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@david-in-cumbria - Hope you're feeling better soon.
Players' wages - MY BAD (as youngsters say, these days) but I SHOULD have said £19K for McNair rather than £17K, and I should have included Muniz in t...
Players' wages - Just read an article in the Hartlepool Mail that lists the wages of the highest-paid 15 Boro players. I knew that Steffen, being a M...
@exmil - Thanks for the link. He certainly sounds the part, doesn't he? And walking the walk as well, so far...
@lenmasterman - Cracking post. You certainly know your O'Niens. @OFB - Thanks for letting me know where you got the 67% Boro win and 33% draw predi...
Well done OFB and Powmill-Naemore - especially after the brief "loss in availablilty" from the Diasboro site. Like Powmill I enjoyed the "carrickatu...
The first thing to say is that I have enjoyed reading the posts after the Millwall game, some of which are as good and as perceptive a collection of c...
@john-richardson - I reccognise that losing a pet who has been with you for many years will feel like losing a close family member. Many sympathies. ...
@deleriad - Thanks for the Chuba Akpom goal-fest. Enjoyed reminding myself about those goals! Let's hope Chuba can add to his total against Millwall...
@ken - Like others, I am very sorry to hear about the news from your oncologist. However I send my very best wishes and hope the outlook turns out bet...
AndyR - Thanks for the starter. I would be delighted with the 2-1 win suugested by OFB but would be happy with any win at all. A clean sheet would b...
@ken - That really is very kind, Ken, so thank you!
Boro v Brighton - FA Cup 3rd Round. I thought I'd put a few thoughts down here, the morning after the game, before reading either the Sunday newspap...
It all depends on the teams selected. If Boro puts out a strong team and Brighton rests a lot of players, it could easily be 2-1 to Boro. We could e...
@original-fat-bob - I agree your comment from yesterday at 12.10pm about the job Michael Carrick has been doing so far at Middlesbrough. I don't thin...
@deleriad - Brighton has a very good Premier League team, but they are extremely unlikely to win the title. So for them the concentration should be o...
@lenmasterman - Thanks. I may very have a look at it.
@ken - Thanks for the reply. Mr Pearson still taught physics at SWT when I was there. Pallant-Sidaway is a name I have heard but he was before my tim...
@ken - Well, Ken, you can remember events almost 80 years ago better than events in the last few days or weeks? Many of us say similar things without ...
@selwynoz - Was it someone on here, or in answer to an earlier thread, who put up a reference to a list of clubs according to when they last had a 20-...
1-3, as predicted. Does it get better than this (apart from 1-4, 1-5, 0-3, 0-4 etc)?
Thanks, Andy R for your last opener of the year/first opener of 2023. I think we have to go along with Original Old Codger's suggested result and eve...
@powmillnaemore - I went to a lecture presented by the England Team Doctor (Dr Neil Phillips) at school. He was one of the two England football team ...
I did LevParikian a disservice - we started off with 4,096 words with only 4 left standing (for now!).
@jarkko - Glued. As in "I used epoxy adhesive to glue the two parts together". A clue is something Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot might use to tra...
Been to the Slaughtered Stoat. I understand NOW that the Boro game is on Sky Red Button rather than on the main channels, and therefore will NOT be a...
@jarkko - That's always been my view. If you have a player who creates such havoc in the opposition's ranks that they decide to double-mark him, anot...
@plato - That WOULD be good.
Nice starter again, OFB. Really this is not the time to go back to predicting results, but... Boro's recent form is excellent and the blip at Burn...
Well, folks, that was an enjoyable Boxing Day present, wasn't it? A full stadium apart from the empty blocks surrounding the Wigan supporters. The w...