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Just now, TrentFox said:

My phone went five minutes in. Paused the game thinking I could fast forward during half-time to avoid the adverts. Ended up fast forwarding the game and watching the adverts instead. 🤷

Probably more urgency in them tbf.

Just now, Pliskin said:

Just play Monga FFS, Mavididi is shit, he offers **** all you may as well see if you can play Monga into form. Just tell him to get out there and do what he wants, full Mike Bassett style. 

I genuinely keep forgetting he's playing haha

I refuse to believe that there aren't players in this squad who can do better than this. The drop off needs to be studied. Not by us, or anyone associated with the club, as we're sick to the back teeth, but...studied.

We just can't win any second balls, can we? Every throw, goal kick, or free kick is effectively just giving the ball back to the opposition.

Fatawu's hit (I can't bring myself to call it a cross or a shot) just sums us up too. We don't seem to have any connectivity or thought in our play whatsoever. How boring.

**** this squad. **** the club. I'm done. They don't deserve our support.

Boy do I hope JJ is back for this. And fit.

Rowett, change something, FFS.

22 hours ago, moore_94 said:

Can't quite remember what Rowett said but basically sounded like he might be injured... again...

20 hours ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

Not in Rowett's interview but I have been told hamstring injury. Which could mean the end of his season.

You are joking. Feel sorry for the lad, but...why on earth didn't we see this coming and send him back to Burnley to recover? Dear oh dear.

Really pleased for him. Hopefully he's not injured and can still play a part on Monday. Give him the confidence after a brace to start putting the ball in the back of the net regularly for these last few games.

This is the first time I've had a text from the club since one about the Europa League in 2021. Crazy what's happened over the past five years.

Kind of indicates a level of desperation now that it's hitting home re: fans being disillusioned. Maybe that's a good thing.

Clean sheet is good, but West Brom and Blackburn are now 4 points clear of us, with their results. 2 points dropped I'm afraid.

Come on Boro...

I struggle to see how this is anything but a slide to relegation now. Not being able to fight for a result today speaks volumes. No idea how Rowett gets a consistent tune out of this lot, while Oxford are flying and West Brom got some fight back today.

I can see us stumbling on, being still within touching distance of safety through sheer luck, and then losing to Blackburn on the final day to get relegated. Highly on brand for us right now.

And just like that, our win against Bristol means nothing. Second bottom, two points off safety, with all those we'd reeled in winning.

It's between us, West Bromwich and Oxford for two spots. Disgraceful.

Don't change a winning team and all that I suppose (except Reid). Glad to see Mukasa back in.

Don't like Ayew starting...but let's see how we go 🤞🏻

48 minutes ago, Aleksz said:

Big fan of Gray. Think he will breakthrough next year regardless of league.

He's a CB, right?

Always did like Southampton.

2 minutes ago, Foxin_Mad said:

Could be over 50 points down this year with Oxford coming good, pulls anyone under 50 into the mixer potentially 

Yup. That gap between Portsmouth and Charlton doesn't seem quite so big now. Crazy what a difference one game week makes.

Oxford dragging Blackburn kicking and screaming into the relegation battle. 

I'm happy he's here for 6 months and can see him doing a good job already. However, I think we need to reassess in the summer.

We will be in a different place, squad-wise, and will have a lot of positions/roles to fill. We need the manager from this summer onwards who can build us back up into a proper team and squad again.

I'm not sure Rowett has the record for that.

He's an excellent fire fighter and will set great foundations I hope, but not sure he's a manager who builds teams for longer term success. Happy to be proven wrong.

Just now, beepee1984 said:

Rowett starts Daka every game, but the moment he scores a goal drops him - everyone knows strikers shouldn't score goals

This is a very good point. I get that he played on Saturday...but come on, this is a great chance to play him into some semblance of form.

Mukasa benched again. He has been our best player of late. Horrible mismanagement.

Less said about Ayew up front the better. I'm so disappointed in Rowett.

Who knows though, maybe something good will happen and I'll happily eat humble pie.