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Match Thread. Never a penalty.
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The Ref is bent
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Well at least one football result gave me a smile today
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Re: Well at least one football result gave me a smile today
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10p in the £1 or something?
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"10-1 is coincidentally also the ratio of pence to pounds that Exeter paid it's creditors"
Would be what I would write if I'd been clever enough to have connected the two.
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Re: Well at least one football result gave me a smile today
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That was my joke. Wanker
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Re: Well at least one football result gave me a smile today
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Wasn’t it 7p anyway?
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Re: Well at least one football result gave me a smile today
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Meltdown when we lose to them next weekend.
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Re: Well at least one football result gave me a smile today
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Justified.
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Re: Match Thread. Never a penalty.
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It's feels like this defeat is a bit of a marker in the season for me.
I think if we'd have won today, and I thought it looked like we would win for a long period of that game, then the playoff chase continues.
But after losing, it feels like we're going to settle in to mid table mediocrity, which is of course still good going for us and we mustn't lose sight of that.
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Re: Match Thread. Never a penalty.
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We have taken the lead in the second half in four of our last five matches. We have won none of them.
Our defensive unit that was so strong previously, is faltering at the time we most need it.
We really are not far off stringing a bunch of wins together and cementing our place towards the top of the table, but need it to happen rapidly where we see out these leads and hold on to the three points.
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Re: Match Thread. Never a penalty.
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Are you starting to lose faith in Revell now, after this recent poor run of results?
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Re: Match Thread. Never a penalty.
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My view hasn't changed any more during the past few games where we have struggled a bit than it did during the first stretch of games in the season when we won most of them, as ten matches doesn't determine a season, nor a manager.
As said, we have led in the second half in four of our last five matches. See even just a couple of those games out and these conversations aren't happening. Fine margins.
Edited by Chuds at 16:42:01 on 10th January 2026
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Re: Match Thread. Never a penalty.
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Fair enough point. 🙂
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Revell
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Thank God he’s got such a long contract to try and get us back to winning ways.
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Re: Revell
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Fancy trying it on a shoestring?
Every match in League 1, we are punching above our weight and on minimal finance.
I take my Stevenage Boro hat off in admiration of our achievements so far.
Look at the money Wilshere has at his disposal and we made him and his team look like a conference team first half.
Just enjoy the ride and see where it takes us.
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We aren't operating on a shoestring.
We have a competitive budget according to Phil. It won't be massive but it's enough to sign and retain players like Houghton, Marschall, Luther and Goode who could all realistically play at 'bigger clubs'.
Luton are a bigger club with 5k more punters coming through the gatea every week, plus parachute money etc. But they're the anomaly, along with 3 or 4 other big spenders.
Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 18:49:15 on 10th January 2026
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Ok, let me change the word shoestring. Perhaps for a club without the riches of many of the others we are competing with at the top end of the league.
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I saw a video of the "Top 10 earners in League 1 this season"
5 Cardiff players and 5 Luton Town players. Some of the Luton players are on 15k+ a week after their back to back relegations.
That's if the video was 100% FACTS like.
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Wallace gamble backfires
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Revell was only handed a long deal because Wallace gambled that another club would try and lure him away and have to pay hefty compensation. But its evidently clear clubs have sussed Revell couldn’t direct piss into a bucket so now we’re lumbered
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I see you're glass half full, as usual!!
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I fully expected us to never go through a sticky patch in those 5 years.
Jesus wept.
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Re: Revell
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Given the strong start Boro made to this season, along with the fact Revell did enough last season to keep us in League One, thats probably why Wallace placed a great deal of trust and confidence in him to offer a 5 year contract. That level of belief would explain why Wallace saw Revell as the right long-term choice to take the club forward and rewarded him with a five-year contract.
Unfortunately, we’re now on a poor run of form and have been winless since the 3–1 away victory at Stockport. Even so, things could be far worse, we could be sitting in the bottom four, but thankfully we still find ourselves in the top half of the table.
