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Match Thread Middlesbrough - Coventry City Match Thread - Tuesday 25th Nov (6 Viewers)

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Johhny Blue

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  • Nov 24, 2025
  • #176
pusbccfc said:
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Cross the bridge mate. You know you want to.
 
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Johhny Blue

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  • Nov 24, 2025
  • #177
Ccfcisparks said:
we are clearly safe. who’s even thinking about relegation ffs
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Really?
 
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wingy

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  • Nov 24, 2025
  • #178
Johhny Blue said:
Cross the bridge mate. You know you want to.
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Jump (apt word)the broom!
 

Great_Expectations

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  • Nov 24, 2025
  • #179
My selfish concern tomorrow is watching the whole game. In London for the day and last trains home are earlier than usual, and I can’t go pre game as I don’t finish in time so I’d miss KO.

So it could be a watching the last 10 mins while running to the train situation or if it’s too tense, I can see myself missing the last one and getting some convoluted route home! Sure that’ll go down well with the Mrs!

Less worried about the game. We have to be bouncing after Saturday and hopefully see Rudoni make an impact.

I’d start the same, but wouldn’t be surprised to see JDS either not start or get subbed pretty early second half due to tiredness.
 

Johhny Blue

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #180
Great_Expectations said:
My selfish concern tomorrow is watching the whole game. In London for the day and last trains home are earlier than usual, and I can’t go pre game as I don’t finish in time so I’d miss KO.

So it could be a watching the last 10 mins while running to the train situation or if it’s too tense, I can see myself missing the last one and getting some convoluted route home! Sure that’ll go down well with the Mrs!

Less worried about the game. We have to be bouncing after Saturday and hopefully see Rudoni make an impact.

I’d start the same, but wouldn’t be surprised to see JDS either not start or get subbed pretty early second half due to tiredness.
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Watch it on your phone
 
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Otis

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #181
Johhny Blue said:
Watch it on your phone
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Yeah, that's what I will be doing. Working tonight, so will be watching, while working and then hopefully should catch all of the second half live, walking home and then actually back at home.
 
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procdoc

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #182
Had a dream that we ended up finishing 8th. Hope it wasn’t a premonition and we go 10 points clear tonight!
 
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BananaFlats

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #183
procdoc said:
Had a dream that we ended up finishing 8th. Hope it wasn’t a premonition and we go 10 points clear tonight!
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That's not a dream, it's an absolute nightmare!
 
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WestEndAgro

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #184
Take a scarf day this evening, Middlesbrough are requesting a "Sea of red and white", not sure our players are going to be able to cope with this strategy. Sound's really intimidating.
 
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Gleneagles65

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #185
WestEndAgro said:
Take a scarf day this evening, Middlesbrough are requesting a "Sea of red and white", not sure our players are going to be able to cope with this strategy. Sound's really intimidating.
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It could tip the balance. I was very confident for a comfortable away win but not so sure now after reading that.
 
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Otis

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #186
Gleneagles65 said:
It could tip the balance. I was very confident for a comfortable away win but not so sure now after reading that.
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Well, true, I guess.

Just red would have been okay, because that's just one colour and one colour is much easier to deal with, but two? That's going to test us to our limits.

I hate it when teams get an unfair advantage.
 

Ricketts

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #187
Otis said:
Well, true, I guess.

Just red would have been okay, because that's just one colour and one colour is much easier to deal with, but two? That's going to test us to our limits.

I hate it when teams get an unfair advantage.
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One of those our colour so they’re being fair.
 
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Gleneagles65

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #188
Otis said:
Well, true, I guess.

Just red would have been okay, because that's just one colour and one colour is much easier to deal with, but two? That's going to test us to our limits.

I hate it when teams get an unfair advantage.
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Looks like Boro fans are doing Pigbag too now when the players come out. Definitely an unfair advantage but they’ll get away with it.
 

curly_tom

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #189
It feels like a big one tonight, if we win this we will be well on our way I feel. I realise this is a silly thought in a way, because it is possible to just totally balls up and go on a terrible run. But psychologically winning away at 2nd place (again) would be huge for the confidence as well as the points total.

I think a draw would not be a terrible result but we should push for that win. We have a better side than them and if we can Rudoni on from the start we could do it.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #190
Aside from a game where we missed half a team, we’ve if anything looked more impressive on the road than at home I think. This team seems to approach these games differently
 

Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #191
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Aside from a game where we missed half a team, we’ve if anything looked more impressive on the road than at home I think. This team seems to approach these games differently
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To add to your point, we’ve not conceded first in any of our away games which is huge. We’ve conceded first 3 times at home. Frankly, we should’ve won all 3 of those!

Let’s hope that away form serves us well in the next 3 (Boro, Ipswich, PNE).
 
