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Post by Soi Cowboy on Mar 22, 2009 18:33:23 GMT
Same here was trying to think of a famous Boro player and couldn't.
Keep on playing the beautiful game Boro- 1 win in 18 is it? A team of overpaid, useless individuals that will jump ship as soon as your relegation is confirmed. A stadium that you can't fill a 1 goal in 8 away games.
Yep- would swap for that anyday.
Thing is- no one will care outside of your town when you get relegated.
Put the Coca Cola on ice
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Post by Stokecity_m on Mar 22, 2009 18:39:46 GMT
1-0 all that needs to be said
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Post by jacka118 on Mar 22, 2009 18:57:10 GMT
Boroboy,
What a load of old cobblers...couldn't take losing so you try and knock the way we play...sore losers..have a nice season in the Championship next season HAHAHAHA
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Post by sirpineapple89 on Mar 22, 2009 19:07:59 GMT
I do feel sorry for Boro. Imagine having to try and conjure up a bit of support for players like Emanuel Pogetetz, Robert Huth and Marlon King. No wonder their stadium is always half empty.
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Post by lurcherman on Mar 22, 2009 19:10:32 GMT
Just remind me which set of fans were booing their side at the end ;D
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Post by Not_Nick_H on Mar 22, 2009 20:46:10 GMT
You call what Boro played "football"? A few spells of slick passing and some mediocre shots inerspersed with some of the worst gamesmanship, ref-sucking and downright cheating I've seen since I last watched a Serie A game. Don't make me laugh. Add to that a ref who obviously wanted to bend over backwards to help Gareth (Steve Coogan will play my role in my life-story) Southgate stay in a job and I think we took a well-deserved 3 points.
Listen my friend, over the last few weeks, after a few discusssions with fans of all clubs, most are of the opinion/desire that Boro and Newcastle should go down. 2 clubs who seem to think they have had a god given right to pass go every season and keep collecting the Sky money without actually achieving anything.
Well, guess what? Complacency breeds failure. It's time for a change - people may not like our blood n' guts brand of football, but my God they're starting to respect it. Which is more than they do your lot.
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Post by tazi on Mar 22, 2009 20:51:33 GMT
Nick, where can we get these new Pulis mugs from mate?.....Could do with a few.
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Post by crimesy on Mar 22, 2009 21:04:16 GMT
hmmm.. What i prefer to watch? Tippy-Tappy Football, with cheating & cowardly players AND LOSE.. or... Proper, English Football, playing the ball into the box, off your seat stuff AND WIN. Tough Choice... Perhaps see you in a couple of years? I hope not though.
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Post by Stay up again for - hoodyjr on Mar 22, 2009 22:09:43 GMT
it was stoke football strong at the back then F**** YOU UP IN LAST 10 MINS
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Post by sammychung on Mar 22, 2009 22:37:27 GMT
erm, erm, what would Bernie Slaven think? ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by boroboy on Mar 23, 2009 8:13:18 GMT
League Cup winners 2004
UEFA Cup finalists 2006
More cup final appearances in last 12 years than any other club, outside of SKY's 'big 4'
Let me know when you last used your passports to follow your club in Europe ?
Talking about 'full stadiums' and shite crowds, how many were at the Brittania last time we visited you, in 1998 ;D
Seems like you've got a lot of Vale fans jumping on your bandwagon in recent years ;D
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Mar 23, 2009 8:18:56 GMT
Boroboy - if style means so much to you could I recommend ski jumping or ice dancing. Both are cracking sports (compared to watching Boro! )and both award a high percentage of marks for style rather than raw results. ;D
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Post by dozintheseventees on Mar 23, 2009 8:41:19 GMT
boroboy:
And BEFORE the impressive collection of achievements above where you suddenly discovered a goldmine after practically disappearing off the footballing map?
You had been a club in obscurity for generations. For you information we DID qualify for Europe twice in the early seventees, won the League Cup and were in 2 FA Cup Semi-Finals in succession. we were also 3 games away from winning the League (now the Premier League). We have just experienced the worste quarter of a century in our club's history and have finally made it back to the division that we have spent the bulk of our history inhabiting!
