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Absolutely not. He should be nowhere near the club. We are totally stagnant under him, awful to watch, and he is not going to be here next year. Waste of time.

Warnock has been in charge for a season and a third now and we've had about 10 shots on target in that time. Insane that people are still acting like this sort of game is a one off. It isn't. It's the norm. We play like this regardless of personnel. It's deliberate. He wants them to hit percentage balls into the channels. It doesn't work. We are tripe.

On the bright side, the more Warnock keeps up this form, we might get that sexy new German coach in by Christmas.

If Payero gets injured tonight I've decided I'm giving up and starting to follow netball or something.

There's never any point arguing about information people post here. Best to take it all with a massive pinch of salt and not get too excited/wound up by any of it. I don't think anyone on the board has managed to come out with some genuine insider info this year (correct me if I'm wrong), but it's always fun to see what people have to say.

I really hope Warnock's learnt his lesson about that horrible, boring, negative start. Lumley Dijksteel, Fry, Hall, Bola McNair Crooks, Payero Tav, Ikpeazu, <New Winger> Needs to be the team every week for me. None of this 5 at the back ***** and trying to do a job on people.

I don't think it's fair on him, really. There was a moment in the first half when he had the ball at his feet and sent Robinson for a hot dog twice. Otherwise, he was just having the ball pinged up to him. Get him in the middle alongside Payero, drop Howson, get Tav where Crooks was playing, and we would look entirely different.

Where was all that energy, pressure, creativity that we just showed in the last 10 in the rest of the game?! We could've knicked that at the end! Bit of confidence and they totally turned around.

The only thing that's got me annoyed is it's the same as last season. A whole pre-season, whole transfer window, chance to mix it up, bring in the players he wants, get them playing something. And it's just the same. Boring, tepid, lifeless, scared football. He's changed nothing. Sucked the excitement right back out of me.

Literally anyone else will do right now.

Bola seriously needs hooking. Wilson has him for breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper.

They have had it coached out of them. Nobody has the quality to take a second and make a quick pass. Look for the long ball every time.

We all saw there was no pace or width in the team, so it's hardly surprising. Bola and Dijksteel are not wing backs, Watmore and Crooks are not really wide men, Ikpeazu is by far the best player on the pitch for us and that's just because he's very good at tossing himself around. Nobody's getting anywhere near enough to help him.

It's because they're being coached on a diet of nothing but Yorkshire banter and PASHUN

I guess we've got the answer to the question of "what have we worked on over the summer?". Not a lot.

I don't know if it has been mentioned, but on talksport this morning Warnock confirmed that we've brought in a new sporting director and that "a lot will change in the next 12 months". Basically confirmed he's leaving at the end of the season and that Scott will be picking a new coach... https://talksport.com/football/efl/921990/neil-warnock-valentino-bumbag-signed-photographs-middlesbrough/ Of course it's hidden away behind an article about his bum-bag like. Ffs.

Wouldn't be shocked if it's Bamba/Paterson. Announced today or tomorrow you'd think?

Banfield-Boro romance confirmed?

"In big trouble"? We got loads of injuries last year with a smaller squad and came 10th. We will probably get just as many injuries this year and finish similarly. 3-4 more would be the absolute limit, for me. You can't add more than 9 players in one transfer window and expect it to go well.

Writing off anyone based on pre season is barmy. How many players look like worldies playing at 50% against non league teams? What are people actually expecting?

The thing with Paterson is you really can't expect a player to come in to an entirely new team, whilst injured, and play his best with an unsettled system that clearly hasn't been worked on properly, in friendlies against non-league teams. How is he meant to play his best football when he's played just sort of "anywhere in the middle" with no natural width outside him?

How hasn't he given Warnock the players he wants? Ikpeazu, Crooks, Lumley, Peltier? Bamba if he signs? He's got his target man, he's got his big versatile midfielder, he's got his experienced defenders that he's worked with before.

I mean so far he's tried to sign a combative box to box midfielder (which is exactly what Warnock likes) and a strong, physical striker with strength and pace (again what he likes) who he specifically said "we are disappointed" about not getting. It's not like he's out signing 5'4 Brazilian wing backs who clearly wouldn't fit a Warnock style of play. Think this is a really reactive and inaccurate take on the situation.

You have to wonder where Gibbo manages to find these stashes of 8m every few years. Reminds me of the time we went from signing Ishmael Miller on loan to spending 9m on Rhodes.

I'm quite glad we didn't end up getting drawn into spending that sort of silly money. He says, knowing full well Muniz will score the winner against us first day of the season and get sold for 40m when they get promoted off the back of him netting 30 goals.