Discussion Forum

Thank you for the starter piece, Martin. I realise the games are coming thick and fast and the Leicester game will be history tomorrow night. Boro re...

I guess Rob Edwards and his staff will be having conversations like the comments made above. Maybe one of them wondering about wingbacks and another ...

@paulinboro - Clearly on current form we do NOT deserve to be in 2nd place. But on the basis of all the games so far this season, the table doesn't li...

Putting McGree to one side (as he has been for much of his Boro career), it would take someone with very good eyesight to spot many silver linings for...

And now it is Watford 2-0 Boro (!!!)

Let's hope the manager knows what he is doing up front, that he has drilled the players during this last week, and that Boro has a touch of fortune th...

@stircrazy - So your cheeky tenner isn't going on a Boro win 17-0 at Watford to allow the team to charge back to the top of The Championship, then? ...

I think we will have to see more of Rob Edwards and over an extended period of time before we can properly consider whether he has a place in the Pant...

@malcolm - He was only here (on loan) for half a season before he was injured then returned to his parent club, but we did tend to rely on him so the ...

@lenmasterman ...and how well that turned out for Boro and for Hamilton!

Thanks, Andy R, for another tour de force of a Match Preview. As has already been mentioned above, the analysis in that Preview has prompted others to...

Thre's a lot of experience in the legs on this Blog but not much in terms of stamina if we had to run up and down the wings!

We are now at a stage in the season where enough games have been played to say that the league position more or less accurately shows the level of the...

A big build-up to that game but then a steady let-down. In fact the whole thing was very ODD. I set off at my normal time but hit a real traffic hol...

Before we set off for The Riverside shortly this afternoon, let us remember that it is exactly 610 years ago today, on 25th October 1415, that the Fre...

It apparently peaked in the 1960s (when steel was still "a thing" and ICI was marching forwards), declined in the following decades but has been incre...

Family life, eh, Werder? Incidentally I have just checked the oracle known as the internet. I said the population of Middlesbrough in 1831 was 31. I...

@werdermouth - Cheers! But "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy". So set aside some time for your family, you, and for Boro! ATB.

@pedro - Thank you for the blushingly-kind comments, Pedro. So far as concerns the people of Middlesbrough, you are right that unless descended fr...

@k-p-in-spain - You can bet that few Boro supporters would complain if, against Wrexham or another of our opponents, a blatant penalty were to be ref...

@lenmasterman - I sympathise with that view, Len. In real time I thought it was a penalty. But then again, I support Boro and sometimes you think ther...

Thanks again, everyone, for the comments. I had the time to read the recent replies to this thread whilst waiting at The Friarage in Northallerton. N...

@presidentjump - 1-0 would do me! But it would be nice to score a couple of early goals and then be able to enjoy the rest of the game without having ...

@jarkko - Thanks, Jarkko. As you say, my family is Welsh and my wife's family is Scottish. My son was born in Northallerton and has lived in North Yo...

@k-p-in-spain - Thanks, KP. Probably because of my family background (on both Mother and Father's side, and 3 of my 4 grandparents) I have long been ...

@original-fat-bob - Very kind of you, Bob! I see also that Elliot Lee is also being assessed by Wrexham and all three players are said to have suffer...

@malcolm - I was wondering to myself last night what I would think if Boro received a bid of, say, £30M or £35M for HH next January, but BORO looked t...

@lenmasterman - Thank you, Len. Very much appreciated! My father (who was nicknamed "Taff") and his family were part of that Welsh diaspora, coming t...

@clive-hurren - Very kind of you, Clive. I think the fact Wrexham also won last night shows that the "Hollywood team" has found its feet in The Champ...

@martin-bellamy - Thanks for your kindness. And, yes, Bohemia can be very dangerous, bears or not.