Reasons we’ve had a shit season....


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I don’t think the squad was ever that good and the January business has proved to be terrible.
We've always had a blinkered view of how good our own players are.

Yet external neutral football supporters will constantly look at our teams and think "they are shit players"

There is a reason we got relegated last year and have struggled to win this year and that's because at the crux of it, we have most league 1 quality players.

McGeady is the only single "good" player we have. Everyone else could be swapped with a different league one player and be improved.
 
To be fair everyone was happy with the grigg signing
f***ing sure I wasn't 4 million quid, and he could get into a shite Wigan team. I'm not happy with Ross but whoever over saw the mid season recruitment should be bombed out of the club. We knew Maja was going and were forced to blow his fee and a bloke who clearly has no interest in playing for our club
 
Grigg may not have been a disaster if our management knew how to play to his strengths, he looks as if he hates being here to me, our 'style of play' if we f***ing have one is not suited to him. The fact there is a massive void in midfield between our defence and attack is not particularly inspiring

We lump balls up to him like he’s Kenwyn Jones...we play disgusting football. We ‘re an uninspiring team that lacks any composure on the ball. Our recruitment is f***ing awful...that’s players and managers.
 
To be fair everyone was happy with the grigg signing
Not really I think most people wanted to keep Maja but reasons we know had to settle for a striker ....we still have a chance of going back up....my prediction Sunderland versus Portsmouth final 1-1 after extra time penalty kicks we win this time Bookmark it...
 
1- Losing Maja and buying Grigg. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
2 Jack Ross’s negativity
3 Putting so much importance in the Mickey Mouse Cup. Losing it made us even more psychologically brittle.
Season is not finished yet, mate. If we did manage to gain promotion through the play offs then I would regard it as successful.
 
Boro fan here and not one to gloat (my record of posting has not been that). After the shambles (not gloating, please believe me) of the last few seasons, it would be difficult to immediately turn that around. You could still do the play offs, if not then you have had the first positive season for a long time. Don't sack the manager yet I would say. See how you are in maybe October next season. I genuinely come in peace.
 
Grigg may not have been a disaster if our management knew how to play to his strengths, he looks as if he hates being here to me, our 'style of play' if we f***ing have one is not suited to him. The fact there is a massive void in midfield between our defence and attack is not particularly inspiring

As an old manager of mine used to say, he's the type of striker who requires the midfield to put the ball in the net for him.

No pace, no tricks, no anticipation, no strength, no heading ability and no bottle. It's easy to see why he hasn't progressed his career beyond this shit division. In a side with no passing ability nor guile he was always going to struggle. If we keep him on we really do need to find someone who can pass the ball in the final third.
 
Not really I think most people wanted to keep Maja but reasons we know had to settle for a striker ....we still have a chance of going back up....my prediction Sunderland versus Portsmouth final 1-1 after extra time penalty kicks we win this time Bookmark it...
Funny how people are saying this now that grigg isn't working out.
 
1. 57 games into the season and we don't have a playing style
2. 57 games into the season and we don't know our best team
3. Poor team selections
4. A rancid 4-2-3-1 with Honeyman usually as a second striker and a striker (Maja, Grigg, and Wyke) 30 yards from the nearest player
5. The fact that we fall to bits as soon as we take the lead
6. Shite substitutions which are based on trying and failing to hold on to a one goal lead, and usually 20 minutes too late
7. Solving our set pieces problem - then dropping the guy who solved it
8. Failure to learn from our mistakes
9. Picking journeymen like James, Honeyman, and Gooch, ahead of players who might win games like Oviedo and Maguire
10. Going into each game hoping that something might turn up if we get the ball to McGeady enough

This.. plenty of potential on paper. Poor selection, poor set up, poor shape, poor and too late substitutions, tinkering, changing the defence every 5 minutes without addressing the fact that we have no pace in midfield or up front so get shut down quickly, can't win it back and have to camp on the edge of our own box for long periods of the game. That creates nervousness and kills confidence, stops players making themselves available and reduces options for the man with the ball who then gets shut down and loses possession. We've struggled against teams with technically inferior players that press and close us down. This is level 1 coaching. Massively frustrating
 
Grigg isn't an issue at all, we signed him then insisted on not playing a style suited to him.

If he got half the service Maja got he'd have easily doubled his tally.
 
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