DaveF

Looked comfortably onside.

Boro well on top now.

Why are other teams commentary teams so much better than ours? Boro commentators are balanced and interesting, something sorely missing from our streams.

And the should be 2-1, good save Max.

Why hasn't he gone round him there!

I blame Harry Cornick.

Just now, And Its Smith said:

Almost like this is the championship and anything can happen!

Haha indeed.

Keep it up lads, superb pressing.

What the HELL is going on?

4 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

I am really pleased for Rob, it will have been 8 days shy of a year out. I know he had that 45 minutes in November, but I am sure he would have expected to have been back before now. He has been in full training since 28th Jan, so he's probably more prepared than you might think.

He's been through a lot away from football too, (sorry to be so mysterious) so I am sure he is itching to get back tomorrow. 

How do you know so much? 

33 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

And I'd add that this is consistent across both managers. My xG includes pens and my goals for include pens and OGs.

Pearson - xG 16 - goals 15. 14 league games.

Manning - xG 16 - goals 17. 15 league games.

It's an issue with the squad personnel not with the coaching/tactics imo.

Where did you get that xG from?

1 hour ago, mozo said:

What?!! Is this what you did last season? 

I was only joking, don't worry.

1 minute ago, Pippintogg said:

This is not about a penalty miss or the performance.  We had a chance to progress in the home tie and didn't have a single shot on target. Pens are a lottery, if Naki takes his chance then we may have gone through. We are a mid table championship team going nowhere due to poor decision making at the top. As someone who has supported City for 53 years I cannot see us in the top flight in the next 10. 

I think we'll have all popped our clogs by the time we see City in the top flight to be fair.

31 minutes ago, formerly known as ivan said:

Sounds like tonight the biggest issue we had was scoring despite numerous good chances.

Goes to show again that we had to bring someone in last month and failed to do us. Will most likely cost us more than once between now and the end of the season.

Edit: was there a reason Mebude wasn’t involved tonight?

You had me at 'sounds like'.

Well that's the season over. Will save us all a few hours on the weekend... 

4 minutes ago, Shauntaylor85 said:

Mentality and leadership. Plus the fact he’s very good with the ball. 

Pure gold as ever.

5 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

When a rumour starts "Only pub talk but apparently..." why are you even wondering if it's true? How likely is that? Not very, I'd say.

It reeks of wannabe itk bullsh1t straightaway, never mind then going on to suggest a 17 year old with a few minutes of first team football has been banging down the manager's door.

So I don't know about you but I smell horsesh1t.  

You're right, of course.

But if we can't indulge a bit of a rumour and gossip on the forum what can we do eh @Merrick's Marvels?

4 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

The clue's in the bit that goes "Only pub talk but apparently..." 

It's also in the bit that goes 'if that's true...'

11 hours ago, BCFC31 said:

Only pub talk mate so could be nothing in it but apparently he knocked on mannings door when he got dropped from the side and wasn't a happy boy, then all of a sudden he gets taken completely out of the match day squads and starts playing for the u18s  I do remember at the time manning was very publicly saying he isnt ready etc 

If that's true and in his defence to me knocking on the managers door after being dropped to ask why shows a desire and hunger to find out why, improve and get back into the team, but I suppose we don't know what was said.

43 minutes ago, BCFC31 said:

Hes been demoted right back down to the u18s I'm hearing he has a big attitude problem 

That would be a shame, who did you hear that from?

1 minute ago, JP Hampton said:

Isn’t it for the same reasons Twine can’t play either?

Twine is presumably cup tied from playing earlier rounds with Hull?

4 minutes ago, old_eastender said:

After QPR and Huddersfield won today, we are sitting just 10 pts clear of a relegation place. 

Given our next game is Southampton, that gap could well be less ahead of what could be a key game home to QPR.

Can't imagine we would have had to worry about being drawn into a relegation scrap had Pearson stayed...

 

Nah, too many teams between us and the bottom 3 in poor form. Teams on 33 points and below must be worried.

Could Blackburn possibly go down?

No league win since they beat us on the 12th of December and their last 9 games of the season look very tough (except against us).

They've got Boro, Ipswich, Sunderland, Southampton, us, Leeds, Wednesday, Coventry and Leicester...

Never expected us to get anything out of this game but we've been completely out classed, out fought and dominated. Bit disappointing. 

1 minute ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said:

Just out of interest.... what new signing in this transfer window would put the "academy first"?

 

Signing no-one, which everyone would also moan about.

Strange that some people aren't happy with us signing exciting young talent.