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Len Masterman
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RE: Boro v Sheffield United

Two great goals, a world class strike from Watmore and with his weaker left foot, plus a 20 yard drive by McNair have fully vindicated NW"s selections...

4 years ago
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RE: Boro v Sheffield United

I'd say Bob's news is accurate based on NW's pre-match interview. He looked fraught, and far from his normal pre-game ebullience.

4 years ago
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RE: Boro v Sheffield United

Thanks Bob. Explosive news (or rumour), though not unexpected. However, there can be only one winner. The team shows NW putting his policy into pr...

4 years ago
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RE: Boro v Sheffield United

@werdermouth Thanks, Werder. A new film would be nice, but we have seen this one twice before. The first, a lavishly funded extravaganza, based ...

4 years ago
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RE: Boro v Sheffield United

Neil Warnock obviously reached a major turning point whilst most of us were sleeping in the early hours of Sunday morning. He had selected tonight...

4 years ago
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RE: Reading v Boro

It will be good to see today's game live, use our own eyes and reach our own conclusions, since as Philip has rightly pointed out Warnock's comments o...

4 years ago
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RE: Boro v Blackpool

@andy-r You could tell her you will be taking her on a great roller coaster ride. And buy her a stick of rock.

4 years ago
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RE: Nottingham Forest v Boro

The unlikely couple he picked out for particular praise were, of course, his own signings. He was really praising himself, a sign perhapsof his incr...

4 years ago
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RE: Nottingham Forest v Boro

@jarkko Totally agree with you Jarkko. The praise for Peltier, who was so obviously a weak link who was not up to his task. Crooks, who scarcely...

4 years ago
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RE: Nottingham Forest v Boro

Para 4: Yes you are

4 years ago
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RE: Nottingham Forest v Boro

@philip-of-huddersfield To say nothing of hammering us.

4 years ago
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RE: Coventry v Boro

Fabulous, Bob. Thanks for that. Now, after all the worrying, I'll get a good night's sleep tonight.

4 years ago
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RE: Coventry v Boro

Thanks for the excellent intro Bob. Much appreciated. But, Wot no Jones?

4 years ago
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RE: Boro v Blackburn

Thanks, Jarkko. I hadn't visited Martin's blog for some time, so it was good to see that it is as good as ever. Thanks to both.

4 years ago
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RE: Boro's squad starts to shape up

What a wonderful performance by Michail Antonio in his demolition of Leicester last night. And what a fantastic post-match interview, one of the best ...

4 years ago
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RE: Boro V Bristol City

Thanks, Bob, for a very well researched opener. It will be interesting to see how far Pearson's pragmatism will affect or modify Bristol's more purist...

4 years ago
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RE: Fulham v Boro

@powmillnaemore Yes, apologies and congrats to Jarkko. I had overlooked his prescient prediction.

4 years ago
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RE: Fulham v Boro

Special mention for Powmill for forecasting not simply the right result, but the correct score at Fuham. A triumph for optimism, hope, faith, positi...

4 years ago
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RE: Fulham v Boro

@stircrazy Thanks for taking the time and trouble to copy up the Times report. I would have missed it otherwise and I thought it both accurate and f...

4 years ago
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RE: Boro's squad starts to shape up

And what, by the way, is the club's position this season on taking the knee? The silence on the issue at the club, and indeed throughout football, has...

4 years ago
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RE: Boro's squad starts to shape up

It is ludicrous that the club has not absolutely insisted that everyone associated with it has to be vaccinated, given the implications of an outbreak...

4 years ago
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RE: Boro's squad starts to shape up

@exmil No one on here has written Payero off, and I doubt that they will. He looks a good prospect with a progressive attitude and a willingness to...

4 years ago
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RE: Fulham v Boro

Bob, A pretty accurate summary of where we are. Think we could get stuffed at Fulham with one team trying to play football, and the other attempt...

4 years ago
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RE: Boro’s Foreign Strikers

@ken Great stuff, Ken. Yakuba was one of a long line of players who were signed because they played very well against us, form which they were nev...

4 years ago
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RE: Boro's squad starts to shape up

@andy- We all saw how dynamic Bamford was as a mainline striker during his first spell with us, and how badly he was treated by a succession of mana...

4 years ago
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RE: Boro’s Foreign Strikers

Viduka was a top class striker, but, like so many of that era (Ravanelli springs immediately to mind), someone who looked after No 1 rather than even ...

4 years ago
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RE: Boro’s Foreign Strikers

Thanks, Ken. A very telling stat in your last sentence. In spite of Britt's miserable final season, he wasn't as bad as that when we first signed him....

4 years ago
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RE: Boro’s Foreign Strikers

Dave Morris's Club Night was on the radio for years, and at the end of every programme, over the sound of the closing music, Dave could be heard yelli...

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RE: Boro’s Foreign Strikers

Thanks, Ken. Lindy was indeed a memorable character. He had the hardest shot of any Boro player since the war and his average of a goal every three g...

4 years ago
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RE: Boro's squad starts to shape up

@stircrazy Thanks for that. I'd missed it. Why Josh isn't down in Devon with the rest of the most promising kids is a mystery to me.

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