Boro v Rotherham match thread

[erimus74]

Following our new years days second half collapse at home to Coventry when comfortably leading one nil & looking to add to that when we conceded a sloppy goal & with going in at HT 1-1 we then in the we just imploded, conceding again & again, IMHO, mainly due to tired legs, the team been decimated with injuries & the bench looking more like a cresh caught up with Michael Carricks team, he even thought during the Coventry game he looked at the bench & thought, the age of he players looking back at him, I cant put these players, who were to young, out there

Up next were Aston Villa sitting in 2nd placed team in the PL, to face our injury ravaged Boro team & not much hope of anything respectable coming out of the FAC tie, but what a performance the whole team gave, losing out to a cruel, last minute badly deflected winner.

Chelsea followed the Villa cup game as we welcomed the Londoners for the 1st leg of the league cup tie, again the billionaires came to the Boro against our injury ravaged team, with not even scoring a home goal against Chelsea since 2006, we were hoping to, somehow, have something to take back to Stamford Bridge to make the second leg something to resemble a cup tie & wow, what came from that game, IMHO, given the circumstances with again an injury ravaged team, that again, fell to that curse when losing two important players, then to me, the following 90 minutes was up there with one of the best display I've seen from any Boro team in my 52 years following the mighty Boro

Which takes us to our last fixture, Millwall away, who were on a decent run themselves, but, with the Boro on a massive high following the Chelsea game could injury ravaged Boro get something from the game!

It didn't help Boro arriving late for the game, tired legs, debutants & then, bang, conceding an early goal, still jittery but hanging in there the Boro composed got back in to the game, drew level & in the end worthy winners, winning 3-1, Engel getting his 1st goal of the season, very technical player I expected his first goal would have been a 25 piledriver, they're all the same, so a 2 yard piledriver is as good. Jones added the second with a lovely finish, after good work from Azaz & Forss, coming on for the final few minutes scored the type of goal he is good at, to finish off the Lions & 3 points to the mighty Boro

With everything that's gone on this season, losing 5 of the first 6 games, drawing the other, a GD of minus 10, sitting bottom of the league, losing up to 50 goals from last season, not much time for project players to blend in & thrown in at the deep end Micheal Carricks team suddenly started to find their form, the players starting to believe in themselves & results improving that we now find ourselves in 9th place, sitting one point out of the playoffs, one foot in the league cup final & IF certain results go our way at the weekend we could occupy the final playoff spot, what a transformation

With the welcome addition of Ayling, for me our MOTM for the Millwall game, Azaz & a return of a couple of long term absentees in Forss who made a goalscoring return & maybe O'Brien, then there is a bit of light regarding the return of a number of long time absentees Michael Carrick will have the selection headache that all managers want

4 players who could play, if selected, with no fear of missing the Chelsea cup tie via injury are the Leeds duo Greenwood & Ayling, along with O'Brien & Azaz, all 4 are cup tied

15/1/1955 Boro 5 Rotherham United 1 – The first fixture on Teesside between both teams.
Rotherham, who have a decent record v Boro on Teesside will be the 22nd home fixture between both teams, with the following record 

Won - 8
Drew - 8
Lost - 5
For - 36
Against - 23


No hat tricks, only the one 4 goal haul v Rotherham

30/08/1961 - Alan Peacock scored 4 goals when we beat Rotherham 5-1 at Ayresome Park


Home debuts/last game v Rotherham

17/9/1958 - Ernest Walley made his final appearance before moving to Crystal Palace in May 1960 – lost 2-1

9/9/1963 - Harold Kirk made his debut after moving from Ardeer Recreation in May – drew 2-2

12/03/1983 - Ray Hankin started his final Boro game at home to Rotherham in a 1-1 draw, Paul Sugrue scoring our goal, RH played one more, wearing No12, then he was gone


Home penalty goalscorers v Rotherham

28/12/1959 - Bill Harris our 36th different penalty scorer when he netted in a 3-0 win, 125th home penalty

9/9/1963 - Arthur Kaye our 38th different penalty scorer when he netted in a 2-2 draw, 142nd home penalty

13/3/1965 - Mel Nurse our 40th different penalty scorer when he netted in a 3-5 defeat, our 145th home penalty

11/11/1967 - Mr Middlesbrough, John Hickton our 43rd different penalty scorer when he netted in a 1-1 draw, our 150th home penalty



Represented both teams

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

David 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 16 games signed permanently for an initial fee of £175,000,

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 games

2014/15 season Jamal Blackman played one game for the Boro, a league cup away game at Liverpool in a 14/13 penalty shootout, 2020/21 season loan at Rotherham where he played, he played 26 games

Darnell Fisher played for Rotherham played 34 games, zero goals, in season 2016/17, signed for the Boro till present, played 12 games, zero goals

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


Managed both teams
Neil Warnock

20//9/1995 - Rotherham were the first our first cup opponents & first opposing team to score at the Riverside - Boro won league cup 1st leg tie 2-1

UTMB

[Nosmo-King]

Great work, as usual Erimus. High time we put minnows like the Millers to the sword. Wing play a key element to getting through a packed defence.

