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Reply | Fearsomely in-form Boro too hot for QPR to handle – Report
at 10:56 15 Dec 2025
I have to admit this is fairly close to where I am with Saturday too.
I didn’t lose my rag too badly and I went out and forgot about it at around 5.05pm Saturday afternoon.
Maybe because that ‘6 points from 9/ 3 game week blah blah ‘ affected me too in a way.
But as I’ve said elsewhere , Boro were good and would likely have beaten us anyhow.
But we didn’t do the simple , basic , ‘taught when you were a school boy ‘ stuff that if you are to remotely make it harder for your opponents , then as the absolute bare minimum we should be doing .
But we didn’t . We didn’t at Cov and we didn’t at Norwich and it’s becoming a theme and has been pre mentioned , a self fulfilling prophecy inside the club itself .
Very much like cup games now .
I’m not singling him out particularly as I like him a lot , but as an example , the difference in the desire, attitude and work rate between Varane second half on Tuesday and from
Kick off on Saturday …..it’s like a different player and it was by no means just him .
One lousy game we can all accept.
But to keep doing it as a squad means there are questions to asked and answered.
As said before , we will lose games and we have lost games this season where you say ok, it didn’t go our way but you can’t fault the attitude , just maybe a lack of quality .
But if the attitude levels drop then the lack of quality at times is completely laid bare .
I totally agree with you that for the first hour I kept saying.”we look like we’ve never seen a football pitch before “.
We can accept it and say “ho hum, we are doing better than previously” etc etc .
But as a club, we should be demanding more from our players than rolling over in tough away games just because “we are doing better than before “
Or the next self fulfilling prophecy on the checklist …finishing 16th , becomes eternal until we finally drop out the wrong way [Post edited 15 Dec 10:58]
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Reply | Middlesbrough F.C V Queens Park Rangers Match Thread.
at 14:33 14 Dec 2025
Yes I find the JCS choices and timings odd.
I understand managing his playing time , especially with his record, but he won’t get up to speed if he only plays an hour a fortnight .
Truth is we are being hampered by keep switching the back 4 where we are managing 3 of the 6 defenders playing time . With that in mind, Morrison is worryingly completely out of favour .
I also completely understand the notion that Middlesbrough are a good side and a better side who would have had joy against everyone in the championship yesterday .
But if you do the basics and simple things correct and do all the things that, as a team you can control, then at least you can frustrate the opposition and make it hard for them.
Only my view , but I thought we sat off, backed off, let them totally do what they wanted and when we did find ourselves in decent positions, we lacked any sort of quality or care to get ourselves truly back in the game.
Difficult to be too critical as we are doing ok in general . I can see improvements of course .
But we need to stop choosing when we show fight determination (usually at home) and then pick certain difficult away games (preceded by very good results ) to really metaphorically ‘have a breather’.
Thats got a whiff of the Redknapps about it. [Post edited 14 Dec 14:35]
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Reply | Slowly improving.
at 10:55 14 Dec 2025
I think ‘slowly improving’ is a fair assessment of where we are at .
Lots to be encouraged about and lots of work still to do . |
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Reply | Alan Barnes in Hospital
at 10:52 14 Dec 2025
Yes that is sad news and I too often look down from my seat in JU to see if he is there . I did last Saturday (I think it was last Saturday ) but didn’t do it Tuesday for whatever reason so didn’t notice.
Has had a terrible time recently so let’s hope he gets well soon |
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Reply | Middlesbrough F.C V Queens Park Rangers Match Thread.
at 10:24 14 Dec 2025
Not been able to post as it’s taken me until now to navigate past the cookie blockage as I’m an absolute tech idiot . Had to get my wife to do it 😆
Not read through this to see what people were / are thinking about yesterday but will try to catch up later .
My basic take was that I feel that the completely overhyped and over discussed ‘3rd game of a 3 game week ‘ has now become a complete self fulfilling prophecy .
As at Norwich the players looked beaten before they kicked off . Played with no intensity, no purpose or drive , no quality and on the outside not much of a care . Now I’m sure that’s not true but that’s how it looked on the tv.
The complete opposite of Tuesday .
It’s about how the coaching staff and club turn that around now as for me it’s clearly an issue .
Of course , we will lose games , but it’s the manor of how you lose games and yesterday was almost a carbon copy of Norwich . That can’t be a coincidence.
Let’s be fair, Middlesbrough took their foot of the pedal in the last 30 minutes allowing us to look a little better but I thought almost to a man, we looked way below par .
