Boro to appeal Dijksteel red card

BoroMart said:
Probably with Howson or Dijksteel or Crooks at CB
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Crooks is a liability with a tackle, the thought of him at CB fills me with dread. Howson is injured for now and has an unknown prognosis and Dijksteel is banned as things stand for Monday (i know you were looking post mon). The 8/5/23 game is meaningless to us in terms of result and giving anyone experience is never a bad thing for the long term. As for confidence, momentum etc I don’t see grown men being that fragile, you could equally argue it would make Coventry over confident.

Anyway, Coventry may be keeping an eye on results elsewhere and may prefer to finish 6th anyway if it were feasible, rather than play us 3 times on the trot. We can only manage what we can control and risking more injury in positions where we are so light on numbers seems unnecessary.
 
TeaCider said:
Thought it was very noticeable yesterday that the linesman closest to the dugouts was waiting for Stroud to tell him which way to flag every time.
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I'm not convinced that sometimes the referees tell them to do that. I've seen refs giving a subtle (or not) hint to them as to which way to flag.
 
CarrickBall said:
I'd personally have Akpom, Archer and Lenihan in a Boro onsie in front of a cozy fire with a teddy and hot mug of Horlicks instead of getting clogged by a fired up Coventry.

Dijksteel being available would help with that.
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Coventry have to win to ensure they are in the playoffs
 
coluka said:
Crooks is a liability with a tackle, the thought of him at CB fills me with dread. Howson is injured for now and has an unknown prognosis and Dijksteel is banned as things stand for Monday (i know you were looking post mon). The 8/5/23 game is meaningless to us in terms of result and giving anyone experience is never a bad thing for the long term. As for confidence, momentum etc I don’t see grown men being that fragile, you could equally argue it would make Coventry over confident.

Anyway, Coventry may be keeping an eye on results elsewhere and may prefer to finish 6th anyway if it were feasible, rather than play us 3 times on the trot. We can only manage what we can control and risking more injury in positions where we are so light on numbers seems unnecessary.
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It's not quite meaningless, though a lot depends on how the other games pan out. If Millwall manage to grind out a win at home against Blackburn which is hardly unlikely, they'll be our opponents over 2 legs if we avoid defeat and personally I'd much rather face them than Coventry in these matches.

Should Millwall be up and in control at half-time then I'd either want us to put Coventry to the sword (OK, Akpom hitting 30 league goals for the season proper or us reclaiming the final title of Championship top scorers by outgunning Burnley in the last game AREN'T season defining, but both would be bloody nice) or at the very least grinding out an utterly tepid draw (which I imagine Coventry would have less qualms about as that's their likely PO berth still guaranteed)
 
Us not beating Cov guarantees we won't play Sunlun in the play off semi, and I don't want that. Don't want us to get dragged into a "derby" match. Play some kids. Lets have a look at the future!
 
Honey_Glazed_Sausages said:
Us not beating Cov guarantees we won't play Sunlun in the play off semi, and I don't want that. Don't want us to get dragged into a "derby" match. Play some kids. Lets have a look at the future!
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I'd rather go up than worry about possibly playing Sunderland - changing the team wholesale for the final game, after losing 2 games could jeopardise our chances of success all to ensure we don't face Sunderland in a semi.
 
I want us to win the game and we can worry about who the opposition is later. Didnt Karanka 'throw' the last game of his play off season to as to avoid Ipswich? Look how that worked out
 
Win the game for definite. I dont care what Sunderland do or achieve. What I do care about is giving Coventry confidence going into the next game which may still be us even if we beat them.
 
fmttmadmin said:
I'd rather go up than worry about possibly playing Sunderland - changing the team wholesale for the final game, after losing 2 games could jeopardise our chances of success all to ensure we don't face Sunderland in a semi.
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I think its being savvy. No harm will be done by not playing for 2 weeks. The big names will be nice and fresh and glad of the rest. Don't see confidence being jeapordised for the 1st leg. They'll be more than up for it. Losing a key player, or more, to an injury which rules him out the play offs in what is essentially a dead rubber would be foolish to say the least.
 
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