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I wonder what the karanka cracks are caused by. They've played good football for two seasons and he looks like he's enjoying it top there ( no idea why or how).
I'd like Derby to go up, if only to see how your owners are going to deal with is it as they seem to be conducting a all our nothing sort of approach
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I don't think @dst will agree on the "played good football" bit this season. They've been effective, like we were under Clement, but it's not always been pretty and I think him walking out and then coming back after missing a match shows that there's something not quite right up there. I wouldn't say he's enjoying it at all. The pressure is on him to get Boro promoted.
We've spent less than some of the other clubs around us, although it seems that we get labelled as the big spenders as we broke our transfer record a couple of times in one window. We seem to be operating within our budget so it shouldn't be the end of the world if we don't go up this time. The owner is a lifelong Derby fan with a shitload of money which can be dangerous or good. I'm not too sure which of those it is yet.
Brighton are likely to sneak into the autos on the last day. I can't decide which of Boro or Burnley wants it the least at the moment. Boro results have picked up with their last minute escapades masking over the Karanka cracks.
I'd fancy us to make it to Wembley again if we don't have some sort of mental meltdown beforehand (the Derby way), but we won't be heavy favourites again this year which will make it better when we inevitably lose. Again.