“Never seen a team like 23/24 Middlesbrough in my life, we dominate every game, we create all the chances, we barely concede any chances, and most weeks I’m sat here watching us get beat by poor teams that can barely get out or their defensive third”
“It’s not the system, the system works fine which is borne out by the chances we create. We just can’t convert them, and that’s been practically every game.”
“Spoke to Carrick after the game. I said it “it’s frustrating isn’t it? Dominating games and not putting away our chances?” He said “It’s worse than that, someone’s going to get a hiding soon”. Seemed as frustrated as we are and agree someone is going to get pumped eventually.”
“we also have very similar players, small tipy tapy players, the teams who mostly get promoted from this league are quite big and physical, (Luton, Sheffield United, Burnley, Ipswich,) we just don’t seem to be able to get the blend right between physicality and technical players.”
“We’ll beat Sheffield United because they are above us. Bristol City are below us so we lost”
” I’d put money on Boro turning up against Norwich and especially Sheffield. But because we turn in limp no-shows like against Bristol, we will have a very average season overall.”
“Michael Carrick is under pressure.
You have to think automatic promotion is now gone. We’re not even into November, so that is some achievement with the squad of players he has at his disposal.”
“A defeat against Sheff Utd on Wednesday and it will feel his management tenure will have gone full circle with Wilder being triumphant at the Riverside, then the next few matches will be dangerous for him with Norwich away being easily loseable even if we were on form.”
“if you look at the top of the table, the best squads are there. Burnley, Leeds and Sheffield Utd. They are the 3 that I expect to get promoted. If we had a decent striker playing then we’d have a chance of top 6.”
“It should be an easy 3 points this. I read on here that Wilder is wedded to a single system, had no plan B, has been found out and is therefore easy to play against. Looking forward to exposing this charlatan for what he is.”
“Wilder – honestly the first six months saw the best football I’ve ever seen a Boro side play. Just sometimes a club is the right fit for a manager when nowhere else will be, and I think that’s the case for Wilder and Sheffield United. No ill will towards him.”
“He played 3-5-2 against Leeds on Friday….well it was actually 5-5-0 when watching how disgraceful they were in setting up. They were embarrassing. They didn’t even try to get a result.
Not sure if that was purely for Leeds or if he wants to go back to his old ways.”
“4-0 to the boro, post game sandwiches for the match officials are on me”
“Second in league.
90 minute trip and still can’t sell 2100 tickets for us next Wednesday…
Not many clubs can match The Boro for away support.”
“They are very fortunate in having loads of away games within 1 to 2 hours away.”
“Sheff Utd will sell out, about 60 tickets left,. Still it’s quite crap considering, how big they think they are. It amazing how different the away support between Wednesday and United are, you think because they are both from the same city there would be the same passion for travelling, but Wednesday best them hands down.”
“I remember a few yeas ago when they got promoted from league one unde Wilder. We were one of their first away game in the championship and loads of their fans were complaining that they had only been given an allocation of 3000 at The Riverside. In the end they couldn’t sell them. Their away support is nowhere near as good as they believe it to be.”
“Yes that was funny.
The behaviour by a load of them at the end of the game was disgraceful, attacking any lone Boro fans in the east stand car park.”
“Maybe they choose the games where the ticket prices aren’t a massive rip-off.”
“They’ve got the 4th highest away attendance in the league, we are 10th”