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I think what made your drop in form appear worse than it actually was was the fact that it had such a high basis for comparison immediately before it. If Swansea for example, who aren't a bad side, but not particularly good either, had had that run of results then no one would have batter an...

That's 99% of what I'm bothered about, aye. I was just being light-hearted and suggesting the very last score that I think Boro v Leicester will be.

Nil - nil mate😜

My Dad always said he saw Sunderland as a bigger rival, them being that bit closer probably helped. Then of course in the 90s we didn't play them for a while, so the Newcastle thing became more pronounced. More recently though it's been Sunderland because we've had more seasons in the same...

There was always pi$s-taking between the two, though that was more intense from the cities themselves, not the surrounding area in Durham so much. It pre-dated any established football league to the 17th century with them as a rule picking sides in the English Civil war, with Sunderland being...

See Boro folk tend to often pronounce it more like "Owee" just to confuse matters more.🤣 Aye, County Durham is a weird one, the northwestern section of it around Beamish say is more Newcastle than anything, Eastern (Seaham etc) tends to be solid Sunderland and the southern strip of it...

I keep an open mind. I don't conclusively believe in their existence or absence, instead I reason that it's beyond my understanding, with my experience inconclusive with proving it in my mind one way or the other. My parents were both catholic and they did. While I'm lapsed in that religious...

That seems like a fair description of my late Dad, bless him. Every so often he allowed himself the chance to get carried away by a particularly spirited performance, but usually he'd fear the absolute worst. I asked him once why he supported them if they made him so miserable (I was about 5 at...

Normally there's a mix on there. There's the doom amd gloom bedwetters, the ridiculously carried away, but the overwhelming majority are in between as you'd imagine. Deep down, the mentality of the nearest to average Boro fan is fearing the worst, but when form is better than it has been for a...

I didn't get the chance to unfortunately, working away and the bills won't pay themselves. My brother went with his daughter mind, came in handy him living in Wolves now (you can imagine the Rov Edwards stick🤣) though he could only get tickets in the home end. They had colours covered up though...

That's reasonable enough. There's plenty of them to choose from though, so I'd like to think I don't take away from that. Some would probably think it "strange" that I'm on another team's board, which I also get as they'd have no wish to do the same. Tbh, I enjoy reading perspectives from...

I've re read my last post as requested. I suggest you do the same as to give you at least one bit of credit I did indeed say we had the best midfield in the league, which I stand by tbh. Not once did I say we had the best defence in the league, just that it was "very decent". Which it normally...

No, that's the meaning you're choosing to take from it, there's a difference. Did you play the long ball game last night to bypass the midfield where possible? Yes. Did you utilise the height of some of your players against ours and their physicality? Yes. To deny either would be ridiculous...

It's not taking anything away from you though. Hoodoos can be maintained by a variety of reasons, one team overperforms, the other underperforms, various injuries, the ref, the bounce of the ball, etc etc. It is only when they go on for a period of time beyond the normal boundaries of...

It's not a back-handed compliment at all "about your style" as your style for the first half of the season was very different. It's just finding different ways to play, which you needed to do and did so.

It's not a back-handed compliment at all "about your style" as your style for the first half of the season was very different. It's just finding different ways to play, which you needed to do and did so.

Thanks mate. Know what you mean, I don't want to rule Hull & Millwall out of it either, for right there is a potential path to pain!🤪 But I do feel that Ipswich will finish above them, so therefore if Hull or Millwall somehow managed the not easy task of overhauling either of us, I think...

He won't get a full season with pre-season etc until next one obviously, whatever league we're in. I take your point about judging him over a full season mind as Carrick was brilliant for us for half a season (though in his defence he did have the mother of injury lists for a few years) and he...

As you say midfield is our strongest area, it dominates the league so Lampard did well to employ a succession of long punts from your half to a big lad, bypassing it. We're actually very decent in defence too, but I feel it was was the wrong game to play Ayling in. He's 34 and has played every...

As predicted at the bottom of my post. We're more likely to turn over Man City and Arsenal in a Prem encounter than get anything against you. I know you say "at least" but you won't get more than 6 points from your 2 matches against us mind.🤣