'Other Boro stuff'

[Bosco's Tuft 941]

34 minutes ago, Fab4TT said:

Tony Mowbray spotted Sunday at Beadnell Towers in Bamburgh. I was wondering if he was at the game Saturday?

Go on, the suspense is killing me. Was he?

[wilsoncgp 9,283]

Mogga was at the West Brom game, yes.

[Hendrie_7 1,073]

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/20605937.swindon-town-drew-0-0-salford-city-league-two/

"Goalkeeper Sol Brynn was Town’s man of the match, pulling off several excellent saves on his way to claiming a first clean sheet since his season-long move down from Middlesbrough."

[TeaCider24 12,639]

Typical 😂

[Brunners 7,982]

 

[Rob 4,504]

On 8/6/2022 at 9:13 PM, TeaCider24 said:

Typical 😂

probs will do better when he dont have to play with ball at his feet lol, the best is yet to come from him at reading I reckon lol

[Neverbefore 10,941]

12 minutes ago, Brunners said:

 

A lot of this will be down to the addition of Giles. What a player he could be for us if we can get a couple of dangerous strikers in the box. 

[wilsoncgp 9,283]

24 minutes ago, Neverbefore said:

A lot of this will be down to the addition of Giles. What a player he could be for us if we can get a couple of dangerous strikers in the box. 

And when we actually make use of him, too. The thing I noticed after we made the Smith for Forss change is we rarely actually found the lad. From people who were there it didn't sound like he was tightly marked at all times and really, the last big chances we had were from crosses from his side. The Crooks and Akpom strike partnership was surely there for the sake of getting crosses into the box and for some reason we just stopped utilising our biggest threat on that front.

[Brunners 7,982]

32 minutes ago, wilsoncgp said:

And when we actually make use of him, too. The thing I noticed after we made the Smith for Forss change is we rarely actually found the lad. From people who were there it didn't sound like he was tightly marked at all times and really, the last big chances we had were from crosses from his side. The Crooks and Akpom strike partnership was surely there for the sake of getting crosses into the box and for some reason we just stopped utilising our biggest threat on that front.

Yep QPR left him wide open all the time basically and once Smith came on it just killed all our impetus and Giles barely touched the ball after I don't think!

[AnglianRed 6,320]

1 hour ago, Brunners said:

 

For me xG is kind of like possession.

You can dominate possession and still lose a game...just like you can have a high xG and still lose.

I'd rather we just actually won games. 🤷‍♂️ Would be interesting to see what QPR's xG was, for comparison.

[Brunners 7,982]

20 minutes ago, AnglianRed said:

For me xG is kind of like possession.

You can dominate possession and still lose a game...just like you can have a high xG and still lose.

I'd rather we just actually won games. 🤷‍♂️ Would be interesting to see what QPR's xG was, for comparison.

That's open play xG across both games btw, not just vs QPR. 

infogol has our xg at 2.07 and QPR at 1.51 for the game.

[Hendrie_7 1,073]

I refuse to put this in the Non-Boro thread

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-62480802

[wilsoncgp 9,283]

This just reminded me of that image of George sat in the dugout after his last home game, how he never got his proper goodbye as a Boro player. Very sad.

[Borodane 6,301]

On 8/8/2022 at 11:19 AM, Brunners said:

 

do we know what our Xg against is?

[Brunners 7,982]

1 hour ago, Borodane said:

do we know what our Xg against is?

infogol has our xg for at 3.8 & xg against at 3.0

Tied 5th in the Champ for worst xGA

Second best for xGF behind only WBA