3 hours ago, BoroSmoggie said:

After the season I feel we’ve had I find it crazy how we are still 9th.

Makes them Rotherham games even more annoying, the sheff wed away game where  they barely looked like a football team, the Blackburn none event the other week, on the other hand I guess you could say the Leicester wins and the Southampton 4-0 win maybe balance it out? 
 

I was probably saying it myself but it definately makes a mockery of the ‘it’s only August’ comments. But then I guess all of the teams around us will be able to point to results they should have really got. 
 

Either way while it’s gonna be a game by game basis I think it’s a bit defeatist to say our season is over. We’re now above Hull who everybody had down as definate play off challengers and 6 points off 6th, the big thing against us being we’ve played an extra game. We could lose the next 2 and be out of it or win them and be right up there.

7 hours ago, LinoJo3 said:

Makes them Rotherham games even more annoying, the sheff wed away game where  they barely looked like a football team, the Blackburn none event the other week, on the other hand I guess you could say the Leicester wins and the Southampton 4-0 win maybe balance it out? 
 

I was probably saying it myself but it definately makes a mockery of the ‘it’s only August’ comments. But then I guess all of the teams around us will be able to point to results they should have really got. 
 

Either way while it’s gonna be a game by game basis I think it’s a bit defeatist to say our season is over. We’re now above Hull who everybody had down as definate play off challengers and 6 points off 6th, the big thing against us being we’ve played an extra game. We could lose the next 2 and be out of it or win them and be right up there.

Hull have dropped off big time but also have a game in hand on us, as do Coventry and Preston. Preston's I think is Southampton away so who knows what will happen in that one. But I think Hull's game in hand is against Coventry so there's a good chance one of those teams gets a 3-point boost. We also have Leeds, Ipswich and Hull themselves to play in our final 6.

It's not over, we've gone from having people worried about relegation to talking about playoffs again what feels like very quickly and credit to Carrick and the players for that. But I think it's incredibly unlikely. I think looking at the teams in the running, Norwich are probably gonna make it by virtue of their run-in looking a lot kinder than all the other chasing teams. They have Ipswich next but then it's only Preston left to play from a promotion perspective. Sheff Wed and Brum could still need points to survive but Norwich should beat them regardless.

Surely the team captain decides who takes a penalty not a petulant novice. Captains need to be leaders on the pitch. Yesterday was a prime example of this lack of leadership.

33 minutes ago, Plastic Goat said:

Surely the team captain decides who takes a penalty not a petulant novice. Captains need to be leaders on the pitch. Yesterday was a prime example of this lack of leadership.

How do you know Greenwood isn't the designated penalty taker? He took every other set piece so hardly unrealistic that he is. Or are you just making things up again to perpetuate your unceasing state of misery to deal with the fact were in good form?

8 minutes ago, Neverbefore said:

How do you know Greenwood isn't the designated penalty taker? He took every other set piece so hardly unrealistic that he is. Or are you just making things up again to perpetuate your unceasing state of misery to deal with the fact were in good form?

How do you know he wasn't?

2 minutes ago, Plastic Goat said:

How do you know he wasn't?

What?

Sorry.Meant to say how do you know if he was.

12 minutes ago, Plastic Goat said:

Sorry.Meant to say how do you know if he was.

He's not the one making random declarations. You are.

I honestly cant see the issue with Greenwood taking the penalty, im not his biggest fan & was hoping Silvera, who I dont rate, would have started ahead of him due to Silvera been our player & Greenwoods poor performances for us but thought he had a cracking second half & his confidence will have been up & strikes the ball well, lets be honest we're not blessed with good penalty takers 

 

54 minutes ago, Neverbefore said:

How do you know Greenwood isn't the designated penalty taker? He took every other set piece so hardly unrealistic that he is. Or are you just making things up again to perpetuate your unceasing state of misery to deal with the fact were in good form?

Howson & ELL were on the pitch & I think they've been the penalty takers rest of the year haven't they?

17 minutes ago, Brunners said:

Howson & ELL were on the pitch & I think they've been the penalty takers rest of the year haven't they?

Latte Lath took one in the League Cup but with only McNair there that had regularly taken penalties before.

Howson has taken two, scoring one, Coburn was on the pitch for both of them.

Coburn took one, but could only score the rebound, Howson was on the pitch at the time too.

Forss took one against West Brom, Howson was on the pitch.

I don't think there's been a set taker judging from that.

Last season, it was Akpom, unless Forss was on the pitch.

Edited April 2, 20242 yr by TeaCider24

1 minute ago, TeaCider24 said:

Latte Lath took one in the League Cup but with only McNair there that had regularly taken penalties before.

Howson has taken two, scoring one, Coburn was on the pitch for both of them.

Coburn took one, but could only score the rebound, Howson was on the pitch at the time too.

Forss took one against West Brom, Howson was on the pitch.

I don't think there's been a set taker judging from that.

Last season, it was Akpom, unless Forss was on the pitch.

Thanks for looking it up! 👍

Interesting that, I'm surprised we don't seem to have a set taker.

I expect it would be Forss, but he's been injured for every match we've been given a penalty outside of the first one against West Brom in August.

Thoughts on Saturdays game, Sheff Weds are the worst team we've seen at the Riverside this season

Some good performers, I even thought Greenwood was tremendous second half

The ref was shocking too

Why do Boro put us through it, I enjoyed the build up to the game & the match itself as I thought we're finishing 8th, 9th so just feel relax about it but typical Boro drag you right back into will they/wont they catch Norwich & as you, me & the goalpost know we'll build our hopes up, get one point of 6th place then totally mess it up

24 minutes ago, Erimus74 said:

Thoughts on Saturdays game, Sheff Weds are the worst team we've seen at the Riverside this season

Some good performers, I even thought Greenwood was tremendous second half

The ref was shocking too

Why do Boro put us through it, I enjoyed the build up to the game & the match itself as I thought we're finishing 8th, 9th so just feel relax about it but typical Boro drag you right back into will they/wont they catch Norwich & as you, me & the goalpost know we'll build our hopes up, get one point of 6th place then totally mess it up

You just know that we will be 10 minutes from finishing 6th and then Watford notch an equaliser in the 88th minute to spoil things, but then Norwich and Coventry both grab late goals in added time ultimately pushing us down to 8th and Watford's equaliser being irrelevant in the end. It just wouldn't be Boro otherwise. Whatever happens I just hope we don't have a final game performance like the one at Preston where we just didn't show up.