Middlesbrough 3 Leicester 3

[Blue Maniac]

Just escaped

 

[alex]

Nothing against the place, but that's now twice we have squandered healthy leads at the Riverside.

Bruma is a tool - he just learned a big lesson yesterday. Alas, with big name loanees this is always a risk.

Any road. Well played Yak, great pen save Weale. There are positives. Let's let this season go & build to do a QPR next term I reckon. Simples.

 

[fosseboy83]

bring back hobbs!

slap bamba before he runs up fields and costs us yet more goals.

Brumma deary me, was starting to like you, ya daft twat

 

[FryattFox]

Seriously, there are dozens of places far worse than Middlesbrough. Boro, have you ever been to Hinckley, Nuneaton, Coventry, Swansea, Luton, Hull, Leeds, Birkenhead, Billingham (heh), Louth, Grimsby, Loughborough, Bermondsey, Handsworth (West Mids), Cwmbran, Milton Keynes, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Newport, Coalville, Oldham or Londonderry?

How on earth has Leicester avoided that list?!

 

[Ike O'Noclassed]

One thing that did amuse me last night was seeing several commments on people's FB statuses from different people saying there was no way we were going to win that game with that ref.

So errrr yeah, we could've and indeed SHOULD'VE won that game despite the help Boro had from the ref.

I've only seen the highlights but I'd say we were lucky he allowed our second to stand, with Sol impeding the goalie as Yak bundled it over the line.

In amongst the twaddle Alan Young was spouting on the RL commentary, he did call the possibility that the ref would "even it up" second half.

 

[fitz]

Well I'll be ****ed! In recent weeks I've now read people talking up the positives of Coventry AND Middlesbrough. What next? Blyth?

 

[Billyjof]

:lightbulb Terrible little town, full of terrible little people.

I stand by this comment, I've spent a fair bit of time there. I'm not saying it's all shite, just (almost) full of not very nice people, but a fair few I've met have been very accommodating indeed. Saltburn pier is quite a nice spot, I love the Yorkshire moors. The rest was quite forgettable. As BM stated it is a normal town with it's social imperfections, but agreed not in the same league as Hull or Birkenhead.

Would you say that Leicester is a salubrious town, full of loving examples of humanity?

Erm, no I wouldn't. Why do you ask? Just because I said somewhere else wasn't so nice? I haven't lived in Leicester for an extremely long time, It's my place of birth and I just happen to still follow the club with all my heart.

Seriously, there are dozens of places far worse than Middlesbrough. Boro, have you ever been to Hinckley, Nuneaton, Coventry, Swansea, Luton, Hull, Leeds, Birkenhead, Billingham (heh), Louth, Grimsby, Loughborough, Bermondsey, Handsworth (West Mids), Cwmbran, Milton Keynes, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Newport, Coalville, Oldham or Londonderry?

Louth is a nice little Lincolnshire market town, why the negativity?

I also quite like Swansea, nice beaches nearby.

 

[jb5000]

Louth is a nice little Lincolnshire market town, why the negativity?

I also quite like Swansea, nice beaches nearby.

And while you're at it, everything about Leeds, apart from the football club, is lovely. And Saddleworth, which some people consider to be part of Oldham, is also very nice indeed.

 

[Billyjof]

And while you're at it, everything about Leeds, apart from the football club, is lovely.

I spent 3 happy years of debauchery in Leeds. :icon_bigg

 

[fitz]

Having just watched the highlights of yesterdays game - Bruma can **** right off, I hope the stupid twat never wears a City shirt again.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Louth is a nice little Lincolnshire market town, why the negativity?

Louth's not too bad, I just included it as a rib to a mate. I think Clee might appreciate it too.

I also quite like Swansea

Then we have seen very different Swanseas.

 

[Blue Maniac]

And while you're at it, everything about Leeds, apart from the football club, is lovely.

Nope. No, no, no, no, no. I spent less than an hour there this morning and hated it. Couldn't wait to escape. The city centre is almost as squalid as Leicester's.

Slight change of topic here: has anyone here ever been to Caboolture, Queensland? It's the only place I've ever been to that comes close to being anywhere near as offensive to the senses as Mansfield. Truly a horrible, horrible place. And so is Beenleigh.

 

[Steven]

No-one has mentioned Stockwell, Park Royal or Harlesden yet.

 

[Blue Maniac]

No-one has mentioned Stockwell, Park Royal or Harlesden yet.

I stayed in Travelodge at Park Royal after the QPR game last season. The room was disgusting. Genuinely disgusting. The walls didn't look as if they'd ever been cleaned, the blind had been scrawled on in permanent marker, no vacuum cleaner had been in the room for days and there were suspicious-looking white stains on the sofa bed. I was delighted a few days later when Travelodge sent me an email telling me how Premier Inn's adverts weren't strictly accurate, and I was able to reply with words to the effect of "thank you very much for alerting me to a competitor's discounts. Given the standard of the last Travelodge room I stayed in I can see the benefit of trying other chains out."

