| Boro pretty poor! 08:01 - Oct 3 with 833 views | Jubba1975 |
What annoyed me most last night wasn't the result, but the fact that Boro weren't even that good. Against Brentford you could see the goal coming, but I thought we deserved more and could have got it if Hurst just swallowed his pride and played Andre, Downes and Edwards and offered Sears more time. |  | | |  |
| Boro pretty poor! on 08:04 - Oct 3 with 818 views | Coastalblue |
Boro never got going, they never had to. They woke up 15 minutes into the game and found themselves 2-0 up, all they had to do after that was go through the motions. |  |
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| Boro pretty poor! on 08:14 - Oct 3 with 798 views | Rozz |
Professional performance for me. Put 3 men in a narrow midfield, fell back into a 5 man defense at 2-0 and never looked like doing anything but conserving energy and frustrating us. Edwards and Sears gave them a bit more to think about, but they did a great job of isolating us and keeping us out of dangerous positions. People talk about us needing to gamble (and I agree to an extent), but lose out and you release one of Besic, Downing, Braithewaite, who all have individual quality to hurt us.
Uninspiring, yes. Poor, I don't think so.
Assombalonga off the bench though, ffs. We we really are a long way away. [Post edited 3 Oct 2018 8:14]
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| Boro pretty poor! on 08:22 - Oct 3 with 772 views | mathiemagic |
| Boro pretty poor! on 08:14 - Oct 3 by Rozz |
Professional performance for me. Put 3 men in a narrow midfield, fell back into a 5 man defense at 2-0 and never looked like doing anything but conserving energy and frustrating us. Edwards and Sears gave them a bit more to think about, but they did a great job of isolating us and keeping us out of dangerous positions. People talk about us needing to gamble (and I agree to an extent), but lose out and you release one of Besic, Downing, Braithewaite, who all have individual quality to hurt us.
Uninspiring, yes. Poor, I don't think so.
Assombalonga off the bench though, ffs. We we really are a long way away. [Post edited 3 Oct 2018 8:14]
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I agree, Boro did exactly what they needed to do. They did not need to play well or get into top gear as they were never threatened. They came with a typical Pulis 1-0 win in their minds, found themselves 2 up courtesy of some woeful defending and coasted along to the win. I genuinely have no idea where our first win will come from. The players are just not good enough it seems. |  |
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| Boro pretty poor! on 08:31 - Oct 3 with 756 views | itfcjoe |
Ben got it right on the Blue Monday match review.
Boro didn't even need to start the car let alone get into 1st gear - and we were lucky we were playing a Pulis side who were happy just to sit on the 2-0 rather than go for the jugular.
They had one eye on the weekend game, and still created more than us! |  |
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| Boro pretty poor! on 08:31 - Oct 3 with 746 views | Rozz |
| Boro pretty poor! on 08:22 - Oct 3 by mathiemagic |
I agree, Boro did exactly what they needed to do. They did not need to play well or get into top gear as they were never threatened. They came with a typical Pulis 1-0 win in their minds, found themselves 2 up courtesy of some woeful defending and coasted along to the win. I genuinely have no idea where our first win will come from. The players are just not good enough it seems. |
We know from Mick's time that technically poor players can grind out wins with proper organisation. I fear what we'll end up with is the very same 'back to basics' approach that we'd so vocally opposed last season, and even if we do survive I imagine many fans are going to give up the spectacle altogether. Something needs to happen very quickly to turn this around. | | | |
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