Pre-Match View From Boro

[Scooter_mcgavin]

Two huge cooling towers
Fancy that

Glad we've never had anything like that in Sheffield

It's not the first thing you see of the city though is it Besides, I'd class them as Rotherham.

 

[elgoog44]

It's not the first thing you see of the city though is it Besides, I'd class them as Rotherham.

They were technically in Rotherham, the welcome to Sheffield sign / Boarder is further down towards Medowhall.

 

[Booker4]

To be fair Booker4, none of us really need song sheets to sing a few football chants

I can mainly remember them singing you are my Boro..... They'e much better than the likes of Reading, Watford and Fulham. Definitely they're the worst for me.

 

[Booker4]

That twitter post is a wind up surely?

When I was a kid, hooligans were big burly men. Or that's how it seemed? Then hooliganism was openly discouraged and the majority seemed to see sense. Are the kids now trying to bring it back for 'something to do'?

Wise that - get a conviction and significantly hamper your career and training opportunities for life from a very young age. Macho that.

Its all changed now though isn't it. Certainly younger fans appear, generally speaking, to be the most dedicated to going to away matches (lack of commitment I guess) and often are the most passionate but also idiotic. The above fans are typical of this. They might think they're a firm but they're more likely to be just the sort who chant at the opposition fans and say come on etc, then get outside after the game and just go home.

 

[carthesis]

I went on the away-day to Boro in the Premiership season. New Years Day. Grey, cold, grim, and that's just the weather. We got tonked 3-0. I couldn't see a thing in that bloody soulless plastic bowl of a stadium. The only interesting thing was the transporter bridge.

I've nothing against their fans or anything like that - those comments show them to be a mostly balanced lot of comments with a decent amount of respect for other teams - but God above that town is a hole.

 

[Isar]

Reasonable comments, apart from the one about saying they would take double our support away.

 

[FMBlade1]

Reminds me of this:

 

[INTAKE BLADE]

Cheers Roy

 

[Working Class Hero]

Nice of them to notice that our loyalty points system restricts away support

Our away support has been worse since this was introduced

Too many people take too long to make their minds up, then the next batch of loyalty points fans take too long, then the next and so on

By the time any tickets go on general sale its too late, and definitely too late to ask for more

I don't know what the answer is because our loyalist fans deserve first choice, but something has to be done to speed up the sale of tickets

You probably have a point about it taking too long but the club have tried to help that by having half day brackets.

Away support definitely hasn't got worse though, it's A LOT better than before the system was introduced (not that the loyalty system has anything to do with that).

 

[JJBlade]

They were technically in Rotherham, the welcome to Sheffield sign / Boarder is further down towards Medowhall.

They were actually just inside Sheffield.
My post was just a bit of a laugh really

Even funnier when you think that so many people campaigned for their retention

Why ???
I mean why ????

 

[elgoog44]

As a Rotherham Lad, if you were away from Home it was when you saw them you knew you were home, we attach memories and fondness to the strangest things, now when I go back I can see how much nicer it is without them.

 

[dazzlingblade]

i thought byker grove had finished

 

[elgoog44]

i thought byker grove had finished

its about the same level of intimidation....

 

[The Crab]

They were actually just inside Sheffield.
My post was just a bit of a laugh really

Even funnier when you think that so many people campaigned for their retention

Why ???
I mean why ????

Maybe because some people just don't like change without actually being to explain why. Loads of people rooared when Woollies went under, but it went under because no fucker used them anymore.

 

[elgoog44]

Maybe because some people just don't like change without actually being to explain why. Loads of people rooared when Woollies went under, but it went under because no fucker used them anymore.

everybody loved the Idea of woollies, everything all under one roof, "but fuck that its cheaper if I buy this from there and this from that shop..."

"Woollies the place you could buy everything and the place you always bought fuck all" - If it ever rises from the ashes they can have that slogan for free.

