The squad in your opinion?

[Corco65]

A good solid performance today with attacking intent, from a team no one would have chosen and few gave little chance of getting anything from the game. Over the season If we had been able to get our best (who ever they are) 11 regulars on the pitch a strong bench, would you say the squad is capable of at least the play off's?

Players still.out

Lathe
Coburn
Fry
Lenihan
Jones
Hackney
Howson

 

[BoroMad87]

A good solid performance today with attacking intent, from a team no one would have chosen and few gave little chance of getting anything from the game. Over the season If we had been able to get our best (who ever they are) 11 regulars on the pitch a strong bench, would you say the squad is capable of at least the play off's?

Players still.out

Lathe
Coburn
Fry
Lenihan
Jones
Hackney
Howson

All of whom all first team starters with an exception to maybe Fry and a choice if lath or coburn.

You can also add Smith and bangura to that list aswell!

 

[AytonMews]

Jones and Lath would both need to be fit for us to sustain a playoff push I think.

 

[JM14]

No but we wouldn’t be far off. Another striker and this is a top 6 side

 

[BoroMad87]

Jones and Lath would both need to be fit for us to sustain a playoff push I think.

I think Lath may be on the bench on Saturday, hopefully Jones isn't to far away aswell

 

[Middlesbrough123]

When fate starts picking the side and you win games maybe our luck is about to change

 

[Muttley]

If fit, probably. I just think it has gone, there are too many points and too many teams have to drop points for us to make it.

I'm not too fixated on it to be honest. Just enjoying watching us play, I think generally we are an entertaining watch (compared to watching the likes of PNE for example, who must be the dullest team I've seen this season)

 

[Alwaysaborolad]

No, we had a nearly fully fit squad at the start of the season, and did not win a game in our first seven matches..

We did well today, but let's not get carried away, we had 29% possession and 5 shots.... to Liecesters 71% and 24 shots...

I often think it suits our style, to be the defending team and catching teams on the break.... we often struggle to break teams down who defend against us, like Preston... Rotherham... QPR to name a few...

 

[parmoboy]

Just about in my opinion.

If we'd have had better luck with injuries and if new players had have settled in quicker we would have had a better season.

If we could have fielded this team consistently we would be there or there abouts.

Dieng

Smith
Lenihan/McNair
VDB
Bangura

O'Brien
Hackney

Jones/Forss
Rogers/Azaz
McGree

Lath

 

[birkbeck_dj]

I voted no. I reckon Boro will finish 8th-9th place. Just a little short of a playoff place.

 

[Smogonsea]

No but we wouldn’t be far off. Another striker and this is a top 6 side

Hopefully we can keep hold of VDB and Hackney in the summer and we will only need 3 or 4 players to push this team up the table into proper play off contenders.

 

[festa5]

No, we had a nearly fully fit squad at the start of the season, and did not win a game in our first seven matches..

We did well today, but let's not get carried away, we had 29% possession and 5 shots.... to Liecesters 71% and 24 shots...

I often think it suits our style, to be the defending team and catching teams on the break.... we often struggle to break teams down who defend against us, like Preston... Rotherham... QPR to name a few...


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We dont struggle to break them down, we just miss too many chances.

2 shots on target today, 5 in total.

I'd say it's more the opposite, we tend to defend better against the better sides because we're forced to sit deeper and don't leave the space in behind ourselves.

We create chances against everyone. We generally create more and better chances against lesser sides, but for whatever reason seem to fluff our lines more against them.