Rampant Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Saturday 11th January 2020 - Riverside Stadium - KO 1500 16th v 17th it may be but it's two sides looking to continue their recent good form. Since losing at Pride Park, Boro have won six out of twelve Championship games, including their last four. They are also unbeaten in their last six at home, seven if you include their fine draw against Spurs in the FA Cup. As for the Rams, it has been a long time coming but Olivia Optimism has finally shown up and she looks and feels good. Unbeaten in four and with three wins on the bounce, Derby head to the north-east seeking their first league double of the season. Team News: Trying to second guess Philip Cocu is nigh on impossible. None of the nine changes for the trip to Selhurst Park let themselves or the team down but I think we can expect a return to something more like the lineups which featured against Charlton and Barnsley. Or possibly not. We seem to have a few more options now so it's a pleasant problem for the manager to deal with. Bielik misses out as he completes his three-match ban. My preferred line up would probably be: GK - Hamar RB - Wisdom LB - Lowe CB - Davies CB - Clarke DM - Bird CM - Rooney CM - Holmes ALM - Knight ARM - Waghorn CF - Marriott Subs: Roos / Bogle / Forsyth / Huddlestone / Sibley / Jozefzoon / Martin Go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Tough call.... hamer and wisdom probably deserve to keep their places Hamer Wisdom . Davies. Clarke. Lowe . Bird. Rooney holmes. Knight. Sibley Marriott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaffyRam Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Can’t see Huddz not starting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Great stuff @Rampant keep this run going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mckram Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 19 minutes ago, Saffy van der Ram said: Can’t see Huddz not starting. Yeah I agree. Middlesbrough the perfect team for Huddlestone and Rooney again although I wish we could fit Holmes, Bird, Sibley and Knight in the team with them as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrade 86 Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Who cares who starts? We've got @Rampant at the match thread helm and the lad's on fire. Boro won't know what's hit them when Rampant's Army rolls into town. COYR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andicis Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 If we can beat Boro, the next 3 after that look favourable. No easy games in this league of course, but Hull, Luton and Stoke all look beatable. If we get a very optimistic 10/12 points from those games we can start to look at playoffs. Suspect this next month might define us, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gritstone Ram Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 3 minutes ago, Andicis said: If we can beat Boro, the next 3 after that look favourable. No easy games in this league of course, but Hull, Luton and Stoke all look beatable. If we get a very optimistic 10/12 points from those games we can start to look at playoffs. Suspect this next month might define us, though. Luton will be rearranged due to round 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrade 86 Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 23 minutes ago, Andicis said: If we can beat Boro, the next 3 after that look favourable. No easy games in this league of course, but Hull, Luton and Stoke all look beatable. If we get a very optimistic 10/12 points from those games we can start to look at playoffs. Suspect this next month might define us, though. I'm thinking autos buddy. Wazza's invincibles* ? * apart from the 9 games we already lost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambitious Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Boro are in good form themselves: beat Stoke 2-1, Huddersfield 1-0, West Brom 2-0, Preston 2-0 and just drew with Spurs 1-1. They will be optimistic of beating us at their place. Equally, we should be optimistic ourselves. I expect a good game, gritty, but good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millenniumram Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Tough team selection this, it really is. Think we have to go back to a similar side to the one that’s done well in the league in recent games, but obviously players like Bogle and Martin can count themselves highly unlucky to miss out here: Roos Wisdom Davies Clarke Lowe Holmes Rooney Bird Knight Waghorn Marriott Just the one change in goal, Hamers error was awful and we need better. Roos isn’t a lot more reliable in fairness, but his distribution is a lot better at least, which I think we could see today. He’s the better option of the two. Now, on paper, before this latest run of form, Boro have been ducking awful. They were dreadful when they played us before. However, typically they’ve now found some form, and were always crap up there anyway. So it’s a game where I’d take a point to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Hamer Wisdom Davies Clarke Lowe Huddlestone Rooney knight waghorn Martin Marriott subs - roos Belick Bird sibley Lawrence Holmes Malone i expect Martin will be on the bench though for Lawrence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneBiblicalKazim Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Hamer Wisdom Davies Clarke Lowe Rooney (C) Bird Holmes Knight Marriott Martin Subs- Roos, Bogle, Huddlestone, Sibley, Lawrence, Whittaker, Waghorn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 I never expect us to win up there and I don't expect different this season. Prove me wrong Wayne, prove me wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ibby Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 Boro are flying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKRam Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 33 minutes ago, Ibby said: Boro are flying. It’s official..... so are we Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKRam Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 He has his own airline see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 We're going to win this one. Quote me, screenshot me, @ me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamLad1884 Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 Middlesbrough are going to set out to be a big physical side, can't see Hudds not playing for that reason. Wisdom at RB to bring a physical edge and Waghorn up front to put himself about. Hamer to start, we need a strong keeper when they're going to be playing alot of balls into the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnero Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 9 hours ago, Rampant said: Olivia Optimism has finally shown up and she looks and feels good Got any pics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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