Complete and utter dross. No cutting edge, no pressure on the opposition and yet again bottling it when we get anywhere near a decent position.

This team has promise but will never be a good team with such a dreadfully outdated manager.

Get Arma off ffs, so unbelievably greedy

Just now, Stuart said:

That was shit.

We could be 18th this time tomorrow.

Right now I don’t see how we are going to climb out of this.

Oh I can see how - but the club don't have the cajones to do it.

Utter, utter dross from start to finish. Not a single attempt in the second half. Couldn't care less about the injuries - it's a squad game and an inability to rotate falls on the manager. Put Tony on the Boro team bus back to the North East and leave him there.

How tf is that a yellow for Holtby???

Wrap Kaminski in cotton wool because this keeper somehow scares me even more than some of the dross we've had in the last few years.

Questions really need to be asked about our fitness training. Something is clearly not working.

Just now, West Yorks Rover said:

If Boro get a winner the'll go joint 2nd.

Very impressive considering he's hardly brought anybody in.

That's what happens when you go for a class manager and let him have his own staff.

Please never play Gallagher again, it's basically playing with 10 men every time he sets foot on the field. Tony should be fired for that signing alone.

There is absolutely no chance of this team getting higher than mid table. Get this clueless muppet out and get a competent manager with a clear vision in.

It's simple - good attacks win games, good defences win leagues. Mowbray has been here years yet our defence has never looked better than a mid-to bottom half level defence and this is why we will be midtable until we get shut of him.

It's utterly predictable and why I can't get excited even now we've started slapping the bad teams about.

Very happy with the last two performances - these games against weak opposition are exactly the kind of games we used to throw points away on by not being ruthless enough. An added bonus is we're not as goal-shy as I feared we might be. 

However. I refuse to buy into the hype until we get some cover for GK and another LB - Bell has done well but there's been less pressure on him.

If we can keep it up for the next month or so I'll buy into it more but for now I will be cautiously optimistic.

Just now, Roverthechimp said:

Kaminskis distribution is awesome. Back 4 have total confidence in him

I hope that the faith in the keeper allows the defence going forwards to stop being so frantic as they have in the past. So far I like what I've seen of him, though I have watched Walton for the last year so my idea of what an acceptable keeper should be is probably a bit lower than usual.

Just now, Tugay-is-God said:

So that's Nyambe gone next summer then

Who would blame him - criminally overlooked by TM who looks for any excuse to not play him.

2 minutes ago, tomphil said:

If he stays here another 3 years he'll go down in history as the clubs best ever midtable manager.

If he persists like this for 3 more years we will waste a generation of decent youth and end up in an Ipswich/Mick McCarthy situation where we plummet because he's squandered the money we do have on players who are already at their ceiling.

Not good enough - TM has yet again failed to address the main issue in the squad - please just boot him before we get stuck in a relegation battle.

Just now, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

2 conceded. Standard

Literally the exact reason this defence needs blowing up. Every year they concede 2+ goals regularly and still it hasn't been fixed.

Please do one Tony, and take Waggott with you.

That play right there is why I can't get excited about the new season until signings are made. Offside but every single game we gift the opposition 2-3 clear chances by messing around at the back.

Well deserved goal - we've looked very good today.

So close to a brilliant goal from Chapman - please please please let us finally have a season where we play wingers out wide.

Just now, roversfan99 said:

Do people think that front 3 has enough goals in it to challenge for the top 6?!

Not at all, but I do think we're better off both in the short and long term reducing the goals conceded - we can't go on conceding 2 a game and expecting results. If we can reduce that number significantly hopefully we won't have to rely on the front 3 as heavily.

Just now, USABlue said:

Annnnd in true Mowbray style exhibiting all his man management skills and confidence boosting techniques he hooks JRC.

If he has any sense he'll have told him that that has got him a start and has told the 3 coming on it's up to them to prove him otherwise.

JRC has to start there again next week on that performance

3 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Do you not think the Blue would have better if it black instead

Without a doubt, though I have to admit it does look 100% less crap when it's actually on someone instead of dangling limply from a coat hangar.

How on earth have we not scored there ?‍♂️