Maybe a signing today. Keep your eyes peeled.

Don't tell me, we lost out on a star signing due to a bug in IT systems.

The injury list isn't getting any better. Middlesbrough away. No one back and Dempsey added.

Starting 11. Baxter. Forrester Santos Toal. Dacres-cogley Sheehan Thomason Conway. Lolos. Adeboyejo Collins.

So Dembele won't be gracing the green grass of the Tough Sheet.

Do you have to pay for the BN Match Day live now? the thread isn't updating. I don't suppose is being televised either.

Just have to clear history/cookies. Don't have pay for matchday.

3-0 defeat but it looks like most of the Boro goals after we'd made a lot of changes.

Carrying way too many injuries at the moment it's getting ridiculous. Really need to find the root cause of this. Training, way they train, where they train.

Thanks, Benny, I will do that before the next game.

comment by Bennythedip - Living The Dream (U9359)
posted 11 hours, 25 minutes ago
Carrying way too many injuries at the moment it's getting ridiculous. Really need to find the root cause of this. Training, way they train, where they train.
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That is just what I was going to say. I recon Evatt wants the team really sharp and fit that he may be overdoing the phisical side of the training to early in pre-season. Maybe a gentler aproach initially, building up to full fitness just before the season starts would be a better aproach to keeping the lads fit.

Didn't we employ some guy to look into that? Maybe he isn't up to the job.

It looks like, there will be a lot going out on loan again after yesterday. The B team will end up struggling to field a team, scratching around for a game again!!
I fear some folk at the club, can't grasp real life football management isn't the same as a game on a computer.

https://www.bwfc.co.uk/news/pre-season-friendly-middlesbrough-3-wanderers-0

I've linked the official match report with all the subs for reference purposes.

Cheers Benny
We do need another striker as per SWIE requests.

We'll be lucky to hear Dempsey's scan results this week.
I bet there's a few, dreading the usual pre-season injury coming along! It will be a miracle if we don't end up with one.

Talking of injuries.
I take it we are still paying for Paris's treatment since we broke him.

Can we get SKD and his Tai chi team in? Our fitness coaches need all the help they can get.
If not them, who was it had ballet warm up lessons?

Looks a change in formation. Still 3 at the back but 2 number 10s like England did with foden and Bellingham which worked but Southgate bottled it for the final. 3-4-2-1. Lolos and Collins the 2 number 10s .

Highlights off the Middlesbrough site https://www.mfc.co.uk/news/2024/july/20/highlights--boro-3-bolton-wanderers-0-/

It's difficult to judge your hand, when you are not playing with a full deck.
We are not going to have a complete squad for our first game at this rate.
We've got injuries, plus some playing catchup, plus more to go in the catching up pile.
Not a sniff of outgoing sales, we are waiting for half the B team squad to go out on loan.

comment by Bennythedip - Living The Dream (U9359)
posted 19 hours, 59 minutes ago
Highlights off the Middlesbrough site https://www.mfc.co.uk/news/2024/july/20/highlights--boro-3-bolton-wanderers-0-/

wouldn't want to see the lowlights if those were the highlights.---------------------------------------------------------------------I

So another rehashed story in the BN, Evatt again explaining why it's taking so long to secure his targets.

Other teams don't seem to have the same problem, Perhaps some of the delays are caused because we are unwilling to pay the price for decent players.

Doesn't IE still live in Derbyshire.
Is his house in Hope Valley ? If he carries on at this rate, he'll end up moving onto the caravan park there.

What happened to the good old transfer rumours?
Not a word, from the friend of a friend of a postman or milkman.

What day and time, do Burtons have fresh stock of broken biscuits in the factory shops? Is it the same as when we announce another injury?

1 day ago I told you it was coming.
Now IE has confirmed it, we knew he would didn't we with this classic old one of his.
“Some of them are going to be playing catch up but we have to get them there quickly and that’s my job as a manager and a coach is to educate them and get them ready to do what we need them to do.”

Does the "educate them" bit of that quote scare you? it should!

It's the same old story. I wonder how other clubs manage to put out their best team on the opening day of a new season.

How many times, will we mention the word "Hope" before next Christmas?
I hope, it's not as many as last season.

Don't worry we will have the cavalry arriving soon.