@k-p-in-spain Cheers. That would have meant to open my work PC and I am on holiday now 😇.
BTW, what was the attendance at Riverside yesterday? Before hand it seemed something like 14 000 fans, I think.
Up the Boro!
Boro finished off pre-season with a win via a last-minute penalty converted by Delano Burgzorg.
Watch the highlights from our final pre-season game here:
https://www.mfc.co.uk/news/2024/august/04/highlights--boro-1-0-sc-heerenveen/
I have a feeling we have some goal scorers in LL, Burgzorg and Forss. And some quality in Jones, Azaz and McGree. And not forgotting Howson and Hackney. Bring the season on. Up the Boro!
The Gazette/Teesside Live reports that the match was played in front of a little over 14,000 fans. UTB!
Just wondered whether anyone else had noticed this Fulham FC article from last Tuesday:
Scroll down to the Midfielders section & tell me whether you believe it! 🙁
What on Earth is going on in our home town? I’ve come back from two weeks in France to be met with news of right wing racists thugs and looters on our streets, apparently based on false information following the tragic incident in Southport.
Frankly, I’d like to turn around and go back across the Channel, which is probably where we’d be living if the B thing hadn’t happened. There seem to be a lot of racists in our country right now and I hate it. My Dad, who was born in North Ormesby in 1920, would despair at what his country has become and why he bothered fighting for Europe’s freedom through WW2. His time as a POW in Germany towards the end of the war seems to have been in vain - he genuinely believed he was coming home to a better world.
Btw - I’m not suggesting there aren’t racists or right wing agitators in France as I know there definitely are plenty.
Reports that Boro have made Manchester City winger Micah Hamilton a target and talks are progressing
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Utter tosh!
I think this is somebody’s fantasy football dream. In any case, I’d want a lot more than £12 million for Hackney. Morgan Rodgers went for much more than that!
Middlesbrough have held positive discussions with Hamilton’s club and are at an advanced stage of sealing a move.
They have also scheduled a medical for the player, who could join them on a permanent basis.
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If he turns out to be as good as the player Boro developed Rodgers into, he’ll be a bargain! Bring it on!
This whole nonsense is clearly being manipulated and orchestrated by a small minority to appear to be bigger movement than it actually is - with any number of high profile figures looking to make capital on the back of it while offering no solutions.
Immigration has been the distraction for a decade now that has allowed those who act for the wealthy chancers to keep taking a bigger slice of the pie and blaming the poorest for the vast majority or working people being worse off.
I only hope this nonsense doesn’t spillover into football stadiums in the coming weeks as the season starts as we don’t want our game ruined by the return of hooliganism - this all needs nipping in the bud asap!
@werdermouth I couldn’t agree more. I’ll bet many of those on the streets this weekend will be cheering on Latte Lath at the next home game. We’ve had a succession of politicians and others blaming all the working class’s woes on “others” whilst underfunding local services and abandoning whole communities. Makes my blood boil.
What on Earth is going on in our home town? I’ve come back from two weeks in France to be met with news of right wing racists thugs and looters on our streets, apparently based on false information following the tragic incident in Southport.
Frankly, I’d like to turn around and go back across the Channel, which is probably where we’d be living if the B thing hadn’t happened. There seem to be a lot of racists in our country right now and I hate it. My Dad, who was born in North Ormesby in 1920, would despair at what his country has become and why he bothered fighting for Europe’s freedom through WW2. His time as a POW in Germany towards the end of the war seems to have been in vain - he genuinely believed he was coming home to a better world.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y88g1e024o
I was horrified to hear about the disturbances in Middlesbrough on the ITV ten o'clock news on Sunday & decided to take a look at what Teesside Live was reporting. I was then appalled to discover that a lot of the trouble had happened in the Parliament Road area. My first couple of years on this earth were spent at a house in Surrey Street & my maternal uncle had a greengrocer's in Parliament Road itself (on the corner with Faraday Street, if memory serves). When I was old enough, I used to earn a bit of pocket money by working there on Saturdays & during the school holidays, graduating to delivering orders to his most regular customers once I'd passed my driving test, or driving my aunt, the youngest of his three sisters, to the old warehouses off Newport Road (I think) to stock up on fresh fruit & veg when he was away on holiday. I haven't been back since I went away to university 50 years ago, but I expect that the area itself has changed changed almost beyond recognition since then, though not the people, by the sounds of the women interviewed for the BBC article.
The sports paper rumour mill continues to turn:
🚨 | BREAKING: Tommy Conway is in advanced talks with Middlesbrough.
The striker will sign a 4-year deal.
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🚨 | Millwall are one of a number of Championship clubs interested in signing Middlesbrough striker Josh Coburn.
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The Gazette on the details of the Conway transfer once it was finalised:
@original-fat-bob Both the Echo and Gazette were writing that Owen Beck is NOT in Boro's radar, like. They have someone else in mind. Up the Boro!
I think what disappointed me most on Saturday, was Josh Coburn coming on with the game dead and the new boy, not matchfit, being brought on ahead of him.
That must have hurt. Also felt for Gilbert.
Mr Carrick still has a few lessons to learn.
So the transfer window is open for nearly two weeks. Here is my take what we have now.
I have placed the name of a player in red in his main position (and where available in brackets) in the picture.
And here are my comments on the changes there might be needed or might occur.
Forss won't be back before the international break. And Bangura is injured until next pring, I think. All the others are training with the rest of the squad.
Gilbert or Finch might be loaned our until January as we have plenty of nr 10's and other attackers. McCabe hopefully won't be loaned out as Howson is carrying an injury now. We do not know how serious that is, though.
I hope McCormick is kept and not send on loan as we need to sign a left back anyway. If a new player arrives this or next week, he needs some time to bed in. And anyway he will most likely be on loan from the EPL, if the salary package is accetable by us.
So I think we have a very strong squad now for every position except left back. So it is more of deciding shall we sent some players on loan. Up the Boro!
Good summary, Jarkko.
My reading of your chart is that the squad has ample numbers and I think is a decent bet to compete for the top six.
If we want / can afford to aim higher than that then more quality is still needed. For me that is a first choice, attacking left-back to fit the Carrick mould and a (goalscoring) no. 10.
@andy-r Wasn't Conway bought for scoring goals at n:o 10 role? Then Azaz and McGree giving depth.
Left back is the interesting one - who to replace Bangura in there.
Up the Boro!
Possibly. He was originally touted as a centre forward and his goalscoring record isn't great but he may end up there and hopefully making the grade.
It feels like an opportunist signing of a promising youngster who became available more than a here-and-now promotion signing to me. Nothing wrong with that and fits the recruitment strategy but I'd be very pleasantly surprised if he moprhs into Gaston Ramirez over the next 6 weeks.
@andy-r Yes, a centre forward originally - but I do not know how Bristol City played him. But Carrick said he might be played at the nr. 10 position initially. As long as Latte Lath stays injury free, me thinks. Up the Boro!
