It’s the second week of August. We’ve got people saying our players need games and minutes - including the manager - while on the other hand they seem to be saying those l players shouldn’t be risked. It’s just excuses for the most part. At this stage of a season it is anyway IMO.Get rid of that sports science nonsense! In my day they played 500 games a year!
We have a realistic chance of getting promoted. We don’t have a realistic chance of winning the cup though
Fry, McNair, Dijksteel, Smith, Watmore. Plenty of senior pros on the pitch. Some of these lads tonight have been with the club a while, are in their 20s - when else do you give them a chance?Bull. We were poor, they were just worse. You do have to give youngsters a chance, when they're ready for it and surrounded by senior pros, not other kids.
Clearly not what I mean.
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Wilder seems bullish on the fact we're bringing 5 more in.
The squad that started the window will be different to the squad that ends it.
People said that in ‘98. I think we beat Liverpool and went to Wembley that year. How many of those league games do you remember? Exactly. But you remember Anfield and being 2-0 up after 4 minutes of the second leg.We have a realistic chance of getting promoted. We don’t have a realistic chance of winning the cup though
You are a very bad man.Should have stuck with Neil....
I have to be honest, and I apologise for swearing, but I absolutely f*cking hate it when Boro managers pick teams of kids for cup games. Blooding one or two, one or two on the bench, no problem. But leaving out the core of the first team tonight or any night is just not on for me. I hope the chairman b*llocks him for it.
I always remember McClaren saying that after he played the kids one year at Ipswich and we lost 3-0 or 3-1, and we got a good pasting, the chairman phoned him and said “we don’t do that at Boro, we’re a cup team.”
It also flies in the face of what Wilder said about the cups when he took the job. Chucking games of football away, I can’t get my head around it. We need to find fitness, form, sharpness and confidence.
He’s piled the pressure on ahead of Sunday now, and I’ve little or no sympathy TBH.
Get a grip, what do you expect us to do, play a full strength side when we’re massively short on numbers and risk injury for the games that matter?
If they know theyre puttng the reserves out then they should only charge a reserve team ticket price.
Its taking the fans for granted. Not to mention just how fuc.king insulting it is.
We are just punters to Wilder.
You really think we are good enough for promotion!!!best result we could have had.
dont worry about it.
No, even more so risking first team players in the Caribou cup!!!!You really think we are good enough for promotion!!!
It's a long season, they're not doing it because they need the rest now, it's to prevent injuries down the line from overloading. Wilder's injury record since he came in has been brilliant so I'd trust them to get this kind of thing bang on.It's 3 games in to the season?
What part of the sports science is freezing players out of pre-season and then suddenly playing one of them anyway?
It’s a pointless cup game for a competition we arent going to win, I can’t really see any justification for risking players.Again, logically you should be saying the same about the Sheff Utd match as well now.
They're a better side, they'll win anyway and be up near the top end of the table, save our better players for the relegation six pointers...
Giles and Jones played at QPR didn’t they?It’s a pointless cup game for a competition we arent going to win, I can’t really see any justification for risking players.
Would you be happy if we won 3-0 tonight but Giles or Jones are injured for the next few games?
It's a long season, they're not doing it because they need the rest now, it's to prevent injuries down the line from overloading. Wilder's injury record since he came in has been brilliant so I'd trust them to get this kind of thing bang on.
I honestly think he would beIt’s a pointless cup game for a competition we arent going to win, I can’t really see any justification for risking players.
Would you be happy if we won 3-0 tonight but Giles or Jones are injured for the next few games?
Would you be happy if we won 3-0 tonight but Giles or Jones are injured for the next few games?