Roy's View From... Pre-Match View From Boro

[Rodley]

To be fair, I seldom have a conversation about football without mentioned [checks notes] Middlesboroughs famous away support.

Hmmm…

 

[originaltrueblade]

Not a happy bunch are they…the comment their away support is better Then I will rephrase my comment to

Not a happy deluded bunch

Thanks Roy

 

[Blend-it-like-Harris]

I’m always weary of Boro, particularly away from home

Do we play them away from home more than we do at home?

 

[Champagneblade]

Our away support isn't a patch on theirs? Exaggerating much?

 

[Wincobank S9 Blade]

Explain how we have a bigger catchment area, Sheffield is a massive city compared to Boro, and everyone around us supports the mags, or black cats to the north and Weeds to the south. As for away fans we have both got very decent away fans we travel a bit further, nowt to get worked up about.

Simple really you’re only professional club in North Yorkshire if you’re from Billingham, Redcar, Northallerton etc I’d suspect you’re gonna be a Boro fan ‍. Nowt to get worked up about I was reacting to one of your fans comment

 

[breeny]

Any tickets left for tomorrow?

 

[granata-korps]

Simple really you’re only professional club in North Yorkshire if you’re from Billingham, Redcar, Northallerton etc I’d suspect you’re gonna be a Boro fan ‍. Nowt to get worked up about I was reacting to one of your fans comment

Yes but sadly for us, a lot of North Yorkshire folk support leeds, as for Billingham, and Stockton, for that matter, it is county Durham so a fair few of those people follow Sunderland, Yes there are more Boro but there are a good dollop of them. Any further north its a Boro wilderness, you would think there would be a gradual switch, but no 2 or 3 miles out from Stockton and whack not a Boro fan in sight.. You might think that Darlo and Hartlepool we may get the none home club fans but no. Darlo is Mag central and the pools is a split between the two. So to be fair the area we hold sway is fairly small, I'm convinced there must be towns around Sheffield that have good numbers of Blades. As for the away fan comment all clubs have numpties following them ignore it and chill.

 

[Wincobank S9 Blade]

Yes but sadly for us, a lot of North Yorkshire folk support leeds, as for Billingham, and Stockton, for that matter, it is county Durham so a fair few of those people follow Sunderland, Yes there are more Boro but there are a good dollop of them. Any further north its a Boro wilderness, you would think there would be a gradual switch, but no 2 or 3 miles out from Stockton and whack not a Boro fan in sight.. You might think that Darlo and Hartlepool we may get the none home club fans but no. Darlo is Mag central and the pools is a split between the two. So to be fair the area we hold sway is fairly small, I'm convinced there must be towns around Sheffield that have good numbers of Blades. As for the away fan comment all clubs have numpties following them ignore it and chill.

Fair do’s. There is blades and owls not in Sheffield quite a few, problem is with us is we’re pretty much central in England with Leeds, Forest, Derby even Manchester clubs not too far away. Plus our car park towns like Barnsley, Rotherham, Doncaster aren’t that small either but we do well to say we’ve been not great for years.

 

[LudlamBlade]

Any tickets left for tomorrow?

Some being sold as pay on the gate, cash only

 

[BiggerBladeThanThou]

Do we play them away from home more than we do at home?

I think you’ve tried to be clever, but sadly…it hasn’t worked.

 

[Alex Cheeseright]

If we start Jimm F and Norwood...we lose. One of these two with Doyle, McAtee or Arblaster we win. No draws in my crystal balls!

 

[Gareth Kay]

We didn't sell out at watford and there was 700 of us there last night, we've not sold out 2300 on Sunday, they quite easily would have sold out at the lane as they did midweek last year and on other occasions.

So how come they only averaged 3 more away. When do we take fans that they don't

 

[Sean Thornton]

These big clubs…….

 

[bertieblade]

Why do some people always look to find the negative

 

[Cheesebored]

There's a few on here sounding a bit Wednesday about numbers. Boro have had good, boisterous, loud away support for as long as I can remember. For a town their size I reckon they punch above their weight. Remember a couple of games late 80's early 90s where they sold out the away end one being midweek if memory serves. Another 'nothing to see here' discussion.

 

[Houston_Blade]

No one can ignore his past record, good or bad. As I said before, this is about Boro fans view of him. I’m not really bothered much either way. Wilder does not manage blades any more.
Just surprised at their antipathy.

Yep agreed, Based on his Championship record he makes diamonds out of shit.

 

[raul]

I still struggle to believe & understand that Middlesbrough is in Yorkshire. Blows my tiny little mind

You said it.....

 

[Flumps]

Why do some people always look to find the negative

There's a term for it. I forget though. Basically if you focus on the negatives you're already expecting the worst so you accept it easier when it happens. If it doesn't then you're pleasantly surprised.

I'll be honest I wish I could be like that with United but with our fans - in the space of two games we've been both primed for relegation and primed for the PL.

 

[JayGreen17]

Is our away support generally shit, I can’t imagine not selling 2.5k tickets? Would have thought we’d sell the away allocations for most games?

 

[SUFC Guy]

There's a term for it. I forget though. Basically if you focus on the negatives you're already expecting the worst so you accept it easier when it happens. If it doesn't then you're pleasantly surprised.

I'll be honest I wish I could be like that with United but with our fans - in the space of two games we've been both primed for relegation and primed for the PL.

Pessimistic?

 

[Flumps]

Pessimistic?

To be fair you're right but I watched a video recently on YouTube about some new fangled term along the lines of "diasasterist" or something like that where you always expect the worst. Now I think of it, no different to pessimism really.

I'll see if I can find the video again, find any differences.

 

[Blend-it-like-Harris]

I think you’ve tried to be clever, but sadly…it hasn’t worked.

I wouldn't want to offend "BiggerThanTheeBlades" under any circumstances. I'm a sucker for Freudian slips; it's nothing personal...

 

[BiggerBladeThanThou]

I wouldn't want to offend "BiggerThanTheeBlades" under any circumstances. I'm a sucker for Freudian slips; it's nothing personal...

Glad to hear it.