Boro v Sunderland match thread

[erimus74]

Out of the cup & temporarily out of the playoff spots, we desperately need a pickup performance to recharge our batteries, get the feel-good factor back at the Riverside & get the season back on track & what better time to start our run towards a playoff spot than beating the mackems
These are always big games & over my time following the mighty Boro we have had the most success, let's hope Sunday is no different as we hopefully record a double over our self-appointed massive neighbours

With the departure of Rogers our thin squad is looking thinner & with us still struggling on the injury front, making the timing of his departure worse, though players are slowly starting to return & with the 2 players soon to be coming back from the Asian Cup things will take a massive turn for the better, we need to keep in touch if we are to keep pace with the top 6 & give it a good go when everyone is available & a late run to cement our place in the top 6
 
If selected we could see a debutee in Luke Thomas, with Luke Ayling whose performed excellent since coming in from Leeds on loan, our 114th & 115th loanees we could see VDB play in his rightful role alongside Fry, or Clarke, that in itself will take care of the area of the field. Finn Azaz has now had a few weeks to get to know his new teammates, hopefully he'll show why Carrick chased after his performance against us earlier in the season

No Jones, Late, McGree, Silvera, Coburn struggling, we really are lightweight up front & unless we share the goals between the team we wont be worrying opposing teams defenses

26th November 1887 – First Tees Wear derby on Teesside FAC3rd Linthorpe road ground - Boro 2 Sunderland 2

This will be the 75th match on Teesside between both team the sequence of results are as follows

Won - 34
Drew -18
Lost - 22

Goals for - 112
Goals against - 89


2 home hat tricks v the Mackems

27/9/1913 – George Elilott scored his 2nd Boro HT when he scored the clubs 12th home HT & 8th at Ayresome Park, 14th in total

17/10/1936 – George Camsell scored his 12th & final home Boro hat trick when he scored the clubs 50th home HT & 46th at Ayresome Park, 60th in total


Home debuts v the Mackems

20/9/1902 - Leonard Goodson made his debut after moving from Doncaster Rovers this month
12/3/1932 - Joseph Williams made his debut after moving from Arsenal this month
2/12/1933 - Eric Weightman made his debut after moving from Scarborough in March
17/10/1936 - George Laking made his debut after moving from Wolves this month
1/12/1951 - Raymond Barnard made his debut after joining as a junior
21/2/1988 – Alun Armstrong signed from Stockport – Scored on debut


Home penalties v the Mackems

7/1/1905 – William Agnew became our 6th different penalty scorer when he scored our 8th home penalty
25/2/1922 – Andrew Nesbit Wilson became our 7th different penalty scorer when he scored our 29th home penalty
29/3/1924 – John Carr became our 14th different penalty scorer when he scored our 39th home penalty
9/11/1929 – Billy Pease became our 21st different penalty scorer when he scored our 58th home penalty
28/3/1936 – Ben Yortson became our 26th different penalty scorer when he scored our 71st home penalty
25/1/1975 – John Hickton became our 43rd different penalty scorer when he scored our 166/7th home penalty a brace, became the 9th & 10th FAC penalty the 10th time we have scored two in one game 


