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Peter Surtees
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RE: Boro v Sheffield Utd

@selwynoz As I read your post, I felt increasing levels of amazement at what has been achieved in this window. I think if you had asked most ...

1 year ago
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RE: Boro v Sheffield Utd

@pedro Perhaps bringing on Lenihan in the last few minutes was deliberately designed to reassure the fans that he is fit and available, in the know...

1 year ago
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RE: Boro v Sheffield Utd

The thing that encouraged me the most yesterday was the tenacity right through the team to win the so-called 50-50 balls. It just felt that whenever...

1 year ago
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RE: Boro v Sheffield Utd

I'm quite surprised to see Neto Borges going out on loan. I think he was a major force for good as the season progressed last time. I suppose it's a...

1 year ago
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RE: Norwich v BORO

@clive-hurren It doesn't seem to be there at all. Teesside Live seems to be all over the place at the moment, even without taking into account the ...

1 year ago
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RE: Millwall v Boro

I've been having a look back at the baseless hopes that I posted the day before the season started and reviewing progress. Who knows how good or bad i...

1 year ago
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RE: Boro v Doncaster Rovers

@clive-hurren Well your scene-setter couldn't have set the scene more accurately. An addition to the pantheon of depressing home cup defeats to l...

1 year ago
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RE: Boro v Swansea

I've found it very difficult to comment meaningfully in recent weeks, as so much of what lies ahead is unknown. As we head into the actual reali...

1 year ago
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RE: The Diasboro COTS Challenge 2025/26

Thanks very much for running this, Powmill. I very much admire your spreadsheet work. I'll make it eleven entries, so that at least we've got a full...

1 year ago
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RE: New season New squad?

@lenmasterman It's great to see you back in the outside world after your very long incarceration. I look forward to your next installment of Scott ...

1 year ago
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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...

1 year 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 ...

1 year 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 ...

1 year 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...

1 year 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...

1 year 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...

1 year 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 ...

1 year 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". ...

1 year 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...

1 year 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...

1 year ago
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RE: Coventry v Boro

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

1 year 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...

1 year 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.......

1 year 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...

1 year 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...

1 year 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...

1 year 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 ...

2 years 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...

2 years 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...

2 years 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.

2 years ago
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