Quote Originally Posted by MadAmster View Post
If I was a neutral, that would have been a good match. As a Rams fan I found it an enjoyable game of two very different halves.

We could/should have been out of sight at Half Time. Free kick and a shot from Bird and a shot by Baldock could easily have seen us 3 up at the break. One half hearted attempt aside, they weren't in the game.

2nd half they had the upper hand and apart from one very good save from a Sibs shot their keeper wasn't troubled. As Wayne and others have said, last season we'd have lost this. That gives me some heart for this season.

Yet again we had a poor ref. In the first half you could be forgiven for wondering if he wasn't on Boro's books. Less biased 2nd half but still nowhere near in danger of being called a homer. The Jags tackle? He went full blooded for the ball, played the ball and there was no way he could pull out. Never the red Colin W wanted.

Roos was good, distribution improved but can get better
Byrne and Fozzy were adequate
Jags and Davies were towers
Bird was again excellent
Shinnie was Shinnie again
Sibs and Joz were class first half but tailed off in the 2nd
Ravel good
Baldock good
Encouraging...maybe our luck will turn next Saturday lunch time.