motownjunk
Well-known member
Stoke played so well in patches and they ended up getting beat 3 nil, how many times have you seen that with Boro. Great win.
If he set up right in the 1st place, it would be betterGreat afternoon after an awful start. How many times have we started that slowly and gone on to lose. Having NW as manager recognising what was wrong and having the nounce to put it right made all the difference.
Still in the hunt!
Get in. Needed a win there. I'd give hall man of the match, despite winning 3 nil. Had a lot to do as they had more of the ball. Morsy and Bola played well. Bettinelli looked like a proper goalkeeper. Very important save at 2 nil. Johnson and NML both looked decent coming on.
We miss a decent centre forward so much. I'd play bolasie or watmore upfront. We've got Johnson Tav kebano watmore bolasie and NML who play behind and all offer something. I'd rather have another of them on the field than Britt or akpom. And of those two Britt is the far better player. It says a lot when you're bringing him on for his workrate.
Their problem is an absolute lack of pace at the back and CM. Some excellent technical players, but Mikels legs have gone, Allen was never quick, ditto Powell. Chester runs like he's wearing divers boots, and Soutter is a beast but not quick. I haven't seen us win the ball so high so often for a long while. They don't react quickly on the ball. Saying that, they have the makings of a team with a few tweeks that can challenge NEXT SEASON, especially if they can get Campbell fit and firing, he's a championship beast.Stoke played so well in patches and they ended up getting beat 3 nil, how many times have you seen that with Boro. Great win.
That's right uncle_rico, an unbeaten run including draws probably won't be much use to us it needs to be wins.If we can go on a 3 or 4 match winning run we’ll have a chance. Hopefully turned a corner today.
5 | Reading | 36 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 50 | 38 | 12 | 61 |
6 | Barnsley | 36 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 45 | 39 | 6 | 61 |
7 | Bournemouth | 37 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 52 | 38 | 14 | 56 |
8 | Middlesbrough | 37 | 16 | 8 | 13 | 45 | 38 | 7 | 56 |
9 | Cardiff City | 37 | 15 | 9 | 13 | 54 | 38 | 16 | 54 |
Got to look one game at a time. We play Preston on Tuesday. Cardiff play Stoke and Bournemouth play Swansea. It's a must win for us and will guarantee that we pick up points on at least 2 of our rivals and maybe 4 of them.
I've been saying this for about 8 weeks and I'll stick with it, if we are within 5 points of 6th place, with 6 games to go, we will make the play offs.
Win on Tuesday and the table could look like this and we're back in the hunt, especially when you look at our fixtures vs Reading and Bournemouth's fixtures.
5 Reading 36 18 7 11 50 38 12 61 6 Barnsley 36 18 7 11 45 39 6 61 7 Bournemouth 37 16 11 10 52 38 14 56 8 Middlesbrough 37 16 8 13 45 38 7 56 9 Cardiff City 37 15 9 13 54 38 16 54
Agreed, we only need to come above Reading, Bournemouth, Stoke and Cardiff to make sixth. I think Reading are more vulnerable than Barnsley right now.Barnsley are the team to worry about.
Their fixtures don't look intimidating at all.
Even if we beat them, they still have a 5 point advantage on us.
It’s only the points at the end of the season that count.That is an excellent win.
We're no closer to the play-offs mathematically, but I do think we can catch Barnsley.
true but we were terrible in those first ten, utterly terrible and were lucky to get through it. Hope we learn from it, we do often seem to take time to get into games.First 10 minutes aside we controlled that game, solid at the back other than 1 or 2 incidents, created on the break and always looked like scoring when going forward. We were immense today from front to back.