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We don't play 'good' football, our defenders defend first, attack 2nd, we have 2 deep lying midfielders to make 6 defensive minded players. Leadbitter can play a bit but Clayton is a natural destroyer (who can also play a little too). We don't concede many but often lose when we concede first. Karanka sets up like Mourinho (and possibly fuck ups like him too) but tries to win. The pressure is high and its telling in what he says/how he acts. Still this is his first job and he is nearly there. We were a mess and now we win. I like it, it's effective. 'Good' football got us in a right mess with Mowbray.
If Brighton were to get an automatic place I'd suggest its because they beat us on the last day of the season to put us in the playoffs. I think we'll sneak it tho......I hope.....please.
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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.