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@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.
When all is said and done, Boro has either 3 or 4 games left this season. There's no point leaving anything in the locker because anything not spent w...
Craig Johns in the Gazette: "Poor performance from Boro today. Never really got going. Thankfully little at stake, but they're not going to be taking...
Much better to be going into the play-offs on the crest of a wave of good form, than limping over the line in less-than-good form. Man City and Arsena...
It is certainly a nervy listen, Pedro.
@pedro - Let's hope we have NOT run out of luck. In play-offs you always need luck. In fact in any game you could do with luck. If McGree's early att...
Oh well! "Steffen, rooted to the spot as Rotherham hit the target..." Rotherham takes the lead immediately after the re-start... Odoffin.
Well, that first half didn't go to plan, did it? 0-0 but Boro down to 10 men in the last minute of injury time before the Half-Time whistle. The pr...
@selwynoz - This Boro team, providing we can put out a "First XI" (ie including Hackney, Akpom, Archer and, hopefully, Forss) is capable and confident...
@clive-hurren - Spot on, Clive. 1. I'd like Chuba to play and to score. If he doesn't play he certainly WON'T score. It would be great for the cl...
Great opener by Andy. This is now the norm for this Blog. Really wonderful posts by deleriad and by Len Masterman, too. I was saddened to read Ken...
@exmil - Probably with completely different results predicted than in the exmil Xhallenge Part 3, this is what I ended up with (so you know this will ...
I note the messasges above about NowTV, SkY Red button etc. I reeived a letter from BT a week or so ago, in which they reminded me that my BT Broadba...
@exmil - That's good news and hopefully there will be a raucus atmosphere at the game. And no doubt there will be the usual warnings (which may be ...
@andy-r - I agree that if we have our best XI on the field, and those players play to their best, we SHOULD beat any of the play-off teams. Let's hop...
@andy-r - Whatever else we may think about the game itself, Luton currently lie 3rd in the table and probably favourites to end up 3rd at the end of t...