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Looks overweight to me.

Feels like a lot of shots that have gone straight at the keeper today.

The missing link from us having a really good starting XI.

Can't decide who i hate playing away against more, Preston or Middlesbrough.

Guts Hamer on. Pun intended.

Thought Shipley's header after Fadz hit the bar was poor too, braced himself for contact instead of fully committing to it - he always seems scared of contact to me, one of his weaknesses.

Much better from Gyokeres, thought he was looking for the free kick too much in the first half. So unlucky from Fadz, slow start today as he had too much Wild Boar for lunch but that was a great touch and strike.

Something about McFadzean makes me feel he always eats his dinner with his fingers, even the gravy, and polishes it off with mead from an ox horn.

Jesus Bidwell. That was stupid. He went full pantomime horse there.

The ghost of Neil Warnock is still heavily influencing this Middlesbrough team. Quick to go down and even quicker to scream at the ref.

Great challenge from JCS. Wins the ball, knees into the thighs of the oppostion and leaves him in a heap. Trots off without even checking if he's ok. :love:

Eccles is going to be a classy footballer. His football intelligence stands out a mile and you can already see his clarity of thought and vision on the ball. Knows what he wants to do before the ball has even reached him.

Lovely move full of 1 touch passing. Shipley, O'Hare and Eccles all linking well. Eccles just dragging the shot wide on his wrong foot. Shipley on corners today. Always found his set pieces too floaty and with no bend on them.

Great cover from Eccles after a McFadz swing and a miss.

We played the box at their place last season on the back of the 0-4 spanking by Blackburn. We had Shipley and Allen as the AMs behind Godden with Giles and McCallum as wing backs. It was dire from a tactical point of view, we were so deep and just lumping it long to the 3 of them. Was just about...

Would like to think I'm the first person to quote Angela Lansbury on a match thread too.

There's also been a change in the set up with Sheaf and Hamer in the last few weeks, at least to my eye. In possession Sheaf seems to be getting forward more and Hamer is the one that sits in. Feels like Sheaf has been allowed to express himself a bit higher up the pitch and that has coincided...

Thought the back 3 looked very solid tonight too. 0 shots on target for Stoke.

Also think Martyn Waghorn wouldn't look out of place invading Ukraine.

Oh good lord. 6 mins of Dacosta.