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🤣🤣 leaving the Sol my phones blowing up with texts from my boro supporting mutant mates with, out the cup hahaha. 22k attendance embarrassing. How did they do in the cup? A cup they want to be in. Also what crowd will they get for the next home match joint top of the league about 24k 😆 two heads and zero brain cells.
 
MutantParvoParmo said:
🤣🤣 leaving the Sol my phones blowing up with texts from my boro supporting mutant mates with, out the cup hahaha. 22k attendance embarrassing. How did they do in the cup? A cup they want to be in. Also what crowd will they get for the next home match joint top of the league about 24k 😆 two heads and zero brain cells.
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There aren’t any Boro fans on this thread giving it ‘big licks’, why not just reply to the people texting you?

‘A cup they want to be in’…..surely that applies to you as well as realistically it’s the only cup you could compete in. But, I get the concentrating on the league given your promotion.

I think 22k is a fine attendance , however, yourselves ( and Newcastle) don’t half bang on about attendances and claim ‘big club’ status based on it. So maybe you are a bit embarrassed by 22k?
 
Who cares about the mickey mouse league cup, as I said yesterday I can't even remember last seasons winner. Imagine if it was the only cup you've ever won in history and not even won in England but Wales that would be even worse. I can't remember getting knocked out of the fa cup either im sure we're in with a chance of that.

Boro would kill for 22k in the cup, I was at the riverside in the uefa cup campaign with an approx 6k crowd and a 12k crowd in the two games i attended when i was begged to attend with my boro fan pal but attendances mean little.

Big club status comes from 6 top division titles, fa cups, nearly 90 seasons in the top tier and 19 top three finishes. Newcastle similar. Boro came third once and spent half its history in the second tier plus have shit support with a 450k catchment to themselves but tbh im not arsed about attendances, again it means little its just more witnesses to a football match. Not that im arsed about being perceived as a big club either, everyone's bigger than someone, just answering your point.
 
MutantParvoParmo said:
Who cares about the mickey mouse league cup, as I said yesterday I can't even remember last seasons winner. Imagine if it was the only cup you've ever won in history and not even won in England but Wales that would be even worse. I can't remember getting knocked out of the fa cup either im sure we're in with a chance of that.

Boro would kill for 22k in the cup, I was at the riverside in the uefa cup campaign with an approx 6k crowd and a 12k crowd in the two games i attended when i was begged to attend with my boro fan pal but attendances mean little.

Big club status comes from 6 top division titles, fa cups, nearly 90 seasons in the top tier and 19 top three finishes. Newcastle similar. Boro came third once and spent half its history in the second tier plus have shit support with a 450k catchment to themselves but tbh im not arsed about attendances, again it means little its just more witnesses to a football match. Not that im arsed about being perceived as a big club either, everyone's bigger than someone, just answering your point.
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Bloody hell mate, you really have an anti-Boro chip on your shoulder. I guess your username gives it away.

6k (or even 12K) at a UEFA game......why are you making stuff up? Go on, show me proof of this? I will be waiting a long time.

And you don't remeber who won last years league cup ? Why lie mate, makes you look ridiculous?

As I said, I think 22k is a good attendance, but I know how much some Sunderland fans set their stall out based on such things.

You have a good history but all of that success was probably not in your life time but if you want to hang onto to and claim 'big club' status then fair enough. I will hang on to our 1 cup win that I managed to see (and probably won't again).
 
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The two games i went to

Middlesbrough vs Dnipro. UEFA Europa League Group D.
8:00pm, Thursday 3rd November 2005.
Riverside Stadium : Attendance 12,953.

Boro won 3-0

Middlesbrough vs Liteks Lovetch. UEFA Europa League Group D.
7:45pm, Thursday 15th December 2005.
Riverside Stadium: Attendance 9,436.

Boro won 2-0

Info available on sky sports results from 2005/2006 season.
 
MutantParvoParmo said:
The two games i went to

Middlesbrough vs Dnipro. UEFA Europa League Group D.
8:00pm, Thursday 3rd November 2005.
Riverside Stadium : Attendance 12,953.

Boro won 3-0

Middlesbrough vs Liteks Lovetch. UEFA Europa League Group D.
7:45pm, Thursday 15th December 2005.
Riverside Stadium: Attendance 9,436.

Boro won 2-0

Info available on sky sports results from 2005/2006 season.
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Fair enough, I stand corrected.
 
Tripper1 said:
Fair enough, I stand corrected.
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Tbf that December game was close to Xmas obviously so a bad time for buying tickets for people and absolutely freezing i kept moaning to my pal to leave and go to the pub. 9k was poor but hey our cup attendances are not always the best either. Semi final sold out I think and obviously the final. The games leading up were poor attendances even the game vs Roma. Im sure the attendances would be better if it was present day and fans took it for granted at the time as you had a good team then probs your best ever arguably and probs thought it was just the start.
 
MutantParvoParmo said:
Tbf that December game was close to Xmas obviously so a bad time for buying tickets for people and absolutely freezing i kept moaning to my pal to leave and go to the pub. 9k was poor but hey our cup attendances are not always the best either. Semi final sold out I think and obviously the final. The games leading up were poor attendances even the game vs Roma. Im sure the attendances would be better if it was present day and fans took it for granted at the time as you had a good team then probs your best ever arguably and probs thought it was just the start.
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Yep, sometimes when you have a successful period the expensive ( extra ) games come thick and fast.

In 97 when we got to 2 cup finals ( lost both 😃) and I saw that. We had expensive games ( 3 x semi finals), 2 x Wembley trips and then a cup final replay. I think we did sell out eventually, but we did struggle.
 
Tripper1 said:
Yep, sometimes when you have a successful period the expensive ( extra ) games come thick and fast.

In 97 when we got to 2 cup finals ( lost both 😃) and I saw that. We had expensive games ( 3 x semi finals), 2 x Wembley trips and then a cup final replay. I think we did sell out eventually, but we did struggle.
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I had a silly bet that season, I was still at school and a boro fan bet me and said Boro would do the treble both cups and the prem. Close they done the opposite, lost both cups and relegated for not playing Blackburn wasn't it and the points deduction. I didnt take his money anyway just a joke bet.

But yeah all these big games for areas like Teesside and Wearside are not easy to pay for. Lowest average wage and furthest to travel but all three north east clubs probs have the best away support.
 
MutantParvoParmo said:
I had a silly bet that season, I was still at school and a boro fan bet me and said Boro would do the treble both cups and the prem. Close they done the opposite, lost both cups and relegated for not playing Blackburn wasn't it and the points deduction. I didnt take his money anyway just a joke bet.

But yeah all these big games for areas like Teesside and Wearside are not easy to pay for. Lowest average wage and furthest to travel but all three north east clubs probs have the best away support.
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There's certainly not much spare cash swirling round either of those areas for sure. Pretty sure Teesside comes top/virtually top for every deprivation marker that the Government measure (kids in poverty, knife crime etc). Unfortunately Wearside won't be far behind.
 
Losing Finn Azaz to Southampton for 12m plus 3m add ons. Obviously they nearly sold hackney to Ipswich too, can't be a good feeling losing your best players to other Championship teams especially after a good start
 
These have started much better than I expected, big game at home to a desparate Sheffield United on Saturday. Would like to see them in the top 6 race at least, bit of extra interest from the outside looking in.
 
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