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"BLOODY RUBBISH!" AT VILLA PARK 5-3-05
I'm so incensed with the load of "Bloody Rubbish!" that I saw at Villa Park today that I have had to abandon my usual trawl through the papers. There is too much to say about Boro right now.
Today's display at Aston Villa was the most "Bloody Rubbish!" performance that I have seen by Boro since around 1953.
It's always hard to swallow a defeat but I cannot come to terms with this one because we did not try, we had no heart and we demonstrated no passion. In short, we were "Bloody Rubbish!"
This is the countdown now. The last quarter of the season has begun and this is where it matters most. Win our games and we play in Europe next season. Put in "Bloody Rubbish!" displays like we did today and we won't qualify. Easy as that.
If we had gone down fighting today, I could have lived with it but I am demanding to know just why we didn't seem to care this afternoon?
Where was our professional pride? Where was our desire to win and realise our true league position? I can't accept that the team didn't care about the result but that is the way it appeared and for a professional side to go into a match with that attitude is totally "Bloody Rubbish!"
Why didn't the manager get the team going today? Surely making certain that the side is motivated has to be the top priority of the gaffer? Steve Mc completely failed to do that today and I cannot think of a reasonable theory as to why?
There's a lot of truth in the old saying that football is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration? Well today, we were 10% bad and 90% "Bloody Rubbish!"
I can understand a checkout girl at Morrisons going into work feeling a little unenthusiastic and I can see why certain people in other less glamorous professions will under-perform at certain times.
But we are talking about Middlesbrough Football Club here and the question has to be asked of the players and the manager, 'How can you go into the first of our last ten league matches un-motivated and without the will to win that should be second nature in a privileged occupation?'
If you don't want to play for Boro or if you can't summon up the same passion that made us contenders earlier in the season, then it's time to leave. There are plenty of others knocking on the door and I'm sure that they would have done better than the "Bloody Rubbish!" that was out there today.
And for Steve Mc to say that he couldn't get angry because he was so disappointed is the most "Bloody Rubbish!" thing that he has said during his time as Boro boss and sums up the general "Bloody Rubbish!" 'we don't really give a shit' attitude that we are giving out at the moment.
In my book, there is no excuse for the "Bloody Rubbish!" that we saw on the football field today. None at all. And if we see it again this season, then the time will well and truly have arrived when hard questions must be asked...
Are we really working towards attaining a status as one of the top clubs in Europe or is all the big talk just a load of "Bloody Rubbish!"?
Are we just the same old Boro, serving up a diet of raised expectations that when the chips are down, we do not have the winning instinct to deliver?
Either way, it's plainly obvious that our hearts are not in the task right now and that is "Bloody Rubbish!" by anybody's standards. It's completely unacceptable by ours.
More "Bloody Rubbish!" by Harry Haverton coming your way next weekend.
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