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  1. 13 hours ago, martonboro said:

     

     

    Just a reminder that there really are some things more important than football. Donate if you can!

    Wonderful of the club to give Matt the chance to speak about it openly on the club website, I bet that's boosted that fund incredibly. Fingers crossed for him and his family that they all get through this, including Henry.

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  2. 58 minutes ago, Alves car salesman said:

    Apparently Gibson offered the RF free season tickets! 🙃🙃

    What's the source for that? That doesn't sound believable at all.

  3. A Premier League Manager in name only. He made his name being brave and bold and taking games to even the biggest teams in the Prem. He's now setting up to hold off everyone and getting absolutely slaughtered regardless.

    We're not exactly a team to look at in how to handle the relegation battle, we only got a further 6 points after this stage of our last Prem season. But we were already 9 points better off than Sheff are.

    We had also just lost 2-0 at Stoke in Karanka's last game...

  4. Think Ayling is on his last chance to prove himself again for this one. He started quite well, he's obviously better than he showed against Stoke, like many of them are. But there's no point bringing Dijksteel on later if he's not doing well, might as well play him from the start. Still, last chance for Ayling so I'd keep him in for this one.

    Thomas shouldn't start another game until Engel is either dead on his feet or himself playing poorly. He's not our player and so far he's looked like he'd struggle to keep his place at League One or Two.

    Midfield is unfortunately stuck, regardless of what we do with the system. It has to be O'Brien and Barlaser. I'm not convinced they compliment each other particularly well but then we're not seeing the best of either right now. Even if Howson was fit, he'd hardly be a saviour for the team, so it feels inevitable we have to rely on players playing at their best in that position.

    I wonder if it's worth sticking Silvera out right-wing for this one. I still think Azaz should be in the middle with McGree out left either way.

    Dieng
    Ayling VDB Clarke Engel
    Barlaser O'Brien
    Silvera Azaz McGree
    Latte Lath

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  5. 1 minute ago, Neverbefore said:

    Wish I could say the same, he haunts my nightmares. 

    Worst manager in our history all things considered imo.

    Brought in 3 of our most expensive signings ever as a forward line. In terms of existing value, he had 3 of what would turn out to be our top 10 most expensive sales in his squad, all of which had to be sold a year later because we didn't go up.

    In terms of biggest disappointment, I can't imagine much worse. We did the hard work of going up, we came back down as is often the case but then offered arguably the biggest financial freedom a manager has probably had in any time in our history and he didn't even have a concrete plan of how to use it / no commitment to his original plan.

    In terms of assessing what he needed from his squad, particularly given back then it was a key part of the role, he made the biggest investments into things he wasn't even convinced of needing or how to use them. Ashley Fletcher at £6.5m has to go down as one of the worst investments in English football history, where even Bilic was publicly taken aback by the money we offered for him. £6.5m for a player who, in all the years since, has never been fit to clean dog *** off Patrick Bamford's trainers and an investment which undoubtedly contributed to the need to sell what would go on to be the man who fired, of all the bloody clubs, Leeds United back to the Prem and then some.

    It's not the time I've hated the most when following Boro, not by a long shot, that was yet to come. But he played his part in that because of how much he messed up one of the most glorious opportunities this club has ever offered a manager. Cue comments of a necessary firesale, all whilst spending what cash we had left on George Saville and Aden Flint.

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  6. Rogers came on for an injured Ramsey in the first half and was subbed off at the same time as 3 other Villa players with 10 minutes to go, I don't think it says much. He was only kept out of the scoreline himself from a great save by Kaminski, was a great effort.

  7. Could be worse, could be an Aberdeen fan. Warnock's team scored after 59 seconds today, supposedly a wonder goal, were winning the whole game, before a 96th minute penalty and a 97th minute winner from none other than Toyosi Olusanya. They lost 2-1.

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  8. 9 minutes ago, Neverbefore said:

    Same, though I care very little if he does. I think my main concern if we sacked him is us swinging wildly in the opposite direction yet again and setting us back another 3 years.

    Pulis was rumoured to be lined up and possibly in the directors box today in the event of a Stoke defeat. Just needed to cross over and have a word with the Boro entourage to get his next job instead.

    Mind you, Gibbo probably has him on speed dial anyway, best man wasn't he? 🤣

    Makes me sick to laugh at that prospect, I'll stop now.

