Brererton

Wary is fine.Im not disputing it will be a tough match.I take issue with saying things like we don't have a chance, Boro will definitely win etc.Our performances since Fulham deserve more respect than that. In previous seasons we didn't have a good defence.Missing Nyambe ,Pickering and Travis was going to cause us an issue.With Nyambe and Travis back in I do not believe that we will give up as many chances as we did against Hull, especially when Boro have been winning their games by a 1 goal margin.

Who have won one more game than us in those 6. If it was Huddersfield we were playing would you be writing us off aswell as their record in the last 6 is similar? Boro last 2 league matches they needed 90+minute winner.Turning it around at home to Reading with goals at 84 and 90+.Blackpool 94th minute. Yesterday you compared their run to ours which I disagree with.They been conceding and leaving it late plus easier games in their run than we had. And if you are so keen on the in form card.We have the 2nd best home record in the division, Boros away form is average at best.

On to last episode blitzed it over the last 2 evenings.Very good I thought

You are way over rating Boro imo.

Missing a couple of players and a few below par performances only 1 lost by us doesn't make Boro unbeatable imo. It is not common sense to believe Boro have the 3 points tied up without a ball being kicked.

Ok if you want to believe and treat Boro like Man City and have already lost the game that is up to you. In previous seasons we couldn't defend.Nyambe and Travis are back for Monday night.Boro are on decent form but they are not blitzing teams.Our home record is second best in the division. I'm not anxious about making the playoffs we would have to go an absolutely awful run to fall out of them now.The team in the last couple of months is worthy of more respect than thinking after 1 defeat and an injury to one player who hasn't contributed to our excellent season so far will lead to us falling away altogether. If you have a decent defence which we have then you always have a chance

As stupid as they are I do not believe for 1 second we would sell one of our better players to Burnley when we are joint 2nd in the league

It was a blow but anyone who was thinking Markanday would come in and start scoring loads of goals etc was being optimistic. Like today on FB on the rovers group some saying we won't even make the playoffs now because he got injured and because of the form of the other teams around us.Christ we have only lost one match. We have been below par but the pitch was atrocious v Huddersfield, we still picked up a point and clean sheet.At Cardiff behind close doors we were poor but got the job done it wasn't like they were creating loads of clear cut chances and we were hanging on. The manager got it wrong v Hull, no Travis and no Nyambe and we were shit. Just some of the panic and comments after losing 1 game is unbelievable imo...like saying we don't have a chance at home against a Boro side you have 31 league goals to their name this season.(not you making these comments) Minus Brererton is a big blow but our home record is fantastic and defensively we have been superb last cpl of months, we shouldn't be fearing playing Boro.

And neither do Boro their top scorer has 6.And the two new forwards have no track record of being goalscorers at senior level.

If you take the main scorer out of any side and Brererton out of ours our goals for is comparable with the rest of the top 6 excluding Fulham. Solanke out of the Bournemouth side goals for they are 1 or 2 ahead. Boro haven't been scoring a lot of goals..the game will be tight but if we get the defensive side of our game right I think we will be celebrating 3 points on Monday night.

2 new forwards ready to go?Balagoun has played hardly any first team football and when he has featured for Arsenal he has been poor and Connolly is a handy player but not a goalscorer imo. The reason we are as high as we are in the league is down to the vast improvement of the defensive side of our game.Brererton was scoring earlier in the season and we weren't in the top 6 and Armstrong scored 28 goals last year and we finished 15th. I'm not arguing that we need another forward in but if we continue to defend as we have been doing in most the matches since Fulham we will keep ourselves in contention.

Why does it have to be Gallagher who scores.If we show the level of defending we did prior to the Hull game, then just the 1 goal could win it. Boro ain't a freescoring side

Hull winning

Coventry 1-1 v QPR now

Elliot was starting for Liverpool prior to his injury, they won't be letting him out

Still 9 points off us with them having to play us away from home

Hull was poor.But TM moved away from a winning formula.Travis is back for Monday. Gally was shite the other night and isn't great but still has 5 goals and a couple of assists this season. It will be a tough game and Middlesbrough COULD come out with the 3 points but I'm not having that we have no chance against them.We have the second best home form in the league. Take Solanke's goals away from Bournemouth and Brererton away from Rovers they have scored 1 more goal than us this season. It takes 1 goal to win a game.When Brererton was banging them in earlier in the season we were outside the playoffs.Our recent run is down to becoming more solid at the back and with the return of Nyambe and Travis then I don't think we will give up as many chances as we did against Hull. Boro have scored 31 this season to our 44 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/middlesbrough/top-scorers

Not giving us a chance is folly.Its Middlesbrough.Fulham aside at home we give anyone a game.Boro have conceded in their last 3.I watched them also and imo they were not as good as we were in our run. Cardiff we played shite,we won the game to nil, they didn't create much.Huddersfielf the pitch was atrocious they can be excused for not playing great in that match. It will be a tough game but again at home i don't think we should be fearing it at all

Its Middlesbrough not Man City. If we perform like we have shown since our change to 3 at the back, with the exception of the last couple of games, we are more than capable of beating Boro even without Pickering and Brererton

Poveda staying on loan must have been no break clause

We haven't created anything for him in the last few games.If we were creating chances and he was missing then fair enough but the team in general have been below par. We had 2 decent chances the other night and Brererton created the penalty appeal himself

Don't want Lawrence. Get a center midfielder and Goalscorer in

Yeah think after the next 6 things will become a lot clearer, we will either be firmly in the mix for Automatic or will be worrying about making the playoffs. Hopefully the Hull match will act as a reminder to Mowbray to not move away from the formation that has served us so well these past couple of months

Oli Burke previously linked signing for Millwall on loan