Boro 1-1 H Post Match Thread

[sm1]

4 hours ago, Dmitry said:

I thought we couldn't find anyone worse than Daka, but God invented Carranza for a reason...

With all the things wrong with the club, the recruitment team get an easy ride. They gave us Skipp last season and Carranza now. What do these people analyse and scout.

[Raj]

39 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

18k was the “actual” allegedly. Official 28 which I don’t understand…… what’s actual and official? 

Actual= Bums on seats.

Official= Actually NON Official but will be ALL tickets sold even if folks don't attend i.e ST holders who didn't 

[Steve Earle]

6 hours ago, Bob Weasel Fox said:

28000 only tonight also - piss poor attendance somewhat understandable but still shit 

not  a chance there were 28000 there! I wasn't there but like many ST holders, I've paid so it counts as 'attended'

[Bert]

4 minutes ago, Steve Earle said:

not  a chance there were 28000 there! I wasn't there but like many ST holders, I've paid so it counts as 'attended'

I don’t think they were able to do that anymore? Certainly looked closer to 26k that’s for sure. 

[fox_favourite]

1 minute ago, Bert said:

I don’t think they were able to do that anymore? Certainly looked closer to 26k that’s for sure. 

Yup, I would say it was 25-26k at a push.

[filbertway]

7 hours ago, Danizen said:

I'm not disagreeing with you but how is that Okoli chance in the first half not a big chance? 

Haha that's just the 2nd half. 

 

Think total xG with Okoli's chance and Hackney deciding to play volleyball in his box wads about 1.4   

 

I'm getting irrationally wound up by people saying how much effort there was

 

There was no more effort than usual, the fact we made a conscious decision to treat them like PSG and spend 90% of the game sat on the edge of our area seems to have messed with people's brains. 

[Stuntman_Mike]

Last night really hit me at how hard we've fallen. 

 

Genuinely, we look so lost as a club. It's painful to see. 

[CosbehFox]

You know how the rhetoric is well this is the history of Leicester City? 
 

25 years ago yesterday, we won 1-0 at Maine Road as a top flight club.
 

Accepting the fall is not correct 

[Bert]

3 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

You know how the rhetoric is well this is the history of Leicester City? 
 

25 years ago yesterday, we won 1-0 at Maine Road as a top flight club.
 

Accepting the fall is not correct 

Robbie Savage 

[foxinsox]

18 minutes ago, fox_favourite said:

Yup, I would say it was 25-26k at a push.

Yes, it was way more than 18 000. I would guess at abut 26 000. 

 

 

[5waller5]

9 hours ago, OntarioFox said:

Mavadidi had been on five minutes and got turned by a player who had played a full 90 and grafted enough to get booked, by the way. Surprised I didn't catch him yawning during the replay.

 

Lazy sod. I think we need a thread where we count up which players have cost us the most points over the course of the season, because those two dropped today are 100% on him and Okoli not putting in the bare minimum.

 

I’m glad someone else noticed the yawn a minute before kick off a couple of games ago … I thought I’d dreamt that when I didn’t see mention of it on here! 

[5waller5]

9 hours ago, MPH said:

How does everyone feel Nelson did?

I thought he was excellent. But I really want him to do well so am never sure whether it’s confirmation bias! 
 

Physically he’s exactly what a great CB looks like, and he gets really close to his man which allows him to get a simple unspectacular challenge in. I really like him!! 

[Devonfox1884]

I didn’t feel anything when we conceded a 96th minute equaliser, a few years ago I’d have been annoyed for hours if not days!

 

Sums up the apathy with this lot really.

[Free Falling Foxes]

6 minutes ago, 5waller5 said:

I’m glad someone else noticed the yawn a minute before kick off a couple of games ago … I thought I’d dreamt that when I didn’t see mention of it on here! 

Oh it certainly was mentioned on here, by myself and others.

[5waller5]

7 hours ago, Bob Weasel Fox said:

28000 only tonight also - piss poor attendance somewhat understandable but still shit 

Is that what they announced?? There was never that many I’d have guessed 22,000 tops

[foxinsox]

There were a few positives last night.