A number of players who played for both team

Brian Clough - For Boro - 1955 - 61, 213 games scored 197 goals, for Sunderland - 1961 - 64, 61 games, scored 54 goals.
Stan Anderson - Captained all 3 north east teams, Boro, Newcastle & Sunderland, Boro were almost doomed when he took over but with his signings, he made 66-67 a season to remember, for all the right reasons.
Alf Common - In February 1905, he broke the transfer record again by moving to Middlesbrough for £1,000, becoming the World's first £1000 Footballer. The Boro had purchased Common in an attempt to avoid relegation to the Second Division. His first game for Middlesbrough was on 25 February 1905, away to his former club Sheffield United. Boro won 1–0, with Common scoring from a penalty after 50 minutes, it was their first away win for nearly two years. Consequently, the team, who had so far been battling against relegation that season, survived the drop. He played 168 league games for Boro and scored 58 goals.
Dave Hodgson - Played for the Boro between 1978 -1982 - 125 games, scoring 16 goals then returning to the Boro in 1987 on loan for 2 games, it should have been more but Hodgy was sent off in his 2nd game at AP & never played again. In between he played for Sunderland between 1984 - 86 - 40 games & scored 5 goals.
Mark Proctor - Played for the Boro between 1978 -1981 - 109 games, scoring 12 goals then returning to the Boro in 1989 -1993 - 120 games, 6 goals. In between he played for Sunderland between 1983 - 87 - 117 games & scored 20 goals.
Stan Cummins - He played for Boro between 1975 -79 - 44 games, 9 goals. In January 1978 Boro beat Newcastle 4–2 at St. James Park & Cummins scored Boro's fourth goal prompting match commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme to say another of his famous one liners. Immediately after the goal Wolstenholme said "That gives him (Cummins) ten out of ten & one for neatness".In December '78 Boro beat Chelsea 7-2 at Ayresome Park & Cummins had four assists. He joined Sunderland in November 1979 at the age of 20, for £300,000, the Club's most expensive signing in their 100-year history. Between 1979 - 1983, he played 133 games, 29 goals, & resigned for Sunderland 1984-85 season, 17 games 0 goals.
Gary Rowell - Played 257 games for Sunderland scoring 88 goals between 1974 - 84. Played 27 games for the Boro season 1985-86 scoring 10 goals.
Alan Foggan - Played 115 games for the Boro between 1972 -1976 - scoring 45 goals, he was Stan Anderson's 2nd last signing, made 8 appearances for Sunderland with no goals in season 1976-77
Grant Leadbitter - Played 111 games for Sunderland scoring 11 goals between 2003 - 09. Signing for the Boro in 2012 played 164 games scoring 24 goals.
Paddy McNair - Tony Pulis signed Paddy at the start of the 2018 season for £5m, playing approx 145 games, scoring 13 goals
Joe Bolton – 1972-81 played 272 games for Sunderland scoring 11 goals, signed for the Boro 1981-83 played 59 games & scoring one goal, which was against Notts County at AP, Boro won 3-0
Lee Cattermole – Played 69 games for the Boro scoring 3 goals, signed for Sunderland in 2009 played 140 games, scoring 2 goals
Mick Buckley – Played 121 games for Sunderland scoring 7 goals between 1978 -83, Willie Maddren signed him for the Boro 1984-85 season, playing 27 games with no goals.
Stewart Downing - Probably our best ever academy player had 2 spells at the Boro playing 334 games, scoring 26 goals & in 2003 played 7 games for the mackems, scoring 3 goals
Julia Arca – Played 167 games for Sunderland scoring 23 goals between 2000 – 06. Played 180 games for the Boro scoring 9 goals between 2006 – 13.
Dean Whitehead - Played 185 games for Sunderland scoring 13 goals between 2004 – 09. Played 55 games for the Boro scoring 1 goal between 2013 – 15. He scored his only Boro goal away to Derby in a 2-1 defeat.
Shay Given - He became only the sixth player to have represented Boro, Newcastle & Sunderland, after Joseph Blackett, William Agnew, Tommy Urwin, Stan Anderson & Alan Foggon and the first to do so since 1976, when Foggon made his debut for Sunderland.
Bolo Zenden – Signed for the Boro onloan in season 2003-04 & played 31 goals scoring 4 goals, including a memorable cup final winning penalty, signed the following season playing 36 games & scoring 5 goals, Lazio being one of em, left for Liverpool the following season, 05-06 & in season 2009-2011 his career took a turn for the worse when he signed for Sunderland, playing 47 games & scoring a lucky 4 goals
Peter Davenport – 1988–89 signed for the Boro manager Bruce Rioch but managed just four goals from 24 games in as Boro slipped back into the Football League Second Division just one season after promotion. 1989–90 was even tougher as Boro narrowly avoided a second successive relegation and Davenport managed a mere three goals from 35 league games, and by the end of the season Rioch had gone and Boro were now managed by Colin Todd.
In July 1990, he signed for their local rivals Sunderland who had just been promoted to the First Division
John Kay - Brought in on loan from Wimbledon by WM season 1984-85 played 8 games at FB, then went to Sunderland between 87 - 96 playing 199 games without scoring
Allan Johnston – Played 87 games for Sunderland 1997 – 2000 scoring 17 goals, signed for the Boro for £600k in 2001 – 2004, played 17 games & scoring one goal away top West Ham.
Justin Hoyte - Played 27 games for Sunderland scoring 1 goal between season 2005-06, while on loan from Arsenal, Southgate signed JH for £3m, 2008 -14, he played 142 games for the Boro scoring 2 goals , one was a cracker Friday night sky live match against Sheff Weds that put us top of the championship.
Adam Johnson –1999 – 2010 played 96 games for the Boro, scoring 13 goals, he played for Sunderland 2012 - 2-16, playing 122 games, scoring 19 goals.
Danny Graham - Played 15 games for the Boro between 2004 - 2007, after a number of clubs he unfortunately between 2013-16 he found himself at Sunderland, playing 37 games, scoring the one goals, scoring one goal, Sunderland loaned him to Boro in 2014, playing 18 games, scoring 6 goals
Matt Kilgallon – 2010 – 13 played 23 games for Sunderland no goals, loaned to the Boro 2010 played 2 games no goals.

