View from the opposition

[Air Resistance]

Boro fan in peace...

Been checking out some of the posts in your matchday thread and thought I'd give you a bit of feedback on the game and BWFC in general from an outside point of view.

Firstly, theres a lot of parrallels that can be drawn between you guys and us when we came down. Under southgate we had a team with a lot of expensive players on big wages who tried to play nice football but ended up seeming spineless, didn't care for the club and we wimpered out of the league.

When we came down we, like yourselves, thought we had much better players and would walk the league, but we didn't and you don't. The championship is a fast tough league and unless you have positive momentum its going to eat you up unless every player give 100% ever game.

You played some ok football at times, but we totally over ran you guys for most of the game and I've heard you guys saying we're not all that, but we had 11 players giving their all (even though we have almost an entire first team out injured atm) and man for man we won every 50/50. It took us a long time and a few horrible management decisions to change the culture of work at the club and thats why we're a win away from top of the league.

Another thing I think we might sadly find parrallels in is the fact MFC had a lot of debt coming down and after you don't go up first/second time of asking, you have to sell/let your players leave at very reduced rates to balance the books. We've barely spent a penny on a player since Strachen left (our starting 11 contained two players who cost us any money yesterday, Friend 100k and Emnes who we bought in the premier league). The parachute payments system has changed since we came dwn, but its imperative to give it your all in the first season.

Anyway, I hope Mr Freedman is a good man manager more than anything and can get the players buying into a philosophy and giving their all for the cause. Look forward to giving you a good game in the return fixture.

[officer_dibble]

I thought you worked harder than us.

I thought on balance a draw was a fair result.

I think your right in that we are here for the long haul barring Freedman coaxing the best out of a number of our underperforming players (Mark Davies, Ngog, Lee, Petrov).

I think if you are third this league is still winnable for us (delusional eh?) but we need Wheater and Holden back and fit...and Wheats is February.

Decent trip, no real antagonism from the fans, nice ground. See you next year perhaps...

[TANGODANCER]

Thanks for the comments A.R, posts like that are always welcome. Nothing wrong in expecting miracles every week, every team's fans in football do that. Who gets joy out of losing? A few back-to-back wins and we'll soon be back on track. Good luck back to you.