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  9. Not right now. Keep on as we are for the time being. I don't have a lot to say in his defence right now but people need time to prove they can turn it around and he did earn a bit of credit in the bank for that earlier in the season.

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  10. Just now, Redcar Rioja said:

    Sorry but I think his time has reached a natural decline. Thanks for the highs last season but this season is one of the lowest and getting worse.

    The contract talks need to be termination ones, not extension ones.

    He's the only one who can change that opinion, mate, not for you to change yours on days like today.

  11. Just now, Aphex_Boro said:

    Lack of urgency second half is galling to watch

    The players looked content to be 2-0 down and just see the game out

    I've said it before but I genuinely wonder if this came from not going for it in January and selling a player others will have seen as coming good without using that money to invest in the side. I wonder how that came off in the dressing room. Players don't just turn up and want to play, they're ambitious. As much as I can say I don't care much where we finish outside of relegation, I would imagine talk like that goes down like a lead balloon to the players halfway through a season.

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  12. If you believe we could do better with this squad today then why is anybody pointing fingers at Gibson? Even Scott's only other impact for today is whether the right man is in charge of the squad.

    Carrick has to answer for days like today, simple as that, he has to answer for it on matchdays. He has to make the right calls, he has to motivate the team, he has to work on the mistakes and build on the strengths.

    We had an awful start to this season and he turned that around. It's not a good look where we are right now by any means but there's plenty of time to get ourselves away from danger. He has to pull something out of the hat again though. We can't keep like we are.

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  13. Perhaps it's just Stoke dropping off a bit having gone 2 up but once again we look so much calmer being 2-0 down. Like now we have accepted the result is done, the players have calmed down and are making some better decisions. Pressure is off because they all think we've lost anyway.

    Poor.

  14. 1 minute ago, Neverbefore said:

    We're 1-0 down and need to get the ball moving quickly. Playing from the back isn't about playing the safe pass, it's about finding a way forward. 

    The thing is mate, was it VDB to the right of Dieng? Dieng doesn't want to play to VDB, he wants to beat the press so he gives it to Barlaser. Barlaser, if he can't see or doesn't know what's going on behind him when he's on the edge of his own 18-yard box, he should play it to VDB who has that visibility. Barlaser should also be aware that nobody is on VDB there because that's not on his blind side.

    We do that all the time. Most the time when we play that pass from keeper to midfielder, it's then played wide to the centre-back. There's half an hour left in the game and we're only 1-0 down. Risk it and get it wrong because nobody has said anything, we're 2-0 down, as we very nearly were. Don't risk it and VDB is in the position to pass the ball forward.

    Barlaser has been pressed/marked all game, it's naive for him to have expected the right decision was to turn there.

  15. Just now, Brunners said:

    I will a little bit there actually, you could clearly see him motioning that he needs to be told about the guy coming in behind on his blind side.

    Turning like that is a pretty common way out for us. 

    Needs communication all around.

    If he doesn't know, why refuse the safe pass? That's why I would still be blaming him. Chances are, the press is coming. Even when it's clear the man is there, he just tries to beat him.

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  16. See, that there is why you can't blame the decision to pass out from the back. Barlaser takes the ball and rather than play the pass which actually takes the Stoke players out of the game, the simple one to the right as per the usual routine, he turns into trouble. We literally get pressed there all the time and he's still doing it.

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  17. Luke Thomas still looks much like a player who has won a competition to play. One good ball for the McGree chance aside, he looks soft and doesn't seem to get up to pace with the game.

    It's so clear that teams see that area in front of our own 18-yard box as the zone to attack. Passes misplaced, slip-ups, just generally weak as crap. We clearly aren't confident playing it into midfield any more. We need more support from the attackers in those areas, to give the full-backs an option, maybe pull back and support the centre-mids a bit more to give the centre-backs and the keeper another option too? It's not great to have to do but I think it might be necessary for, say, McGree to drop a bit deeper. Most of Latte Lath's best chances are coming from balls in behind anyway so it isn't going to immediately harm us there.

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  18. Just now, pokeyjoe said:

    Why do our commentators sound more excited when the other team scores

    Drury was almost celebrating beating them just a couple of minutes ago because they've been quite poor. We've not been an awful lot better than them, very scrappy game, not surprised that there's a goal that's come here but by no means were we the only team capable.

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