The frustration among fans is completely understandable, but realistically it’s unlikely Wallace will suddenly lose faith in Revell after a short bad spell. He has invested in him for the long term and will almost certainly believe the manager can turn things around.
However, if this poor run were to drag on over a longer period, for example six to seven games, then it would be reasonable for the board to start questioning whether Revell is the right man to change the club’s direction.
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Re: Revell
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Is that from ChatGPT?
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Re: Revell
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Why are you asking about my thread, if its come from ChatGPT?
Are you going to ask every other Boro fan this evening if there thread has come from ChatGPT ?
However I don't use AI, as I am not a big fan of it.
Edited by Jason at 17:15:59 on 10th January 2026
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Re: Revell
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Before the season I would have been happy with somewhere in the 12th-17th range, hopefully making a bit of progress by earning more than last season's points total of 57.
Expectations have understandably gone up because of the good start. But, realistically, a top half finish would be excellent and something to build on
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Re: Revell
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We have a better squad than last season.
We have seen Freestone and White turn into solid L1 players.
We have a fantastic defensive group for our level.
We flew.out of the blocks.
The league is probably weaker, with fewer standout teams.
If we don't improve on last season by a decent margin I'd say the manager hasn't hit the target I had for him, and Phil probably had for him.
So he'll have failed. I wouldn't necessarily change him but I would mark his card.
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Re: Revell
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I'd argue that as good as the back for is from a defensive point of view, we are probably one of the weakest back fours when on the ball. I guess it's what you want from your defence, but it would have been very useful in a game like today to have a period of possession on the ball.
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Re: Revell
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Well said. I agree with that completely. Expectations definitely shifted after the strong start, but realistically a top half finish would still be a very solid season and something we can build on.
While my faith in Revell has gone based on the recent run, he still has my respect. He’s clearly a good person who genuinely cares about the club, and I’m not going to start slating him just because results have dipped.
I will be more then happy to finish around 12th as that means we still remain a league one club for next season, considering I think we were one of the strong favorites to be relegated this season, someone please clarify this.
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Re: Revell
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One issue is the fact that nothing changes from game to game. It's the same formula. On and on and on. And comments about returning to intensity levels as if that fixes our scoring woes and increasing defensive lapses.
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Yes, that’s a fair point and I agree with you. My previous post was more about looking at it from Wallace’s perspective and why he was likely confident enough to offer the five-year contract at the time.
When I mentioned us being in the top half, I was simply trying to highlight one of the few positives in what’s been a frustrating period lately.
Like you, I now cant really see much changing in the short term, and it seems a lot of Boro fans feel the same way. That’s probably where the concern comes from, not just the results, but the sense that we’re stuck in the same pattern.
Edited by Jason at 16:35:14 on 10th January 2026
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Re: Revell
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I wasn't challenging your point... just your post was the one that I ended up replying to
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Re: Revell
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Sorry for any confusion. I didn’t take your comment as challenging my points, I was just explaining to Wasp why Wallace may have felt confident enough to offer Revell the five year contract, and simply continuing the discussion to you.
I apologies if that wasn’t clear. 🙂
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I’d like to take this opportunity to remind you that AIMITA. 😎
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Re: Revell
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I don’t know why he was awarded a 4 year contract when he’s repeatedly demonstrated he can’t get any energy from the team.
One assumes Phil has some watertight performance-related release-clauses if the worst comes to the worst.
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Re: Revell
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1 win in last 10 games isn’t that bad. He will get them back on track soon
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Feast or famine. No inbetween. 😏
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Re: Match Thread. Never a penalty.
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Luton shit.
Luton manager proactive.
Luton manager makes changes.
Luton do better.
Stevenage then shit.
Stevenage manager does nothing.
Stevenage concede.
Stevenage lose.
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On this FA Cup third round day, Luton Town were able to step up in the second half to overcome the plucky resistance of The Dog & Duck FC.
