| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) 14:39 - Mar 9 with 1810 views | jasondozzell |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 14:42 - Mar 9 with 1515 views | Benters |
Looking at the table no,can we beat them yes, how’s that buh. |  |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 14:43 - Mar 9 with 1503 views | noggin |
Better squad, yes. Better team, only time will tell. |  |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 14:44 - Mar 9 with 1506 views | Linners |
Squad, yes.
Team, not so sure. |  | | |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 14:46 - Mar 9 with 1483 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
I wouldn't mind having their midfield. |  |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 14:46 - Mar 9 with 1470 views | Herbivore |
I worry about the fixture pile up we have in April. It worked in our favour last time as Leeds blinked and it meant our game in hand effectively became a free hit to more or less seal promotion. Hopefully it's similar this season. We're a better side than Boro and Coventry, imo, but our Achilles heel is that we aren't clinical enough. We still miss too many chances and we also have an occasional habit of conceding in games when under very little pressure and that's not ideal. Even with those issues, we're still plenty good enough to get the points we need to go up. |  |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 14:52 - Mar 9 with 1432 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
If we play like we did in the Coventry games then yes, we can beat them (any anyone in the division). We’ve not hit those levels many times though. Are we a better side than ‘Boro, table doesn’t lie so no - credit where it’s due.
That’s just one game though, we need to be consistent otherwise the Boro game won’t matter either way. |  | | |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 14:57 - Mar 9 with 1392 views | gainsboroughblue |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 14:46 - Mar 9 by Herbivore |
I worry about the fixture pile up we have in April. It worked in our favour last time as Leeds blinked and it meant our game in hand effectively became a free hit to more or less seal promotion. Hopefully it's similar this season. We're a better side than Boro and Coventry, imo, but our Achilles heel is that we aren't clinical enough. We still miss too many chances and we also have an occasional habit of conceding in games when under very little pressure and that's not ideal. Even with those issues, we're still plenty good enough to get the points we need to go up. |
We are an oddity in such that we have scored the most goals in the division (except Cov) but you don't feel that we score often enough when we need to. It's all very well sticking 5 past Sheff U or 4 past Swansea but it was Saturday we could have done with just one of those goals. See also, scoring 3 at Wrexham only to have multiple brain farts at the back.
We also have the second best defence but you can't help have that niggling feeling that there is a real rick in us. This is no new thing either but I'm sure Town, even going back to the last two promotions, are unrivalled in conceding goals totally out of nowhere and from a team's first or only shot on goal.
By the goals for and against metric, we should be 2nd in the league but it's moments that are doing us. [Post edited 9 Mar 14:58]
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:02 - Mar 9 with 1346 views | RetroBlue |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 14:57 - Mar 9 by gainsboroughblue |
We are an oddity in such that we have scored the most goals in the division (except Cov) but you don't feel that we score often enough when we need to. It's all very well sticking 5 past Sheff U or 4 past Swansea but it was Saturday we could have done with just one of those goals. See also, scoring 3 at Wrexham only to have multiple brain farts at the back.
We also have the second best defence but you can't help have that niggling feeling that there is a real rick in us. This is no new thing either but I'm sure Town, even going back to the last two promotions, are unrivalled in conceding goals totally out of nowhere and from a team's first or only shot on goal.
By the goals for and against metric, we should be 2nd in the league but it's moments that are doing us. [Post edited 9 Mar 14:58]
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We dont appear to have that steel underbelly do we, to really stand up when it really matters. The top two do appear to have thst unfortunately. |  |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:03 - Mar 9 with 1346 views | Illinoisblue |
I’m looking at it in two game blocks:
Us: Stoke away and Sheff Weds away
Boro: Charlton home and Bristol City home
Milwall: Derby home and Blackburn home
You’d expect all three teams to take 6 points from this though maybe Derby can cause Wall some problems. |  |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:10 - Mar 9 with 1286 views | Herbivore |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:02 - Mar 9 by RetroBlue |
We dont appear to have that steel underbelly do we, to really stand up when it really matters. The top two do appear to have thst unfortunately. |
Yes, Coventry really showed that steel underbelly in their two games with us and Boro really showed it drawing at home to Oxford recently and getting done comfortably at Coventry. | |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:15 - Mar 9 with 1258 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 14:57 - Mar 9 by gainsboroughblue |
We are an oddity in such that we have scored the most goals in the division (except Cov) but you don't feel that we score often enough when we need to. It's all very well sticking 5 past Sheff U or 4 past Swansea but it was Saturday we could have done with just one of those goals. See also, scoring 3 at Wrexham only to have multiple brain farts at the back.
We also have the second best defence but you can't help have that niggling feeling that there is a real rick in us. This is no new thing either but I'm sure Town, even going back to the last two promotions, are unrivalled in conceding goals totally out of nowhere and from a team's first or only shot on goal.
By the goals for and against metric, we should be 2nd in the league but it's moments that are doing us. [Post edited 9 Mar 14:58]
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We don't test the opposition keeper enough for all our territory and dominance sometimes, scored 1 and against Preston and Leicester both keepers didn't have much to do. |  |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:23 - Mar 9 with 1220 views | MattinLondon |
I think that we’re a better team but tactically we’re far too slow and safe. Half of our total passes are probably between the keeper and his central def. |  | | |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:23 - Mar 9 with 1216 views | Herbivore |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:15 - Mar 9 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
We don't test the opposition keeper enough for all our territory and dominance sometimes, scored 1 and against Preston and Leicester both keepers didn't have much to do. |
I don't fully subscribe to this. O'Shea's chance first half isn't any worse of a chance because he hit the post rather than nodding it straight at the keeper. We create good chances consistently but we aren't clinical enough with them. Ideally the work we want to be giving the keeper is them retrieving the ball from the back of their net. | |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:38 - Mar 9 with 1124 views | hammo56 |
I don’t think we are but as has already been said time will tell. At this moment I certainly would prefer to be in their position, points in the bag, 6 of their remaining 10 games being at home compared to our 7 games away from home out of our last 11.
