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  1. Just before halftime I noticed water dripping through my kitchen ceiling and missed the rest of the match trying to stem the tide, the question is, given the result and performance, was this a lucky break 😆. The question of giving goals away from outside the box will not be resolved until we play with a proper defensive midfielder to cover in front of the centre backs but that will not happen under Carrick so I guess we just learn to live with it

  2. Just now, AnglianRed said:

    On balance a draw is probably the right result, but it feels like 2 points dropped with the chances we wasted.

    A game where the forwards were on top and defences were exposed rather badly. Horrible weather a mitigating factor all round...but you have to feel with a bit more composure in the 18 yard box Boro would be going home with 3 points.

    An okay performance overall by Boro. We let the game get away from us after Plymouth equalised. Did well to turn it around in the second half, but you never felt we had the game won, due to our lack of concentration & organisation at the back.

    Still, we stopped it being 2 losses in a row, so not too unhappy.

    A little bit of composure from Crooks on at least three occasions and we would have been out of sight but a draw was a fair result in the end from two teams who couldn’t defend to save their lives

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  3. Stoke pressed us high from the first minute and we just could not cope and in trying to break down that press our passing just went to pieces and in trying harder we just got worse. We may as well just use the second half to give some game time to the other squad members as I can’t see us coming back from that. I think we have been spoiled lately and now reality has caught up

  4. 47 minutes ago, Changing Times said:

    I would rather see an actual left back in regardless of who it is.  If we're going to line up like that then we'll likely need to change our approach.  I don't think it's a coincidence that we didn't look as good once O'Brien went off, and he's not even a left back either.  VDB just can't do the same job over there.  I can hardly remember us attacking down the left hand side in the second half on Saturday, I know we must have done but nothing stands out, and McGree virtually vanished from the game as well in the second half.

    100% agree with this CT, we need proper full backs in that back four who have the ability to defend and the correct decision making as to when to move forward and provide attacking support. I think VDB has been very solid at RB defensively but you can see that when it comes to any attacking intent he is lost in a world of indecision, and as for O’Brien, just why!  As a card carrying member of the old full backs club I am thinking of reporting Carrick to the committee, surely we can find two fit full backs from somewhere 

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