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Think you over estimated the Boro support, but yes a poor turnout for us. Then again the previous season had been very depressing! Terry Fleming looked a decent prospect in this game, but this was as good as it got for him.

Perhaps Eccles can still be on the bench in the play off final, so that we can bring him on right at the end to take a penalty :D

Young players can make rapid strides very quickly from season to season so it is premature to now be saying which players should go out on loan next season. With a Summer's preparation and training under FL behind them the young players mentioned in this thread could be a lot closer to...

What's the point in banning it? You don't have to watch it. I was at this game too. Can't really remember but I presume we also had seats on the side. There were even fewer of us there on a couple of times I went there in the few seasons before this. The first time I remember us taking loads...

This was the opening game of the 86/87 season. Little did we know what was to come at the end of the season, although this was quickly followed us beating Arsenal at HR in our 1st home game.

Great team performance. Special shout out to Da Silva who I've been fairly critical of this season. His link up play with EMC, Torp & Grimes was excellent.

Someone put up a joke team in the style of the official announcement which has now been deleted, It included Binks, had Eccles as Captain and a front 3 of Asante, Bassette & Wright. Saka & Andrews were on the bench!

Andrews? Have we cut short his loan?

Those pitches were the main reason so much football then was long ball.

Very poor performance against a patently poor team. We played with no urgency and got what we deserved. Bidwell and Haji had particularly awful games. Only MVE, Eccles & Saka did ok, but even then I would only rate them as a 6.

Here you go. It was on MOTD introduced by JH :)

Think it was against Southampton, but deflected in off a defender. It was his only really good game for us!

Dean Kiely also had a really good career!

I'm fine with MR getting his applause before the game but once the match starts we get right behind the team and forget MR, until after the game when we've hopefully beaten them.

Confidence issues might have also been behind Eccles not stepping up. With his recent form being a bit in and out and elements of our support picking him out as the new boo boy, a missed penalty was probably the last thing he needed.

I was surprised he took it given he didn't take one of the semi final penalties last season. Eccles has been clinical when taking penalties at Wembley and in the cup earlier this season and for me would have been the logical taker from the players on the pitch at the time.

I fully expect to MR to park the bus next week. If we don't score early it could be a frustrating watch.

If Wright is on the bench I would have thought Paterson is as likely to drop out as anyone.

Walking away from Wembley after the semi final I tried to console myself with the thought that at least it saved us the embarrassment of a cup final tonking by Man City, which would now surely be the fate waiting Man United instead. However come cup final day Man City were shot through and...

Linked to this - are the club going to make adult tickets in the Family Zone the same as elsewhere next season? Another thing mentioned recently was whether the club would consider introducing a CCFC museum or Hall of Fame along the lines of the 2 Tone museum on Ball Hill.