26/27 - Other Games

[Maggie May]

17 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said:

Stoke 1-2 Boro

Millwall 0-1 Swansea 

Doh.

Control the controllables. 

[Willo of Whiteley]

Boro are going to be the bloody unbearable team that scores endless last minute goals this season…

[Oh no Mick Mills]

Boro have got so many late winners/ equaliser this season its sickening

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

1 minute ago, SuperSAINT said:

Stoke 2-3 Boro

Obviously going up this season (assuming they don't bottle it again). Seem to have a knack of getting important late goals. Probably benefitting from having an extra year in this league. 

[BallBoy]

Boro going infuriatingly well.

[Harry_SFC]

Just now, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Obviously going up this season (assuming they don't bottle it again). Seem to have a knack of getting important late goals. Probably benefitting from having an extra year in this league. 

Yeah, I do actually think they will go up this season unfortunately. 

[Willo of Whiteley]

Boro will stutter, one or two injuries and they’ll fail, and the meltdown will be all the more sweet 😂

[chownie20]

Boro looked reasonable but Stoke should have gone 2-1 up and their defending from that corner was a joke. I can't see them maintaining all season with lucky winners late on. Thought the ref let Borges off way too much with pulling, backing in etc in both boxes.

Swansea look good also but we battered them and their fixtures to date generally look like they've been against poor or struggling sides?

[Saint86]

3 minutes ago, BallBoy said:

Boro going infuriatingly well.

Another game where they had a lot of help from the referee tbh. They're decent and we all know that - but we need to up our game to challenge top 2 or its irrelevant.

[Cuddles]

They fell off a cliff last season once they were knackered 😉

[SouthWalesSaints]

+6 GD says they’ll struggle to continue winning as they’re.  I didn’t think that much of them.  Keep it to within 6 when we play them at our place and we’ll beat them. No doubts at all. 
 

Wolves losing is great, Swansea can’t win this league they are poor. Long way to go, but I do think it’ll be Boro, WHU, Us, Wolves and Burnley come the end.  

[Harry_SFC]

1 minute ago, Saint86 said:

Another game where they had a lot of help from the referee tbh. They're decent and we all know that - but we need to up our game to challenge top 2 or its irrelevant.

I think the only real difference is Boro now have a quality striker, something they didn't have last season. He seems to be able to play Saturday/Tuesday no problem - where as we have to manage Larin game by game. 

[Midfield_General]

3 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

I think the only real difference is Boro now have a quality striker, something they didn't have last season. He seems to be able to play Saturday/Tuesday no problem - where as we have to manage Larin game by game. 

They are soft at the back though. Didn't realise how many points they've dropped from winning positions, and they threw the lead away twice again tonight before snatching it at the end. They really aren't very good defensively. 

I think we'll beat them fairly comfortably at home.

Edited 1 hour ago by Midfield_General

[sfc4prem]

18 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Obviously going up this season (assuming they don't bottle it again). Seem to have a knack of getting important late goals. Probably benefitting from having an extra year in this league. 

Why do so many on this forum make statements like this? It's not yet obvious that they're going up. We're not even into November!

[Football Special]

9 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

I think the only real difference is Boro now have a quality striker, something they didn't have last season. He seems to be able to play Saturday/Tuesday no problem - where as we have to manage Larin game by game. 

Yeah we should have gone for Lankshear. 

Play offs were realistically our best chance of going up anyway , top two with-4 is too much for our squad with reliance on Larin 

[saintwbu]

3 minutes ago, Football Special said:

Yeah we should have gone for Lankshear. 

Play offs were realistically our best chance of going up anyway , top two with-4 is too much for our squad with reliance on Larin 

He wouldn’t have come to sit on the bench realistically 

[Football Special]

2 minutes ago, saintwbu said:

He wouldn’t have come to sit on the bench realistically 

Guess so but would have been a battle between him and Larin to claim.top spot, with the other coming on like Stewart used to. 

Anyway lucky we didnt get him as otherwise we wouldn't have had the money for Dobbin 

[Roo1976]

14 minutes ago, Football Special said:

Guess so but would have been a battle between him and Larin to claim.top spot, with the other coming on like Stewart used to. 

Anyway lucky we didnt get him as otherwise we wouldn't have had the money for Dobbin 

fuck forgot about him..................

[whelk]

20 minutes ago, sfc4prem said:

Why do so many on this forum make statements like this? It's not yet obvious that they're going up. We're not even into November!

Wolves were going to walk this league, then West Ham. Obviously now Boro will and we are 9 games in. The average fan struggles to remember more than two games back. 
 

[Andy Hill]

I would not write Swansea off as promotion contenders. Their away form is better than ours for a start. We definitely need to turn up tomorrow and make a statement. 

[Oh no Mick Mills]

Bolton fans praising Baz tonight... at 1-1 he pulled off a worldie save from Armstrong. 

Be interesting to see how he performs  on Saturday.  

[Badger]

24 minutes ago, saintwbu said:

He wouldn’t have come to sit on the bench realistically 

Why would he have been expected to sit on the bench ? He wouldn’t have been given assurances over being a starter from day one, but he’d have had plenty of game time even if rotated with Larin. 

[James G]

5 minutes ago, Andy Hill said:

I would not write Swansea off as promotion contenders. Their away form is better than ours for a start. We definitely need to turn up tomorrow and make a statement. 

Same as Charlton, they'll fade 

Total luck tonight, it catches up with you

[Badger]

5 minutes ago, Oh no Mick Mills said:

Bolton fans praising Baz tonight... at 1-1 he pulled off a worldie save from Armstrong. 

Be interesting to see how he performs  on Saturday.  

That’s a first. 
Did it hit him in the face ? 

[Badger]

1 hour ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Obviously going up this season (assuming they don't bottle it again). Seem to have a knack of getting important late goals. Probably benefitting from having an extra year in this league. 

Agree that I expect Middlesbrough to be in with a shout for top two, but nothing to do with an extra year in the league. More that they’ve made some good signings (GK, striker and possibly CB). 

[Football Special]

32 minutes ago, Oh no Mick Mills said:

Bolton fans praising Baz tonight... at 1-1 he pulled off a worldie save from Armstrong. 

Be interesting to see how he performs  on Saturday.  

I called this ages ago, we lose 0-1 to the Wanderers of Bolton and Baz will be man of the match, mark my words 

[Football Special]

Just now, Badger said:

Agree that I expect Middlesbrough to be in with a shout for top two, but nothing to do with an extra year in the league. More that they’ve made some good signings (GK, striker and possibly CB). 

Yes very good business, key positions that strengthened them straight away