Championship 2025/26 Season

[Foxin_Mad]

Hull will need to spend a lot of money. What a job that manager has done for a team who looked set for a relegation battle. Somehow it all this shit we managed to employ enough clowns to get us relegated from this division, it really is worrying hone far we will drop. If nothing changes a hatrick of relegations is very much on. 

[PhillippaT]

43 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

He’s actually worse than Goodman isn’t he 

I didn't watch, (just followed online) - so that doesn't tell me enough.  How bad is he compared to Hoddle?

[Asha]

I’ve been on Middlesbrough’s side in the last two weeks, but they should be fvcking ashamed of themselves for that. 
 

Given a free hit and barely even tried to go forward. I just don’t understand the mentality of being in a playoff final and just trying to keep the ball. 
 

If a play-off final ends 0-0, both teams should stay down and save the 18th place team above. 
 

Hideous game with two hideous teams. £100s to go and watch that shit. 

[Tinman]

Just look at what you could have won, Gibbo.

 

[Cropwellfox]

Just shows you what good coaching, togetherness, shrewd operating in the transfer market and above all a positive culture can deliver - outcome way better than the sum of the parts should deliver.

 

We couldn’t be more different to Hull on any of those points. 

[FLAN]

So pleased Hull won. Boro are embarrassing 

[Raj]

Just remember  Hull avoided relegation to Lee Gwon by GD last season.

 

Great turnaround without paying players like Winks,Daka,Vesty 75k a week.

👏🏾👏🏾

[Super_horns]

1 hour ago, Foxin_Mad said:

Hull will need to spend a lot of money. What a job that manager has done for a team who looked set for a relegation battle. Somehow it all this shit we managed to employ enough clowns to get us relegated from this division, it really is worrying hone far we will drop. If nothing changes a hatrick of relegations is very much on. 

It's a shame but they will probably need to change their whole squad almost and you wouldn't put it past their owner to make a management change if things don't start well.

[MGLCFC]

It's absolutely scandalous that we are back to where we were some 15 years ago. I struggle to have optimism that we can go full circle again, particularly while Top and Rudderless have their hands on the tiller. However, I do look at teams we call our close rivals who have been where we are now and have turned things around, but it will take a huge rebuild with solid professionals who will give their all for the badge and not those who just turn up and give in when the going gets tough. Good luck to Hull, Coventry and Ipswich, they have the blueprint we should try to replicate.

Edited 23 May by MGLCFC

[Ted Maul]

It is mildly amusing that Boro went through all that last week, only to put in such a pathetic performance and not have a shot on target.

[Unabomber]

1 minute ago, Ted Maul said:

It is mildly amusing that Boro went through all that last week, only to put in such a pathetic performance and not have a shot on target.

Yeah it really is they were absolutely pathetic 

[HankMarvin]

50 minutes ago, Cropwellfox said:

Just shows you what good coaching, togetherness, shrewd operating in the transfer market and above all a positive culture can deliver - outcome way better than the sum of the parts should deliver.

 

We couldn’t be more different to Hull on any of those points. 

January 1st we were 6 points behind Hull

7 behind Millwall,

9 behind Boro

10 behind Ipswich 

1 in front of Southampton 

The failing to get a decent striker even on loan cost up massively and the crap loan signings in the Jan window were largely forgettable.

Edited 23 May by HankMarvin

[21st Century Fox]

Boro (or anyone) v Saints next season

 

[katieakita]

Lets hope Boro vs Southampton is  one of the first games of the season

 

[whoareyaaa]

1 hour ago, Raj said:

Just remember  Hull avoided relegation to Lee Gwon by GD last season.

 

Great turnaround without paying players like Winks,Daka,Vesty 75k a week.

👏🏾👏🏾

Yup it did remind me of us when Vichia first took over and we had Pearson, even Mcburnie has Vardy vibes.

 

Fair play to them, should have probably been promoted by default, Boro are dreadful.