Mogga managed both teams
Steve Smelt was a coach at both clubs, under Willie Maddren at the Boro then left Willie to go to Sunderland

C'mon Boro!

[Nosmo-King]

Morning Erimus- one notable omission from your list - Dicky Rooks! I loved this no nonsense centre half.

Remember him playing as a striker for us against Cardiff. He scored a hat trick, trouble was Cardiff got  5! Sent us down to the old Third Division

[Nosmo-King]

Jason Steele?

[In With the Lurpak]

Boro 1 - 1 Sunderland 

I think if there is another play off spot available from todays standings Watford will grab it. 

[teamboro]

Great write up Erimus as usual can't beat your match write ups

1-1 my head says

2-0 to the mighty Reds my heart says

[In With the Lurpak]

The Mackem's are taking the piss out of Freds Comic on twitter 

https://twitter.com/Daviddbrownn22/status/1753455047357211086

[In With the Lurpak]

One of em say's below

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Obviously they don't know who Fred is - Might inform em of his characteristics give am a good laugh he might appear as a regular on SMB    

[erimus74]

Great write up Erimus as usual can't beat your match write ups

1-1 my head says

2-0 to the mighty Reds my heart says

Cheers teamboro

[erimus74]

Morning Erimus- one notable omission from your list - Dicky Rooks! I loved this no nonsense centre half.

Remember him playing as a striker for us against Cardiff. He scored a hat trick, trouble was Cardiff got  5! Sent us down to the old Third Division

Yes winner takes all v Cardiff.

Winners stays up, losers goes down

Good shout Nosmo-king 👍

Dicky Rooks was the clubs penalty taker when big John signed the following season
On John Hicktons debut, standing in for Dicky Rooks who was injured, at 2-0 down to Workington we were awarded a penalty, no one would take responsibility so big John, on his debut & 22nd birthday, grabbed the ball, placed it on the spot & smashed it home, bringing us back in to the game at 2-1 down, which we went on to win 3-2

Big John took the spot kicks after that

[AtomicDog]

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State of the boro fanzines. Ganna be a long owld week when we inevitably shit the bed again.
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Obviously they don't know who Fred is - Might inform em of his characteristics give am a good laugh he might appear as a regular on SMB   

[Smoggers51]

Once again Erimus a great and informative write up. Looking forward to the game.Hopefully we will shade the game 2-1.
On a sad note we have one less at the Riverside for the rest of the season,My son in law was hit by a car on Monday and is still in hospital with broken bones and smashed up foot so I want a win for him 'Get well soon Deano .
UTMB!!!!

[erimus74]

Once again Erimus a great and informative write up. Looking forward to the game.Hopefully we will shade the game 2-1.
On a sad note we have one less at the Riverside for the rest of the season,My son in law was hit by a car on Monday and is still in hospital with broken bones and smashed up foot so I want a win for him 'Get well soon Deano .
UTMB!!!!

Cheers Smoggers51 & I think we all echo that, speedy recovery Deano & best wishes, hope the Boro do it for him, give him a bit of an uplift

[Gingerpig]

Head 1-1


Heart , another fkin 4-0 stuffing

[RiversideRifle]

Easy work 4-0 again

[Blott]

Easy work 4-0 again

agreed

[erimus74]

Ipswich falling apart, 3 nil down at Preston

[erimus74]

We're now down to 12th

[erimus74]

Watford losing at home to Cardiff,

[borope]

12 o'clock kick off and I'm in between nights 🥹

[erimus74]

12 o'clock kick off and I'm in between nights 🥹

Bummer that mate, been there, not good

[tunstall]

Gonna miss it cos I'm fucking traveling

Raging

[Bud Wiser]

Starting with a proper right-back & O'Brien in central midfield is a must. Sadly, I don't think  he'll do either.

[Blott]

Starting with a proper right-back & O'Brien in central midfield is a must. Sadly, I don't think  he'll do either.

yawnnnnnnnnnnn

[Bud Wiser]

Starting with a proper right-back & O'Brien in central midfield is a must. Sadly, I don't think  he'll do either.

yawnnnnnnnnnnn

Whats the problem, Blotto? Do you have objections to people giving opinions on MFC on a... wait for it... MFC message board. Or do you think every single post should be about the views of pretentious tits from another message board?

All together now, Yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn!

[Francks left peg]

The way you lot are going on, you would think this is a football message board.