Football Special

Where did they finish last season?

Pleased for him after the stick he took here, must be smiling to himself seeing them 4 points ahead of us in the table. Millwall unspectacular tonight but they really work hard as a unit, battling for the 1-0 , need to get that effort from our lads

He also said in the press conference there is still trauma from last season and trying to not let new players be affected by it ffs

Agree, look at total spend, some of which on players I doubt will even play that much, funds should have been used to identify a goal scorer who could come into the side and replace Tall Paul / Ross Stewart , or at least a loan fee for one, Downs was not what we needed right now.

Sunderland already nearly have as many points as we got all season, need to stop making excuses for the loser mentality allowed within the club, I'm sure Sports Republic would love it if we all just put last year's embarrassment down to the Premier League being so tough poor Martin and the boys never had a chance. Should be aiming to get back there and give it a proper go

You're right, really is no point changing manager whilst it's the same people making the appointment for replacement, data data data and no actual proper football people making decisions

I don't tend to bet on such things, is there already a market for our next manager?

And we don't even have good players in key positions I think some fans will have a reality check eventually having started the season with high hopes

That's probably the most interesting thing about the fixture, tactics will be different, no idea what XI Still will go with though, you'd have thought a number of changes

So are you saying you think this is a good team then mate? And it's the managers fault? Weve spent lots of money compared to Championship teams, but have we built a team? Core still looks poor - in my opinion The 6 players you mentioned weren't exactly our best from the promotion year, GK who was worst in the league, CB in Stephens who missed quite a bit of the season, I don't recall Manning contributing much in 23/24. , Ryan Fraser doing well but highlights failure to strengthen that he's one of our key players

It's possible we slip into bottom 3 next weekend with a defeat , I think that could be a tipping point

That will be the last straw for Sports Republic

Would be a small consolation but at least something to enjoy, EIEI EIO up to Barrow we will go

I know we've had this disagreement previously but I question this assertion that we have significantly better players, has last season and this season so far not sunk in yet? They certainly don't look like a cohesive team capable of playing good football , once they've provided some evidence of this superiority I'll start to believe in them Agree on wasted pre season. Regardless of the line up Still should have a system drilled into them and a clear plan

I feel that, see too many Man City , Arsenal etc at kids school, glory hunting cunts with poor family influences

Just watched that as well, love the EFL show, some great grounds / away followings in league two 👍🏻

Is he missing have Bednarek alongside him? Always seemed to play better with him

He was probably hoping you'd keep it!

Quite funny going back to opening few pages of this thread three years ago, discussion hasn't changed much

Asked a Boro supporting acquaintance about Azaz as he's disappointed me, he said we'll only see best of him when moving ball quickly and he has fast players moving off him, on his own he's quite slow but create chances with right players alongside him Think we can spot the flaw in that plan then

What was with all the empty seats, game had been sold out for weeks and a block was left empty, perhaps they were ones reserved for club officials and player comps but seems odd as those usually get put on sake if not taken up

I am not even sure we have a 1st team, quite possibly the replacements will do a better job ,tactically different to every other game this season where there is no expectation on us to attack, I think Still will revert to a back 5 , McCarthy will get a game ,, might as well play Edozie and Aribo There will be plenty of empty seats in our end

The biggest waste of time in the history of wasting time The corrupt cup where they fix the draw

Yeah followed that, they've completed ruined the one day cup, final used to be at Lords big day out, full house, meant something, idiots in charge of cricket abandoned it in favour of foolish Hundred franchise, ruining the game