[Super_horns]

Be popular in Portsmouth.

[Kitchandro]

3 hours ago, Dan said:

Bit of justice. Didn't want Boro going up after this.

 

I fear they will get absolutely smashed to pieces but fair ****s to Hull. One of the most baffling promotions I can remember. Probably the nearest thing to Holloway's Blackpool I can remember.

Blackpool were a good side going forward though, they just couldn’t defend. They may have got 70 points but the division was extremely strong that season. Cardiff had Bothroyd and Chopra up front and only finished 4th.

[Dan]

18 minutes ago, Kitchandro said:

Blackpool were a good side going forward though, they just couldn’t defend. They may have got 70 points but the division was extremely strong that season. Cardiff had Bothroyd and Chopra up front and only finished 4th.

I'd describe Hull as similar. They attack with speed, they're not very good defensively - admittedly in the play-offs they barely gave a thing away.

[DJW1]

6 hours ago, Soar Fox said:

Why in a playoff final has the captain who won the toss decided to turn the teams around.

Just seen your post. On the BBC live report they speculated that it was to make the opposition spend more time in the hot sun 🌞

[Heart-Shaped Fox]

Fair dos to Hull. 

 

Epitomy of what the Championship can be for you if you get hungry and organised players. Honestly think before the season started I could only have McBurnie who I knew about. 

 

They were hard to beat all season and with some bigger teams and bigger spending teams having a nightmare they've capitalised and they deserve it. 

 

Same could be said for Millwall coming third really. Just sums the championship up

[Lionator]

Yeah probably the poorest team in the playoffs in the poorest standard as far as I can remember in the championship (some of the championship teams in that 2009-14 era mentioned were awesome).

 

Anyway Hull is a proper lovely and underrated city so I’m glad for them. 

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Ridiculous to think we lost only 3 more games and conceded only 2 more goals than Hull. They are going to need some major investment just to not break Derby's record low PL points tally.

[Tom12345]

3 hours ago, HankMarvin said:

January 1st we were 6 points behind Hull

7 behind Millwall,

9 behind Boro

10 behind Ipswich 

1 in front of Southampton 

The failing to get a decent striker even on loan cost up massively and the crap loan signings in the Jan window were largely forgettable.

Apart from Ipswich, we were better than these other teams. Mind you, we finished above Ipswich last season. But we regressed so much because we kept conceding goals we shouldn’t have and when we are down we have no fight. Our mentality was brittle and negative. When we play, we always wait until the other team has settled into shape before we try to slowly attack. We had a decent squad but we always have a few players that are played that constantly disrupts play. We should never have been relegated, just like that first relegation when we had the likes of Maddison, Tielemans, Barnes, Vardy and so on but it was the same story back then. I wonder what has been the constant that has repeated itself through the years. It all started with Rodgers but his negativity has kept on going and that relegation he was directly involved in has started a chain reaction that the club could not afford after spending hundreds of millions in the squad. The contracting work by Rudkin was atrocious meaning that we were stuck with players like Hamza (50k), Vesty (70k), Faes (50k), Daka (75k) at extraordinary wages when they were very far from the level that deserved that (and hence no one took them off us).

 

When we played against Hull last game, we were decent and better than them (but again we drew in the end). Hull is going to the PL while we head to League One.

[Tom12345]

44 minutes ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Ridiculous to think we lost only 3 more games and conceded only 2 more goals than Hull. They are going to need some major investment just to not break Derby's record low PL points tally.

Yes, they were not better than us at all. Last game: he should have won comfortably but of course our mentality and set up was shot and we drew in the end! What remains truly unbelievable is how the hell could we have ended up in relegation!

Edited 23 May by Tom12345

[Ian Nacho]

Never understand why in so many big games recently, teams tend to set up to not lose and then when they go behind start panicking and launching it forward. Why don't teams just try and be a bit proactive and take some risks to try and win the game which you could lose anyway even without taking any risks like Boro.