Boro 86

Rubbish pen but a goal is a goal

Garbage again from Izzy

Actually a very good game to watch and impressed with Plymouth but we should have been out of sight . Jones has been so frustrating and his attempt to pick out Coburn on the break was shocking. Agree Greenwood seems ineffective today , maybe swap him for Rogers second half.

Decent first half. We are far the better football team but sloppy in final third. commentary on red button is dire need to be a bit sharper but think first goal for us will see us comfortably beat them

Decent game of football in the first half. Great save from Dieng but we should have had a penalty for the Crooks push so pretty even with both teams looking good. Second half was the perfect professional performance with every player doing their bit. Izzy was very good but in all honesty had nothing to beat. Greenwood looks like a player and I thought Hackney and Barlaser dominated the midfield.

Engel shocking first half. Crooks and Silvera shocking all game. How they stayed on is beyond me The positives were Izzy and Coburn but the game was crying out for Lath after we scored as Sheffield were shot and there for the taking. Worrying times as I would say Sheffield are nailed on for relegation and we weren’t much better

Oh heck I see we have scored. That will upset a few on here!

Attention seeking nonsense.

Thrown my rose tinted geggs in the bin after a horror show. He wasn’t a world beater but why on earth take Izzy off and leave Silvera on! Lath has to do better with those chances worst game I have seen from Rogers so far two weeks to sort it outMichael

How on earth has Silvera stayed on

McGree absolutely got to come on for Silvera. Rogers had a poor half but will give home 15 mins second half. Wouldn’t mind seeing Coburn get a run out also

Very poor so far. Struggling to see any positives but would expect changes at half time

Just about to post something similar. Is it too outlandish for Carrick to have finally seen Coburn fit after a frustrating summer and think hang on we might have a player here. if he wasn’t already our player and we were linked for him at £5m I for one would be happy with that.

I really wouldn’t see the point unless it was a too good to be true deal. Think the idea is that Coburn is potentially a decent player even if the Teesside Harland tag is stretching it a bit. Best keep some money in the kitty for a January signing ( a la Archer) that might be needed to secure top 6

A sensible approach CT . I would just say that on your first point I would give it another 5 or 6 games to see what the style will be like. We could all be pleasantly surprised as the new boys settle in. As for too many signings. Again you may well be right but as a lot of these are development players on longish contracts I think that they are for the future as much as anything else. The result of all of this could be anything but I still feel top 6 is possible but then again fans on at least a dozen other forums are saying the same thing.

For all the talk of Carrick being unhappy at the club letting him down , all I can say is that the fella must be a bloody good actor because he seemed genuinely happy at the squad he has in today’s news conference As for Coburn staying it seems to me that since getting over his injury he has probably impressed in training so they have had second thoughts . Squad looks well balanced and the O’Brien signing is a real coup. Of course a 20+ striker would be the cherry on the top but let’s be realistic here , there isn’t a club in the land who isn’t saying the same. I am 60 so

To be fair he could have been in a coma for the past year and your reply would still have been spot on!

If Carrick alludes to the fact we are trying to bring more players in then I believe him - Does the man strike you as a liar? No of course not. As it happens there are 23 other clubs in the championship, not to mention the dozen or so bottom half premiership teams also trying to do the same thing and many with far bigger budgets than us. I pray we bring some quality in and have said for a while we need a midfield bully but if we can see that I am fairly sure the boss can too. I just hope prospective players don’t look on here first !

Moved up a place in the table. Nowt to worry about chaps

Says to me , if you are a premiership team and want to add value to players send them to the Boro!

Unless our dealings are laid out in full on tik tok we have people claiming we are a shambles. Do some of you actually think that Scott and his team are sat playing Call of Duty all day!! The best teams do there business in private. That is what a professional team looks like. If in a couple of weeks I am proven wrong feel free to lambast me but until then a chill pill may be in order

One thing that struck me from yesterday was that Fry and Lenihan were poor at bringing the ball out from the back. It’s early days but the young Dutch lad showed he had that in his game with his surging run in the second half.

Pritchard seems a decent fit as a passer but still think we need a bully in the middle, a bit like that Nakamba at Luton last year as we are still brittle on the break. Then again I guess it’s about balance. If we buy defensive players we can’t play the high tempo game MC wants.

I think I have entered a parallel universe where CT is the adult in the room. His posts are spot on. we are 3 games in and whilst we only have the 1 point it would not be unreasonable to say that had Silvera put away the two sitters against Cov and today we would be mid table ....not great but not a disaster. I am of the “let’s see after 10 games”school of thinking and therefore reasonably content with our incomings so far. I am happy to wait until the window closes before I pass ultimate judgement but Dieng , Engel , Rogers and Latte all look good fits to me. Silvera is one I am n

So do we !!