What do you make of Kim Hellberg's Slow Gardening Clubs sweatshirt today, with the subtitle 'Let nature take it's time'?
Was that a subliminal message to the fans that we'll go up when we're good and ready? Maybe next year would be a better time to smash the league. Only joking.
What do you make of Kim Hellberg's Slow Gardening Clubs sweatshirt today, with the subtitle 'Let nature take it's time'?
Was it really spelt with that aberrant apostrophe? Sorry, but all my instincts as a former professional linguist made me ask... 😉
Of course not. That was all my own work. I'll swear to my dying day that it was spell checker or autocorrect or something, but my best bet is my (honest) claim that it was my careless fingers, rather than any failings on the part of my English teacher at Acklam Hall.
FORGET THE PREMIERSHIP
In fact I’d forget the playoffs as there’s little chance of beating eg Southampton over 2 legs based on this performance and recent performances.
Usual stuff - lots of possession, over 70 % , almost 4 times as many passes of the ball than Blackburn, too much passing the ball sideways and backwards, build up play too slow and predictable, useless in the last third of the pitch, forwards offered very little, what few opportunities were wasted by players who can’t score, was Strelec on the pitch, an insistence of when the ball was passed to the byline it was then passed back into midfield, the longer the game went on the more predictable and boring the team was, subs brought on too late etc etc.
Want more ? I’m tempted to say what I really think !!
I feel really sorry for the Boro supporters.
I will get more enjoyment in watching 10 minutes of the under 15’s Sunday morning game at the local park tomorrow.
Philip of Huddersfield 👎👎👎
@pedro - I think Ayling talked himself into the referee's book by comments he made to the linesman and referee, quite apart from the hugging match he instigated after the foul. I am typing this after the game but, to be fair to him, the referee had a better game today than any of our forwards/attacking midfielders.
Really well thought out post Si - “never say never” although I am starting to feel that we have blown the chance to go up in an automatic position. A team looking to achieve that cannot drop the amount of points that we have along with an abject failure to score goals despite creating the opportunities.
The games against Ipswich and Millwall are even more crucial than crucial game can be if, and for me it’s a pretty big if, we can hold on to second place. Unless our form can change dramatically, then I don’t fancy our chances in the play offs.
If one were if a cynical mind, then you may almost be thinking that the plan is not to gain promotion because the last few games have not exactly shown the opposite!
It isn’t over until the rather large lady sings although sadly, I think she is starting to warm up her voice in her dressing room before making her slow progress to the wings.
However, we should count our blessings- I was out yesterday at a retirement do with some Sheffield Wednesday fans (and the Administrator was actually there !) - they are pretty despondent, especially since they think they will start next season with another 15 point deduction regardless of whether they can find a buyer.
So with Steve Gibson, we have a lot to be grateful for.
@martin-bellamy I appreciate your positive stand Martin, I really wish I could muster even a little, but after that abject display in the final third and box area especially. ☹️
I am sure why you mentioned Edwards and Hellberg, I am certainly not criticising either of them. My angst is with the recent window players that Mr Scott took a punt on, the forward players have been a failure to date.
However, do you honestly believe we can achieve promotion, never mind second place with this present form that now appears to be more than a “blip” . Blackburn were so poor, at the moment I doubt we could get a result against Sheffield Wednesday.
FORGET THE PREMIERSHIP
In fact I’d forget the playoffs as there’s little chance of beating eg Southampton over 2 legs based on this performance and recent performances.
Usual stuff - lots of possession, over 70 % , almost 4 times as many passes of the ball than Blackburn, too much passing the ball sideways and backwards, build up play too slow and predictable, useless in the last third of the pitch, forwards offered very little, what few opportunities were wasted by players who can’t score, was Strelec on the pitch, an insistence of when the ball was passed to the byline it was then passed back into midfield, the longer the game went on the more predictable and boring the team was, subs brought on too late etc etc.
Want more ? I’m tempted to say what I really think !!
I feel really sorry for the Boro supporters.
I will get more enjoyment in watching 10 minutes of the under 15’s Sunday morning game at the local park tomorrow.
Philip of Huddersfield 👎👎👎
I haven’t seen the game, so difficult to comment although from the reports and the view expressed on here, sadly, it is hard to disagree with that.
I am not convinced that should we go up, SG has the willingness to spend what is required to be competitive in what has become almost a league of three parts - the rich, the not so rich and the poor!
That is not a criticism of SG at all, just what I think is the reality and despite the natural wish of supporters(for me almost 60 years)to see our team to do well at the highest level, football has changed so much that (whisper it ) I would almost prefer us to get to the play offs every year with good football rather than struggle in the PL.
Just my opinion - does that make me a lesser supporter? Answers on a postcard!