The Middlesbrough Gazette
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Tommy Conway runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market31 Aug 2026
Law McCabe hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Middlesbrough can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Riley McGree in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Middlesbrough this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Middlesbrough training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aidan Morris is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad31 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Alan Browne
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alan Browne, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Riley McGree
A mark of 7.87, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match29 Aug 2026
Riley McGree rescues a point for Middlesbrough
It needed Riley McGree to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Bristol City, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Riley McGree is off the mark for Middlesbrough
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The stands have heard the Will Lankshear talk too
What was a back-page story is now a matter for the terraces, and the terraces do not do nuance. Middlesbrough would like it dealt with before it becomes the only question anybody asks.
In brief
- Market The Leo Castledine story refuses to die
- Market Will Lankshear has been watched