Who's most to blame for the Middlesbrough defeat?

[Bozza]

Poyet, D'Urso or someone else?

It IS a blame game.

 

[The Oldman]

Thought better of it. It's football. Some you win, some you lose,

 

[Stat Brother]

It has to be Poyet, sadly.
That's why he's paid the big bucks and given the big bucks to play with.

 

[nomoremithras4me]

Paul Barber, he gets the blame for everything

 

[Kazenga <3]

Canada

 

[Mr Bums]

Bloom

 

[portslade seagull]

The eleven players on the pitch

 

[Icy Gull]

CMS, Crofts and Hammond and Greer. One scored a goal , the other 3 should have.

Poyet sent out a team that had opportunities they squandered and a fluke goal did for us. Not jumping on the slag Poyet off bandwagon

 

[El Presidente]

Middlesbrough.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

I just wish we didnt set up so defensively at home.

 

[Weststander]

Gus - his spending in the 3 transfer windows since he's had a fantastic fees/wages budget.

1. Thought he was smart letting Noone go. "Everyone has their price". But he was simply better than LuaLua.

2. Failure to get a second striker.

3. Failure to get creative backup for the vast majority of games which Vicente misses.

 

[fratsomrover]

Gus Poyet of course. He picked the team. It was loaded with negative players and only had one forward. How do you justify playing Hammond, Croft, Bridcutt together ? None of them noted for their scoring ability. Also does Hammond have more than one gear ? He looks so one paced and I'm afraid that is rather slow.
With Hoskins injured, Buckley ( apparently a little injured) why doesn't Toby or Barker get an opportunity. Surely as forwards they should get a chance when no one else in the team is capable of scoring.

 

[Caveman]

I blame the Germans.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Clearly if we're talking MOST responsible it's the strikers, or those to whom the chances are falling. They aren't scoring when they need to. And if they had, we'd definitely have beaten both Birmingham and Boro, and maybe Ipswich and Derby too.

 

[Husty]

NSC Search not working.

 

[Caveman]

CMS, Crofts and Hammond and Greer. One scored a goal , the other 3 should have.

Poyet sent out a team that had opportunities they squandered and a fluke goal did for us. Not jumping on the slag Poyet off bandwagon

You talk sense.

 

[Acker79]

CMS, Crofts and Hammond and Greer. One scored a goal , the other 3 should have.

Poyet sent out a team that had opportunities they squandered and a fluke goal did for us. Not jumping on the slag Poyet off bandwagon

These

 

[Steve.S]

Bad luck ( goal ) and poor finishing. We are a team that creates chances and eventually our luck will change,

 

[Mackenzie]

Emnes scoring must be pretty high up the list.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

CMS, Crofts and Hammond and Greer. One scored a goal , the other 3 should have.

Poyet sent out a team that had opportunities they squandered and a fluke goal did for us. Not jumping on the slag Poyet off bandwagon

100% correct.