 

[The Crab]

everybody loved the Idea of woollies, everything all under one roof, "but fuck that its cheaper if I buy this from there and this from that shop..."

"Woollies the place you could buy everything and the place you always bought fuck all" - If it ever rises from the ashes they can have that slogan for free.

Strange in a way, because I'd say places like Wilkinsons are a bit of a modern day Woolies. So the demand is still there.

 

[elgoog44]

Strange in a way, because I'd say places like Wilkinsons are a bit of a modern day Woolies. So the demand is still there.

Agreed dude, in fact places like The Range, B M Bargins, Wilkos, pretty much are the same as what Woollies was, but at the time, if you wanted a CD you bought it in HMV, games you went else where, everything always seemed more expensive that everywhere else, still not sure how WHSmiths keeps going as not sure what people are buying in there as its again over priced.

 

[The Crab]

Agreed dude, in fact places like The Range, B M Bargins, Wilkos, pretty much are the same as what Woollies was, but at the time, if you wanted a CD you bought it in HMV, games you went else where, everything always seemed more expensive that everywhere else, still not sure how WHSmiths keeps going as not sure what people are buying in there as its again over priced.

Agree about WH Smiths. Off the top of my head all I can think if is the magazine choice, and the monopoly they seem to have at Airports.

 

[8lade]

still not sure how WHSmiths keeps going as not sure what people are buying in there as its again over priced.

I wouldn't be surprised if the government were subsidising it, I mean who pays those prices and you can chuck 'Boots' into that conundrum too.

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

Plastic cunts,only turn up when the going is good or Premier league.

Even in League 1 we have better average attendance than them in Championship except for their promotion season and in Prem.

Boro http://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/midd.htm

 

[Toronto Blade]

 

[WORKSOPBLADE]

Are you telling me, Middlesbrough is not the centre for culture and beauty?

Correct, that's Hull !

 

[Lawrence]

“well done them for not coming .If everyone stopped going or a bit the might re think ticket prices because if the don’t sky might stop offering mega bucks to these clubs if the think there’s no market or less market for it now or in the future .

Fair does to those that come but I think long term it’s better for all concerned to congratulate the ones that have gave it the fingers .”

Who's going to the pigsty £??££??

 

[Minty]

Thanks Roygbiv

 

[Bladesway]

Remember going to Hartlepool away a few years ago (think it might have been our first season back in League 1).
Anyway, there's a road before you get to middlesbrough, travel up it a fair while and once you reach the summit, the whole of Middlesbrough appears before your eyes with two huge fekkin cooling towers being the first eyesore.

Unbelievable hole of a place where you can buy a 2up 2down terrace for 9k.

It's the A19 and I know it very well. Joins the A66 from memory and it's the gift that keeps giving.

 

[JordoBlade]

Anyone else believe that we could roll up and turn these over?

 

[adebo]

Anyone else believe that we could roll up and turn these over?

Not me! (But I'm nearly always wrong)

 

[Th!stledo]

You can create the effect of being there quite easily. Go in the kitchen and kick the fuck out of the place, whilst belittling the teenager who is serving you. Find the most uncomfortable plastic seat in the house, when you do I'll come and stand in front of you so you can see fuck all then tell you to fuck off when you politely aske me to sit down.

Water down your beer and charge yourself £5, microwave yourself a Rustlers burger, another £5.

Enjoy

You really do make it sound so tempting, I might just go now ...

 

[WalkelyFan]

It's the A19 and I know it very well. Joins the A66 from memory and it's the gift that keeps giving.

Ai splits at Thirsk A19 goes through the middle of Middlesborough and on up to Tyne Tunnel. Ground is signposted. A66 goes from Scotch Corner where A1 turns right for Newcastle (from memory another 30 miles or so from the A19 turn off) ) to Penrith and on to Scotland.

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

They remind me a lot of the Blades Business Crew from the 70's and 80's .... or is my memory playing tricks with me ?