stopping you can hardly say Dieng has been better this year but Glover is pretty awful at anything other than getting a body part in the way. So keeping him calm and confident is absolutely paramount. Hope Morris is fit enough to start.