S-Clarke

We could have anyone up front, they will not score with the lack of imagination we have behind them. Too ponderous and slow. The only times we got in was when we played with pace and got in behind down the left, it didn't happen enough, and it was probably the easiest defensive performance stoke will have all season.

Garbage, really.

He's clearly an incredibly vile human being, you only have to look at some of the stupid videos with him and his expensive cars and his 'homies' to work that out. Should be banned from football and have all his money taken from him. People like that should not be trusted with money, or life, really.

When Alpine makes reactionary posts like this, we can all be rest assured that good news is on the horizon. Maybe he's actually always been ITK, but shares it in another way to keep us on our toes.

errr....

A focal point. Someone who can hold it up, bring others into play and obviously score goals. We lack that option this year, we have no presence up top.

First half was really flat, we were too slow to the 2nd balls and too slow to move it when we had it (same old, same old). Boro actually had the better of the first half in an attacking sense, but in all honestly it was a contest between two incredibly dull teams in that first half. 2nd half there was only one team in it. We came out with purpose, pressed them high and forced them into mistakes. We didn't pepper the goal, but we were comfortable in that 2nd half. Boro are a very well organised outlet, but similar to us, are very blunt in the final third ( until they brought Adama Traore on anyway). Big 3 points, everyone needed that. I thought Clasie had a great game for me, always in their faces - and Jay ran himself to the ground, but still looks a few yards short of quality. Time will tell if that will ever return.

And because it has Europa League crests in it....whoops.

What is actually up with Targett anyway? Has it ever been announced? If he's just had an op, safe to assume it was a bad one and he's still facing a decent length of time out. Why don't the club tell us stuff like this? (unless i've missed, then apologies..)

What happend to Austin by the way? Broken arm/shoulder? Assuming that's him out for a lengthy period. Not that it matters who we have up front if we continue to play like crabs.

**** ball from Romeu, granted, but Hoijberg was half a ****ing sleep. You should always be on your toes, he wasn't.

Boro defend well, they're coached well and organised. We'll have to do a hell of a lot more than we did tonight to get anywhere. They'll have our number from the first minute if we play that slow again. Which we probably will. Not up for this game at all.

He was absolute dire tonight, but to the 'fans' who were against him around me - absolute disgrace, go and find another team to support. Spent the entire match calling for Hapoel players to stamp on him so he's injured, racial gestures and the like. There's no denying he was dross tonight, but our fans take on a whole new level of ****tardness sometimes.

That was incredibly painful to watch, a really lame duck of a performance. Pass, pass, backwards, sideways, slow down, pass, backwards, misplace the ball. repeat for ever. We don't attack teams with any sort of purpose and there were countless times in the game where every single one of our outfield players was outside of the penalty area during one of our dour build ups. It's too slow, too predictable, and it's so so easy to defend against. Just a complete non-performance and another pathetically lame end to a European adventure.

At the end of the day Fonte probably feels he can get one more big pay day. He'll probably go the same way as our other 'defectors' though and vanish into obscurity at Utd, before ending up at Benfica or Sporting in 18 months. There has obviously been some disagreements in the background, the club often go 'silent' on stuff they're not particularly happy with and boy have they gone silent with Fonte.....

How the **** did we manage to lose to Hull, seriously. Worst result we've had for many a year.

I honestly thought we were going to face Palace again, two of the last few left in there.....thank **** we didn't.

They're actually too bad to face us, they were knocked out in the first round. Yep, that's right, the flaming first round of the FA Cup. #Mega

Bit of a fail by Saint-Fred right there.

Yeah, people - please stop quoting him. We all know he's a wum, but we don't need reminding of it when we have him on ignore.

How the hell does Fellani get a chance in that Utd team ahead of Morgan? It's absolutely baffling.

Matip has been the player who has made the biggest difference to them this year, without him they cannot defend. But you've got to attack them with pace and purpose and put them under pressure, something we didn't come close to doing in the home game.

He clearly isn't terrible, he's just on a bad form. But some fans cannot differentiate with poor form and conclusive ability.

That was pretty rubbish, although I'm somewhat not surprised. Everything was lined up for a Palace win today, and added to by the fact that our away form is horrific this year. Not much more worth saying.

This is the worst game I've seen him play for us, hopeless. Needs a long hard look at himself after THAT!