Season 24/25 | The Official Match Thread | Middlesbrough FC vs Swansea City | The EFL Championship

[bakajack]

Better when Fulton off

Well we had 11 players on the pitch after that

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

Bo

Boro were terrible too. Marginally better than us because they did the simple things better. No overreaction here, we really were awful.

I'm enjoying the Bo Selecta style opening here

 

[eteb]

Boro commentator "And grimes drops back again, to collect the ball". Drops back? He lived in the middle of our defence! Not sure I want to hear Williams bigging up this game, or making excuses. Anyone who regularly picks Fulton isn't worth his salt. Static defence and static midfield, apart from Oem Ji Sung, leads to zero or limited chances for our front players. Long season ahead I fear.

Kin hell

First game in and a narrow loss against a favourite for too 6 away from home

You lot are a different breed

 

[Itchysphincter]

Absolutely, but the mindset is still wrong. You can see that Williams and Martin were hand in glove.

Plus, everyone knows Grimes and Fulton shouldn't play together, but there they are, week after week.

Apparently according to some we must have been quite good today.

 

[monmouth]

They passed the ball forward and got it into the box on plenty of occasions in the second half.

To say they've passed the ball backwards for 85 minutes today is a little silly.

You may be right, to be honest it just felt like Boro went 10 yards back and we kept playing at walking pace in front of them, creating absolutely nothing, and most of the time not looking to create anything.

 

[Itchysphincter]

I'm enjoying the Bo Selecta style opening here

Yeah, wondered where that went, couldn’t be arsed to edit.

 

[Smurph]

My post was regarding today’s game, that we will improve as the season progresses is not relevant. What a silly an argument.

You won't be getting the argument you want with myself. Enjoy the rest of your Saturday

 

[eteb]

Kin hell

First game in and a narrow loss against a favourite for too 6 away from home

You lot are a different breed

Never mind though bluey, at least you cunts have come back down to earth after that 2-0 loss at home

 

[bakajack]

Absolutely, but the mindset is still wrong. You can see that Williams and Martin were hand in glove.

Plus, everyone knows Grimes and Fulton shouldn't play together, but there they are, week after week.

The straw I clutch at is that its only because we are currently short of bodies.
Ideally its Grimes and Franco/Abdulai with Eom, Ronald and Providence in front of them in attacking midfield and on the wings

 

[monmouth]

Kin hell

First game in and a narrow loss against a favourite for too 6 away from home

You lot are a different breed

Boro will be down the arse end if that's all they've got mate. I'm not saying we can't get better - we have to - but that was gash today.

 

[Itchysphincter]

Kin hell

First game in and a narrow loss against a favourite for too 6 away from home

You lot are a different breed

Call it as you see it.

Do you think we were good today?

Not interested in praise for individual players - just, do you think we were good today?

 

[eteb]

Call it as you see it.

Do you think we were good today?

Not interested in praise for individual players - just, do you think we were good today?

No. See previous. We certainly weren't as bad as you're making out chicken little

 

[Smurph]

You may be right, to be honest it just felt like Boro went 10 yards back and we kept playing at walking pace in front of them, creating absolutely nothing, and most of the time not looking to create anything.

Going to take a few games to find our spark. It is a much improved performance from our last visit to Boro.

 

[bakajack]

As an overall side today I think I would score us as 4 out of 10.

Slow on the ball, low tempo, little movement and you are always going to struggle to make chances like that

 

[Itchysphincter]

The straw I clutch at is that its only because we are currently short of bodies.
Ideally its Grimes and Franco/Abdulai with Eom, Ronald and Providence in front of them in attacking midfield and on the wings

I clutch the same straw but I can’t help feeling that regardless of quality we have we will always play the same way. We’ve done it since Cooper and it’s cowardly.