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Sadly that's pretty accurate
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Re: Match Thread. Never a penalty.
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You can't say stuff like that on this forum... its almost anti-Revs.
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I am disappoint.
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Kemp off for Malcolm
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That’s a positive move from Revs
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Re: Match Thread. Never a penalty.
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Kemp has to make way for Louis or Houghton here.
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Re: 1-1
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Ref pandered to the crowd and gave a free kick
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Re: 1-1
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And seeing the highlights.Lewis Freestone was fouled when Luton equalised
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Re: 1-1
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And your goal was hand ball in the build up
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Re: 1-1
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Was a definate penalty. Shitly taken but a penalty
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Re: 2-1
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I am stewing. We’ve been getting tormented for the last 10 minutes and Houghton/Louis are still sitting on the bench
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Re: 2-1
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Agreed. Apart from a 5 minute spell they had nothing.
So frustrating, how have we lost that?
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Ref caving in to all the home fans demands
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Re: Match Thread. Never a penalty.
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Great save. Penalty decision was unreal. Absolutely unreal.
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If that was a penalty football is finished. They are shit get into them.
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Re: Match Thread. Never a penalty.
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I had the perfect view - I’m stood about 6 rows back directly in line with the challenge. They both just went for the ball. No way was that a penalty.
Phillips has had a storming 1st half. This Luton side are really poor!
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As I am unable to watch the game on TV, is there any updates regarding our performance so far ? Cheers
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Re: Match Thread. Never a penalty.
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We’re playing well. Roberts missed a great chance.
Kemp had a chance to put Pheonix in but he is right foot is woeful.
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I think we've been much the better team in the first half. Not sure how the commentator thinks it has been even. Soft penalty. Phillips has been all over the Luton players pressing well. And, of course, Marschall has been immense
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Agreed, very good performance so far with Phillips and White in particular standing out. Just need that goal now...
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Re: Match Thread. Never a penalty.
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Probably because Luton finished stronger, but yeah we were better over the full 45
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Re: Match Thread. Never a penalty.
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Very soft.
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Re: Match Thread. Never a penalty.
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Philips shouldn't have given the Ref a decision to make. No idea why he jumped at the running player.
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Yep. It was a pen. Soft maybe but more a head rush from Phillips who has otherwise been excellent.
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Yep, very soft and stupid.
And caused by Goode giving away a stupid free kick immediately before.
A game of moments. They took their chances, we had several but couldn't take them.
Disappointed that we can still produce two halves that are poles apart in terms of quality, tempo and tactics. Our best half in weeks, mo rhs maybe, followed by a collapse.
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It was annoying to lose. And looking at the stats, it was a real game of two halves.
Positives:
We came out of the traps and were at them from the get go, a really good first 25-30 minutes. A lot of fans wanted to see a good start to games, me included
Phillips looked good harassing anyone with the ball in that period
Marschall looked immense. Not just the penalty save, he was impressive throughout
Phoenix looked dangerous
Corners were really good, could have got a few more from set pieces
Negatives:
With a start like that, I'd like to see us score at least 1 or 2 while on top
We completely run out of steam after Luton pulled it back to 1-1
Reid looks off the pace - we need a fit striker that we can either rotate with him or play up top with him, he looks knackered
Roberts was a lucky boy not to get a second yellow for the incident near the Luton bench - brainless and not a great performance either
Overall, I was pleased to see the start and get straight out of the traps. Luton will be up there and we could have or should have nicked a point. Onto the next one
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Again we suffer from not being able to put away chances, or make the most of when we are dominating. If other teams had the possession/corners etc we had first half they'd be leading 2 nil so when the inevitable change comes from the opposition and they have a good spell, conceding one doesn't matter so much.
With us we play well for large periods but get nothing for it, then the other team gets a chance and scores it.
