Rob Edwards - the prodigal son returns

[Templeton Peck]

What sort of player is Rawlings?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

What sort of player is Rawlings?

Looks like Luke Cundle without the goal threat to me

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

That Spurs 2nd half from Arias was his best performance by far. He was actually pretty good.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Looks like Luke Cundle without the goal threat to me

Fabulous.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

To be fair I remember Cundle having a really good game away at Spurs once when he came in from nowhere and played out of position as a deep lying midfielder.

Then that twat Lage just ignored him for weeks afterwards.

 

[broughtonwolf]

we’re a club who willingly paid £4M for a caretaker manager. Edwards himself might be the only person who didn’t realise he was always going to be a placeholder appointment.

That just seems ridiculous until you realise that nothing makes sense at this club from top to bottom up to and including Edwards' decision to accept being the backup's backup's backup option and that we willingly splurged an insane amount on dross in the summer who either don't play or do play and are entirely unfit for purpose. Seen in the light of this Jeff doubtless thought it was a rational good value move.

 

[big mean bunny]

Added to that, is that Boro have seemingly improved at manager by hiring an 'unknown' but promising profile manager.

 

[YoungWolf]

Maybe we should try and poach him for a laugh

 

[PuntsWolf]

That Spurs 2nd half from Arias was his best performance by far. He was actually pretty good.

You’re easily pleased. He kept the ball and passed to a team mate.

 

[Dire Wolf]

You’re easily pleased. He kept the ball and passed to a team mate.

To be honest that's an outstanding performance from this team. We routinely fail to pass to each other in every game, so someone who can actually pass to a team-mate makes them stand out.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Added to that, is that Boro have seemingly improved at manager by hiring an 'unknown' but promising profile manager.

Not really, not won or scored in three games now

 

[big mean bunny]

Not really, not won or scored in three games now

Lots of possession but no goals is what my mate has told me. Early signs were good though. They lost to Hull the other day who he already beat 4-1. So I would say there has been more positives than negatives so far no? Get its a small sample.

 

[Lupo]

My gaffer

 

[Leigh Griffiths' Hairline]

Fair Play to Rob Edwards.

He's got us much better organised, harder to beat and finally a win. That, plus him working out that Mane is the key to unlock defences and regularly starting Tolu (plus dropping Stand Larsen) has made us actually look a threat.

Still a 95% plus chance we are getting relegated, but you never know in football. 2 more wins in quick succession and we would not be THAT far from 17th.

 

[prawnking]

Fair Play to Rob Edwards.

He's got us much better organised, harder to beat and finally a win. That, plus him working out that Mane is the key to unlock defences and regularly starting Tolu (plus dropping Stand Larsen) has made us actually look a threat.

Still a 95% plus chance we are getting relegated, but you never know in football. 2 more wins in quick succession and we would not be THAT far from 17th.

Agree with this to a point, it's fair to note Rob's improvements, but regarding the last paragraph unfortunately I'd say it's more like 99% chance we're down.

Pretty unprecedented at this point in the season but that's how bad we've been, and we also won't face many more teams as abject as West Ham were

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Edwards has stumbled on a formation that is far better than the one he’d stuck with until Andre got suspended. By only playing one of Andre and Gomes we’ve had another body further up the pitch which to nobody’s surprise has made us far more threatening going forwards. I think he’s also been lucky that it’s coincided with games against two teams with big issues. Man Utd were without eight first team regulars and West Ham look a shambles for many of the same reasons we have. He’s finally got a few ticks in the positive column and now it’s up to him to keep it going.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Pleasing thing for me is the body language and the general mood. We look sort of up for it - might be due to Edwards might be due to no pressure on us - probably a bit of both. Contrast that with West Ham who all just looked like they wanted some kind passer by to shoot them all in the head.

 

[sycophantia]

Agree with this to a point, it's fair to note Rob's improvements, but regarding the last paragraph unfortunately I'd say it's more like 99% chance we're down.

Pretty unprecedented at this point in the season but that's how bad we've been, and we also won't face many more teams as abject as West Ham were

Yestwrday before the game Football Focus showed the opta computery thing saying we were 98.2%, West Ham were 68%, Burnley summat like high 70s%. Ours seemed reasonable, the other 2 extremely optimistic imv.

 

[Del Woppio]

98.2% wasn't pessimistic, it was realistic. We had three points in half a season. We need 33 points in the second half of the season. That's a ppg that gets you Champions League football in the last few years. You don't go from being the worst team the league has ever seen to being champions league contenders because of a nice Christmas dinner.

 

[sycophantia]

98.2% wasn't pessimistic, it was realistic. We had three points in half a season. We need 33 points in the second half of the season. That's a ppg that gets you Champions League football in the last few years. You don't go from being the worst team the league has ever seen to being champions league contenders because of a nice Christmas dinner.

Oh yeah I agreed with our percentage, but thought West Hams and Burnleys were very optimistic. Neither of those squads are any better than ours.