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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...
@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...
@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...
@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...
@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...
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...
@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 ...
@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 ...
@lenmasterman - Good post, Len. I agree every word. It's a 10 from me...
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, ...
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 ...
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. ...
@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...
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...
@pedro - The crime there, Pedro, was Smith trying the same trick a second time with the same result, and a goal ensued.
@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...
@pedro - Intriguing odds, Pedro. Thanks for that link.
@exmil - Silly me! Must learn to read properly sometime soon...!¬
@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 ...
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...
@lenmasterman - You have to laugh. How many times have we heard hundreds - no, THOUSANDS - at the Riverside singing about Middlesbrough, "the greates...
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...
...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...
@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...
@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 ...
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...
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...
@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...
@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...
@werdermouth - Thanks, Werder, for all that you do on this Blog.