 

Great to see Ben Nelson have a good game. Okoli did well as right back. There was much more effort from the team generally. 

 

We were lucky with the penalty and a draw was a fair result.

 

We have no striker that can score, and that is a major liability. Playing Carranza is like playing with 10 men. Even Daka is better.

 

Considering the team that we have and the clubs finances it was probably as good a performance as any manager could muster from that team. That is the grim reality.

 

Ideally we get a striker in in January, perhaps a loan of an out of favour, or young striker from the Prem is the most realistic option.

 

I think we have enough to avoid relegation even with a points deduction, then have a clear out next summer of the over paid and underperforming. Without that we don't have the budget to sign either players or ambitious manager.

[5waller5]

2 hours ago, Bert said:

Yeah totally agree. The only thing you could’ve been half impressed with was they actually worked hard and had some desire about them. 

Which, horrible as it is, is an improvement!

[Richmondfox]

25 minutes ago, filbertway said:

Haha that's just the 2nd half. 

 

Think total xG with Okoli's chance and Hackney deciding to play volleyball in his box wads about 1.4   

 

I'm getting irrationally wound up by people saying how much effort there was

 

There was no more effort than usual, the fact we made a conscious decision to treat them like PSG and spend 90% of the game sat on the edge of our area seems to have messed with people's brains. 

It was the same as any other game. A lot passing about but no driving forward with the ball until Fatawu tries to skin as many players but ends up hitting their shins. 

 

It doesn’t matter what formation he puts them in, he doesn’t change his playing style and anti attack tactics.  
 

The Ayew stink out in the first half where he decided to stop under no pressure on a counter attack and pass back sums up Marti’s football. 

 

Get rid of the chancer as he won’t change, because he doesn’t know what to do. 

[Stuntman_Mike]

Just remembered Ayew picking the ball out the net after his pen, like we were chasing the game and not moments away from half time with the lead.

 

Another small example of how brain dead this squad is.  

 

 

Edited 5 November 2025 by Stuntman_Mike

[Lad1966]

4 hours ago, South Shire Fox said:

With the effort? Im sorry but how can anyone of watched that and say the players didnt put in a shift. The quality was massively missing however and the attacking game plan

Effort was there, our attacking play is seriously lacking, without Ramsey and there’s a general lack of confidence in the team, especially our strikers, even though they are shit. Defensively we were a lot better. Middleborough never look like scoring and were as shit as us in an attacking sense. We got into some promising positions, but the lack of pace in our team, especially up front, meant we kept turning back, killing the attack. We need an injection of pace throughout the team, especially up front

[Tommy Fresh]

Ayew taking it to the corner at the start of injury time and failing was a laugh

[Bob Weasel Fox]

44 minutes ago, Steve Earle said:

not  a chance there were 28000 there! I wasn't there but like many ST holders, I've paid so it counts as 'attended'

To be fair I was at work last night so didn't see the gaps in the crowd until much later when seeing the goals etc so yes looked much lower attendance 

 

which is even more understandable but worrying - Top needs new investors or preferably to sell up

[5waller5]

12 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Oh it certainly was mentioned on here, by myself and others.

Blimey, I thought I read every word on FT… even my commitment is slipping!!! 

[TheGoldenGod]

Just now, Tommy Fresh said:

Ayew taking it to the corner at the start of injury time and failing was a laugh

Remembered thinking that had royally F**ked me off last night but had forgotten that in the aftermath of them scoring as it wasn't immediately after...but my god it sums up our approach last night really doesn't it.

 

It's ok though because Marti told us explicitly "I will never protect a 1 goal margin, I'll chase a 2nd, 3rd and 4th!"

[Jakemoore]

Seen a few posts saying the same thing. I felt absolutely nothing when Boro scored last night. Usually that would annoy me for days. Doesn’t that just show how far we’ve come? I can’t even be bothered to be annoyed anymore.