Exiled_Rover

Well he's dropped Wharton and Phillips because they're young players who who he doesn't think can play 90 minutes at this level yet - especially not 3 days after the last match. Travis is suspended and Pickering is injured.

How so? Again sticking to a formation that has worked - the only real question mark being Hedges ahead of Mola / Edun at LWB, but I guess he thinks we'll be on the front foot tonight so wants a ball player there.

Hedges at LWB do we think?

I'm a fan who attends and it'll take a lot for me not to boo him.

What else is there to do in Middlesbrough?

You mean some of the shit he came out with whilst manager at Rovers, right? He always ran us down as a club.

Middlesbrough? Lots of empty seats there yesterday.

Nah, just hitting their stride unfortunately as their brand new team starts to gel. It just reiterates how moronic the parachute payments are. They've spent an absolute fortune.

Personally I'd like to go back to the 4-2-3-1, but we have an abundance of CBs now so it's going to be difficult to drop any of them.

Did the team pick itself? No. Did he get the subs wrong? No. Szmodics and Dolan added energy, Hedges and Carter allowed Brereton and Phillips to be rested. So where is this comment coming from?

Top 6 and we're nowhere near the finished article. I'll take that. Very happy with how things are going under JDT at the moment - excited to see what this team turns into, especially with a few more additions (and subtractions...).

Yep, an extra minute of extra time. He tried everything he could to gift Boro a point today.

That's another stamp by a Boro player on Travis.

This ref is abysmal. If we draw this he's had a huge hand in it.

Haha, I was waiting for the Dackers to complain. Didn't take long. He'll be sold in January I suspect.

I wish we had a Brittain at LB.

Morton, Buckley, Wharton, Garrett (and maybe Edun) - he has to be rotated, we have quality depth there.

I actually think he's kicked on again under JDT, we're starting to see some end product, but yes he's a frustrating player.

Pickering isn't good enough to play as a WB, we've known that for 12 months. I was hoping Mola would displace him, but so far that's not happened - infact we have two loanees playing for the U21s today, which is very unusual.

Then they linked up for what should have been a certain goal. We're far too quick to criticise on here.

I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.

Kaminski gets stamped on and receives the same punishment as Muniz did, for timewasting. This ref is awful.

I think the problem is that we don't have great options on the bench - we have a whole host of #10s when Gallagher and Brereton start. He'll take Phillips off shortly - he's very much interested in protecting the youngsters, which is the correct thing to do if you're aiming for the long term.

Not so much in the second half - front 2 disappeared after 45 minutes. Dolan at least provides some energy, albeit he's tiny.

We need to take Travis off at this point, he's going to get sent off with this referee.