How many times can you keep saying that though before you realise either the players aren’t good enough or the manager is not instilling enough belief into players to have them confident in themselves and his tactics
Hoppe won’t even make the bench in a couple of weeks.
I have to agree
Ask questions when he actually has all his players here - I’m afraid his hands are tied at the moment until they arrive. Would you like to set off on a fishing trip with half your tackle missing
I'd go 4-2-3-1 same as you but McGree behind the striker. At least until he gets the players he wants in. We don't have the players in to set up how he wants to set up. But we clearly have the players in to play that formation.
Apart from Giles who is an improvement, who else of his signings have done well? Steffen not sure yet! Lenihan not an improvement,,Mcgree wont be in the team if we get a proper striker and not strong enough to play LM, Mowatt tidy player but no pace, Hoppe & Forss ones for the future REALLY? Coburn & Boyd-Munce he quoted for the future,and he is wanting to send them both out on loan. He spoke after the Preston game last year about stellar signings/players that want to come here,so where are they?Ask questions when he actually has all his players here - I’m afraid his hands are tied at the moment until they arrive. Would you like to set off on a fishing trip with half your tackle missing
Agree with this. Watching yesterday Fry seems to have an allergy to the half way line. He gets near it with rhe ball then turns back and passes sideways. I can see why Wilder prefers Lenihan as the first thing he does is look up for a forward pass or run into the space. Ok, sometimes that isn’t an option for lenihan and he passes sideways but he seems to want to get us on the front foot.
Exactly it's not his team guff is absolute nonsense or were we expecting to him to have a full new first 11 this season. Early days but we look worse than last season without tav
Completely agree, sadly some of our fans can’t seem to understand any of that. The club really has been run terribly over the last few years.
As i said, judge him when the squad is complete - if we’re still losing when all our signings are in place then we’ll all be asking questions. I think we’re all going to have to be patient till this month is out of the way then we will have a clear picture of the best side we can put out, till then it’s all up in the air. Yes ideally all our signings would have been in place before the season started but they aren’t, that isn’t Wilders fault, he has very little to do with the actual negotiations to sign players. The money is there for these players - I suggest we all keep our heads a little while longer because i still think this is going to be a very exciting season
Excellent post.
Did you go yesterday?That performance epitomised misery
Thanks, we're all frustrated and signings have not looked like the finished article that will immediately kick us on, but all the posts questioning the ambition of the club, how its rotten to the core, how Wilder is about to walk, and he's lost the dressing room after a 1-0 defeat with the transfer window still open is just daft. The league table doesn't lie, we have to do better and every game without a win it becomes tougher, but to write the season off on Sunday 21st August is hysterical.
That's the biggest surprise of the wilder era at Boro for me I was expecting us to physically compete and be right up for the fight like sheff utd but we are powder puff
I don't think you can change that mentality and physicality over two transfer windows but bringing in Lenihan is a start. I reckon if Morsy was still here he would be featuring, even though he is a limited footballer. We do have players who physically should be taking the fight to the other team like McNair, Crooks and Fry, and I suppose there was a hope that a big loud yank built like a boxer in Steffen would sort out our poor goalkeeping situation, but it hasn't clicked yet.