 

[Billyjof]

Nope. No, no, no, no, no. I spent less than an hour there this morning and hated it. Couldn't wait to escape. The city centre is almost as squalid as Leicester's.
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Wild guess, were you at the coach station? If so it's in a shitty part. Then 5 mins down the road is the Victorian quarter, a plush covered shopping area with the original shop fronts. I once had a job serving Yorkshire's finest totty and Emerdale "stars" at the Harvey Nix coffee shop.

I also worked in the dive that is the White Rose shopping centre in Cottingley South Leeds. Nowhere in Leicester comes close IMHO.


Back on topic 2 points and any slim chance i feel has gone down the toilet.

There will be expectations from fans and owners next year. Interesting months ahead.

 

[TornadoShaunUK]

Disappointing result. I really think we've effectively blown it with that even with it still being so tight, we just can't pick up any sort of form when a few teams above us are starting to. I think the Bruma sending off might be a blessing in disguise though as personally I think he has been shit. Glad Weale started, don't think he could have done much about the last two goals - maybe should have done better wit the first but would rather him in goal than Ricardo. One was a quality header and the other a quality strike from range so IMO those players should have been picked up better by our outfield players.

 

[Motown Fox]

Slight change of topic here: has anyone here ever been to Caboolture, Queensland? It's the only place I've ever been to that comes close to being anywhere near as offensive to the senses as Mansfield. Truly a horrible, horrible place. And so is Beenleigh.

Mansfield is not quite the dregs of Nottinghamshire as Worksop is worse I reckon.

 

[East Anglia Fox]

east anglia fox:

well, i believe it all started when mclaren left after the uefa cup final, and then steve gibson appointed southgate as manager. from here, it started to go downhill.

but anyways, when we appointed gordan strachan, we thought it might of worked out, but what he did was destroy our team. he thought that buying the likes of kris boyd...scott mcdonald...barry robson...steven mcmanus, and a few others all from scotland would fire boro to promotion.

(can you believe kris boyd is the scottish league's all time top scorer?)

but it was a failure, strachan did not have a clue while he was here, he played players out of position, and kept changing it around weekly.

in our local papers, all we heard weekly was how things would change and get better. but it just did not happen, and then finally strachan give in. ( i think he did this at coventry? i saw a person from coventry come to the boro forum and say strachan will fuk ya team up then walk away). and he did just that.

theres alot more stuff to it though, like financial stuff. in the past few years steve gibson was so determined to make boro into a bigger club, he gave alot of money to our managers, to try and succeed. but it was wasted on the liked of afonso alves 13 million, mido 6 million, and the liked of didier digard, who has done fukall since he been here, and he is actually still a boro player out on loan, apparently the highest earner in the boro sqaud. i think its 40k a week. we also baught emnes, which i think is a good player but doesnt score much....and theres rumours around boro that boro are on the brink of going bust. steve gibson normally goes on radio and answers questions from us fans, but he dropped out of 1 a couple of months ago and we heard nothing from him for ages now.


but now, you can see tony mowbray is doing a GREAT job. he has inherited a shit team left over from strachan, and actually turned them into a more solid sqaud. everyone is now playing better and we are winning more and actually have a little more fight in us when we concede. we need to win sheffutd next week and i say we are safe from the drop. also, our attendances aint helping, i see alot of people saying boro fans are crap, our stadium is empty all the time etc, but middlesbrough is really not a big town and think about it, the stadium maybe is a little to big for our fanbase. and the attendance as dropped due to the poor football, and also due to alot of the jobs that were lost in middlesbrough, over the corus plant. 16k were at the game yesterday...( about 15k boro fans)i think thats ok for now. lol

yeh, i miss them days in the premier leage, and the UEFA CUP. can ya believe boro got to a uefa final ? was amazing.

Thanks, that's actually really interesting. I personally had this idea that if Southgate hadn't been sacked last season then maybe you'd have at least finished in the play-off zone.

With Strachan, once he started signing loads of Celtic and Rangers players I had a horrible feeling it wasn't going to work. I remember in the summer before this season there was so much hype about Middlesbrough signing Kris Boyd, it seemed almost inevitable he wasn't going to live up to it.

I was actually aware of him being the all time SPL top scorer. It just sums up what the SPL is like that he can come into the Championship on the back of that, and then be such a dissappointment. Someone like Matt Fryatt could probably easily be the all time SPL top scorer if he had enough seasons to do it.

The sad truth about the SPL is that apart from Celtic, Rangers and Hearts, the teams are basically League One standard, if that. That's illustrated by the examples of players who are come from teams in League One or Two and then become established first teamers in SPL sides. I even think nowadays, if Celtic or Rangers were in the Premier League, they'd get relegated.

It's a shame about the way in which there have been so many flops that have cost millions of pounds. I had no idea Middlesbrough were in any kind of financial trouble. Do you think over the summer Mowbray will have to rely on mainly free transfers and loanees?

 

[Mawsley]

Mansfield is not quite the dregs of Nottinghamshire as Worksop is worse I reckon.

Mansfield is the arsehole of the world - maybe you just saw it on the day it'd had a wipe.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Mansfield is the arsehole of the world - maybe you just saw it on the day it'd had a wipe.

:icon_lol: Spot on.