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Peter Surtees
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RE: The Diasboro COTS Challenge 2025/26

@powmillnaemore A man after my own IT heart. I'm sad to say that I get far more pleasure than is rational from finding an excuse to apply a spreads...

4 months ago
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RE: Fixtures and fitting in

@powmillnaemore I've been getting the same problem. I think if you click on this link directly, it will also take you back to page 1, but if you ...

5 months ago
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RE: Rob Edwards set to take charge of Boro

It looks like we could learn a thing or two from Luton. If I'm understanding things correctly, they didn't pay off RE's contract in January. They put ...

6 months ago
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RE: Rob Edwards set to take charge of Boro

For much of the latter part of my working life, I was involved with implementing large scale IT quality management systems. When reading any of the po...

6 months ago
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RE: Boro Sack Carrick and seek replacement

The Echo article also has a good go at pinning the blame for the long injury list on MC too. "There will always be an element of luck behind a clu...

6 months ago
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RE: Boro Sack Carrick and seek replacement

I was in the pro-Carrick corner but, now that it's done, we might as well look at the positives. There was definitely a danger that the turgid at...

6 months ago
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RE: Tumbleweed blowing through the deepest regions of our minds and dusting off snippets of memories to be shared.

@john-richardson I looked on Google Earth and Devil's Bridge is still there. So you and I must have had joint stickleback rights to that section ...

6 months ago
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RE: Tumbleweed blowing through the deepest regions of our minds and dusting off snippets of memories to be shared.

Much of my childhood memories are built around what I now notice Google Maps calls Marton West Beck, but I'm sure was known to us just as "The Beck". ...

6 months ago
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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

In defence of Ayling, in a period when the lack of leadership and experience has been bemoaned, Ayling has both. I know he was in involved in some s...

7 months ago
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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

Couldn't resist a sneaky peak at the dying moments of the Sunderland match last night. The scenes at the end were incredible, even though I was, of co...

7 months ago
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RE: Coventry v Boro

@werdermouth Several really excellent points there, all packed into one post. Thank you.

7 months ago
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RE: Coventry v Boro

@pedro I guess if we're looking at credits and debits we need to put Sammy Silvera, Micah Hamilton, Alex Gilbert and probably Lucas Engel in the Ki...

7 months ago
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RE: Coventry v Boro

@original-fat-bob So if you do know what really happened in January, or know someone that knows someone who does.......

7 months ago
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RE: Coventry v Boro

One of the strong messages now being put out by the Gazette is that the reason the January window was the worst for years, was that most of the choice...

7 months ago
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RE: Coventry v Boro

That's a wonderful piece of writing Werder, capturing the current mood so eloquently. Since nobody seems to want the final playoff spot, maybe we co...

7 months ago
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RE: Boro v Norwich City

I can't find any record of Boro's interest in Iheanacho being reported in the media before transfer deadline day. So it certainly looks like a last mi...

7 months ago
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RE: Boro v Norwich City

If we were to try to predict the future, say two years time, what kind of manager do we expect MC to be? Exactly the same as now, worse than now, or ...

7 months ago
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RE: Boro v Norwich City

@clive-hurren Superb opener, Clive. I don't think I've ever seen such unanimity of thought across all of the reactions to Monday's game and...

7 months ago
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RE: Boro v Plymouth

@selwynoz That's the most amazing thing to me, that after things looking so bleak 5 minutes from the end of the Hull v Coventry match, an...

8 months ago
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RE: Boro v Plymouth

All the best, OFB. I've heard that supporting your football team is the most calming thing for your heart. Or was that yoga.

8 months ago
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RE: BORO v Leeds United

I really enjoyed the game, result notwithstanding. In the fixture at Elland Road, I felt we were totally overwhelmed. That was not the case last night...

8 months ago
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RE: Boro v Oxford

The scary prospect of meeting Sunderland in the playoffs is beginning to become more than just a fleeting nightmare. It could happen, no matter how mu...

8 months ago
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RE: Boro v Oxford

I just caught up with Sir Gareth Southgate giving the Richard Dimbleby Lecture. I thought he did a pretty impressive job. He also referenced being sac...

8 months ago
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RE: Luton v Boro

Regarding Iheanacho and his apparent attitude, I thought that Michael Carrick's comments after the Stoke match were very bizarre. "He celebrated...

9 months ago
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RE: Luton v Boro

Brilliant opener, Len, which perfectly captures the transformation in prospects and mood that happened on Tuesday evening. It also sailed throug...

9 months ago
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RE: Boro v QPR

@lenmasterman Oh No. What have I done? It was the concept of the play-offs (or playoffs) themselves that was my hopeless cause, not the use of the ...

9 months ago
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RE: Boro v QPR

I'm trying to control my inner pendant, but every time I hear or read "For free!", which is usually several times a day, I'm off again. It's a hopel...

9 months ago
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RE: Boro v QPR

@clive-hurren Yes. Both articles have a much stronger tone than we've become used to. By my reading, one of the differences that makes the Echo one...

9 months ago
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RE: Boro v Watford

I love spreadsheets me. Like everybody else, I've been trying to figure out who let all of the air out of our balloon when it seemed to be floating al...

10 months ago
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RE: Boro v Watford

I don't have anything original to add at this point. I'd just like to add my voice to the comments that the quality and considered nature of the discu...

10 months ago
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