Last seen: December 3, 2025 11:50 am
1. Why doesn't Riley McGree get a start in a Boro team that's hardly been pulling up trees in his absence on international duty, and when he looks bo...
@pedro - Definitely true. I have a mate who doesn't "do" social media. Yesterday at the Battered Badger we talked about the season ticket renewal mes...
HOT NEWS !!!! EARLY BIRD RENEWAL OF SEASON TICKETS - announced today and you have until 15th March 2024 to guarrantee your seat (!). Different pri...
@jarkko - Burton: the centre of the beer-brewing industry (not gentlemens' suit-making)! Greenwood certainly had a wonderful strike for goal that w...
Martin - as expected, a very good Starter. Crikey, we play again as soon as Wednesday? Does God have no mercy on BORO fans?
Surely FOUR Candles, OFB?
Before we get to the game... BORO has sold Rogers after a very decent bid put forward by Aston Villa. Another player who has shown an ability to sc...
@martin-bellamy - No. I understand that position. One might on the one hand take the "headlong gamble for promotion" route. Gamble everything on...
I understand even more having read articles recently linked in this and other threads, that money helps and BIG money helps even more in seeking succe...
@pedro - Thank you for that link. An interesting article. Good to see it from other perspectives (in this case, Hull City and Sunderland's).
@werdermouth - Valid position to take from it all, Werder.
@martin-bellamy - If your aim at the start of each season is to finish maybe 9th out of 23 in a league where you win more games than you lose, if you ...
@malcolm - If Boro got rid of all the players who've not exactly been on top form recently, it might be a struggle to get a team out against Bristol C...
@exmil - Nine points to remain with a chance of disappointment at the end of the Play-Offs but 10 or 12 would be better. (Not trying to wind people u...
@k-p-in-spain - It's always interesting to read about things from the other side's perspective. Sunderland must have been very apprehensive about the...
@martin-bellamy - Wonderful cartoon comic strip. Stips the pomposity from Boro's former manager.
@original-fat-bob 😊
@malcolm - Thanks for that, Malcolm. I see the podcast/interview lasts more than an hour so I will set aside some time later today to watch it. Chee...
@jarkko - Thanks, Jarkko. THAT was the stat I had seen and was trying to remember in point No 4 in my post of 4.24pm yesterday! Eight players with 5...
If we'd left the stadium with Boro having held on the 1-0 lead, I'd probably have been happy. There may be the odd game where Boro plays really well ...
@eboroacum - Can't disagree with that...
@eboroacum Thanks for the link. Now that IS a small village to host a top-flight team.
@powmillnaemore ; Ah! The Toon! St John's Toon. Perth. I drove past their stadium last Wednesday lunchtime and back again on Monday afternoon. ...
@clive-hurren - Loved the Starter piece, Clive. Well done. Sunderland supporters embarass themsleves by their repeated insistence that "this game is...
@original-fat-bob - NOTED, OFB. Thanks for that.... I've written down the new date for Starter article purposes.
Sorry, @werdermouth to have ignored the stream and your Opener until today. I am thinking of applying for a job either as a lumberjack or a waste dis...
If the manager or anyone else calls out the referee and his assistants, then they need to call out the players, too. Rogers did a bit later on in the...
I hadn;t thought that Rogers, for all that he has shown improvement in his short time at Boro, would be considered "good enough" for a team like Aston...
@jarkko - I enjoyed reading that article about the sauna from 1948, Jarkko, and the article next to it on the BBC site about sauna diplomacy in Washin...