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A much better first half, high pressing and work rate was more like the start of the season. Frustrating not to be ahead and with a bit of luck we might have been. Not sure we can keep this tempo up all game though.
Edited by RockyBottom at 13:24:40 on 10th January 2026
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Re: Match Thread. Never a penalty.
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Yep, sadly tired in the second half.
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We do look very leggy. A downside of operating with such a fierce press while on a stretched bill of health. Players have come back but we don't look full fitness at all. Feels like we're only able to play 1 half of football and then other feels reliant on the opposition making an error.
Was frustrating to see the substitutions come as soon as we conceded the second. I suspect they already had them planned but we need to be much more on the pulse and not give them time to build momentum like they had did.
We desperately need another option up top. Reid looks so tired up there alone, even with Roberts who clearly offers a different dynamic to Chem/Patterson with him being a bit more physical/direct.
I really don't see what harm it does us at the minute to have Young/Malcom start the odd game and bring Reid on in the second half.
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You can't press like that for 90mins. You need a spell where you keep the ball, that's the bit we struggle with.
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Re: Match Thread
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Watching us play on TV makes it even more obvious how many long and/or hopeful balls we play forward. We rarely have a player who runs at their defence, committing defenders, putting other players in, maybe having a shot. We score so few 'constructed' goals, most are scrappy from close range. I think we can still be tight at the back but be more adventurous with the ball. We've been so frustrating to watch recently.
PS. This opinion is largely based on the second half today (and many recent home matches). I admit that we did look more energetic in the first half.
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Re: Match Thread
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I think some of our attacking players who started the season well are now having a crisis of confidence due to seeing so little of the ball at their feet, not knowing how else to influence games. Like Campbell has done really well for us at points but what was he meant to do when he came on today? The exception being Roberts who seems happier to have a scrap than actually use his ability.
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Im absolutely peed off with the likes of Roberts & Reid performances, Reids chances were shocking cant even hit the target from 4 yards, should have been 2-3 up before we even scored!!!
We need strikers in this market who can score goals, or we will finish mid table at this rate.....
Pheonix lovely cross into the box for Freestone, Roberts is lazy, couldnt be bothered 2nd half to chase the ball
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It's too easy to say " we need strikers who can score goals" every football team wants that.
I wouldn't be surprised if we missed a few targets in pre-season that would have prevented situations like this, but the fact is we don't have huge budgets are goal-scoring strikers are a luxury.
We seem to be extremely poor when it comes to scouting strikers when it comes to impacting the first team.
Young, Pressley, Simpson, Apere, Malcom, Ahdme & Lubala - if you can include him. I'm sure there's others I'm missing too. None of these players have come close to being regular starters for us for varying reasons. We've done some absolutely scorching business elsewhere, but when it comes to forwards, whatever we're doing just isn't working.
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The continued faith in Reid is insane - we can't just keep waiting for him to magically find confidence whilst missing easy chances every week. When he's not scoring he offers very, very little, and he's not been in proper goalscoring form for months now. I would say we need to bring in some new options but Revs would probably keep picking Reid anyway
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Reid isn't the problem. He's chasing shadows for 99% of the game.
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He's not that good though is he. Unfortunately we have no one better.
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We don't make enough chances for him, but he has to offer more than he does at the moment. Even holding the ball up more effectively would at least offer something
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If I never see Roberts in a Boro' shirt again I will be a very happy man.
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He was fine today for the first hour.
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"Fine".
Oh, well that's great then.
I view him in the same way I viewed Anthony Grant. This is not a good thing. The fact he has far more talent than half our squad but is the one I will be most pleased to see gone says it all.
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I'm not a fan either. Too often goes missing.
Today he was one of our better players, in a good first half and a shit second. His levels dropped same as everyone else's but no further
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He also would have been sent off today by a number of referees.
Already on a booking (as so often booked for dissent or petulance) and decides to wrap his arm around the opposition's neck and sling him to the floor, right in front of their bench. So so dumb. As always from him.
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