Middlesbrough v Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread

[sickbeggar]

oh dear. heart over head 2-0 to put Bruce out of our misery. head over heart still home win, but could be a hammering. Though.........its  hoof vs hoof. if anyone knows how pulis plays its Bruce and vice-versa. Oh hell, i'll play safe and predict you'd want a seat facing away from the pitch

[Damo70]

1-1.

[appyarryampton]

Looking forward to this, another long trek after Brentford.
90 minutes of hoof ball, Grealish and Snodgrass pulling out of tackles to avoid chipping their nail varnish and Pulis sporting his new Boro baseball cap. Seasons greetings
0-0 (Matchball admitted to A&E with concussion).

[wombat]

Tiny penis v T Rex.

A feast of total football awaits.

0-0

I initially read that as

A feast of total football twats.

Which I suppose works just as well!

Boro Something Aston Villa 0

[KevinGage]

Looking forward to this, another long trek after Brentford.
90 minutes of hoof ball, Grealish and Snodgrass pulling out of tackles to avoid chipping their nail varnish and Pulis sporting his new Boro baseball cap. Seasons greetings
0-0 (Matchball admitted to A&E with concussion).

Grealish has actually been flying into tackles recently.

With little success, admittedly.

[levico]

We’ll huff and puff and get turned over 3-0.

The furore continues.

[sickbeggar]

as i keep saying, grealish tried hard against Brentford. He was as much use as a chocolate teapot with a Bruce team though

[Allan C]

Pulis V Bruce  a footballing nightmare. Both teams will struggle to get a 0-0

[Legion]

Prehistoric man v Bruceosaurus. I feel sorry for the ball.

[VILLA MOLE]

Prehistoric man v Bruceosaurus. I feel sorry for the ball.

It will have some lovely views of the north east

[Gareth]

I’d like to see

Johnstone
DeLaet Chester Elphick Hutton
Jedinak
Hourihane Onomah
Grealish
Davis Hogan

Subs
Steer
RHM
Green
O’Hare
Doyle-Hayes
Elmo
Bree

Only one player out of position in Hutton but he looked better at left back than Taylor has.  Have completely left Snodgrass out :-)

[Pete3206]

Defeat

[VILLA MOLE]

I thought Taylor has done ok , I would b tempted to play Hutton at centre back

Elphick scares the life out of me

[ktvillan]

I always want a win, but I expect a defeat.  There may be a silver lining to that though.

[villan from luton]

I thought Taylor has done ok , I would b tempted to play Hutton at centre back

Elphick scares the life out of me

I actually thought Elphick was amongst the better of a bad bunch the other night