Predictions and team for Middlesbrough

[Norbury Old Git]

play the dinner-ladies and throw the game. EFL a loadabollicks

Focus on Europe and the Prem. Its our biggest European Opportunity/Challenge in 165 years.

No. Every win at this stage builds momentum. Next round go out to a top club in front of a capacity crowd so maximise our share of the gate receipts.

 

[PatrickA]

If Glasner had taken such a cavalier attitude to domestic cup competitions the club would never have won the FA Cup.

We're 4 games into the season with a squad that some are claiming is the deepest and strongest in our history, and already we're talking about sacrificing games and competitions?

Perhaps it's my age, but I really struggle with some of the prevailing attitudes in modern football, the picking and choosing of the games you try to win, the writing off of games and competitions.

The only time I can recall Glasner playing a noticeably weaker team in a competition ended in the worst and most embarrassing defeat in our history ; FA Cup holders knocked out by non league Macclesfield.

 

[Faz]

When is ticket due for release I purchased week ago ? Why the delays ?

 

[Save Dwindlehurst]

play the dinner-ladies and throw the game. EFL a loadabollicks

Focus on Europe and the Prem. Its our biggest European Opportunity/Challenge in 165 years.

We’ve effectively got 2 teams now so why not try and win the thing. Staying up and the League Cup would do me!

 

[MrRobbo]

If Glasner had taken such a cavalier attitude to domestic cup competitions the club would never have won the FA Cup.

We're 4 games into the season with a squad that some are claiming is the deepest and strongest in our history, and already we're talking about sacrificing games and competitions?

Perhaps it's my age, but I really struggle with some of the prevailing attitudes in modern football, the picking and choosing of the games you try to win, the writing off of games and competitions.

The only time I can recall Glasner playing a noticeably weaker team in a competition ended in the worst and most embarrassing defeat in our history ; FA Cup holders knocked out by non league Macclesfield.

But the fact that we did win that gives us opportunities and also other problems to solve.

Objectively speaking...we are in the Europa league. We have never been in it before, and we dont know when/if we'll next be in it. I'd be 100% behind doing everything to we can do to focus on in.

Even if that means sacrificing the league cup. Lest be honest that will be around every year.

(Priority every season will always be Prem survival, this season P2 is Europa (other seasons will be pushing for European qualification, P3 is FA cup and P4 is league cup)

Luckily we have a deep squad this year, so even playing a weekend team is still going to be pretty strong. Packed with full internationals.