Rotherham v Boro match thread

[erimus74]

After a brilliant performance against West Brom on the 23rd we travel to South Yorkshire to face bottom of the league Rotherham to hopefully continue to win enough points to get in among the playoff pack

Our football results this week have been like waiting for a bus, you wait for ages then 3 turn up together, following the 2nd half collapse at home to Hull City when we were comfortably winning 1-0 (if you can be comfortable at one nil up that is) then shot ourselves in the foot with a crazy 10 minute spell we end up losing the game 2-1. We then travelled to South Wales, again with a depleted team & came away with a 2-1 win, 3 days later we progressed to our 1st cup semi final for 20 years on Tuesday when comfortably beating Port Vale 3-0 & capped off a tremendous 7 days with a magnificent performance at home to West Brom, when all things considered, the best display of the season for me, which not only moved us up 3 places but now, 3 points separate us from 5th & 6th place teams, with one point separating the Boro & 7th place, the Championship is such a tight league, considering our injury list its nothing short of miraculous that we have done so well with so many 1st team players missing

A magnificent team effort for every individual player v West Brom for our final Saturday fixture of the year with Barlasar having his best game in a Boro shirt v West Brom, right from the off he was beating a couple of men then playing the ball off, his through ball to Engel for the goal was quality,  he was sort of running the show against a team I thought would overpower & out battle us in midfield, but far from it, hopefully he kicks on from here
VDB, gets better each week, 19 years of age playing, out of position, in a foreign county, what a player he's turning in to
Engels game is far better for me than Giles, not so much when putting the ball in the box but far, far better defensively, I would think that Engel won't be far behind Giles on assists come the end of the season
Johnny Howson, if the West Brom commentator is correct will start, if selected, his 299th Boro game
Fry, Glover, Rogers, Silvera, excelled also, Jones for me, is important in a big part of our defensive play. Dijksteel had his best game for along, long time. Greenwood with his constant running & pressing, unsettling defenders played a big part in West Broms poor form on saturday

It was nice to see McGree & Coburn make cameo appearances on Saturday, especially McGree who is such an important player for us & sort of proved his case when he came on & his little nippy footwork almost set us up for another goal we could have scored

Listening to Michael Carrick on the BBC Tees podcast after the West Brom game you could feel how excited he was with that performance, as opposed to how flat he was after the Hull defeat
After doubting him & the recruitment team following the first 6 fixtures that seen us sit bottom of the league when the team build was in its early stages he's slowly getting us playing to how we did last season, controlling the game, keeping the ball, whereas last season, we had some big players to finish off our excellent moves, this season we have our own young players who are finding their feet in the Championship & in time, will come good

The Rotherham fixture, our penultimate game of the year, is a completely different scenario from the past 7/8 fixtures, in the fact, the teams we've faced have been, top two, down to top half the table opposition, Rotherham are the opposite, rooted to the foot of the table, 9 points from safety, only 2 home wins this season & minus 27 goals, without a win since the back end of October when they beat Coventry 3-0, big win, so its in them to create an upset

Not saying it's going to be any easier than those games mentioned, I would think Michael Carrick will send out his team in the right frame of mind but one thing I'll expect from Rotherham, they'll put up more of a fight than West Brom did


The 1st Rotherham v Boro fixture was played on the 4th September 1954, Boro losing 3-0 with 2 Boro players making their final appearances on that day, William Watkin, moving to Mansfield Town in June & Joseph Rayment moving to Hartlepool United in July, both in 1955

Boxing days game will be the 22nd game in South Yorkshire between Rotherham & Boro, with the following:

Won - 13
Drew - 1
Lost - 7
For - 36
Against - 27

No away hat tricks

Away debut v Rotherham

30/10/1983 - Alan Roberts made his Boro debut away to Rotherham, replacing Tony Mowbray in the 2nd half, Heine Otto scoring our goal in a 1-1 draw, I was behind the goal that afternoon

3rd April 1956 - Albert Mitchell outside right who made 56 appearances for the Boro, scoring 6 goals made his final appearance in a 2-1 defeat at Rotherham, before moving to Southport in August, with Billy Day scoring out 1st Boro goal away to Rotherham

