Boro 1-1 H Post Match Thread

[RonnieTodger]

What will it take to sub Jordan Ayew? He was knackered after 60 minutes.

 

Penalty and a Boro red card, yet we still manage to concede to some emo who hasn’t scored in two years. 

[Zear0]

 

[Tuna]

Just now, Zear0 said:

 

Happy birthday 

[Bourbon Fox]

18 minutes ago, MPH said:

How does everyone feel Nelson did?

Did well. Marti full of praise afterwards as well. 

 

Said he's been training better recently so there was obviously some issue. 

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[OntarioFox]

Not sure why people leave early for Strictly by the way, Okoli's footwork was the spitting image of John Sargeant at the end there. I've seen plants less rooted to the ground.
 

[Bourbon Fox]

Strider put this up on the YouTube

 

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[Foxes1]

The only bright spot was Ben Nelson, bet he doesn't play Saturday.

[MPH]

9 minutes ago, Bourbon Fox said:

Did well. Marti full of praise afterwards as well. 

 

Said he's been training better recently so there was obviously some issue. 

 

I wonder if he was one of the ones who wanted to leave…

[EnderbyFox]

3 minutes ago, Bourbon Fox said:

Strider put this up on the YouTube

 

 

That second half is what you'd expect from a plucky league 2 side playing Man City, heinous 

[Bourbon Fox]

Just now, EnderbyFox said:

 

That second half is what you'd expect from a plucky league 2 side playing Man City, heinous 

Really grim

[RGFox]

Just when you think we have somehow fluked a win, this shambles of a team concedes to 10 men. Tbh We've been awful most the season. Proper hangover from last year. Usual players trudging around the field and continued reliance on a woeful strike force. 

 

Apathetic at the end from everyone compared to sat. 

[adam]

What a terrible game. That was all on the manager, Shit subs and sitting back like that all second half was only going to end one way. He needs to go. Absolute clown. 

[Essington blue]

29 minutes ago, Hales said:

I did think they put in more fight tonight and that Marti had instilled something in them but they got some stupid decisions from the ref and are so utterly devoid of confidence that the basics are not working at the moment.  Tonight is going to damage that further.  They just need to keep pushing and fighting.  Hiring and firing managers every 2 seconds is not the solution

He’s clearly not a manager.

[Ian Nacho]

A win would've been undeserved but hard fought which would've hopefully got some positive momentum. The game should've been done and dusted from the red card but we managed it extremely poorly and you wouldn't have even known we had an extra man. 

[Hales]

2 minutes ago, Essington blue said:

He’s clearly not a manager.

who is going to come to us at the moment? Will Still - yeah he was great!  Martin - jeeeezzzz

Our board cannot be trusted in any way

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[Essington blue]

2 minutes ago, Hales said:

who is going to come to us at the moment? Will Still - yeah he was great!  Martin - jeeeezzzz

Our board cannot be trusted in any way

Totally agree, hence why cifuentes is our manager right now. Showed nothing at qpr.

[Gamble92]

47 minutes ago, 5waller5 said:

This is going to be unpopular, but I have some sympathy for Marty tonight.

 

He changed the formation, made several changes to the line up, and seemed to have us working harder and defending with more spirit.

 

That could have led to a lucky win, and been the catalyst for us to develop a bit of belief. The last minute equaliser will have destroyed any positives.

 

It’s not like he’s stubbornly sticking to the same structure or personnel week in week out, we do generally cry out for flexibility and he’s at least shown that.

 

(Yes, we were offensively awful)

Isn't unpopular. Think you've got it spot on. Id even say it wouldn't have been lucky would it? They reminded me of how we attack for the most part. They relied on just pumping it in in the end. 

 

Certainly didn't think wow we are looking overrun at any point. They had the one big chance that Begovic saved well, but I never felt massively uncomfortable apart from that.

 

The tactics were clearly to let them have more of it tonight so I don't know why anyone's crying about the possession stats. 

 

If I knew they were doing to put that shift in that they did tonight all season then I wouldn't be worried about anything. I just know they'll be so many half arsed performances after this though and I see no vision, no direction or enough passion from anyone to lead us out of this mess.

[JonnyZeroFox]

That’s the problem, we sack Marti… the board can’t be trusted to get a decent appointment. Let’s face it those saying we will end up with Martin are right imo… and that will truly be league one football 

[Mike Oxlong]

Our xG from open play was 0.03. Not really worth putting your boots on if that’s all you can muster 

[Gamble92]

Just when you think it can't get worse. I ordered a curry at half time. Stoppage time, my bowls start to go. I run upstairs. Missus in shower "can't it wait?"

 

I had to run and shit outside. Shat everywhere crouched over pondering Ayling's goal and where it goes from here. 

 

Got back in and she says did you win? And oh I wouldn't have minded you coming in. 

 

Going bed. 

[Dan]

We've got to be the worst attacking unit in the division - absolutely ridiculous given we have Fatawu in the team.

[Globalfox]

1 hour ago, MPH said:

How does everyone feel Nelson did?

Hardly put a foot wrong man of the match for me. Must now play consistently.

[Muzzy_no7]

I am absolutely disgusted with that effort and performance, for me it was actually worse than Saturday. 
 

We don’t create.

 

We don’t play forward.

 

We don’t press, literally at all.

 

Full backs don’t overlap. 
 

We don’t look as fit or conditioned as other teams. (I’ve said this for while, we didn’t replace Enzo‘s fitness coach).

 

Marti is massively out of his depth, this job is way too big for him. 

[FoxFossil]

Fitness does look poor, otherwise why does Marti take off James? We immediately look even more crap.

[Hales]

1 minute ago, FoxFossil said:

Fitness does look poor, otherwise why does Marti take off James? We immediately look even more crap.

commentary said he was carrying a slight knock