On the plus side, we got ourselves into quite a few promising positions during the game . We just need to be so much better , especially away at decent teams like Middlesbrough.
Overall nothing to throw the toys out of the pram about , but as a club, playing and coaching staff , we can’t keep tossing games off because “we’ ve already got 6 points this week “.
Middlesbrough are a good team so we might well have lost anyway , but 17% possession after 40 mins is just unacceptable .
That’s throwing in the towel and the frustration comes from actually, that we are better than that . And the fans that travelled up there deserve better than that . [Post edited 14 Dec 10:36]
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Reply | Any Roofers out there
at 08:44 11 Dec 2025
Great shout that . Felt exactly the same . Refused to believe until that moment |
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Reply | A Morgasm – Report
at 08:08 11 Dec 2025
Wonderful description of a crazy and wonderful evening .
That complete elation we all share together at these moments is why we do it and described brilliantly Clive . Young children, middle aged men and women , OAP’s and everybody in between in complete ecstatic disbelief.
Joyous
“Yellow Cards: Morgan 90+7 (getting undressed in a public place), Mbengue 90+7 (lunacy)”
This made me really chuckle |
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Reply | ELO theres a big blue nose approaching-birmingham match thread
at 20:59 10 Dec 2025
Apologies if this has been mentioned or confirmed elsewhere , but is that correct that that Mbengue also got booked after Morgan’s goal for running on to the field play (he’d already been subbed) ?
The man’s a yellow card hoarder if so |
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Reply | Any Roofers out there
at 15:20 10 Dec 2025
Talking of Leicester , another that springs to mind is Ishmael Miller.
The place went nuts |
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Reply | Are you Madsen?
at 10:22 10 Dec 2025
This guy deserves a song .
Imagine how chuffed he’d be ?
Someone please come up with something . |
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Reply | Any Roofers out there
at 10:20 10 Dec 2025
As I said on another thread , that was one of ‘those’ moments wasn’t it .
When the place just exploded .
There have been a few over the years .
Austin v Wigan
Furlong v Oldham
Micklewhite v Newcastle
Mackie v Liverpool
Taraabt v Swansea
Cisse v Stoke
Dunne v Birmingham …and many others .
But those moments are the drug we are all hooked on .
Absolute scenes .
Wonderful stuff .
Edit : one other springs to mind ..Helguson v Chelsea [Post edited 10 Dec 10:53]
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Reply | ELO theres a big blue nose approaching-birmingham match thread
at 01:23 10 Dec 2025
And that is why we go .
Why we sit through hours of dross, freezing our bollocks off . Why our amazing away support spends hours and a fortune travelling …for those moments .
They don’t come by very often …but when they do, oh how very special they are.
It would have been a travesty for us not to have won that game.
The energy, the drive , the balls to go again after the equaliser .
If we had drawn that game they still would have been clapped off .
Because they wanted it . We could see it .
RND ..magnificent . Best game of the season by Jimmy. Madsen the best player on the pitch . The front 4 dangerous with and without the ball . The work rate was incredible .
Who on Earth was that bunch who showed up at Norwich less that 2 weeks ago ?
Chalk and cheese .
As you can tell , I’m still buzzing.
Yes of course …we’ll probably get pumped on Saturday…because it’s what we do.
But as JS said, let’s enjoy tonight .
That noise and madness as Morgan’s strike hits the net .
There is nothing better .
Edit: and what a cross by Koki Saito !!! Worth going for that alone . An undefendable delivery . Incredible [Post edited 10 Dec 1:28]
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Reply | Left back v Brum
at 17:35 7 Dec 2025
Problem you got is JCS has played his 70 minutes for this fortnightly period so he is certainly unlikely to play Tuesday . Maybe they would rather he played Tuesday than do all the travelling to Middlesbrough.
Ideally right now he would play , maybe even at left back and Morrison or Cook comes in .
Bit of a ridiculous situation we are in at left back though |
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Reply | Ref
at 12:44 7 Dec 2025
He is truly awful isn’t he |
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Reply | FA Cup Draw Monday Evening
at 16:16 5 Dec 2025
Judging by the team picked in our one other cup game this season I don’t think I’ll expect a change of fortune any time soon |
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Reply | Saturday's referee
at 18:43 4 Dec 2025
Done us a couple of big favours at LR last season . Let’s hope he continues I that manor . |
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Reply | RND
at 18:38 2 Dec 2025
Chairs corners at Blackburn were right on the money . The commentators on the Blackburn ifollow mentioned them several times about how dangerous they were and how we had obviously done our homework on their keeper |
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