Middlesbrough - Nottingham Forest

[stirred]

Not a game I'd have expected us to win under most managers, but what worries me is Hughton's overall approach. We never start on the front foot, and we aren't making use of our attacking players.

I could understand that under Sabri, because we'd 1 recognised striker, and if anything happened to him we were screwed. So making defending a priority made sense. We also had Cash & Ribero, so driving from the back made sense too.

Now however, we've 2 15+ goal strikers, another workhorse striker as backup & to compliment, and enough wingers to rotate semi-regularly too. We also don't have fullbacks the of the quality we had last year. So it seems strange to adopt a similar approach.

We really need to get at Cov & Wycombe from the off.

Yeah, I agree. I’ve criticised his decisions each match. We needed someone who is going to get us playing football and attacking. I’d love to see high energy and rotating wingers but the only player with pace is Mighten and he isn’t getting a sniff. 

I’d caveat that with us seemingly missing the no 8 who can link play to the attackers. We lost Silva but don’t have a better replacement. I guess Arter is the closest we have but assume he’s injured.

That said I fear Hughton is part of the problem not solving it. Unfortunately I think we’ve hired the wrong guy.