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@werdermouth I'm sure there is a half-decent team somewhere among the chaos but will we see it emerge or will it remain just a theoretical possibili...
@jarkko i couldn’t agree with you more. Anticipating a positive outcome doesn’t mean that a negative outcome is not hurtful but, at least for me, it...
@original-fat-bob anyone care to bet on whether he is playing for Boro next year? Feel free to add in Coulson, Hemming, Brynn or any of the others d...
I’m still curious to see what would happen if we played Ikpeazu and Sporar together up front maybe with Watmore in a front three. Somewhere there is a...
Forever Dormo as well.
Only one small indication I know but it's good to see the youngsters thrashing a team from a PL academy. They made the final of this competition las...
It was actually a little dislocating watching the match because it reminded me of a lot of Boro match’s when we played quite well but lost to a team a...
Interesting team selection. Looks like a 4-1-4-1 or a 4-1-3-2 depending on where Crooks plays. Of course, most of us will be looking at Payero. Lots t...
Here in Oz the Reading and Sheffield United games are being shown live on Bein sports and so I assume that they will be available anywhere else that B...
so what went wrong last time and how can we avoid that? UTB
....yay, it worked. It even replaced the image on all of my old posts. UTB
greetings @original-fat-bob No reason at all for this entry except to see if I've finally managed to add a photo to my profile. If so, it will a tri...
@plato We don’t agree that often 🙂 but I think that you have a real point here about inflexibility although it does help when you have Kante to bri...
I’ve kept off the blog for a day or so because I was really upset at the Blackpool game. There ‘s nothing worse than staying up until 2 in the morning...
Great song. I’ll hope to hear it when I tune in tonight. I totally agree with your sentiments. We all expend so much mental energy in our support of...
It's always tricky to know which games demand a back three and which a back four. You can argue either way. Playing a back three with a holding player...
@mw-in-darwin By memory, a lot of Tav's passes will have been short distance. I was thinking more of his choices that didn't end up in passes and so...
@original-fat-bob with the number of tackles that he made, it probably wasn’t much of a risk.
...I should add that Dijksteel had a better game. He seems much more comfortable at right back where he doesn't need to get forward and support the at...
@original-fat-bob I wouldn't say that it was a particularly good performance but for me the main positive is that they played as if they didn't real...
@original-fat-bob Nothing wrong with those two signings. utb
I think that the idea of putting Tavernier at left back is an elegant solution that immediately creates a potentially exciting combo with Jones and ma...
What’s happened to McNair?
Hard to pick a formation but with Bola not fit it’s the team that we would all expect and an impressive bench. It doesn’t look like a back four beca...
Great intro @ofb According to the report in the Gazette, Coventry play with wingbacks, two men up front with one behind and a deep-lying Brazilian p...
@original-fat-bob I couldn’t agree more. How can the FA be going after him for something that he posted so long ago when he was just a fourteen year...
@k-p-in-spain you’re probably right but it feels like the same universe.
@ken There’s always the Solheim cup as well this weekend. I have to admit that I get more fun out of watching the top women because they hit it abou...
It’s all very well for the Gazette to put up lists of free agents as if it was some kind of footballer discount supermarket but why should we think th...
@original-fat-bob perfect. so do we actually know what has happened. Has he gone? By the way, I have a good friend who is a fanatical Ipswich su...