5/5/2019 - Jon Mikel Obi's first goal for Boro in a 2-1 win at Rotherham was his one & only Boro goal

Away debut goalscorers v Rotherham

11/9/1958 - Alan Rodgerson, signed from Potters Bay, Hertfordshire, scored 2 golas in our 4-1 win, 72nd debutant goalscorer
01/11/2014 - Yanic Wildschut became the 124th Boro player to score on his debut when he scored in a 3-0 win

1/1/1966 Stan Anderson become our 1st player coach (not manager back then) to score an away goal when he netted our only goal in a 4-1 loss at Rotherham

Away penalties v Rotherham

5/5/2019 - Brit Assombalnga - became the 89th different penalty scorer when he netted in a 2-1 win our 130th away penalty


Played for both teams

Hughie Mcllmoyle played for Rotherham in 1962, 12 games, 4 goals, between 1969-71 he played 80 games, scoring 22 goals

Dave Currie played for Middlesbrough between 1982-86, playing 125 games, scoring 31 goals, signed for Rotherham on loan from Barnsley in 1992, played 5 games, scoring 2 goals

1985-86 Pat Heard our 4th loaned player, before signing permanent for us in 1985, played a total of 26 games, scoring 2 goals, played for Rotherham 1988 to 1990, playing 44 goals, 7 games

Kelham O'Hanlon started at the Boro & between 1982-85 played 97 games in goals, our 40th used 1st team GK, when he was released from the Boro he signed for Rotherham, playing over 250 games between 1985-1991

April 1986 Phil Kite was signed by Boro manager Willie Maddren on loan from Southampton, due to keeper Stephen Pears been out injured, he played 2 games, he became our 45th 1st team used GK, our 6th loaned player, ironically 4 of them 6 were GK's, he played one game in goal for Rotherham in 1992 when signed from Sheff Utd

Phil Whelan signed for the Boro in 1995/97 played 22 games, scoring the one goal, in 1999 he played 13 games for Rotherham, scoring 4 goals
Chris Wilder played 132 games for Rotherham between 1992-96 scoring 11 goals

Robbie Stockdale played 75 games for the Boro between 1997 - 2004, scoring 2 goals, in 2004 the Boro loaned him to Rotherham & in 2004/05 he signed permanently

May 1999 Michael Cummins one game for the Boro away to West Ham, between 2008-2010 he played 50 games for Rotherham, scoring 5 goals

Richie Smallwood started at the Boro & between 2010/13 played 72 games, scoring 4 goals, he then signed for Rotherham on loan in the summer of 2014 & after 19 games signed permanently for an initial fee of £175,000 & between 
2014/2017 Smallwood played 108 games, scoring 3 goals

Adam Hammil had loans at both Boro & Rotherham, a0 games at the Boro in 2012 & 14 games at Rotherham in 2015, zero goals at either club

Frazer Richardson signed for the Boro in 2012, played 11 games, later signed Rotherham in 2014/16, playing 40 games2014/15 season Jamal Blackman played one game for the Boro, a league cup away game at Liverpool in a 14/13 penalty shoot-out, 2020/21 season loan at Rotherham where he played 26 games

Darnell Fisher played for Rotherham played 34 games, zero goals, in season 2016/17, signed for the Boro

Dael Fry played 10 games at Rotherham in 2016/17 season

Grant Leadbitter played 5 games on loan at Rotherham from Sunderland in 2005, scoring one goal, in 2012 Mogga signed Grant for the Boro from Ipswich where he played well over 200 games, scoring 30 goals

Lewis Wing between 2017-2022 played 92 games for the Boro, scoring 14 goals, loaned to Rotherham in 2021 he played 20 games, scoring 2 goals

Lee Peltier signed for the Boro in 2021 from WBA, he played 21 games without scoring, when the Boro released him in the summer of 2022 he signed for Rotherham

2021 Grant Hall signed for the Boro where he played 27 games, presently on loan at Rotherham

Matt Crooks Boro signed MC from Rotherham in the summer of 2021, at the Boro he's played 93 games, scoring 20 goals 

