All we can take from last nights game..

[1finny]

You say that, but we did beat them in the first game remember.

Last night was a tough watch but sometimes its just a bad day at the office, we're much better than we showed last night.

There are always outliers - ‘smaller’ clubs have been City etc
In that first game it could easily have been 4-1 to Chelsea

Over the two legs 6-2 flattered us

We may be much better - but only against poorer sides

 

[Ironops]

Leicester was a one-off game. Anyone can beat anyone on any given day. Rotherham don't think they should be playoff contenders because they've taken 4 points off us. Southampton were doing dreadfully when we played them. We were their 4th defeat in a row and people were worried for Russel Martin's job. That's the last time they lost. We played them at a very good time.

I didn't say we need a 20 goal striker. I said we're 20 points off 2nd. We have failed to win matches because we don't score enough goals and we concede too many. A big chunk of our points dropped came earlier in the season when we had no injury problems and we had a full squad to choose from.

We are a playoff contender calibre team. We are not an automatic contender with this group of players.

I agree with this and the earlier point - fully fit squad we are about where West Brom are but top 2? nowhere near! We have a decent squad that will be better next season but we lack a clinical striker and overall we are just not consistent enough. Even with reinforcements in the summer the relegated teams have a huge advantage and the gap seems to be getting wider season after season - we could see 3 relegated teams being promoted and 3 promoted teams being relegated at the end of this season - we just dont have the resources, nobody does.

 

[Piccadilly Day Tripper]

I think last night showed that we're still relying on a number of players who would realistically need to be moved on if we did get promoted as they are not up to it, but I am really enjoying supporting the Boro at the minute.

I think the squad we are developing has a lot more potential and exciting possibility to it than even Karanka's squads in 2014/15 2015/16.

We're likely going to be too inconsistent for the play offs - we perennially seem to be '3 points outside the play off places', but we've signed players for the long term and still more to come.