MATCHWATCH : Middlesbrough (a) sponsored by a Paul Holsgrove winner

[Longhorn1970]

The key is not conceding again, we're always in it (just) at 1-0... more than that and we're buried and likely to get taken apart by this lot.

How times change, we took this lot apart earlier in the season ...

[royal67]

Good job on surviving to HT at just one down.

This statement just about sums up our season

The fact we're only one down kinda vindicates McDermott's team selection IMO...

Really....?

Boro are very good and extremely difficult to score against. We could easily have found ourselves 2/3 down at this point without being particularly surprised.

Keep it tight for 10 minutes after half time. Try to grow into the game and go for the throat from about 65 minutes.
We ought to try adopting this strategy from the first whistle

At worst we concede a few more goals, no biggie. At best we pick up a point or three, unlikely though that may be.

[Longhorn1970]

Stats suggest we're dominating. Is that right?

We've had 60% possession

More importantly zero shots on target.........

Three chances for Cox who misfired predictably ...

[Ian Royal]

The key is not conceding again, we're always in it (just) at 1-0... more than that and we're buried and likely to get taken apart by this lot.

How times change, we took this lot apart earlier in the season ...

Not in the real world the rest of us live in we didn't.

What actually happened was we stunned them with an early goal, completely over-turning their entire match strategy, then soaked endless pressure from a team looking a bit baffled about what to do about it. At which point we caught them on the break at the death.

But even if we did, I live in the now, not in the irrelevant ancient past.

[RoyalBlue]

Boro 9 shots of which 5 have been on target.
Royals 6 shots of which 0 have been on target!

Great! We still can't defend and we still can't shoot! With a coaching team like that, we are only heading in one direction next season.

[Ian Royal]

Obita off for Taylor at HT.

One sub left. Gotta be John somewhere between 60 and 70 minutes then, shirley.

[Ian Royal]

Boro 9 shots of which 5 have been on target.
Royals 6 shots of which 0 have been on target!

Great! We still can't defend and we still can't shoot! With a coaching team like that, we are only heading in one direction next season.

Boro have conceded 6 goals in 20 home matches.

[RoyalBlue]

The key is not conceding again, we're always in it (just) at 1-0... more than that and we're buried and likely to get taken apart by this lot.

How times change, we took this lot apart earlier in the season ...

But even if we did, I live in the now, not in the irrelevant ancient past.

So what does that say about the belief that some have in McDermott?!

His success really was prehistoric in those terms and therefore completely irrelevant.

[Ian Royal]

How times change, we took this lot apart earlier in the season ...

But even if we did, I live in the now, not in the irrelevant ancient past.

So what does that say about the belief that some have in McDermott?!

His success really was prehistoric in those terms and therefore completely irrelevant.

Nonsense

[RoyalBlue]

Boro 9 shots of which 5 have been on target.
Royals 6 shots of which 0 have been on target!

Great! We still can't defend and we still can't shoot! With a coaching team like that, we are only heading in one direction next season.

Boro have conceded 6 goals in 20 home matches.

That is equally irrelevant because they certainly aren't going to concede if our useless players and their coaches can't find a way of even getting a single shot on target.

I would suspect that most of their opponents in those 20 matches have at least managed to test the keeper a few times in their games.

[sandman]

Not like Danny LaRue, sorry RoyaLOLBLOLue, to behave like a complete queen.

[howser]

Obita injured or is this a part of tactical mastery ?

[RoyalBlue]

But even if we did, I live in the now, not in the irrelevant ancient past.

So what does that say about the belief that some have in McDermott?!

His success really was prehistoric in those terms and therefore completely irrelevant.

Nonsense

Of course, what happened in our game against Boro earlier in the season is completely irrelevant but what McDermott managed to do years before still counts!

Well maybe we should also remember how he completely lost the plot when we were in the PL (wasting whatever money he was given in the transfer window on the likes of Akpan). And maybe his lack of success at Leeds wasn't completely down to the lunatic chairman either.

[genome]

Bore off

[P!ssed Off]

Wahey. COX

[Mr Optimist]

Not like Danny LaRue, sorry RoyaLOLBLOLue, to behave like a complete queen.

Which reminds me that the only consolation for tonight is the Fannies of Eastbourne will be watching on closely cursing almost as much as our own fans.

[tidus_mi2]

oxf*rd me it's 1-1.

[blueroyals]

[Ian Royal]

Boro 9 shots of which 5 have been on target.
Royals 6 shots of which 0 have been on target!

Great! We still can't defend and we still can't shoot! With a coaching team like that, we are only heading in one direction next season.

Boro have conceded 6 goals in 20 home matches.

That is equally irrelevant because they certainly aren't going to concede if our useless players and their coaches can't find a way of even getting a single shot on target.

I would suspect that most of their opponents in those 20 matches have at least managed to test the keeper a few times in their games.

1-1. Happy now you miserable bastard?

[Winston Smith]

So what does that say about the belief that some have in McDermott?!

His success really was prehistoric in those terms and therefore completely irrelevant.

Nonsense

Of course, what happened in our game against Boro earlier in the season is completely irrelevant but what McDermott managed to do years before still counts!

Well maybe we should also remember how he completely lost the plot when we were in the PL (wasting whatever money he was given in the transfer window on the likes of Akpan). And maybe his lack of success at Leeds wasn't completely down to the lunatic chairman either.

Why such incredible levels of hatred for B-Mac? Has he smashed your mum's back doors in or summat?