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Pedro de Espana
Pedro de Espana
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RE: Boro v Bournemouth

@original-fat-bob Bob, can only hope it is the goalie who was not on the bench Tuesday.

6 years ago
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RE: Boro v Bournemouth

Werder, another great pre-match thread, along with the built in black humour. As with Andy, and following on from Barnsley, albeit with a slightly d...

6 years ago
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RE: EFL Cup: Boro v Barnsley

Great to hear that you have taken the road to hopefully a healthier future Bob. Certainly as Boro fans, we require to keep our blood pressure in check...

6 years ago
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RE: EFL Cup: Boro v Barnsley

After reading all of the above and looking at the upcoming matches, I have just thrown away my Stanley knife.

6 years ago
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RE: EFL Cup: Boro v Barnsley

@grovehillwallah With respect GHW, we do not have the players that are suited to the long hit ball. It has always been his style and I can accept th...

6 years ago
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RE: EFL Cup: Boro v Barnsley

Besides being very disappointed with that performance from a number of so called first team players and squad fill ins, I am more disappointed with Mr...

6 years ago
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RE: EFL Cup: Boro v Barnsley

This has to be one of the worst performances, in football terms, for some time. We have more “midfield” players than you can count, and none of them...

6 years ago
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RE: EFL Cup: Boro v Barnsley

@werdermouthThat just makes it worse!!!

6 years ago
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RE: EFL Cup: Boro v Barnsley

I only hope that this is Barnsley’s first team we are watching. They are giving Boro a lesson in football passing against our continued from Friday,...

6 years ago
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RE: Match Report: Watford 1 - 0 Boro

Been away for a few days and busy with a potential new "project"... So belated thanks to Werder for his humorous pre-match intro and to RR for his det...

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

@andy-r Agree wholeheartedly Andy. I have been banging on about the midfield for ever, have as others. No creativity, cannot tackle, cannot track wi...

6 years ago
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RE: Boro v Shrewsbury

Got to agree with a number on here, that the defence, on the face of it, still looks vulnerable and limited. However more than that, I thought that th...

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

Although John Crossan was in his twilight years when he came to the Boro, he did have some good games in his three years. However the memory of him th...

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

@exmil Not sure exmil, he is 33 after all.

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

@k-p-in-spain How much.....daylight robbery. Still not much else to watch on the TV.

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

@deleriad As Bob Dylan sang, “the times they are a changing”, for the Boro anyway!!

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

@redcarred Hope are wrong RR. We need CB's but we do not need Ben Gibson as such. First, as much as Middlesbrough is his home town and previous c...

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

Exmil......as the Boro locals would say, Yer must be jokin. With regards to Sol Bamba. Way past his sell by date. How the mighty have fallen. Wa...

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

@billyBilly, unless you are Derby, and then you take out a loan against the Stadium..

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

@redcarred RR, you are probably correct there, and with it, our chance of moving McNair on at a reasonable fee.

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

@clive-hurren Yes Clive, and possibly a route to the future in management, unless he really wants to go down the media road.

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

Well George has finally gone. So as I said previously, good luck to him. Was he worth a 2 year contract and a one year option to the Boro. For me, d...

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

Good luck to George if he joins AK. I think his best days are past, but he has been a terrific buy for the Boro, and very nice person it appears. So...

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

@lenmasterman Another good post and a very truthful assessment IMO Len. The UK's Private Sector, of which Football Clubs are part off, will proba...

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

One area / country we hardly ever import from, that I can remember of late, is the Scandinavian block. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, (Braithwaite) and Finl...

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

@redcarred Far better said than my post RR. Just when will somebody in MFC, ie. Mr Gibson, see the error of their ways.

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

@original-fat-bob Whilst I appreciate your post OFB, respect your knowledge and inner contacts within MFC, I have to ask. If the club have made s...

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

@lenmasterman An absolute brilliant post and analysis of MFC and its continued failings. The sad part is the reality of just where we are now as a F...

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

OFB, well from reading that article, one can see where we have gone wrong in the past. Looks like the recruitment is based on stats and not on abilit...

6 years ago
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RE: Speculation on Appointments and Players

@boroexile Unfortunately it’s part of the new normal.

6 years ago
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