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Sky Blue Goblin

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #192
procdoc said:
Had a dream that we ended up finishing 8th. Hope it wasn’t a premonition and we go 10 points clear tonight!
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That’s the 2015/16 league trauma for ya
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #193
Mucca Mad Boys said:
To add to your point, we’ve not conceded first in any of our away games which is huge. We’ve conceded first 3 times at home. Frankly, we should’ve won all 3 of those!

Let’s hope that away form serves us well in the next 3 (Boro, Ipswich, PNE).
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I think we’ve just looked much better on the ‘eye test’ away from home, especially post-Rudoni injury. I can’t tell if this is a tactical or psychological thing or a bit of both.
 

Skyblueweeman

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #194
If we win tonight, we'll then have played 7 of the next 10 teams behind us, having won 5 of them and drawing 2.

If we were to just 1-0 tonight, our cumulative score in those 7 matches would be 12-1.

To currently only have conceded 1 goal to teams in positions 2-11 in the league is insane.
 
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robbiethemole

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #195
When do we play against ‘top sides’ then? Wasn’t that what all other sides fans were saying, so I’m getting confused now
 
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Offhegoes

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #196
Ellis Simms treble. 3-0 Win
 
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PUSB-We_are_going_up

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #197
robbiethemole said:
When do we play against ‘top sides’ then? Wasn’t that what all other sides fans were saying, so I’m getting confused now
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We are the only top side so we’ll get it all year
 
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Briles

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #198
robbiethemole said:
When do we play against ‘top sides’ then? Wasn’t that what all other sides fans were saying, so I’m getting confused now
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We are only playing sides below us in the table tbf. Very fortunate.
 
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Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #199
Brighton Sky Blue said:
I think we’ve just looked much better on the ‘eye test’ away from home, especially post-Rudoni injury. I can’t tell if this is a tactical or psychological thing or a bit of both.
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We’ve been able to hit teams on the counter attack more away from home.

To pick out a few goals:
- EMC v Derby & Wrexham
- BTA v Pompey
- KKH & Simms v Millwall
- Simms v Sheff W

There’s more, but these were all goals we’ve hit team on the counter being almost route one football.

At home we need to force the issue a bit more which is how we get caught on the counter like we did at the weekend.
 
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SonofErnie

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #200
Mucca Mad Boys said:
We’ve been able to hit teams on the counter attack more away from home.

To pick out a few goals:
- EMC v Derby & Wrexham
- BTA v Pompey
- KKH & Simms v Millwall
- Simms v Sheff W

There’s more, but these were all goals we’ve hit team on the counter being almost route one football.

At home we need to force the issue a bit more which is how we get caught on the counter like we did at the weekend.
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I have a feeling Viveash is going to treat this as an away game and let us attack them. 5 at the back, 4 in midfield and one up top.
 

Briles

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #201
SonofErnie said:
I have a feeling Viveash is going to treat this as an away game and let us attack them. 5 at the back, 4 in midfield and one up top.
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I dont think theyve got 5 defenders fit. Barely 4
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #202
Think we will win.

3-1
 
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SonofErnie

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #203
Briles said:
I dont think theyve got 5 defenders fit. Barely 4
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They've got some 50/50 fitness decisions, but their predicted line up is 5 at the back with Alan Browne dropping into there.
 

Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #204
SonofErnie said:
I have a feeling Viveash is going to treat this as an away game and let us attack them. 5 at the back, 4 in midfield and one up top.
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It’s what Stoke did, and we managed that game v well. They had one good chance and that was it.
 

Chicken Mcgraw

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #205
robbiethemole said:
When do we play against ‘top sides’ then? Wasn’t that what all other sides fans were saying, so I’m getting confused now
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We’re yet to play, Middlesbrough, Ipswich or Southampton or will all finish top 6. Unsure how this is hard to grasp
 

Jamesimus

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #206
Crazy how negative Boro fans are about their chances this evening. They’ve got some really good players and their home form is pretty decent, they’re bloody 2nd in the league!

7-0 to us is my prediction.
 
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TomRad85

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #207
2-1 Simms and Torp.
 
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Macca

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #208
Too close to call but we have put ourselves in the enviable position of not playing under pressure
 

MAFF

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #209
yet again...would take a point
 

DT-R

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  • Nov 25, 2025
  • #210
Last week, 1st v 2nd, best defence in the league v best attack in the league..... attack won.

Tonight, 1st v 2nd, second best defence in the league v best attack in the league.....

Im confident of a point at the very least tonight. Boro dont score many and win games regularly by only the 1 goal (see Burnley last season) so unless they can score 3 (which they've only done on 1 occasion this season) I dont see that they can out score us. Even when playing badly we still have at least a goal or 2 in us (see v Wrexham) so to beat us they need 2 or 3 goals.and to completely nullify our attack. They can't nullify our attack AND attack to score more goals that they normally do. Their best chance is similar to WBA and try and his us on the counter, but its a dangerous game if they get it wrong.

2-1 city win im saying!


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