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Boro thread

summaz said:
………… also in this period (2025-2078), Seahamstar has racked up 1.7m posts on a Sunderland forum becoming the 3rd highest post count on the board (he is a Boro supporter)
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Only 1.7m ?
Gonna have to up my game.
I know I'll never overtake Hetty but I was aiming for second highest.
 

joebolton said:
I will tell you what I have realised over the years living down on Teesside

Middlesbrough is not really a football town/city in the sense that Sunderland is.

When you watch people playing the 1st bars of Can’t Help Falling in Love and immediately every supporter in the land thinks Sunderland.
When you see the English keeper having a song from his own fans referencing his Sunderland roots.
Groups from all over the world supporting us.
References to great Cup finals ( capital C) referring to the Montgomery save , and the Porterfield goal. Bob Stokoe running over the turf. You never hear the league cup 2004 mentioned.

Ex players and managers like Henderson , Roy Keane , Quinny , Peter Reid all publicly backing us and appearing joyous ( not pleased, joyous) at us doing well.

National commentators saying the club is Back where at club and support its size deserves to be. Back in the league they have won 6 times
Even the badge referencing the ship building history.

The magnificent marketing of Til the End , little kids all over the country when the see the cats eyes they know it’s us.
Look at some of the Tifos. Just class.

Maybe it was the Sunderland till I die which got a lot of the country invested in us doing well ?

It’s just something Boro don’t have. Not knocking them , there is not a lot they can do about it. They just don’t have the charisma we have as a club.
They are not up there in the national football psyche like we are

Parmos, Pigbag and Roary the Lion can only take you so far.

And I believe , deep down , a lot of Boro fans get that. And what makes them more sick than Sunderland winning , was the way the national media fawned over us anyway , win or lose.
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Sobered up now, have we?
 
Roker Scoreboard said:
Boro's modern day support is piss poor and we still push towards 40k on a regular basis even when we've had tough times.
You'll never come close to us or the mags in terms of support or relevance.
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We had an average of 25,460 last season. I wouldn't say that is piss poor for the Championship. 26,905 the season before.

Sunderland and Newcastle are one club cities and you share a massive catchment area.

Newcastle have managed an average of 50k+ in the Premier League ever since they increased the capacity of SJP.

You were having to give thousands of tickets away a week to schools, sports clubs etc the last time you were in the Premier League.
 
Teesside_Steve said:
We had an average of 25,460 last season. I wouldn't say that is piss poor for the Championship. 26,905 the season before.

Sunderland and Newcastle are one club cities and you share a massive catchment area.

Newcastle have managed an average of 50k+ in the Premier League ever since they increased the capacity of SJP.

You were having to give thousands of tickets away a week to schools, sports clubs etc the last time you were in the Premier League.
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Least we gave them away you couldn’t force me to watch your lot at gun point
 
Teesside_Steve said:
We had an average of 25,460 last season. I wouldn't say that is piss poor for the Championship. 26,905 the season before.

Sunderland and Newcastle are one club cities and you share a massive catchment area.

Newcastle have managed an average of 50k+ in the Premier League ever since they increased the capacity of SJP.

You were having to give thousands of tickets away a week to schools, sports clubs etc the last time you were in the Premier League.
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That’s not true like and they gave away 10k free season tickets one year
 
Teesside_Steve said:
We had an average of 25,460 last season. I wouldn't say that is piss poor for the Championship. 26,905 the season before.

Sunderland and Newcastle are one club cities and you share a massive catchment area.

Newcastle have managed an average of 50k+ in the Premier League ever since they increased the capacity of SJP.

You were having to give thousands of tickets away a week to schools, sports clubs etc the last time you were in the Premier League.
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you clowns couldn't give yours away if you wanted too
boro man have a day off
 
Teesside_Steve said:
We had an average of 25,460 last season. I wouldn't say that is piss poor for the Championship. 26,905 the season before.

Sunderland and Newcastle are one club cities and you share a massive catchment area.

Newcastle have managed an average of 50k+ in the Premier League ever since they increased the capacity of SJP.

You were having to give thousands of tickets away a week to schools, sports clubs etc the last time you were in the Premier League.
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Have you forgot the 10k free season tickets at SJP?
 
Mowgli said:
Have you forgot the 10k free season tickets at SJP?
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That was just because of a fan boycott against Mike Ashley and was only for the remaining games that season.

It's well known that you regularly gave away free tickets when you were in the Premier League.
 
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Teesside_Steve said:
That was just because of a fan boycott against Mike Ashley and was only for the remaining games that season.

It's well known that you regularly gave away free tickets when you were in the Premier League.
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:lol::lol: so you won't have a problem if we gave away free half season tickets like Newcastle then?
 
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