| Middlesbrough Reflection 19:03 - Mar 8 with 3748 views | bluenwhite10 |
No complaints today, beaten by the best team that have visited HQ this season.
Boro midfield 3 dominated the game Hackney, Browne and Mcgree.
Boro movement was good and seemed fitter with players always available to receive the ball.
Lots of sloppy short passes today from the Rangers today mainly out of play.
As I have said before the injury crisis on a budget like ours will catch up with you.
MOM Vale today who did alright.
I can see more of the same until 2-3 of the players out come back.
I think Cook needs to start even if it means a back 5.
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| Middlesbrough Reflection on 07:48 - Mar 9 with 679 views | daveB |
Boro were really good, their movement off the ball put us to shame but we made it very easy for them.
Without the ball, we just stood off them and admired them. The second goal was dreadful from Edwards and Kone—piss weak defending. For the third goal no one thought to get close to Hackney. Great finish, but he had so much time and space. When we got the ball they had 2/3 players around us and made it hard.
With the ball we were even worse. Varane passed it out of play at least 3 times, laughable. We just kept giving them the ball back.
As for that sub at the end throwing 2 young kids on at 3-0 down, with Tylon Smith out of position at right back—what were we getting from that? Players were thrown under the bus and set up to fail. Horrible management.
I was sat at home yesterday lunchtime and didn't really want to go, I knew this would happen and just lost all enthusiasm for it at the moment. The pub was dead and chatting with mates they all felt the same way. If I didn't have tickets for Leicester I wouldn't bother next week, I'm pretty much done with this season as sadly are the team. |  | | |
| Middlesbrough Reflection on 08:40 - Mar 9 with 523 views | Ad99 |
There were mistakes, too much respect for 'Boro but, above all, a chronic lack of confidence. We looked nervy.
I can understand people getting hysterical over the scoreline and the recent results - in what we all knew was a tough gamut of games - but I didn't feel the performance was horrific. Certainly not 0-4 level. There was a point in the first half where Morgan (whose brief was probably to pick up Hackney, the best player on the pitch) pointed to his player's run as he drive forward. I think it was for their first goal. We weren't smart enough to break-up their midfield shapes and gave up on shadowing Hackney to our detriment.
I thought Varane broke up a few attacks in the second half and improved on a first half showing that was pretty wretched. It's hard to see how he has kept Sam Field out of the team, unless we are just trying to fatten a goose for market. Varane, as we know, is quite adept at robbing the ball and he did is a few times yesterday. How we miss a player like Madsen who does everything with 1-2 touches and uses the second ball so well.
Major frustration was Walsh. Dominate your area a bit more mate. Come and get the ball and take pressure off the defence at close quarters. Being lobbed from just outside the 6-yard box for their second was infuriating.
We're a team that's learning, for the most part. |  | | |
| Middlesbrough Reflection on 08:58 - Mar 9 with 453 views | Ranger123 |
Accepting a 4-0 drubbing at home by Middlesbrough with no complaints?
Yes, they are a good side but that wasn't even competitive, it was like a pre-season friendly, pathetic throughout.
Players on the beach in the first week of march, strolling about and laughing on the bench.
The lack of standards at this football club and accepting not even being competitive at home in the championship is the reason next year will be the exact same. We were playing bloody Middlesbrough not Real Madrid.
Shocking. | | | |
| Middlesbrough Reflection on 08:59 - Mar 9 with 447 views | Padulas_Shampoo |
| Middlesbrough Reflection on 08:40 - Mar 9 by Ad99 |
There were mistakes, too much respect for 'Boro but, above all, a chronic lack of confidence. We looked nervy.
I can understand people getting hysterical over the scoreline and the recent results - in what we all knew was a tough gamut of games - but I didn't feel the performance was horrific. Certainly not 0-4 level. There was a point in the first half where Morgan (whose brief was probably to pick up Hackney, the best player on the pitch) pointed to his player's run as he drive forward. I think it was for their first goal. We weren't smart enough to break-up their midfield shapes and gave up on shadowing Hackney to our detriment.
I thought Varane broke up a few attacks in the second half and improved on a first half showing that was pretty wretched. It's hard to see how he has kept Sam Field out of the team, unless we are just trying to fatten a goose for market. Varane, as we know, is quite adept at robbing the ball and he did is a few times yesterday. How we miss a player like Madsen who does everything with 1-2 touches and uses the second ball so well.
Major frustration was Walsh. Dominate your area a bit more mate. Come and get the ball and take pressure off the defence at close quarters. Being lobbed from just outside the 6-yard box for their second was infuriating.
We're a team that's learning, for the most part. |
If yesterday isn't filed in the 'horrific' section, please can we be given a forewarning ahead of future horrific performances so I can leave the country / planet so I don't have to endure them please?
We did virtually nothing - at home, in a league game - for the entire 90 minutes. We had no pace, no quick movement, no shifting play, no passing, no tackling, no fight. We didn't look annoyed or angry. We were just a group of blokes vaguely floating around like a body of water paying lip service to defending. On the occasion of having possession of the ball we more often than not misplaced an easy pass out of play.
Sometimes this season I've been frustrated by a lack of quality - in front of goal, in the final third, with set pieces, with crosses etc. Well that frustration never really came to fruition yesterday because we were so rarely in positions to even hope for some quality.
The makeup of this team is all wrong. It's as if there was no clear (dare I say) methodology involved in building the team. We've just stuck a bunch of individuals on the pitch whom all have some redeeming traits but have none in common. We don't have an identity. We're not good enough to be a ball playing team. We're not quick enough to be a lightning counter attacking team. We're not strong enough to out-muscle teams. We're not fit enough to outwork a team. We're just a limp mess.
Yes I know, I know we have injuries... But they're part of the above problem for me. At this point I'd almost rather watch a bunch of Pulisian set piece thugs ambling around the pitch becasue at least we'd have a clear directive. This team / era looks like a complete damp blanket. Weak, fragile, flimsy. So utterly easy to play against, home and away. Yesterday showed us up to be exactly that. |  | | |
| Middlesbrough Reflection on 09:08 - Mar 9 with 406 views | Phildo |
We went into this season without owning known specialist championship fullbacks - save Jimmy Dunne who quickly reverted to centre half. We knew goalkeeping was a problem and left it. Spent 4 million on a centre half in January.
We have conceded the second highest number of goals after Shef Wed, - could these things be connected? |  | | |
| Middlesbrough Reflection on 09:16 - Mar 9 with 358 views | calHoop |
I've lost count of the amount of times we've conceded the same goal this season. Midfielder/winger picks up ball around edge of box, curls ball into bottom corner of the net, with NO ONE closing down. Hackney again yesterday.
A total reflection of attitude and commitment, been going on for years. I actually think this squad has some decent human beings, in comparison to the past, but it's rank how little we get out to stop these shots. | | | |
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