Of the 16 divisions across British football - Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two, Conference, Conference North, Conference South, Scottish Premier League, Scottish Championship, Scottish League One, Scottish League Two, Highland League, Lowland League, Welsh Premier League, Irish Premiership and Irish Premier League - only Oldham Athletic(12), North Ferriby United(11) and Portadown(12) have scored fewer goals than Middlesbrough this season.



Out of 272 teams Boro are 269th on the list.

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Astonishing.

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Ridiculous

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when you see that and we know he has no plan B



long season ahead

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Of the 16 divisions across British football - Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two, Conference, Conference North, Conference South, Scottish Premier League, Scottish Championship, Scottish League One, Scottish League Two, Highland League, Lowland League, Welsh Premier League, Irish Premiership and Irish Premier League - only Oldham Athletic(12), North Ferriby United(11) and Portadown(12) BORO ARE 17th IN THE BEST OF ALL THOSE LEAGUES. CALM DOWN MAN

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does that take into account we have played less games than other leagues.



where are we in the table relative to everyone in their leagues. what about our goal difference and defence

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Whilst it should not be taken on its own, the OP is very relevant to what we are witnessing game in game out.

We simply are no threat on the whole.



We have fleating moments, but that is it.



Even when we went 1 nil up against the worst team at the Riverside in years, we sat back and defended for the rest of the game, we are poor and i hate our style of play.

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In the league we are in only five teams have conceded fewer goals than us. One of those is Southampton who have scored a massive ONE more than us, yet they are ninth in the table. Fine margins and all that.



This is a strategy for the season.



Survive...



Improve in January.



Really improve next season?

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muttley, you are right.



lets say palace go down. we will have money by then and may decide to buy benteke for £30m+.

its work in process and i just dont get how people dont understand that players are so expensive to buy and pay in this league. it takes time and money to buy the quality. and its not like burnley or hull are way ahead of us either. i mean we have leicester one point ahead of us!is their manager getting grief?



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If we beat Swansea on Saturday, which i'm confident we will. Chances are we'll be 6 points clear of the relegation zone. Don't know about you, but i'd of taken that before the season started.

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and potentially could move up to around 14th. teams around us have tough games

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You need to read the stat again. 269th place out of 272 clubs for goals scored.



And yet people think Swansea are going to be lambs to the slaughter on Saturday. This is the same Swansea that drew 1-1 away to Everton last month, stuck 5 past Palace and 3 past Sunderland.



When was the last time you saw the Boro score 5 goals in a match? Man City home game when we won 8-1? Can't have been that long ago surely?

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sas is right, most of the teams in other divisions have played more games. In fact one of those divisions isn't British, either; it's from the Republic of Ireland where they haven't even voted to leave the EU and it's a summer league anyway - 33 games played. But even if you include it, Ayr United have scored the same number of goals as Boro so we are not 269th, we are 268th equal. Hope that helps.

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'When was the last time you saw the Boro score 5 goals in a match?'



We beat QPR away 5-1 under Strachan

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Ah well as long as we're level with Ayr United then we're doing okay.



I wonder if they have a £10m striker sitting on the bench as well?

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Thanks, Capy. You are quite right with what you say. I tweeted that stat and put UK and Ireland so should've edited the post on here. The original point was to just highlight how poor our output is in terms of goals scored and I think it's an interesting stat. You could also add in that Boro have access to more wealth, vastly more in the overwhelming majority of cases, than 252 of those clubs and wonder whether we really should be that low down on the list but it probably wouldn't be worth it.

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It's the way we play. Get over it. If you're not entertained don't come. Teams with good defence records stay up. Is that not the aim?

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It's also the same Swansea who lost 5-0 and 3-1 in their last 2 away games



Last time i checked you get 3 points for a 5-0 win and 3 points for a 1-0. The 3 points are all that matters this season. If we stay up, next season is when you expect us to start playing better/ more attacking football.

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"You could also add in that Boro have access to more wealth, vastly more in the overwhelming majority of cases, than 252 of those clubs and wonder whether we really should be that low down on the list but it probably wouldn't be worth it. "



but isnt that wealth just relative to what league you play in.



hull, sunderland, burnley,boro, southampton scored less than a goal a game. so three of those teams are the ones that got promoted.