Middlesbrough Vs QPR

Boro just beat Sheffield United 3-1 away
Saturday could be double figures

Come on Northwesthoop, don't sit on the fence: which players' car do you want Neil Critchley to trash first! 😉
Great podcast under the circumstances!!

Archer and Akpom will be licking their lips knowing that our only fit central defenders are the ponderous Dickie and Dunne. It wont help our cause that its likely we could also have to include Kakay and Dozzell.

Critchley knows that he almost certainly has nothing to lose in respect of this game because we are huge underdogs to even get a point  and we have got to do something different.

If Critchley doesnt change things then defeat is a certainty and knowing that the owners could already be lining up a replacement it will be interesting to see what he tries with the limited players we have.

Knowing Albert has played as a wing back previously I think Critchley will go with 3 centre backs and play 3-5-2.

Dieng
Kakay, Dickie, Dunne
Adomah, Field, Chair, Johansen,Paal
Lowe Martin

3rd bottom 44 to 45 points
Is my prediction
They are obviously hanging on to critchley performed miracles at blackpool and keeping him
We need 4 wins only but can’t honestly see where we’d get them
Boro is damage limitation and believe it or not at loftus road we were 3-0 up in 39 mins against them and we won 3-2 in the end
I think we could lose very heavily and 5-0 or even 6-0 on Saturday if critchley sets us out like Sunderland

Trick of surviving
Having a manager that can inspire a team to pick up a surprise result somewhere like other teams do
Get some draws so at least the points are working towards the 50 point mark
Beat the teams around you
It’s hard to believe I’m actually starting to realistically think my team is going to go down now,after our great start
We’ve had no luck with injuries but what we are left with is mainly league one standard squad and uninterested loan players

No, I did say avoid defeat not win, I don't think we could beat QPR U11s right now!!

Out of those 3 away games if we can even get 2 draws it could be a huge step towards safety.

We may also have a selection of Amos, Dykes, Balogun, Willock etc back over the next 14 games and that could (emphasis on could) help us over the line. The issue is most of them are never fully fit and out of form too anyway.

We need to win at least 4/5 more games to stay up, I mean that should be achievable but it doesn't feel like it at the moment