Ken
"Come on you Sulphurites " is bad enough, but imagine being a supporter of Borussia Monchengladbach: "Give us a B,......"
Ken telling us all to keep our feet on the ground and not to get carried away with our current results, as banana skins abound in The Championship. Ken is right.
But we can still enjoy both our current form AND results, and we can hope for the future. The team is an improved and a continually-improving team. It is well run. There are possibilities ahead for this club which didn't seem available just a few months ago. We can see our route to the sunlit uplands ahead. We can dream and we MIGHT make those dreams come true. If we carried on our current form and were in the Play-Offs, no other team would be rubbing their hands in gleeful anticipation when lining up against us. We'd be no pushover for anyone in our league.
Life now seems much better as a Boro fan than it has done for some years. Success is not definitely going to happen this season, but it is certainly possible. It feels good....
Sulphurites - presumably because of the sulphurous spa water that made the town its name. And when they in Harrogate talk of their Stray, that isn't unique, - we have The Stray in Redcar and in York. Harrogate - the town that thinks a lot of itself; the Hyacinth Bucket of towns.
Careful Dormo. The last time I heard about the promise of "sunlit uplands" it was referring to Brexit.
Careful Dormo. The last time I heard about the promise of "sunlit uplands" it was referring to Brexit.
Nooooo, you’ve said the B word. It’ll all collapse now. 😉
Ken is right, I hate the word Smoggies.
As for Manchester United at the Riverside, I remember when Beckham took a corner, the Boro fans there applauded him.
Bernie Slaven in his talk in show after the game slammed the Boro fans for their action and if they wanted to clap him, they should have done it after the game. Totally agree with Bernie. I was at the game and was furious, fans around were as well.
I think it was probably a typo from Len - I'm sure he meant to say PLexit, which was when Boro voted to leave the exclusive club of the Premier League to pursue opportunities as an independent club in the Football League in charge of its own destiny...
I think that David Moyes made an error of judgment in selecting Kurt Zouma for the recent home match against Watford after the furore on social media following his kicking of his cat. I’m not particularly a cat lover but love the beauty of tigers. Perhaps as a punishment a few minutes in a tiger’s den would sort Zouma out if only for the terror it would cause.
I think it was probably a typo from Len - I'm sure he meant to say PLexit, which was when Boro voted to leave the exclusive club of the Premier League to pursue opportunities as an independent club in the Football League in charge of its own destiny...
Brilliant Werder. Just a pity that James Cook Hospital didn't see any of that £350 million a week that the club donated to the NHS.
I think it was probably a typo from Len - I'm sure he meant to say PLexit, which was when Boro voted to leave the exclusive club of the Premier League to pursue opportunities as an independent club in the Football League in charge of its own destiny...
Brilliant Werder. Just a pity that James Cook Hospital didn't see any of that £350 million a week that the club donated to the NHS.
Maybe the club will turn foreign players back at the Tees border.
I think that David Moyes made an error of judgment in selecting Kurt Zouma for the recent home match against Watford after the furore on social media following his kicking of his cat. I’m not particularly a cat lover but love the beauty of tigers. Perhaps as a punishment a few minutes in a tiger’s den would sort Zouma out if only for the terror it would cause.
And there was me thinking the proportionality of the Bible’s, “eye for an eye” quote was a tenant of some people’s religion.
What next? Hanging, stoning?
For me, Zouma should never be near a team in the UK again but we have laws and if he’s broken one (which he clearly has, although I’ve declined to watch the video) he should be prosecuted through the courts. I assume that, unlike many employees, he’ll have something in his contract about not bringing his club or football in general in to dispute. If I could have done so within Employment Law, I’d have dismissed any employee in my business for actions like his.
Watched the Inside Match Day video. Really impressed by what I saw of McGree. The way he used the ball in the brief snippets I saw looked Premier league class and a step up from our current midfield.
Someone also posted a video of Traore's assist for a goal for Barca and that solidified something about Jones for me. The defenders sat off Traore because they were scared of him going past them so he took the chance to whip in an excellent diagonal cross for a goal.
When you watch Jones you see that he has that in his locker as well. He can whip in a diagonal to the far post, go past his man and put in a pull back from the byeline. But he's also perfectly happy to bide his time and recycle the ball. Plus he has pace to burn and can tackle as well. He has it all and backs it up with really good decision making which is phenomenal when you consider how little football he has played at this level. (His only weak point is the occasional rash foul when defending.)
Tres amusant....
And, relating to an earlier post by Len, the uplands (sunlit or not) are currently not visible from my house. A deep, dark layer of stratus clouds overhead - actually not very far overhead as they seem to be lowering - means that the uplands are shrouded when viewed from here. We are currently awaiting the arrival of Storm Dudley with an amber weather warning for potentially dnagerous winds, so that will break up the cloud cover, I guess.
