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Post by jimmyjazz on Sept 28, 2024 12:33:10 GMT
This could come back to bite me, but I don’t get the massive bulling up of Middlesbrough. So far at home they’ve beaten Swansea 1-0 with a pen, drawn 2-2 with Portsmouth with a last minute pen and drawn 1-1 with Preston.
We’ve also got a pretty decent record against them.
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Post by SamB_SCFC on Sept 28, 2024 12:54:45 GMT
Actually looking forward to the game, seems I am just about the only one!!! Such a shame Phillips can't play, he adds some calm to the back line. I have no idea who will play, but we have enough talent to win any game. Our set pieces were miles better last week. 2-0 Stoke. WBWY I really want to feel this way. But I can't shake the feeling that we're going to be trying to pass the ball around the back with the useless players we have, with inevitable consequences. Like an even shitter version of what Southampton are trying and failing to do this season. And that it'll take quite a few humpings for him to realise that it can't work with these players, by which point he might have already lost the supporters and might not have the coaching experience to know how to change the style to something more suitable to the limited ability of our squad. Like I say, really really hope I'm wrong and he turns out to be a highly intelligent coach who has already worked out the limitations of the squad and is busy formulating a successful system that brings the best out of what we have. But recent history and the gaping holes in our squad suggests I'm more likely to be right  |
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Post by tejstokie on Sept 28, 2024 13:08:01 GMT
Have a feeling we're going to do great. Idk, seems everyone mostly is dreading the match. Maybe it's from the last boro match still.
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Post by Gabrielzakuaniandjuliet on Sept 28, 2024 13:27:30 GMT
Actually looking forward to the game, seems I am just about the only one!!! Such a shame Phillips can't play, he adds some calm to the back line. I have no idea who will play, but we have enough talent to win any game. Our set pieces were miles better last week. 2-0 Stoke. WBWY I really want to feel this way. But I can't shake the feeling that we're going to be trying to pass the ball around the back with the useless players we have, with inevitable consequences. Like an even shitter version of what Southampton are trying and failing to do this season. And that it'll take quite a few humpings for him to realise that it can't work with these players, by which point he might have already lost the supporters and might not have the coaching experience to know how to change the style to something more suitable to the limited ability of our squad. Like I say, really really hope I'm wrong and he turns out to be a highly intelligent coach who has already worked out the limitations of the squad and is busy formulating a successful system that brings the best out of what we have. But recent history and the gaping holes in our squad suggests I'm more likely to be right It sounds to me like he wants to be much more pragmatic than Russell Martin at Southampton. I think his ideal team performance looks something like the Norwich home game last season when they killed us |
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Post by rickyfullerbeer on Sept 28, 2024 13:43:09 GMT
Desperate for a win but we’re at the start of what is hopefully a long term project so in the grand scheme of things, if we lose, we lose. It’s not the end of the world.
The one thing I want to see is us keep the ball better. We can’t play at the intensity he wants if we can’t keep the ball.
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Post by starkiller on Sept 28, 2024 13:56:49 GMT
It was always said that our stadium was based on the Riverside. But how much better is their place with corners, and more of an outer shell?
Anyway, let's hope we silence it. COYP.
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Post by idle on Sept 28, 2024 14:00:06 GMT
These formations from the stream are getter more and more ridiculous. Cannon as left midfielder and Gibson as the RM...
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Post by maninasuitcase on Sept 28, 2024 14:00:13 GMT
It was always said that our stadium was based on the Riverside. But how much better is their place with corners, and more of an outer shell? Anyway, let's hope we silence it. COYP. We are a copy of boro and derby, only half built. |
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Post by apb1 on Sept 28, 2024 14:00:54 GMT
Oh God. Why do we do it to ourselves? It's the hope that kills you isn't it.
Anyway goaaarn Stoke!
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Post by maninasuitcase on Sept 28, 2024 14:00:56 GMT
That looks a poor boro crowd today.
On the plus side we are in that sharp away kit 👍
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Post by apb1 on Sept 28, 2024 14:01:56 GMT
That looks a poor boro crowd today. On the plus side we are in that sharp away kit 👍 It's natty innit? |
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Post by JoeinOz on Sept 28, 2024 14:02:36 GMT
Bloody rubbish. Get Thompson off
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Post by apb1 on Sept 28, 2024 14:03:31 GMT
The 'phase' we need to work on is them getting ball and instantly cutting us open.
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Post by maninasuitcase on Sept 28, 2024 14:03:51 GMT
Fuck me how much space did Junior leave then.
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Post by Chewbacca the Wookie on Sept 28, 2024 14:04:20 GMT
great series of backwards and sideways passing
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Post by headsgoup on Sept 28, 2024 14:05:01 GMT
great series of backwards and sideways passing It's like that bit in The Simpsons showing what Americans think football is. |
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Post by stoke1989 on Sept 28, 2024 14:05:01 GMT
I cannot stand sohail
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Post by rickyfullerbeer on Sept 28, 2024 14:05:56 GMT
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Post by Sfance on Sept 28, 2024 14:06:17 GMT
Looks very dodgy.
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Post by apb1 on Sept 28, 2024 14:06:20 GMT
Nice little break then. After lots of back fannying
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Post by tuum on Sept 28, 2024 14:07:02 GMT
Interesting approach. Big faith in his back line.
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Post by ohbottom on Sept 28, 2024 14:07:10 GMT
When did Sohail come back?
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Post by moon on Sept 28, 2024 14:07:14 GMT
That looks a poor boro crowd today. On the plus side we are in that sharp away kit 👍 It's natty innit? I’m not a fan, looks like a funeral kit. From a distance you don’t see anything on the front of the shirt. |
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Post by starkiller on Sept 28, 2024 14:07:16 GMT
It was always said that our stadium was based on the Riverside. But how much better is their place with corners, and more of an outer shell? Anyway, let's hope we silence it. COYP. We are a copy of boro and derby, only half built. Yeah. Also never understood why we had that corner dressing room instead of the players running on at the halfway line. |
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Post by marwood on Sept 28, 2024 14:07:28 GMT
Nice little break then. After lots of back fannying back fannying? Is that , like 'hang gliding' using Sunny Delight or custard? |
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Post by pottersrule on Sept 28, 2024 14:07:43 GMT
Fuck me how much space did Junior leave then. Can’t believe they’ve targeted him.🤥 |
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Post by tuum on Sept 28, 2024 14:08:26 GMT
This Cat and Mouse game could end up in a total bore fest.
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Post by headsgoup on Sept 28, 2024 14:08:33 GMT
I don't know about all you, but I'm getting my '101 greatest square balls across the D' compilation order in already.
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Post by marwood on Sept 28, 2024 14:09:18 GMT
for those listening in black and white, today Narcis is wearing ice white pumps, light blue slacks, with a dark 'midnight' blue sweater on top
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Post by figo85 on Sept 28, 2024 14:09:35 GMT
I hope Cannon has smuggled a book or something on the pitch. He’s going to be bored rigid.
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