Middlesbrough are still not completely out of the race for a place in the Championship play-offs as things stand. Michael Carrick‘s side currently sit 10th in the second-tier table. They are seven points adrift of the top six, with eight games of their regular season still to play. As a result, they do still have a chance of breaking into the play-off, to give themselves a chance of winning promotion. However, Middlesbrough will surely have to be almost perfect in the run-in if they are to do that, given the form of those teams above them. Now though, it appears there is a belief may not have …