Tres amusant....
And, relating to an earlier post by Len, the uplands (sunlit or not) are currently not visible from my house. A deep, dark layer of stratus clouds overhead - actually not very far overhead as they seem to be lowering - means that the uplands are shrouded when viewed from here. We are currently awaiting the arrival of Storm Dudley with an amber weather warning for potentially dnagerous winds, so that will break up the cloud cover, I guess.
Sounds like every day in South Ribble! Hopefully, this time next year I’ll live somewhere a bit drier.
@Martin Bellamy Abroad? Only Norway has more rain 🤣🤣🤣.
Up the Boro!
@Martin Bellamy Abroad? Only Norway has more rain 🤣🤣🤣.
Up the Boro!
Unfortunately, the B thing has put paid to our hoped for move to France. It’ll be a drier part of the UK. Preston is the wettest city in England and, after nearly 35 years, I’ve had enough of near permanent grey skies. Maybe time to head back east over the Pennines…
Plenty of nice market towns within striking distance of The Riverside - Leyburn (Campbells!!!), Bedale (Cockburn's butchers and many other shops) & Helmsley (the wonder that is Hunter's and the wonderful micro-brewery just off the square, quite apart from the Castle and Duncombe Park) for example, or the *massive* City of Ripon or even Thirsk (or, if you wanted to go over to the other side of the Tees, the equally *massive* City of Durham. Talking of cities, Northallerton seems to be growing into a city or at least a market town on steroids, with loads of new housing being built on its outskirts and, of course, there are plenty of villages in God's Own County. There are some good pubs and butchers' shops in Barney, too, but that might be a little too "Dominic" for you...
Cheers FD. We keep looking and know all of those places really well. I used to live just south of Durham in Hett Village before moving west in 1988.
My sister has had a farm near Thirsk since I was 12, in the small village of Cowesby.
I’m sure we’ll find the right place eventually - possibly close enough to allow more regular visits to the Riverside.
The West ham affair of the cat that flew (through the air)! I have got to think that the Manager was under orders to play him, because he was booed throughout the match, which in my opinion will have affected the team. He then played him again the next match, which in my opinion clinches the matter, because that made it a sacking affair.
WE used to go camping at a farm in Cowesby - until maybe about 7 or 8 years ago. Can't remember the name of the farm but there was a 5 van site there and the farmer used to take rallies. Eventually the farmer stopped taking rallies and then closed the 5 van site - probably not worth it for him.
There was a big flood one year and it damaged a bridge which meant we had to go all around the "valley" (Cowesby is in a sort of hollow spooned out of the side of the NY Moors) rather than take a much shorter jounrey to get to the place we needed to be. Because the bridge and the valley wasn't considered to be very important, it took ages for that bridge to be sorted out.
In other news, I have today bought the ticket for my seat at The Riverside for the FA Cup 5th Round game against Spurs on 1st March. Tickets are available by phone on 01642 929421 (though with a long queue) and online but personal callers can go to the Ticket Office from tomorrow. I know the game is live on BBC TV with a 7.55pm kick off, but for old fogeys like me £15 seems a bargain for my WSU seat.
I mean - a game against Spurs with a chance of getting through to Round 6. Of course we can win OR lose, but I don't expect Spurs supporters are exactly rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of coming up to meet an improving Boro team. There would have been easier-looking options open to them!
Forever Dormo, I got mine on Tuesday evening for east upper by doing it online to load onto my season card, no problems or delay.
Come on BORO.
WE used to go camping at a farm in Cowesby - until maybe about 7 or 8 years ago. Can't remember the name of the farm but there was a 5 van site there and the farmer used to take rallies. Eventually the farmer stopped taking rallies and then closed the 5 van site - probably not worth it for him.
There was a big flood one year and it damaged a bridge which meant we had to go all around the "valley" (Cowesby is in a sort of hollow spooned out of the side of the NY Moors) rather than take a much shorter jounrey to get to the place we needed to be. Because the bridge and the valley wasn't considered to be very important, it took ages for that bridge to be sorted out.
That could be my sister’s place, Ings Farm, although I thought she’d stopped doing it more years ago than that. She got annoyed one year when tintenters complained that there were too many flies in the field. 🪰🪰
It MIGHT have been Ings Farm, Cowesby, but I might be wrong about its being only 7-8 years ago. Mrs Dormo tells me it was "Ages Ago" we last went to Cowesby. What I find is that time is accelerating - it passed very slowly when climbing up the hill (when school summer holidays definitely lasted 12 weeks) but is passing increasingly quickly now I'm on the downward slope.
We really enjoyed Cowesby. Flat field and although not far from home, it seeemed "remote". Happy days.
I suppose all you can say if people complain about the number of flies is that they are welcome to bring spiders with them, to catch the flies....