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Not sure of the relevance of League One club Barnsley but am probably missing something.

Not impossible but highly unlikely that the two top scoring teams would be fishing for a striker in the January window.

Get him taking antihistamines then.

Why should we give away Aribo and Edozie for nothing?

Very poor especially from Arsenal and that little shit Martinelli should have been sent off.

Yeah, we need all the ball watchers we can pack into our penalty area.

Not sure about that. He's quite short, lacks a bit of physicality and is very slow.

The points I made were all things that they should be practicing in preparation for the match against Doncaster because they get them consistently wrong. Yeah, I do agree they should be made to watch reruns of all the many mistakes made against Boro if nothing else but to rub their noses in their own shit.

I've seen plenty of criticism of the defence. If Bazunu didn't continually let in shots he should be saving I think he'd get a lot more praise than criticism. As we've been waiting four years for this to happen I think the chances are that it isn't going to.

Well, rather than having the poor wee lambs doing circuit training and beep tests perhaps the time could have been better spent on giving goalkeepers some practice at saving routine shots or coming for crosses or reps to teach players to make 5-10 yard passes or how about training defenders to mark opponents rather than space or maybe how to throw the ball to a team mate...it's a pretty endless and soul destroying list isn't it?

Do you really believe what you've written there? Also you seem to have a blinkered view on the levels of preparation we put into games - either that or what preparation we are doing is a complete waste of time and money judging by results over the past season and a half.

Did they actually give a shit for the morale of the fans who braved difficult conditions to make the long trip to Middlesboro? Nah, most of them scuttled off the pitch as fast as they could to get home to the comfort of their mansions. I'm all for breaks in these circumstances if the side is performing but this feels like a kick in the teeth for our long suffering fans and more evidence of the 'who gives a shit' attitude that seems to permeate the football club.

Agree. Would rather hear a statement from the club saying this would normally be a good opportunity to give the players a break but, as they have performed so badly, the coaches and players have agreed that more time on the training pitch would be more beneficial.

As is training to improve especially for a team that has been shit for six games in a row.

Should have been in doing double shifts. Manning is not going to improve fucking sunning himself in Dubai. Bring back the carrot and stick or better still the birch.