One thing for sure though if we do end up catching them we will have done it the hard way. I also wouldn’t count Millwall out of contention either. [Post edited 9 Mar 15:40]
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:40 - Mar 9 with 1111 views | Herbivore |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:23 - Mar 9 by MattinLondon |
I think that we’re a better team but tactically we’re far too slow and safe. Half of our total passes are probably between the keeper and his central def. |
And yet we create more chances and score more goals than Boro. | |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:42 - Mar 9 with 1091 views | Herbivore |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:38 - Mar 9 by hammo56 |
I don’t think we are but as has already been said time will tell. At this moment I certainly would prefer to be in their position, points in the bag, 6 of their remaining 10 games being at home compared to our 7 games away from home out of our last 11.
One thing for sure though if we do end up catching them we will have done it the hard way. I also wouldn’t count Millwall out of contention either. [Post edited 9 Mar 15:40]
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Boro have won 4 from 8 at home and 7 from 10 away from home over recent months. They drew their last two home games and had a much tougher time of it than we did against Leicester (even if the outcome was the same). There's a lot of football still to be played and we've been through these situations before and got over the line. | |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:53 - Mar 9 with 1051 views | J2BLUE |
Got to worry about ourselves. Other results going our way would be a bonus but we have to fight for every point.
I don't think it has done us any favours at all having games in hand for most of the season. If we could get 2nd back I don't think we would let it go. It feels distant because of the postponed games. |  |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 16:01 - Mar 9 with 1011 views | gainsboroughblue |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:03 - Mar 9 by Illinoisblue |
I’m looking at it in two game blocks:
Us: Stoke away and Sheff Weds away
Boro: Charlton home and Bristol City home
Milwall: Derby home and Blackburn home
You’d expect all three teams to take 6 points from this though maybe Derby can cause Wall some problems. |
It's a good time to play Stoke with Thomas out and without being disrespectful, Wednesday should be like cashing in a clubcard voucher.
Boro have just faced a rapidly disintegrating QPR at the right time and you could probably say the same about Bristol City. Charlton are probably not quite in beach mode yet but getting there.
Derby and Blackburn are teams that I always feel you don't know what you're going to get. | |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 16:03 - Mar 9 with 993 views | Wallingford_Boy |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:42 - Mar 9 by Herbivore |
Boro have won 4 from 8 at home and 7 from 10 away from home over recent months. They drew their last two home games and had a much tougher time of it than we did against Leicester (even if the outcome was the same). There's a lot of football still to be played and we've been through these situations before and got over the line. |
Herbie, every single point posters make about our failings, you come back with (often) quite impressive counter-arguments.
But the table doesn't lie.
So why, in your opinion, are we sitting 4th?
That's not a provocative question btw, just wondered where you think we've failed. |  |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 16:06 - Mar 9 with 978 views | Herbivore |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 16:03 - Mar 9 by Wallingford_Boy |
Herbie, every single point posters make about our failings, you come back with (often) quite impressive counter-arguments.
But the table doesn't lie.
So why, in your opinion, are we sitting 4th?
That's not a provocative question btw, just wondered where you think we've failed. |
We're 4th partly because we've played a game less than the teams above us, partly because we had a terrible August, and partly because, while being top 2 since the end of August, we've had a few games where we've left points on the table through defensive lapses and/or not being clinical enough. We have bossed most of the games we've played, often without really hitting top gear consistently, and we've got experience of getting over the line from these positions so I am still confident on balance that we'll come out in the top 2 in May. | |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 16:16 - Mar 9 with 925 views | Wallingford_Boy |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 16:06 - Mar 9 by Herbivore |
We're 4th partly because we've played a game less than the teams above us, partly because we had a terrible August, and partly because, while being top 2 since the end of August, we've had a few games where we've left points on the table through defensive lapses and/or not being clinical enough. We have bossed most of the games we've played, often without really hitting top gear consistently, and we've got experience of getting over the line from these positions so I am still confident on balance that we'll come out in the top 2 in May. |
Thank you and tbf, I would call that a very accurate summary.
Personally, I think we will just miss out, but win the play off final against Southampton 4-2 AET. | |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 16:29 - Mar 9 with 851 views | Smoresy |
Bit below them so far and we've benefitted from favourable circumstances - more home games, more time between matches. Now come less favourable circumstances - fewer home games, less time between matches - but the crunch game is at home, and we just need to be a wee bit better than them don't we. It's wafer thin.
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 16:48 - Mar 9 with 756 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:23 - Mar 9 by Herbivore |
I don't fully subscribe to this. O'Shea's chance first half isn't any worse of a chance because he hit the post rather than nodding it straight at the keeper. We create good chances consistently but we aren't clinical enough with them. Ideally the work we want to be giving the keeper is them retrieving the ball from the back of their net. |
That was indeed a sitter but I don't 3 on target out of 18 attempts is too great either. | |
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| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 17:02 - Mar 9 with 699 views | MattinLondon |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 15:40 - Mar 9 by Herbivore |
And yet we create more chances and score more goals than Boro. |
And if we have played quicker football we would also have more points than them as well. | | | |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 17:04 - Mar 9 with 690 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| Hold your nerve time again. Are we a better side than Boro? Yes. (n/t) on 16:48 - Mar 9 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
That was indeed a sitter but I don't 3 on target out of 18 attempts is too great either. |
Stats can be misleading if you don't delve into them. We had 9 on target, but 6 were blocked. | | | |
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