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THE MEDIA
AND THE BORO - SEPTEMBER 2008
Craig McLeod
I apologise for the lateness of this article but I’m currently training for a job and my workload’s pretty heavy at the moment. Excuses, excuses.
Anyhow, I won’t lie to you. When I signed off last month with “I am sure that over the next month I will have plenty more to write about”, I didn’t quite expect to be sat here writing this particular article.
I can’t whinge about Andy Gray this month because he hasn’t, to my knowledge, slated Boro for anything in particular.
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In fact, just before I started tapping away at my keyboard, I read an article he wrote for Sky about what a mess the Geordies are in that’s actually (forgive me God) quite good.
On the other hand, it didn’t take Lawro long before he was tipping us to get stuffed every week. This, unfortunately, brings me to the subject of this month’s article: Lawro has been pretty much spot on.
First of all, however, I think I should make it clear that on the whole, we’re still playing half-decent football.
Southgate was right when he said that we had enough chances to win two football matches against West Brom but it’s hard to ignore the fact that the trouble appears to be finding the back of the net. This is despite the fact that we spent £12million in January to sort out that very problem.
Afonso Alves may have almost snapped the bar against the Baggies but we certainly seem to be missing Tuncay’s creativity, even though he isn’t exactly prolific in front of goal himself.
I would also like to know why we are our own worst enemies. It was defensive lapses against United in the Cup, against Pompey and against the Mackems (coupled with Downing putting his penalty into row Z) that cost us.
Also, against West Brom, most of our team appeared to be marking Ross Turnbull as opposed to any opposition players for their goal.
But before I go any further, I wish to declare here and now that I will not be joining the hoards of pessimists, despite the fact that what I’ve written so far essentially says that we can’t score and we can’t defend.
Many of my mates have so far spent the majority of the season slating Gary O’Neil but I think that his passing across the park has been pretty solid.
Furthermore, although he has completely lost the ability to hit the target with his shots, his creative play has been fairly solid as well.
A few others I’ve overheard have suggested that David Wheater has been “found out” and I’ve even heard the dreaded phrase ‘second season syndrome’ being mentioned.
But again, apart from a costly mistake, I think he has been safe at the back and bear in mind he’s been shuffled about to right back a few times too.
I have faith that Gareth Southgate will get it right. I don’t agree with everything he does - Alves should be on the spot kicks as far as I’m concerned but then again, after the Andorra v England game, taking the penalties off Downing might knock his confidence a bit too far - but he’s managed to keep us playing good football even after all the disappointments we’ve had in the last few weeks.
This suggests his man management and motivational skills are sharpening compared to the last couple of seasons.
STOP PRESS!
A first away win in 2008 at Wigan - where I’d tipped us to get a dour 0-0 draw - coupled with a winning a goal from a player who was starting to come in for a lot of flak, seems to have rid a lot of fans from the gloom and doom that had started to envelop Teesside.
Looking at the table it seems that, as has happened for the last few seasons, the pack we need to be in to mark our progress has got away from us before the season has really got going.
It's Chelsea at home next, so I’m going to tip us for a dour 0-0 draw again. Hopefully every time I say that, we sneak a cheeky 1-0 win…
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