Will be interesting how this one works out as with only ten minutes left in the game, Ipswich getting beat and down to ten men, surely the powers that be cannot decide that the game must start from scratch again ?@presidentjump Rain in Lancashire - what a shocker!
Will be interesting
You could look at it another way in that the odds of another consecutive defeat for my preview on probability grounds are now almost 1 in 60,000...
@werdermouth I will most certainly look at it that way!!
The law of averages and any other numeric science tells me that run has to end, let's hope that is next weekend.
Thoroughly enjoyed the game. It looked like it might be an almost perfect performance until the last 5 minutes when they scored. The management team has to take a great deal of credit along with the players as we now seem to have someone who can implement game management unlike some of his predecessors. Scoring a goal from a long throw hasn't happened for a while, the last long thrower we had was Ryan Shotten from memory but don't know if we scored from any of his efforts. However having just watched the highlights the one on Friday night was a foul throw, Edmundson has a foot raised as he threw it, which unless they have changed the rules, was a foul throw when I was a Referee.
@mw-in-darwin I am not so sure it was a foul throw. I've been trying to see that by rerunning the throw over and again. It looks to me to be perfectly legitimate at the point of him releasing the ball when both feet appear to be in contact with the ground. Well at least to my dodgy eyesight. The records show it was a goal, so that is all that really matters. 😊
Talking of long throws and set pieces, here’s an interesting article from the Observer: https://observer.co.uk/news/sport/article/the-science-and-swagger-of-the-new-age-set-piece
Oxford two up at Bristol at half time, we will have some of that.
The unpredictable championship as we know and love - you watch Bristol win 3-2 now i have said that
Oxford two up at Bristol at half time, we will have some of that.
The unpredictable championship as we know and love - you watch Bristol win 3-2 now i have said that
The Robins have already pulled back one of them (Mehmeti in the 53rd minute)...
What a weekend of results for Boro with Bristol City now losing 3-1 at home to Oxford - who were second-bottom before kick-off.
That means Boro are 5 points clear of third spot and also can't be knocked off top spot under my watch 😉
No need to worry. Oxford won at Bristol by 3-1.
So four points cushion to keep the top spot. And five to the 3rd spot and Bristol City. If you haven't already checked the table.
Life is good. Up the Boro!
Coventry are the other unbeaten team in the Championship, eventhough they are six points behind us.
Up the Boro!
What a luxury, not having to worry for once about other teams' performances/points totals! 
well well well@jarkko indeed. It might be a bit of a big ask to expect Oxford to contain Bristol tomorrow though. All the same, there is no harm in hoping.
What a weekend of all the right results
Seems you have been granted a free pass @Werdermouth!
4 points clear of 2nd place definitely a pinch me moment, did any of us predict that? Maybe Jarkko 😉 but the rest of us
I think I probably predicted we'd be 4 points clear of relegation...
@paulinboro No, I didn't. I predicted us to have 15 points after ten games. Now we have 16 after six games. So I wasn't clever enough.
Loving it. Up the Boro!
The only person I know who is more optimistic than you about the Boro is my wife ( i would have thought living with me would have knocked it out of her ) and she makes the average Mag look like a nayesayer.
I do wonder if your optimism is something to do with those long dark nights in Finland
@jarkko I predicted 18 points after 10 games, I think. Lord alone knows what I was on that night. Turns out, maybe I should some more of whatever I was taking!
@martin-bellamy I must have been on something similar as I also predicted 18 after 10. I remember having to rein myself in as I originally calculated/predicted us us to be on 22 points and thought to myself that is far too optimistic and that I would look rather foolish. So I reassessed some of my predictions with a big sobering dose of realism. Hah! Who would have known?
With reference to Tommy Conway, I do hope that Steve Clark, will pick him for the Scotland team. We are short of players and we need the industrial running and power that TC has.
@martin-bellamy and @Powmill-Naemore
I hope you do not expect us to go on a run of four matches without a win now. So you look very pessimists now after our start to the season. Two draws and two defeats would make you champions.
I am more than happy to see us continuing our run. I hope this especially for Mr Gibson. He deserves that as the best chairman in the football world. Up the Boro!
@jarkko I am already delighted that so many of us were so wrong in the doom and gloom of the pre-season and will be even more delighted for our unbeaten run to continue for at least the next four games and beyond. Actually I predicted Boro to finish 2nd in the COTS challenge, so currently at least that is not looking such a ridiculous possibility. Mind you and on the other hand, I also predicted the Blades to be Champions, which does look decidedly ridiculous no matter there are only 6 games played so far.
@jarkko I’ll be delighted if my points estimate is too pessimistic - 4 more wins would suit me fine.
Marcus Forss scored a brace for Bolton. He is not fit to play 90 min yet.
You can watch the goals in here: https://www.bwfc.co.uk/video/player/0_zow8ym8h
Up the Boro!
Just watched a tik tok ( yes i am far too old for that stuff but thats for another day ).
The video was Aidan Morris immediately following our second goal, wrapping his arms around Kaly Sene, then immediately squaring him up and saying
Hey, you listen to me.
If you make a play and it goes out of bounds you run right back ok.
Morris is proving such a player, such a leader, delivering the pre-match huddle and leading all over the pitch.
What a signing he is from Scott.
@presidentjump I noticed him grab KS after he scored but didn’t realise what he’d said. I’ve noticed that American players rarely lack confidence. I think their education system teaches presentation skills and self confidence in a different way from our schools here.
I saw the same things from Australian rugby league players when I was a regular in the corporate after match area at Wigan Warriors matches. When asked to say a few words about the game they were always much more articulate than their local teammates. It’s the UK way to be self deprecating, of course, unless you attended a “prestigious” private school I guess, where modesty often seems to be in short supply.
I’ve just had a message from a chap I went to Guisborough Grammar with - he lives near Doncaster now and bumped into Neil Cox in the pub yesterday whilst they were watching the Arsenal vs City game.
Neil said his biggest claim to fame at the Boro was punching Ravanelli before the FA Cup Final - I do remember reading his version of events some time ago. From my recollection NC never quite fulfilled his potential at the Boro.
@presidentjump yes I saw him do that too and like Martin didn't know what he was saying. Like someone suggested earlier in here, he is very much team captain material. Not just for his verbals, but for his leading by example all over the pitch.
With my usual flair for prediction, I had Boro down for just 12 points from 10 games. I’m just off to Aldi now to buy the biggest humble pie I can find, and if Rob Edwards wants to come and ram it down my throat I’ll happily take my punishment like a man!
@clive-hurren - Maybe you could get TWO of those pies. If I remember correctly I predicted BORO would get 10 points from the first 10 games. Delighted to be proved wrong already despite there being four games left in that first 10.