Our football may seem a little 'primative' to you but it'e sffective and we have to grab a 'foothold' in this league before we can move on to better things (It's not rocket science).
And YES, we are VERY PROUD of our team who give it 101% every week. You are about to discover just how difficult life is in the 'real world' outside the Premier League. Our games at the Brit this season have, by and large, been very exciting and we have enjoyed every minute. Even many of the 'Big Guns' have come to realise that we do what we have to to survive this first season and many now give us due respect. Pitty the 'jumped up' minions of the division don't!!
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Post by Sparkiee on Mar 23, 2009 8:43:51 GMT
Love it mate. We win games and can score goals.
Have fun in the championship with Southgate and losing all your best players
Dick.
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Post by Not_Nick_H on Mar 23, 2009 9:33:06 GMT
Nick, where can we get these new Pulis mugs from mate?.....Could do with a few. Tazi - go to www.lifewear.co.uk/tonysays - click on the corner that has the ebay logo. Sunday night must be shopping night - had a run on them last night ;D.
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Post by lancer on Mar 23, 2009 9:38:32 GMT
Love to see posts like this one. It means we beat them. As for football, well, it always seems that the losing team is the so called 'footballing team', and we always get the banal, 'It takes two teams to make a game', crap comment. We won, they lost, THAT, is football. Look at the points awarded for losing.
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Post by evans1863 on Mar 23, 2009 12:15:03 GMT
Didnt Len Shackleton also play for them?
After that I cant name any more famous Boro players, unless we're on to the likes of Juninho and Ravenelli ;D
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Post by Davef on Mar 23, 2009 12:22:25 GMT
I think we can do without the lectures on football from a fan of a team which hasn't scored an away Premier League goal for seven matches.
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Post by dozintheseventees on Mar 23, 2009 12:29:18 GMT
Tuncay, class though lads aint he?
Was very impressed with him but no-one to feed off him and you can see why they can't score.
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Post by MrMagic on Mar 23, 2009 12:31:45 GMT
Was the gulf between boro's football and ours really that large? I don't recall them amazing me with any fantastic moments of skill. Apart from G O'Neil and Tuncay no-one else looked very good. Downing (as usual) flattered to deceive. How does boroboy conveniently fail to notice the football played by Lawrence, Etherington, Whelan, Fuller?
True, we won by working hard, but that is what football is about, effort and teamwork. For a very decent, honest defender, it beggers belief that Southgate has built such a dishonest side who are utterly piss-poor at defending. Saturday was a decent defensive display compared to many of Boro's recent outings, but even so, and with 5 at the back, we still created plenty of chances, and really should have won by more than one.
If Wheater, Huth, McMahon and Pogatez put as much effort into defending their goal as they did in cheating the ref, kicking Fuller and falling over like drunken office girls on a hen do in Blackpool, Boro would be far better off.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2009 12:33:24 GMT
League Cup winners 2004 UEFA Cup finalists 2006 More cup final appearances in last 12 years than any other club, outside of SKY's 'big 4' Let me know when you last used your passports to follow your club in Europe ? Talking about 'full stadiums' and shite crowds, how many were at the Brittania last time we visited you, in 1998 ;D Seems like you've got a lot of Vale fans jumping on your bandwagon in recent years ;D I seem to remember both of those accolades coming under Steve McClaren's aesthetically unappealing "Middlesbore" phase. So presumably, according to your logic, it doesn't really count because it's "not football".
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Post by dazthestokie69 on Mar 23, 2009 12:36:52 GMT
few good points boroboy and your right i dont enjoy watching that football. We havent been like that all season tho but we know points are important and you can tell by the reaction of your supporters on Sat whats important. Were changing as a club and you cant do it overnight. The players we want wont come until weve been in the prem a few years, the ones that will would take us down so no wonder we go for players that put a shift in. One thing that amazes me about the premierleague is the fact that people say its lost its character. A team like stoke comes up...we arent full of players on £60k a week who dont give a dam about anything other that their pay packets. We have old school passionate fans. Yeah prob are the worst footballing side in the prem by a mile..but weve been a breath of fresh air in every other department. If we stop up this season you will slowly see a change in the way the team plays. As much as i hate how we played on sat...id rather be like that than sit in a half empty stadium surrounded by prawn sandwhich eating businessmen any day m8
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2009 12:50:40 GMT
'Was the gulf between boro's football and ours really that large?'
