Middlesbrough (H) 1-2 - Post-Match Thread

[hebangsthedrums]

Way off the pace and some pretty poor performances. We have a healthy lead but you can't win games with that many players below par. Didn't get putting Cannon on the wing and I think given we're not used to being in that position at HT we went a bit scattergun with the subs.

Do also think the lethargy from second half Tuesday might have been a factor, they were never going to get as shite as shef weds were. 

Vesty has had a remarkable turnaround but he does make me mad being so poor in the air for his size.

On to the next...

[Chocolate Teapot]

3 minutes ago, Raj said:

They were clinical.

The no.28( I think) was head and shoulders above anyone else.

We were poor, bad day at the office.

They had a few decent chances too so take the blue tinted specs off👍🏾

Dont think we had an actual shot on target until 60 minutes.

 

No but we missed two sitters in the first twenty minutes. The stats from the game suggest we battered them.

[HighPeakFox]

25 minutes ago, STEVIE B said:

We really are, in general, a weird fanbase

 

[South Shire Fox]

5 minutes ago, Raj said:

They were clinical.

The no.28( I think) was head and shoulders above anyone else.

We were poor, bad day at the office.

They had a few decent chances too so take the blue tinted specs off👍🏾

Dont think we had an actual shot on target until 60 minutes.

 

No blue tinted specs at all. On another day we’d have had 3 or 4 if it wasnt for such poor finishing. Created more then enough to comfortably win on another day. Thought they defended well and took their chances but wouldnt say they were the better side

Edited 17 February by South Shire Fox

[Raj]

2 minutes ago, hebangsthedrums said:

Way off the pace and some pretty poor performances. We have a healthy lead but you can't win games with that many players below par. Didn't get putting Cannon on the wing and I think given we're not used to being in that position at HT we went a bit scattergun with the subs.

Do also think the lethargy from second half Tuesday might have been a factor, they were never going to get as shite as shef weds were. 

Vesty has had a remarkable turnaround but he does make me mad being so poor in the air for his size.

On to the next...

Summed it up about bang on👍🏾

[Raj]

1 minute ago, South Shire Fox said:

No blue tinted specs at all. On another day we’d have had 3 or 4. Thought they defended well and took their chances but wouldnt say they were the better side

Some of our passing was p1ss poor.

Most players below par.

Just hope this is a wake up call that we cant just turn up for games and win👍🏾

[Parafox]

43 minutes ago, grobyfox1990 said:

Likewise the numbers of gifts we’ve given away and teams haven’t scored from because of the terrible standard in this league means we’re reliant on poor finishing to not be in the bottom half.

 

I'm not sure what to make of this statement other than it's a league of poorer teams than us. Which is mainly true. But we're not "reliant" on teams poor finishing.

Just maybe fortunate that the other teams are, generally, not very good by comparison.

 

Not that we are all that great ourselves at times.

[Claridge]

Cannon on the left wing was a bizarre decision

[Mendi]

The best team won.

[AjcW]

1 minute ago, Claridge said:

Cannon on the left wing was a bizarre decision

Indeed. If anything you put Daka with his pace out there surely! 
 

Feel a bit sorry for Cannon to be honest. Didn’t put a fit wrong during his starting run and no resigned to that, his clinical finishing could of been the difference in that first half.

[Parafox]

33 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

I don't. Employee of the year 4 years running.

 

Are you self-employed?

[funkyrobot]

6 minutes ago, Raj said:

They were clinical.

The no.28( I think) was head and shoulders above anyone else.

We were poor, bad day at the office.

They had a few decent chances too so take the blue tinted specs off👍🏾

Dont think we had an actual shot on target until 60 minutes.

 

Daka missed a sitter, Vesty missed 2 sitters, Vardy missed a sitter. 3 of those were somehow skewed off target when it was easier to hit the target. We were the better team over 90 minutes but couldn’t score. We weren’t as good as we can be and Boro did well, I thought their midfield in particular were good but ultimately it was a case of one team scoring almost every chance they had and the other team seemingly unable to hit a donkey’s arse with a banjo today. 

[Leicester_Loyal]

Who was their striker, looked class.

[Vazman]

10 minutes ago, Parafox said:

They were gifted 2 chances. That's not "clinical finishing". It's just finishing.

Doesn't matter how you spin it, they won we didn't.

[Parafox]

35 minutes ago, Wolfox said:

Hang on…. According to his handle he’s 85!

And therefore completely unable to use the internet effectively. 

[Tielemans63]

You can't win them all. Hopefully another long, unbeaten run is on the cards. I'm not happy about losing, but maybe a kick up the aris might not be the worst thing before Leeds away.

[Raj]

5 minutes ago, funkyrobot said:

Daka missed a sitter, Vesty missed 2 sitters, Vardy missed a sitter. 3 of those were somehow skewed off target when it was easier to hit the target. We were the better team over 90 minutes but couldn’t score. We weren’t as good as we can be and Boro did well, I thought their midfield in particular were good but ultimately it was a case of one team scoring almost every chance they had and the other team seemingly unable to hit a donkey’s arse with a banjo today. 

 

2 minutes ago, Vazman said:

Doesn't matter how you spin it, they won we didn't.

 

[grobyfox1990]

7 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

I'm not sure what to make of this statement other than it's a league of poorer teams than us. Which is mainly true. But we're not "reliant" on teams poor finishing.

Just maybe fortunate that the other teams are, generally, not very good by comparison.

 

Not that we are all that great ourselves at times.

I completely agree with you. I was trying to make an OTT statement. We are the clear and apparent best team in the league and that’s why we’ll win it by a country mile. It’s also true that we give up chances every match, and teams miss them, but that further shows why we’re the best team in the league 

My OTT statement was in response to the spurs-esque comments stating boro were reliant on a vardy miss to win. Obtuse and bizarre thinking

[funkyrobot]

4 minutes ago, Claridge said:

Cannon on the left wing was a bizarre decision

We haven’t really got specialist LW replacement for Mavididi but he was so poor in the 1st half (following on after a poor second half against Sheff Wed) that he was always likely to be subbed off. Cannon always looks threatening when he plays and I thought he did ok but ultimately we aren’t spoilt for choice on that side. 

[Raj]

8 minutes ago, Mendi said:

The best team won.

No but we had 56 sitters dont you know...🙄

[Parafox]

1 minute ago, Vazman said:

Doesn't matter how you spin it, they won we didn't.

My point still stands and I wasn't spinning it. Calling gifted goals "clinical" is just wrong. 

 

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but I felt too much credit was given to their goals.

[WoodyFox]

Today followed the same pattern as every other game this season apart from opposition actually took the 1 or 2 chances every other team has had against us and we couldn’t hit a barn door. 

[Bert]

26 minutes ago, Raj said:

They were clinical.

The no.28( I think) was head and shoulders above anyone else.

We were poor, bad day at the office.

They had a few decent chances too so take the blue tinted specs off👍🏾

Dont think we had an actual shot on target until 60 minutes.

 

Yep they were clinical. But come on, we did more than enough to win that, even though we were poor. Shots on target or not. We’ve missed about 4 serious chances, 2 first half, 2 second. 

[Bert]

Also why does Luke Ayling always turn into prime Gary Neville against us 

[Gamble92]

18 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

Are you self-employed?

You having a pop pal?