And I think we will. 3-0. And then that little matter of Chelsea......

[tunstall]

Typical Boro written all over this one I think


Boro 1 Rotherham 1

[teamboro]

Top read as usual from a top fan

0-1 Millers hope I'm wrong

[erimus74]

Great work, as usual Erimus. High time we put minnows like the Millers to the sword. Wing play a key element to getting through a packed defence.

And I think we will. 3-0. And then that little matter of Chelsea......

Cheers Nosmo-king, they do have a decent record up here

[erimus74]

Top read as usual from a top fan

0-1 Millers hope I'm wrong

Cheers teamboro

2015 was the last time we beat them & actually scored past them at home, two draws & a 3-0 defeat later, in fact we failed to score past them at home in 1987 when winning promotion, again goaless, we're due a win, fingers crossed

[erimus74]

Typical Boro written all over this one I think


Boro 1 Rotherham 1
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Thing is tunstall, you wouldnt bet against it, though we'll have scored

We put the bad run against Chelsea to bed, lets do likewise v Rotherham

[Johnny Thunder]

4-0



 

[In With the Lurpak]

Love these old programs Erimus 




Has to be another victory with a comfortable 3 - 0 win

[erimus74]

Not all Boro fans read & post on Boro message boards but all posters who post on red roar are Boro fans, fact 👍😊

[Blott]

Love these old programs Erimus 




Has to be another victory with a comfortable 3 - 0 win

I had 100s if programmes and Shoot, when I was a teenager. We moved house and I have no idea what happened to them. My mam will have binned them.


I have a feeling we are going to batter Rotherham. How does it work out we play them again so quick?

[AtomicDog]

9-0

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[Ural Quntz (Moderator)]

Was our Chairman from the 60's W S Gibson any relation to pubehead?

[tunstall]

Was our Chairman from the 60's W S Gibson any relation to pubehead?

OG Hamster

[Nosmo-King]

Don't know W S Gibson however I recall the Thomas family ( 2 of them) being directors in the 60's. They had a relative - Peter Thomas- sports journalist on the Express. He often wrote about us - "Bonny Boro" he called us. Not that this helps in anyway!

[Bud Wiser]

Bit of a bogey side for us, these fuckers. Even going back to my first visit there for Big Mal's unofficial first game in charge where they got a last minute equaliser - so not to be taken lightly.

My only prediction is that Carrick will rest players.

[erimus74]

Bit of a bogey side for us, these fuckers. Even going back to my first visit there for Big Mal's unofficial first game in charge where they got a last minute equaliser - so not to be taken lightly.

My only prediction is that Carrick will rest players.

I was at that game too Bud Wiser, Alan Roberts came on as sub for his debut, looking back I loved big Mals time here, good manager, with such a small squad he kept us up

[Smoggers51]

Great write up as always Erimus 👍Rotherham seem to be a bit of a bogey side for us but even with the distraction of the Chelsea game I feel we have enough firepower to beat them .I'm going for 3-1 to us.Incidentally due to Birminghams progression in the cup we have a free day 27th Jan 👍UTMB !!!

[Gingerpig]

we will do this lot 3-0

[erimus74]

Great write up as always Erimus 👍Rotherham seem to be a bit of a bogey side for us but even with the distraction of the Chelsea game I feel we have enough firepower to beat them .I'm going for 3-1 to us.Incidentally due to Birminghams progression in the cup we have a free day 27th Jan 👍UTMB !!!

Cheers Smoggers 👍

[erimus74]

The last time we beat Rotberham at home was the only time my wife went to a Boro game, 3rd November 2015, the day our Kev passed away & asked the whole family to go in his memory

Rotherham have not won in 26 away games, the 2nd longest run in their history

Lets not make this a typical Boro game & IF we win & other results go oour way then we'll be in the final playoff place

UTMB

[Gingerpig]

The last time we beat Rotberham at home was the only time my wife went to a Boro game, 3rd November 2015, the day our Kev passed away & asked the whole family to go in his memory

Rotherham have not won in 26 away games, the 2nd longest run in their history

Lets not make this a typical Boro game & IF we win & other results go oour way then we'll be in the final playoff place

UTMB

that my man sums up the perils of being a boro fan 

[Francks left peg]

These games always worry me. Beat Chelsea,Millwall and lose to Rotherham...typical boro

[erimus74]

These games always worry me. Beat Chelsea,Millwall and lose to Rotherham...typical boro

Don't think it'll ever change Franks, change chairman, managers & players & one thing remains, 'typical Boro"

[In With the Lurpak]

The last time we beat Rotberham at home was the only time my wife went to a Boro game, 3rd November 2015, the day our Kev passed away & asked the whole family to go in his memory

Rotherham have not won in 26 away games, the 2nd longest run in their history

Lets not make this a typical Boro game & IF we win & other results go oour way then we'll be in the final playoff place

UTMB

    

Time to skip above the Mackem's & plummet em further down the table