Middlesbrough (A) - 7:45pm, 14/12/16 - The Desolation of Smoggies.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Have they got a big grock that's going to terrorise our keeper?

 

They played that Jordan Rhodes up front today, he's cack. Negredo is injured as is Ramirez who is probably their best player. Not sure about how tall and effective their defenders are. They have only scored 13 goals this season so far, but they hard to break down. 

[an tha]

Have they got a big grock that's going to terrorise our keeper?

Negredo - unfit to play today, be chomping at bit on Weds...

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Negredo - unfit to play today, be chomping at bit on Weds...

 

Hamstring injury wasn't it? I doubt he'd be starting. 

[The Golden Eel]

Another defeat imminent

[an tha]

Hamstring injury wasn't it? I doubt he'd be starting.

Don't know

[suzy]

I am frankly shocked that Trumo has started another thread...

[TheHowieLama]

For me this game is meaningless unless Hades tops himself.

[Creator Supreme]

We never win there anyway, 4-0 to the smoglodytes!

[AngryOfTuebrook]

A few familiar faces in their squad - Ayala, Barragan and Downing, alongside shitManc Fabio, U2 bassist Adam Clayton and Viktor Fischer, who traumatised our children at the NextGen match against Ajax in St Helens a few years ago.

 

Some of our players looked like they were running through treacle in the second half today, so it might be worth giving a run out to a young'un or two.

 

We'll get beat, despite Trumo's best title yet.

[3 Stacks]

Adama will tear us to shreds and then hopefully we'll buy him in January.

[G Richards]

If you've got a pun like that ready for the thread title, I say use it. We're having a blip here, but Trumo is going to play himself back into form.

[Jhinge Machha]

we will win this 3-0 easily. no shred of doubt about it.

[Paco]

Middlesbrough are unbeaten in 40 home league matches that had kick-off times at 7:45pm/8:00pm #LFC #MFC

[Einch]

Fighting talk from Trumo. Can he walk the walk?

[El Rojo]

Adama will tear us to shreds and then hopefully we'll buy him in January.

 

We'll get our revenge by signing him for £26m, stalling his career and then offloading him to West Ham in an £11m deal six months later. That'll teach him.

[Paulie Dangerously]

I went here for a twat of a 0-0 once.  Awful and the highlight was they did curry and chips in the concourse so...every cloud and that

[Russ Atmosphere]

Middlesbrough are unbeaten in 40 home league matches that had kick-off times at 7:45pm/8:00pm #LFC #MFC

 

They've only played one since returning to this league mate, Hull.

[SasaS]

I don't remember anything about our games at Boro other then that it was always December, cold, goalless  or we would lose 0-1 through a goalkeeping error. So, it bodes well with out current situation.

Didn't a defeat at Boro end Westerveld's career at Liverpool and forced us to go out a buy a goalkeeper? So, we may get beat but... swings and roundabouts.

[GUS]

I don't remember anything about our games at Boro other then that it was always December, cold, goalless  or we would lose 0-1 through a goalkeeping error. So, it bodes well with out current situation.

 

Didn't a defeat at Boro end Westerveld's career at Liverpool and forced us to go out a buy a goalkeeper? So, we may get beat but... swings and roundabouts.

Thought that was Bolton Away. Last minute, couldn't keep out a tame shot from Dean Holdsworth

[cloggypop]

Middlesbrough used to have a topless chippy.

[an tha]

Danny Boy 100% ruled out again and is touch and go for the Derby as well. Coutinho who has a pretty bad injury will beat him back at this rate with his latest "minor knock"

[El Rojo]

Middlesbrough used to have a topless chippy.

 

Haha! Really?

[Jenson]

Shit place to get to, shit ground, the weather is always fucking awful and we are always fucking wank.

 

And thanks to the last two shite results, this is a must win!

[cloggypop]

Haha! Really?

Yeah. I was told about it by some mates from that way. Apparently it was some 50 year old with fat burns on her tits.

 

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/topless-chip-shops-millionare-tramps-11894641

[Original202]

Didn't a defeat at Boro end Westerveld's career at Liverpool and forced us to go out a buy a goalkeeper? So, we may get beat but... swings and roundabouts.

 

No, it was that game at Bolton that finished him. There was a bad one at Boro the year before though when he blamed ice on the ball for failing to hold on to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BvHxcwnz0Y

 

We've had some utterly shit results up there and with a couple of exceptions we seem to always play them in Winter which makes it even more of a miserable place to visit:

 

08/09 0-2 (One of our only two league defeats all season and Boro got relegated)

07/08 1-1

06/07 0-0

05/06 0-0

04/05 0-2

03/04 0-0

02/03 0-1 (We'd been unbeaten in the league until November when we played them and then went on a run of no wins in 11 after this)

01/02 2-1

00/01 0-1

99/00 0-1

98/99 3-1

97/98 0-2 (League Cup semi when we were 2-1 up from the first leg - they were in Division 1)

96/97 1-2 (League Cup - the David James game where he'd been up all night playing video games beforehand)

96/97 3-3

95/96 1-2

 

They are awful to watch his season and play incredibly defensively so I'm not expecting things to get much better. Given our record up there they'll probably play for a 0-0 draw and still win!