MATCHWATCH : Middlesbrough (h)

[NewCorkSeth]

I know this is a very important game and it's really bad timing to have to change keeper after a winning performance (always better to keep a winning team the same right) but there might actually be a benefit? If Bouzanis has been brought in to either challenge for the starting spot or as cheap reliable back up then a good performance here will be great for the season. Its a free hit for him to impress.

Other than that I would try play the exact same team. Long, if fit, must start. His performance last match was stellar. I dont understand how he can still win all those aerial duels.

[windermereROYAL]

Other than that I would try play the exact same team. Long, if fit, must start. His performance last match was stellar. I dont understand how he can still win all those aerial duels.

The word legend doesn`t get thrown around easily on here but Longy fits the bill perfectly, he clearly still loves the club and the fans love him, 35 and still supremely fit, he gives everything in every game, he can clearly play until 37/38 and I`m convinced he would stay beyond one year or till the end of his career if he was given the chance.

[NewCorkSeth]

Other than that I would try play the exact same team. Long, if fit, must start. His performance last match was stellar. I dont understand how he can still win all those aerial duels.

The word legend doesn`t get thrown around easily on here but Longy fits the bill perfectly, he clearly still loves the club and the fans love him, 35 and still supremely fit, he gives everything in every game, he can clearly play until 37/38 and I`m convinced he would stay beyond one year or till the end of his career if he was given the chance.

I mean, I hope he retires here. The longer we have him the better.

[Brogue]

[Snowflake Royal]

No Guiness-Walker

Hutch in at CB and and Yiadom right, Hoilett left presumably. Be interesting to see if we can keep up the really good work we did with the shape against Blackburn or it'll go back to the more rigid version in the earlier teams, in which case we might struggle.

[Brogue]

No Guiness-Walker

Hutch in at CB and and Yiadom right, Hoilett left presumably. Be interesting to see if we can keep up the really good work we did with the shape against Blackburn or it'll go back to the more rigid version in the earlier teams, in which case we might struggle.

I was expecting Tmac at LB in a four. But you might well be right

[Snowflake Royal]

No Guiness-Walker

Hutch in at CB and and Yiadom right, Hoilett left presumably. Be interesting to see if we can keep up the really good work we did with the shape against Blackburn or it'll go back to the more rigid version in the earlier teams, in which case we might struggle.

I was expecting Tmac at LB in a four. But you might well be right

One of the two certainly.

[NewCorkSeth]

No Guiness-Walker

Hutch in at CB and and Yiadom right, Hoilett left presumably. Be interesting to see if we can keep up the really good work we did with the shape against Blackburn or it'll go back to the more rigid version in the earlier teams, in which case we might struggle.

I was expecting Tmac at LB in a four. But you might well be right

One of the two certainly.

I hope its the former. Don't know why...

[PATRIQT]

Can hear C1871 loud and clear from Coley.

[Snowflake Royal]

Nasty knock on Hoilett there. Ref completely uninterested. Fancy that should have been a yellow. Took an age to signal the physio on.

He's not even given a freekick.

[Who Moved The Goalposts?]

Nasty knock on Hoilett there. Ref completely uninterested. Fancy that should have been a yellow. Took an age to signal the physio on.

He's not even given a freekick.

Shouldn't be surprised. The standard of refereeing has never been great at this level, but in the past few seasons it's plummeted even further.

[Snowflake Royal]

Nice couple of minutes of pressure there. The game is sparking to life.

[NathStPaul]

Not a bad start to the game. Middlesbrough look as though they are here for a 0-0 draw tbh.

[Snowflake Royal]

Boro playing Stamball and tryng to bore us into a mistake.

[Snowflake Royal]

Loum's performance is unravelling.

Hutch plays nasty, but dangerous fk here. But close for a shot.

[NewCorkSeth]

Loum's performance is unravelling.

Hutch plays nasty, but dangerous fk here. But close for a shot.

I cant watch today, what do you mean by unravelling? Losing the ball a lot?

[Snowflake Royal]

Loum's performance is unravelling.

Hutch plays nasty, but dangerous fk here. But close for a shot.

I cant watch today, what do you mean by unravelling? Losing the ball a lot?

He's missing some challenges, lost the ball creating a break and tweaked a muscle. Plus Loum sounds a bit like Loom.

[Brogue]

Goal

[NewCorkSeth]

Loum's performance is unravelling.

Hutch plays nasty, but dangerous fk here. But close for a shot.

I cant watch today, what do you mean by unravelling? Losing the ball a lot?

He's missing some challenges, lost the ball creating a break and tweaked a muscle. Plus Loum sounds a bit like Loom.

Ahh I see.

[CountryRoyal]

LETS GO