Match Day Thread Middlesbrough Vs Norwich

No one is offside on that freekick

 

Middlesbrough looked awful before the red card, but they have some good technical players in midfield that are really picking us apart at the moment.

Shouldn’t be conceding from these crosses though, thats nothing to do with the card

 

Need to Shift to a back 3 with wing backs to press them higher up the pitch and improve our numbers further forward

 

The striker has stamped on Hanley there, far more contact than Sainz! Give him a red

 

I'm guessing Mcallum will have to play on the wing for the next few games .

 

Great 30 min, was only going to be one winner, we looked defeated straight after the red, and just stopped playing.

 

Feeling a bit like Deja vu from last season, play off positions within our grasp and now the squad looks to be depleting in a weekly basis

 

DW has written the game off now by taking Sarge off

 

That's our GD advantage over Hull gone as well; now level on GD and two points behind.

 

Makes sense though, with another game Saturday. This is over.

 

This isn’t being talked about either 2 injustices in one incident from the ref

 

Hope DW does give Welch some minutes

 

Has Gibbs made one successful pass since coming on

 

He has now

 

Barnes goal was fun at least
https://x.com/thenorwichhub/status/1765468494164906273?s=46&t=eNUxKZQ4GDywJtSbgmpm6A

 

For those who like to look on the bright side, QPR came back to draw 2-2 against West Brom.

 

But they, WBA, still got a point more than us Rick.

 

Having had some time to reflect on this Suffolk, what exactly do you think this photo "shows". Rather than providing evidence of foul play by Howson against Sainz, it suggests to me that Sainz took Howson down when he jumped in (Howson is falling backwards) while Sainz's feet make no contact with the ball. Any immediately ensuing contact between Howson and Sainz at that point was due to Sainz, not Howson. The video clip you posted earlier shows the trajectory of the ball unaffected by Sainz's lunge. What the photo shows IMO is that it was a rash, ill-timed, foul tackle by Sainz, warranting a free kick and yellow card. What then followed is another matter.

 

The bright side (Monty Pythonesque) was that is better than 3 points GE, considering where QPR are in the table. Straws are being grasped here.

 

I took it as West Brom getting pulled back into the bucket to use the crab analogy