Is the pressure getting to Karanka?

pottert said:

I hope I'm not tempting fate here but we haven't really suffered from bad refereeing decisions.
I know we are trying to gain every tiny bit of edge that might help us achieve our dreams but at the end of the day it will be decided
On the pitch.
LVG has been criticised all season for showing no emotion yet we see Christ Hughton displaying the same emotions &
Salute him for his calmness.
Next Saturday we will need to play better than we have played all season if we are to get a result.
Boro will have 31000 fans creating a very hostile environment for our players & fans.
Current form will have no bearing on this game it will be about which team deals better with the pressure.

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nicko31 said:

Just saw the Sky post match interview.

The guy looks completely shattered and does like he's sleeping, a lot at stake for him if they fail again this year

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TSB said:

Derby away (penalty). Burnley away (penalty). Burnley home (Barton). Bolton away (sending off and blatant foul for equaliser) and Preston away (phantom offside goal) are five games that stand out as the officials ****ing us over.

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Bozza said:

No, clubs can't do that, or they'd all be at it.

There is a holding company which supports Boro, in much the same way as Bloom does us. But it doesn't insulate either club from FFP regs.

Gibson reckons they have a Plan B if they don't go up this year...



Source: http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/boro-reveal-sharp-drop-annual-11156060

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Baldseagull said:

Impossible to say with certainty, but I think we would have 2 more points and Burnley one less, if Joey Barton had been sent off, as a majority feel he should have been, against us.
There have been others, but you have to accept that a certain amount of errors are going to go against you, and hopefully, roughly an equal number will go in your favour.

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Captain Sensible said:

Lucky as in a deflected free kick was your winner. You could have played all day and not got another. I seem to remember Preston getting quite close to an equaliser on a number of occasions. Yes I don't think you were ever gonna lose that match but without a huge deflection for your goal, you weren't really cutting PNE open. Still on to QPR.

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pottert said:

I hope I'm not tempting fate here but we haven't really suffered from bad refereeing decisions.
I know we are trying to gain every tiny bit of edge that might help us achieve our dreams but at the end of the day it will be decided
On the pitch.
LVG has been criticised all season for showing no emotion yet we see Christ Hughton displaying the same emotions &
Salute him for his calmness.
Next Saturday we will need to play better than we have played all season if we are to get a result.
Boro will have 31000 fans creating a very hostile environment for our players & fans.
Current form will have no bearing on this game it will be about which team deals better with the pressure.

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dsr-burnley said:

Hit the woodwork three times, if that's worth anything.

As for the penalty at Burnley which some Brighton fans think was an outrageous decision, it wasn't. By all means make an argument that not all refs would have given it or that there was a foul the other way as well, but the fact remains that your man was pulling our man;s shirt hard & high enough to expose his chest. Unlucky to have that sort of shirt pulling given? Possibly. But outrageous, no.

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dsr-burnley said:

That's pretty much the point, Dunk was pulling the shirt and the ref gave the penalty. Possibly Dunk was unlucky not to get away with it, but it's hard to argue the ref was flat out wrong.

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