v Middlesbrough (a) - 27/11/2024

[TheRevAshton]

Expecting a classic midweek, on the road no-show - we'll play for a draw, but will quickly realise that we need to just heavily focus on damage limitation.

A very comfortable 2-0 win for Boro.

Edited November 26 by TheRevAshton

[chaddyrovers]

1-1 draw

[Old Codger]

Boro have the bit between their teeth, and are scoring for fun at the moment, so you'd expect this to be a real challenge to the boys of hot and cold. As in any contest, composure and taking chances will be key to getting anything out of this one, so I'd expect JE to go with as close to the last team selection as he can. I wouldn't be surprised if we come very much unstuck in this one, but then again I wouldn't be surprised either if we were to do well - hence my hot and cold comment above. Difficult to predict, but I think on balance, Boro have the form, momentum and home advantage, whilst Rovers have an intermittent suicide streak.

Head Boro 3 Rovers 1

Heart Tees Siders drowning their snow melt sorrows 1 Roving Plunderers 3

Hot Damn, slugs in slow cookers 0 Rusty Rovers 0 match abandoned on 53 minutes due to frogs on the pitch

[Penwortham Blue]

23 hours ago, jim mk2 said:

Nope, not this time. The albatross is on domestic duties 

We have a chance of picking something up then 😊

[Penwortham Blue]

We really are long over due a decent performance and result from a midweek fixture. I am hoping we deliver on both fronts tomorrow but pragmatically, I expect to be disappointed like most mid-week match days.

[Blue Greyhound]

I think we will win tomorrow

[WacoRover]

It’s been so long since we’ve played, all the lads play smart, & don’t concede early, give us a chance at the finish to nick a point. 
Chaddy & I, 1-1. 

[Old Codger]

5-1 to Boro with Rovers capacity for self-destruction tested to the limit and beyond.

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

A mid week fixture, on telly, against a serious play off contender? We've got no chance.

3-0 Boro 

[SuperBrfc]

I think tonight's the night Boro's run of goals dries up. They aren't all that, despite recent goals scored making them seem scary. It's not a true reflection of that Boro team, imo. We've got a good record there and I think we might come away with another win. 0-1.

Ahead of the game, a blast from the past. Yordi 😊.

 

[norwichblue]

Can’t see us taking anything from this one tbh.

I had a little look on their forum and apparently their team and staff have been hit with a nasty virus this week. Hopefully they’re still puking and shitting, and we can grind out a 0-0.

Last time I went to The Riverside it was a midweek game in the cup and Paul Dickov found the net in added time, cue limbs. Fingers crossed something like that happens again, but just can’t see it unfortunately.

COYB 🔵⚪️🌹 

[Lancaster Rover]

I don't think I've ever been to the Riverside when it's not been freezing cold, grim stadium

[chaddyrovers]

 

 

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

23 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

 

 

Craig Bellamy was incredible for us. We were so fucking good those few years with Hughes. Fuck off Venkys

[Old Codger]

25 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

 

 

Happy days 🙂

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Would have Kuqi back in a Heartbeat over the Laborius Gueye.

Would be Rover the Moon with a draw tonight.

Edited November 27 by SIMON GARNERS 194

[Old Codger]

I guess it is symptomatic of this being a mid-week game with little prospect of a positive result, that we are at less than 2 full pages of anticipatory comment less than 3 hours from kick off...Maybe most folk aren't even aware that there's a game on tonight?? Ruddy part timers 🙂

Here's hoping the Rovers give us all something worthwhile remembering this evening... Fingers and everything else crossed.

COYB!!

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

2 hours ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Would have Kuqi back in a Heartbeat over the Laborius Gueye.

Would be Rover the Moon with a draw tonight.

I remember feeling like we were a bit above Kuqi at the time, now we have a striker whose touch goes further than I can kick it.

[Mattyblue]

All relative, imagine the difference a Jason Roberts would make to this team.

[davulsukur]

11 hours ago, Old Codger said:

5-1 to Boro with Rovers capacity for self-destruction tested to the limit and beyond.

 

7 hours ago, CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber said:

A mid week fixture, on telly, against a serious play off contender? We've got no chance.

3-0 Boro 

Thinking along the same lines. A complete and utter no show of a performance with Boro not getting out of 2nd gear.

We haven’t won 2 games in a row in the league this season, not expecting that to change anytime soon.

3-0 Boro, Pears with a howler for his old boys.

[Angry_Pirate]

On 26/11/2024 at 08:27, TheRevAshton said:

Expecting a classic midweek, on the road no-show - we'll play for a draw, but will quickly realise that we need to just heavily focus on damage limitation.

A very comfortable 2-0 win for Boro.

Yup, at least 2. And my William Hill bet reflects that confidence. 

You can usually tell within 15 minutes how these midweek games go... and that's typically because we lose 80% of them over the past dozen years without scoring.

Prove me wrong!!

[chaddyrovers]

 

 

[pick32]

4-0 Doak and Lath to have a field day

[Exiled in Toronto Mk2]

This guy is so conservative in his team selections. The chances of Hedges and Dolan both playing well in the same game are zero.

[roversfan99]

Hedges and Dolan in the same team is always exciting.

Boro for all talk of their recent form are actually without their keeper, main 2 midfielders, main creative player in Azaz and also without Burgzorg and Van Den Berg.