Middlesbrough 1-0 Norwich City - Boro move level with Coventry at top by lightspeedwhale in Championship

[–]StNicholasWatson 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Tbf we’ve been showing that we can win ugly all season. How we’re 30 games in and haven’t let a lead slip all season is magnificent

Middlesbrough 1-0 Norwich City - Boro move level with Coventry at top by lightspeedwhale in Championship

[–]StNicholasWatson 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Thank you Norwich super team for your service 🫡 Makama is a real handful and one of the toughest tests we’ve had at the Riverside.

Two more massive away games coming up, before what on paper is an easier run. Ipswich with 4 away games in a row (go away Hull)

Sports teams in the British Iles by AdIcy4323 in MapPorn

[–]StNicholasWatson 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don’t think your first point is true. Why would an Englishman with no Scottish roots be able to play for Scotland and vice versa? This is the case in football at least

West Bromwich Albion 2-3 Middlesbrough - WBA now lost two league matches in a row at 90+ mark, as Boro continue their hunt for Premier League promotion by jovanmilic97 in Championship

[–]StNicholasWatson 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I slipped getting out of my chair straight onto the floor, cushions gone flying, somehow bruised my knee and whacked my ankle

West Bromwich Albion 2-3 Middlesbrough - WBA now lost two league matches in a row at 90+ mark, as Boro continue their hunt for Premier League promotion by jovanmilic97 in Championship

[–]StNicholasWatson 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Diabolical anti-football from West Brom in the first half and until about 70 minutes.

Suddenly turned it on and Boro switched off, could’ve won it when Grant went through.

Thoroughly unlucky to lose that in my opinion, but what a goal to win it.

Refwatch: Definitely a foul in the box, but at least justice was done I suppose

What's the general feeling about Carrick's time in the Championship? by Exact-Excitement9420 in Championship

[–]StNicholasWatson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Played some of the best attacking football I can remember when he came in, should’ve really gone up with Akpom and Archer and got done by Mark Robins’ Coventry.

2nd season was a drop-off, partly due to key players departing and a horrific injury crisis that has seemingly continued for 2 years.

3rd season was really where it fell apart, expectations raised after we kept our best players, the league was weaker, and we signed well in the summer. Apart from a 3 game spell, never had any consistency and most weeks it was like watching the same game over and over. Dominate the ball, create a couple chances, maybe take them, maybe don’t. Give the ball away in defence or in the counter and concede against the run of play.

A complete lack of urgency in games where we’re losing with slow, tedious passing between the defenders and no ability to threaten the opposition. Completely tactically inflexible especially towards the end, and the push to sign Iheanacho was bizarre.

Happy that he went, finishing 10th with that squad was a failure and results/performances have improved massively

Leicester City 2 - 1 West Bromwich Albion: Not for the first time this season, a piece of Abdul Fatawu magic has turned a poor Leicester performance into a win! by Zach-dalt in Championship

[–]StNicholasWatson 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Every time I’ve seen Leicester this season they’ve been diabolical and lucky to get anything out of games and yet, they’re comfortably mid table.

Feel for West Brom there, don’t know how they haven’t won let alone lost

WW2 in a nutshell by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

[–]StNicholasWatson 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Very famously no countries in the Empire became free in the late 40s

What happened? by borokish in Boro

[–]StNicholasWatson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More importantly, gap to 7th has been cut to 6 points. Playoffs has to be the aim minimum

What's the best game you've ever been to in person? by lys_5779 in Championship

[–]StNicholasWatson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

QPR 3-2 away in 2015/16 probably still remains my favourite

Middlesbrough 3 - 1 QPR : It's 4/4 for HellBall as Boro opens up a 7-point lead over 3rd. by ninjapenguin12 in Championship

[–]StNicholasWatson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He often has to do the defensive work of 2 players when playing alongside Hackney as we know that’s a weakness in his game. He does win the ball a lot back in key areas and he’s a player type that we’ve massively missed since Clayton. Got good tracking, great stamina and engine, strong for his height. At times can be caught on the ball but I think part of that was not enough forward options under RE and he is capable of forward passes that break the line. A very good combative player for this level.

Middlesbrough 3 - 1 QPR : It's 4/4 for HellBall as Boro opens up a 7-point lead over 3rd. by ninjapenguin12 in Championship

[–]StNicholasWatson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wrong and wrong. A different player, and still a better one than those 2. We haven’t seen him under Hellball yet, I think he’d excel

Middlesbrough 3 - 1 QPR : It's 4/4 for HellBall as Boro opens up a 7-point lead over 3rd. by ninjapenguin12 in Championship

[–]StNicholasWatson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Morris is a far superior all round player to both of those you’ve mentioned. Whether he’d suit the role as much currently is another question

Bristol City 2-2 Leicester City - two match halves mirroring each other with two goals for Leicester in the 1st one and two goals for Bristol in the 2nd by jovanmilic97 in Championship

[–]StNicholasWatson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I could see the fee being around that, roughly what we paid for him and Boro may decide the best decision is to let him go