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1 minute ago, petehinton said:

in full time training with the first team now, judging by todays uncut vid.
 

still No sign of Adam Murphy, who is clearly just 5 months in to the longest ‘mini pre season’ known to man.  

Murphy is beginning to look like the two Irish youngsters signed by Steve Coppell who promptly disappeared into a black hole.

19 minutes ago, Topper 123 said:

 then it’s a bum fight !

1 minute ago, Davefevs said:

Hannu Mikkola - Quattro

Hyppia

If I was a Boro fan I'd be feeling the officials have had a brown envelope each. Leeds getting all the decisions.

10 hours ago, OliOTIB said:

Our defence is up there with the best in the league statistically, and will only get better.

The attack is starting to click, new striker guaranteed in the summer, hopefully that drives it forwards.

Midfield is getting better and with a potentially Bird x Knight combo, it can be effective.

Only way is up surely?

You mean the Knight x Bird combination that was part of a team that failed to make L1 play offs last season? Need to manage our expectations here I feel.

Just now, steviestevieneville said:

Don’t rate him tbh , not so far anyway 

Neither do I. Wasted a bit of the nest egg on him I fear.

McCrorie really frustrates me by constantly falling over. He's like a kid's robot with a broken gyroscope.

Just now, Super said:

We lack creativity needs addressing in summer.

Wasn't Twine supposed to do that??

Just now, Super said:

Praying for the day I don't see James alongside Williams

Quite. Knight with one or other of them. Take Williams off for Mehmeti and put Knight back there imo.

Think we are missing Zak's control at the back.

14 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

LM suggesting it might be back-3 (RM, GT, HR) in bbc pre-match interview.

Interesting. Would never have guessed it was them in a three. I was assuming it was GT,HR,CP but couldn't see who would be LWB.

Think they sold a few tonight!

2 minutes ago, George Rs said:

TC and Williams the stand out so far. Decent performance but mistakes from blackburn costing them. should be 3-0. 

Roberts playing well.

2 hours ago, RollsRoyce said:

Then Manning is a crap scout. He said he had watched him extensively last season. 

He also wanted to sign Mehmeti at Oxford. Not great signs imo if we are allowing him to spend the nest egg.

1 minute ago, The Original OTIB said:

Not bothering them.

Guess we'll find out if it does second half.

I'm beyond reading posts that suggest that SL brings in some top, experienced football executive to run the club. We all know that's the root cause of our under performance on the pitch. We also know he won't do it.

Feels pretty depressing at times. Then I remember all those years stuck in L1, wishing we could just be a solid Championship club. Helps me get it in perspective.

7 minutes ago, Northern Red said:

That's a daft challenge.

1 minute ago, CodeRed said:

No different to the barge in the back on Nhaki on Friday, there's no consistency.

Or the one on Sykes today!

2 minutes ago, Engvall’s Splinter said:

Mehmeti scaring them to death. Brings him off. 

Odd call there?

Htf is that not a pen Keith??

9 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Yea 5 at the back vs Plymouth, absolutely fantastic that we are scared of Plymouth.

I prefer a manager who focuses on setting us up to play to our strengths. Chopping and changing to match the opposition is the wrong mindset imho. So fine by me if this shape is gonna suit us. Whether Liam will actually start doing this remains to be seen.

2 hours ago, Oh Louie louie said:

Theres not a better train journey from Exeter to Newton abbot, also looking towards tavistock I king Charles owns some land, passing the duchy on the left hand side

You are King Charles?

Proper celeb supporter, move over Baldrick.

Sky saying we are 3421 with Tanner RWB. I like him as a defender but he gets a nosebleed over the halfway line. Going back to everything going down the left then.

1 hour ago, DaveInSA said:

Why?

In my opinion (which I spelled out), this is a slow motion train crash waiting to happen. So let’s rather fast forward the process. Fire Manning. Redeploy Tinnion. Bring in proper people to run the football side of the club and appoint a manger who can progress us upward rather than downward.
 

Trouble is, the Lansdowns have already made it clear they won't get proper football experts in to run the clubb and probably don't have a clue which manager to appoint. So no guarantee it will get any better.

8 minutes ago, Gillies Downs Leeds said:

Wing back with Roberts as the 3rd Centre back ?

Isn't Tanner the obvious RCB? Can't see him as a WB. But then who plays RWB - Sykes would be the obvious choice there. I'm puzzled.