There are two real possibilities here: 1) Pauno is some sort of all round genius who fixed relegation threatened side and lifted us to grant heights and so whatever happens we trust in him and praise him endlessly because 5th is so much better than ever before 2) Pauno has some great attributes like...

Thoroughly unconvincing win against a poor and depleted side.

Surprising to see the Rino/Laurent situation persists.

We missed sitters but they could have easily equalised.

Highlight for me: northern chuckle brothers being very northern and hilarious. "Go on son!". Brilliant

I dont' want to see Meite back. Not that I don't like him, but a) injury risk and b) I want|Pauno and his boys to fix things. It'll do wonders for their confidence and we need to know Pauno can fix whatever is up without the need to inject Meite. Stick Meite back in and it'll just paper over the cra...

tru dat

Silver lining: Pauno is learning his mistakes now, a dip now so a nice peak in form heading into the playoffs. Would much rather this than starting to fall apart in the last 4 games +/- playoffs. Can just imagine no lesson learnt and Joao doing an Archie at Wembley. Much rather lose this so he isn’t...

What. The. Actual. oxf*rd. Was. That. Goal. You on satellite delay? Lol. Can't bring myself to watch it again. What actually happened? Wycombe's goal? It looked like Rafael allowed it to fall through his hands, but on replay it seems their player got a foot in before Rafael could catch it. I rememb...

Here we are congratulating the boys on a measly 2-0 win, when they were on a losign streak, huge injury woes, imminent manager departure, and Watford were able to put 6 past them. Should we have done a lot better? I won't gloat, as this was mainly a devil's advocate thought-provoking post, but even...

How the hell has Semedo become the player we must unbalance the team to accommodate? I actually think he's half decent, but he's not good enough to warrant spazzing around with the team It's mind boggling that Pauno has decided to move him back into defensive midfield and push Rino forward. Rino's ...

Couple of things: Joao can be the penalty taker - but not like that. Watch Ribery or someone. That technique is ridiculous. The technique isn't the issue. I don't think any of us here can teach a top championship professional striker about penalty technique. The issue is simply his mind. Far too em...

Sorry, forgot. As much as I don't think Pauno is covering himself in glory at the moment with tactics, there's really no excuse for professional footballers not being able to do what they are paid to do. Much as the tactics may have been questionable, you'd expect a decent striker to be able to at ...

Ok, Joao can f**k off with penalties and Pauno can start thinking about f**king off if he's not careful Pauno: 1) Why the F**K disrupt the back 4 AGAIN? CB at LB? 2) Putting Joao - proven clueless at penalties with 2 misses and one almost-miss as penalty taker? We knew he'd cock up and he did. Can'...

NewCorkSeth Let's try 5 CBs. Hope Gibson is fit. Then maybe 3 DMs in front of that and no point in bringing a bench. Won't need it.

And must keep Laurent and Rino apart.

And insist Joao takes any pens.

Couple of things: Joao can be the penalty taker - but not like that. Watch Ribery or someone. That technique is ridiculous. The technique isn't the issue. I don't think any of us here can teach a top championship professional striker about penalty technique. The issue is simply his mind. Far too em...

Im trying to understand Joao on pens. There are only 3 attacking players in the side, Joao, Olise, Ejaria, i can well imagine that actually neither Olise or Ejaria are much better at pens. That's my only thinking as to how there hasnt been a change before now. I can't understand it. Joao is positiv...

Here we are congratulating the boys on a measly 2-0 win, when they were on a losign streak, huge injury woes, imminent manager departure, and Watford were able to put 6 past them. Should we have done a lot better? I won't gloat, as this was mainly a devil's advocate thought-provoking post, but even...

Ok, Joao can f**k off with penalties and Pauno can start thinking about f**king off if he's not careful Pauno: 1) Why the F**K disrupt the back 4 AGAIN? CB at LB? 2) Putting Joao - proven clueless at penalties with 2 misses and one almost-miss as penalty taker? We knew he'd cock up and he did. Can't...

Bear in mind it can't be fun being a journo during lockdown, where you can't get out and about, there aren't the same networks there usually are.

He's a nice enough chap trying his hardest in tough circumstances.

Give the poor lad a break.

Let's not paper over the cracks. We were SHIT today. Probably the first game I just fast forwarded through, totally ridiculous performance, no guts. Who was it who was saying Boro are a physical side and we don't know how to play these teams? Pauno was at fault today, sorry, but do you really put a...

Let's not paper over the cracks. We were SHIT today. Probably the first game I just fast forwarded through, totally ridiculous performance, no guts. Who was it who was saying Boro are a physical side and we don't know how to play these teams? Pauno was at fault today, sorry, but do you really put a ...

I think Westwood52 must be your grandad with the common ability to pluck only negativity from a positive situation ! It’s a huge luxury to be able to write off a convincing 2-0 away win as ‘measly’.....’ Hehe, fair comment, although you hopefully have had the misfortune of reading enough of my post...