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RE: Playoff Semi-Final 2nd Leg Boro v Coventry

I am not surprised to hear the relative poverty of Boro's set-piece goals this season (AndyR's post, above). I know the crowd tends to cheer loudly w...

1 week ago
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RE: Playoff Semi-Final 2nd Leg Boro v Coventry

@powmillnaemore - Very good post, Powmill. I was just about to pull my gun from its holster and follow you out of the trench. Then I realised I'm a l...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Playoff Semi-Final 2nd Leg Boro v Coventry

@exmil - "In reply to criticism of the loss of intensity during the last few fixtures, MC probably knew Howson and Ramsey were finished for the season...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Playoff Semi-Final 2nd Leg Boro v Coventry

@pedro - We will have to HOPE for next season, that we don't lose all our better players and that we will sign some players who have flown under the r...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Playoff Semi-Final 2nd Leg Boro v Coventry

@ken - Sorry to hear you had a fall. I hope you recover and was pleased that you didn't mention any broken bones or similar. Take care. The Ashes sho...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Playoff Semi-Final 2nd Leg Boro v Coventry

It feels as numbingly disappointing at 8.15am the next day, as it felt at the referee's blowing of the full-time whistle. I suspect we all knew as so...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Playoff Semi-Final 2nd Leg Boro v Coventry

@exmil - I must be more nervous about this match than I thought! Coventry City, obviously. Hopefully Luton Town in a stadium in a capital city near ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Playoff Semi-Final 2nd Leg Boro v Coventry

@billy - If we are ahead at the time the final whistle blows, that will be good enough for me. It would be great to be three goals up in the first 10 ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Playoff Semi-Final 2nd Leg Boro v Coventry

@lenmasterman - Good post, Len. I agree every word. It's a 10 from me...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Playoff Semi-Final 2nd Leg Boro v Coventry

Well, Si's return will be welcomed by me... And if there are others lurking in the background, reading the comments but feeling too shy to join in, ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Playoff Semi-Final 2nd Leg Boro v Coventry

If the Play-Offs turn out to be a successful campaign for Boro, I hope everyone on this blog realises it will mean a change of name for our club. In ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Playoff Semi-Final 2nd Leg Boro v Coventry

Well done again, Old Feather Brain. I hope that the next Starter For Ten you write will be in readiness for Boro v Manchester City in 3 months time. ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Playoff Semi-Final, 1st Leg - Coventry v Boro

@jarkko - I will certainly be there, Jarkko. Hoping to be able to celebrate afterwards, too! I am confident that, in front of a sell-out crowd, Boro...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Playoff Semi-Final, 1st Leg - Coventry v Boro

Well, here we are at last! The regular season over and only the play-offs to come between Heaven or.....(?). Fine margins between absolute elation a...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Playoff Semi-Final, 1st Leg - Coventry v Boro

@pedro - The crime there, Pedro, was Smith trying the same trick a second time with the same result, and a goal ensued.

3 weeks ago
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RE: Playoff Semi-Final, 1st Leg - Coventry v Boro

@k-p-in-spain - Safe journey back to Sunny Spain (from a currently very grey, cloudy and damp North Yorkshire), KP. Let's hope you will have a spring...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Playoff Semi-Final, 1st Leg - Coventry v Boro

@pedro - Intriguing odds, Pedro. Thanks for that link.

3 weeks ago
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RE: Boro v Coventry

@exmil - Silly me! Must learn to read properly sometime soon...!¬

3 weeks ago
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RE: Boro v Coventry

@exmil - Well, we all know from experience that my predictions tend not to be accurate (hence my relegation in this year's competition). I will give ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Boro v Coventry

If any of the 4 play-off teams played home and away against this year's Real Madrid or this year's Manchester City, I think the Madrid/Manchester team...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Boro v Coventry

@lenmasterman - You have to laugh. How many times have we heard hundreds - no, THOUSANDS - at the Riverside singing about Middlesbrough, "the greates...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Boro v Coventry

I don't know what I think about the Coventry game. it began with a rousing rendition of God Save the King (though I have seen some Twitter posts sugg...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Boro v Coventry

...and finally, I just hope that Coventry players don't start like a proverbial train, immediately after the starting whistle. I'd like Boro to do th...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Boro v Coventry

@powmillnaemore - "If it will be wet...!" It's been raining non-stop for ages, I've seen some people in my street starting to make an Ark, and we all...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Boro v Coventry

@malcolm - Thanks for that link, Martin. My view is that none of those 5 most expensive signings "did it" for Boro. And also thanks for the "play-off ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Boro v Coventry

A great thread, this one, with yet ANOTHER cracking opener from OFB (I missed the "Old" Fat Bob typed in error, when I first read the response from Se...

4 weeks ago
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RE: Rotherham v Boro

It is REALLY difficult to know what is best for Boro. Like some others, I don't envy Carrick in having to make his decision. I can see the advantages...

4 weeks ago
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RE: Rotherham v Boro

@werdermouth - But if Coventry should LOSE against Boro, whether a First XI or a team containing many fringe players, wouldn't that give Boro the psyc...

4 weeks ago
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RE: Rotherham v Boro

@exmil - I'm not sure it's as easy as having the choice as to which team to play in the play-offs, by allowing Coventry to win our next game, or to p...

4 weeks ago
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RE: Rotherham v Boro

@werdermouth - Thanks, Werder, for all that you do on this Blog.

4 weeks ago
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