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Great intro Andy. Many thanks.

It's no great surprise to me that we appear to be under-prepared for the beginning of the new season. There are good reasons for this (the season's ea...

Agree with all of the above and have really appreciated all of the very high quality match previews from Bob and Andy over the past season.

Thanks to Ken and Powmill for two excellent posts, exemplifying once again that this is the place to come to if you need authoritative responses on a ...

Great stuff, Clive. Funny and very enjoyable.

Ken, I went to that Darlington-Chelsea replay in 1958 and saw perhaps the most famous game in the club's history, a marvellous 4-1 win with (as you ...

My best Boro post-war team Schwarzer Knowles Hardwick Souness Woodgate Pallister Gibson Mannion Clough Juninho Holliday

Nice one,exmil

Great stuff, Powmill. Thanks for posting.

Thanks Andy for a typically interesting and polished opener, and to Bob too for all of his splendid work and research throughout the season. The Luton...

Thanks, Clive. Knowing a little about your own distinguished background as a former headteacher, modern language specialist and school inspector it me...

You never "go wrong", Ken. Your writing is excellent because you are interested in what you are writing and convey that enthusiasm in everything that ...

Perhaps I should just say that my modest academic background is not really relevant to Diasboro as I have never been able to come up with a scrap of e...

Werder One from the University of Diasboro would mean a lot more.

Werder I think there's something in that. I make mistakes when typing that I wouldn't when writing. It's as though the physical act of forming t...

Stircrazy I take your point, but I suspect the mistake is more a matter of rushing through copy without checking against a tight deadline rather tha...

After last night's game, I've had a change of heart and now think, like Philip and KP, that getting three points today is of paramount importance, whi...

That's right Bob. The infamous Cup Final was the scene of a famous fight on the morning of the game when Neil Cox, who had declared himself unfit cr...

And maybe Ravanelli has by now managed to scrape together enough money to pay back to the club all of the unpaid milk, gas and electricity bills he le...

Excellent opener, Bob. Many thanks. That piece on Crooks from the Echo does, of course, quite literally echo our discussion on here earlier this w...

Mogga's treatment by the Venky's and "the suits" at Blackburn is despicable. His contract is ending soon and no one at the club has accorded him even...

What was, in a way, quite shocking about last night's game was the disjunction between our expectation, as fans , that this was the most important gam...

I wouldn't fancy us to get a draw against straws.

The old excuse that it's the result that counts rather than the performance doesn't wash with me after a display that showed little of the intensity t...

No passion, little intensity, no pace, with a preference for passing backwards. A shambles illuminated only by Tav's impressive strike. This a just re...

I suppose that almost everyone on exmil's challenge will have done what I did and tipped Boro for a win tonight. We should win the game, but the fac...

Agree with that Andy. Crooks was pushed up front in the second half at Reading. He had run himself into the ground doing his defensive covering dut...

Great post deleriad and the best analysis of the Wilder situation, along with Werder's response, that I've yet seen. Any road up, it's very de-stab...