Dan Barlasar signed from Rotherham in January 2023 for an undisclosed fee

Managed both teams

Neil Warnock - Done a similar job to what he later did at the Boro. "good old Neil" came in with Rotherham 3rd bottom, not only beating the Boro but secured safety for Rotherham, with an amazing 9 points to spare, two clubs he managed to keep in the Championship, but what do you expect from the bloke who has proven to be the best Championship manager ever
























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[teamboro]

Hope we can carry on the performance from Saturday

Great write up again Erimus

0-2 to the mighty Reds let's keep this little run going

[erimus74]

Hope we can carry on the performance from Saturday

Great write up again Erimus

0-2 to the mighty Reds let's keep this little run going

Fingers crossed teamboro

If they follow Carricks instructions to the letter we'll win

[LIDDLE_TOWERS999]

MILLERS 1 BORO LIONS 🦁 3

COBURN
CROOKS
LATH

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[TeessideTopgun]

Merry Christmas Erimus , your  dedication is a thing of beauty, doubt any other forum has anything to compare pal 👍👍

UTB 3-0 the mighty Boro

[erimus74]

Merry Christmas Erimus , your  dedication is a thing of beauty, doubt any other forum has anything to compare pal 👍👍

UTB 3-0 the mighty Boro

Cheers Topgun appreciate that & Merry Christmas to you & your family

[erimus74]

Well after a busy day looking forward to the biggy tomorrow

[RiversideRifle]

1-2 boro 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🍻

[In With the Lurpak]

Crikey is this VHS Tape yours Erimus



There can't be many other VHS Recordings of Rotherham V Boro about they could put this in one of them time capsules they bury for some one to find in 10,000 years time    :klippety:  



Always plenty to read on the Erimus match thread  :klippety:



Rotherham 1  - Boro 2 

[tunstall]

Massive banana skin this one today

Typical Boro written all over it especially after our performance against West Brom the other day

Them 2 Us 0

[Bud Wiser]

Massive banana skin this one today

Typical Boro written all over it especially after our performance against West Brom the other day

Them 2 Us 0

Thats the spirit! 

[LIDDLE_TOWERS999]

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[erimus74]

Crikey is this VHS Tape yours Erimus



There can't be many other VHS Recordings of Rotherham V Boro about they could put this in one of them time capsules they bury for some one to find in 10,000 years time    :klippety:   



Always plenty to read on the Erimus match thread  :klippety:



Rotherham 1  - Boro 2 

Yes mine Lurpak 👌

[Johnny Thunder]

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[erimus74]

0-5




 

That would worry the rest of the teams around us, depleted Boro still continue to challenge the playoff pack, what will happen with a full strenth team

[erimus74]

We've enjoyed 3 x 4-1 wins there & a couple of 3-0 wins yet I would happily settle for a 1-0 win, just to keep ticking along, the group we're among will start to fall away as the months tick by, maybe the 4 play offs will be contested by 6, 7 teams, lets make sure we're one of them

[erimus74]

If we're successful today we'll climb a few places with West Brom home to Norwich & Hull home to Sunderland, meaning points dropped

[LIDDLE_TOWERS999]

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[teamboro]

Why not give Kavanagh a go upfront

[Blott]

Brilliant write up.


We are going up.

[erimus74]

Leeds got beat at Preson, who climb to 7th, one thing I dispice in todays game when it showed the Leeds keeper getting sent off, the pathetic Preston player rolling around when the Leeds keeper put his hand on his face, he should be disciplined, for me that is the only reason VAR should be used in our game, nothing more

[erimus74]

But it'll never happen because its more important a goal is disallowed because the scoring playets tie nail was infront of the defenders toenail yet a player can cheat to gain an advantage & its ok

Maybe its politcal, cheating is a labourite, toe nail a tory 😉🤣

[erimus74]

C'mon Boro!

[erimus74]

Mainly one way traffic but frustrating in the final third from us

Can see Coburn & McGree introduced earlyv2nd half for Greenwood /Silvera & Rogers, even though Greenwood could have had 2 we seem to fall down when hes on the ball

Still rather have Engel than Bangura mind

[Redcar Belgrade]

Fairly turgid stuff against a team with absolutely no ambition whatsoever. Hopeful we can nick a goal but 0-0 is a distinct possibility against these spoilers.