Hendrie_7

Physicality in this league is very important, it's one of the big reasons why we've struggled. We get bullied very easily, I'm surprised there hasn't been more made of it from the Gazette or BBC Tees journos. They mention needing to improve in game management with things like time wasting but no mention of our physical (plus possibly mental) weakness.

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/01/29/do-report-middlesbrough-and-cardiff-want-to-sign-fa-cup-hero-ava/ "Four Championship clubs, Boro, Cardiff City, Stoke and Reading, reportedly want Shrewsbury Town hero Josh Laurent after his stunning Liverpool display."

https://www.offtheball.com/soccer/mindless-idiots-mcclean-abusive-fans-958096 "We played Middlesbrough away and we had a corner. My job on attacking corners was to stand at the keeper. “I’m standing there and Darren Randolph was the keeper. Middlesbrough fans behind the goal were shouting, ‘You f**king Fenian c**t. You Irish c**t.’ “And I’m going, ‘Your goalkeeper’s Irish. You’re cheering for him.’ There’s just a complete lack of education. It’s that mob mentality. They’re just absolute mindless idiots. That’s all they are really,” McClean said."

https://www.teamtalk.com/news/exclusive-middlesbrough-target-scottish-pair-dykes-and-jones "TEAMtalk understands Middlesbrough are considering raiding Scotland for a couple of players before the deadline closes on Friday, with Jordan Jones and Lyndon Dykes in their sights."

Not a Boro link but the Northern Echo are saying Sunderland want Jordan Jones "Rangers winger Jordan Jones is believed to be one of those on the radar, with Steven Gerrard happy to let him leave Ibrox this month amid interest from the Championship too." https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/18193088.mcgeadys-wait-sunderland-look-rangers-man-jones/

Well they're not bothered by it then. If it was one of our players doing it then can you imagine the replies that any tweet linking him to another team would get? There's none of that from their fans.

They probably don't know, I don't think it's been mentioned anyway except on boro forums or on boro fans twitter accounts and unless they're searching for his name it's not something they're likely to just come across.

That'd rule us out then, surely

Didn't one of the ITKers say that the deal was all agreed and the only hold up was that Burnley were wanting to sign a replacement? And that was the major problem because the only player they wanted to replace Gibson was Fry and we weren't interested in selling him?

This is the stuff online - from the Sun transfer blog "HORNETS STING Exclusive by Alan Nixon: Watford Boss Nigel Pearson is making a shock move for Burnley’s out of favour centre half Ben Gibson. Pearson wants the former Middlesbrough defender who has had a miserable time at Turf Moor since signing for £13 million. The Hornets chief is keen to take Gibson on loan and give him a better chance of first team action at Vicarage Road. Burnley want Gibson’s wages paid in full and Watford are willing to fork out around £40,000-a-week for the rest of the season. Gibson had other loan moves abroad and interest from Boro, but none of them managed to find the funds for a deal. "

Alan Nixon @reluctantnicko Watford. Taking a big interest in Ben Gibson at Burnley. More online later.

I think you might have to have a twitter account to do that.

Cheers, glad we're still looking for another winger, Tav doesn't seem as effective when he's pushed further up. Also, no idea how you do the flashy thing where the tweet shows up in the post so it's a C+P job: @Iandennisbbc Sean Dyche was asked about whether Ben Gibson could move before TDD, “we will wait and see”. Boro have had a loan bid rejected but interest remains

Woody said he's expecting 1 or 2 signings and all the talk has been about one of them being Ben Gibson or a different CB if we can't get him, but has there been any rumours about who the second one could be?

christ, there's an image nobody needs