Yet again many posters on this board have fallen victim to the mind altering effect that a win can bring.
Saturday's game was a very close affair with Boro playing the better football and at times, just as we did, coming very close to scoring.
Yet again it was a flick on from a throw that nicked it for us. The rest of our game was at times pretty shit with piss poor distribution from defence and very little in the way of imaginative creative play.
If the game had finished 0-0 or god forbid we had lost this board's view of our performance would be totally different. You would all be picking fault in the passing, the lack of composure and the fact that the majority of our chances come from set pieces.
We need to be a little bit more honest in our view of the game because otherwise many opposition fans will accuse us of spouting complete and utter shite.
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Post by dozintheseventees on Mar 23, 2009 13:16:06 GMT
sqareball:
Don't know what you've been reading mate but most posters have stated that our football aint great but, at this stage of the season, three points is everything. I get the point you're making but the 'footballing gulf' between us is a question of several seasons of stability and an awful lot of money spent. We are doing what we have to and the difference, in footballing terms, between ourselves and them was simply a question of 2 or 3 more talented players. Tuncay was a class apart and we simply cannot attract that quality of player at this moment. Hopefully we will survive and move closer to that point.
And, in case you hadn't noticed, the footballing talents of Middlesbrough are sitting FIVE POINTS BELOW US!
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Post by JoeinOz on Mar 23, 2009 13:30:37 GMT
People who criticize our style of play do so out of ignorance.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2009 16:50:06 GMT
"No doubt you'll probably stay up, and we'll go down........that's the thing about football, the teams that play it, don't always succeed "
PMSL ;D
Since when do Boro play football????
Stewart "Go down the wing, cross it, doesn't clear the first man" Downing Brad "More punches than an ALI fight" Jones Emanuel "Hoof and hope" Pogatetz Robot Huth David "What do i do apart from head it?" Wheater
Pure quality, just like Brazil 1970!!
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Post by MrMagic on Mar 23, 2009 17:58:33 GMT
'Was the gulf between boro's football and ours really that large?' Yet again many posters on this board have fallen victim to the mind altering effect that a win can bring. We need to be a little bit more honest in our view of the game because otherwise many opposition fans will accuse us of spouting complete and utter shite. I'd say you failed to read my post squareball. I wasn't saying we were Brazil 1970! I was saying that they weren't that good. Boro do not play wonderful flowing football.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2009 18:17:15 GMT
MrMagic,
I understood your post thanks but disagree with much of what you said.
Boro played far better 'football' than us but we managed to grab the all important goal. It could have gone either way but we certainly didn't deserve to win by more than a single goal.
Up until the 83rd minute their defence was equally as solid as ours but with one difference - their defenders could play a bit rather than launch the ball aimlessly forward at every opportunity.
I personally thought we were shite on Saturday but got the all-important three points which is all that mattered but this continual 'they weren't that good', 'utterly piss-poor at defending', 'they don't play wonderful football' crap gets on my tits.
We were shit, they were shit - we scored, they didn't.
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Post by crimesy on Mar 23, 2009 19:24:24 GMT
Mathews Banks Hurst Hudson Stein Richie Shilton Greenhoff
Thats a proper list of footballing legends boro boy. Then again, theres nothing Middlesborough has to show off in any sport, or anything of that matter ??? What actually is the point of middlesborough?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2009 19:56:16 GMT
Graeme Souness?
don't think hes been mentioned
back to the boroboy post
do you expect us to just compete with the likes of West Brazil for pure football excellence? look where that's got them
Remember, at the end of the close season 17 clubs more or less had Premiership squads, West Brom Stoke and Hull have had to work much harder to get some quality Premiership players in. If we stay up and we can bring in some more quality in midfield then we might play more attractive football.
This seasons been a fight purely to stay up by what-ever means
and by not necessarily cheating like Boro and many other Prem teams seem to do.
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