Boro v Portsmouth match thread

[erimus74]

2 league games in, one win on the opening day of the season beating Swansea 1-0 we then followed that up with a fantastic 3-0 away win at Leeds in the 1st round of the league cup & then typical Boro we suffered a frustrating defeat at newly promoted Derby County in our first away league game
All 3 games we could & should have scored more goals

This coming Saturday we face Portsmouth for the first time on Teesside since the 6th August 2011 when both teams played out a 2-2 draw at the Riverside

Portsmouth sit in 15th place with 2 league draws, they lost at home to Millwall in the league cup

Hopefully Jekyll & Hide Boro can produce the form we showed against Swansea in the first half & the Leeds game & put Portsmouth to the sword & inflict their first league defeat of the season

Not too sure what's the latest on McGree, whether he starts or not, or even in the squad, top player for us but seems to be another player, along with Forss, who picks up knocks quite easy
Boro fans will see our newest arrival in Tommy Conway, think he'll start on the bench again

IMO, unless injuries,  I will expect Carrick to stick with the following team Dieng, Ayling, VDB, Clarke, Engel, Morris, Hackney, Burgzorg, Azaz, ELL, Jones
Still think Dijksteel & Gilbert were/are unlucky to not feature in the first eleven

We've had some big wins at home to Portsmouth over the years, 7-3, 8-2, 5-1, 5-4, lets start the game with a bang, score early & go on to win the game comfortably



12/4/1925 – The first home fixture between both teams Boro 1 Pompey 1 – Saturdays fixture will be the 57th meeting between both teams on Teesside with the following:

Won - 31
Drew - 16
Lost - 9
For - 117
Against – 68


Home hat tricks & 4 goal haul

2nd January 1926 - Boro winning 7-3 when George Camsell scored his first 4 goal haul, the 5th time this has happened at home & the 5th different Boro player to score 4 goals at home in one game

6th November 1926 - Boro winning 4-1 when James McCelland scored his 3rd hat trick, the clubs 31st home HT, 35th at Ayresome Park & 16th different HT goalscorer to date

29th March 1939 - Boro winning 8-2 when Wilf Mannion scored his 1st hat trick, the clubs 51st home HT, 54th at Ayresome Park & 25th different HT goalscorer to date

23rd November 1946 - Boro drawing 3-3 when Wilf Mannion scored his 2nd hat trick, the clubs 55th home HT, 58th at Ayresome Park


Home penalties v Portsmouth

3/9/1949 – Peter McKennan the 34th different penalty goalscorer when he scored the clubs 89th home penalty in a 5-1 defeat

16/12/1950 – Wilf Mannion the 31st different penalty goalscorer when he scored the clubs 88th/89th home penalty in a 3-1 win – The 5th time we have scored two penalties in one game

1//3/1952 – Wilf Mannion the 31st different penalty goalscorer when he scored the clubs 89th home penalty in 2-1 win

3/5/1966 – Dicky Rooks became the 41st different penalty goalscorer when he scored the clubs 147th home penalty in a 5-2 win

7/3/1970 – John Hickton became the 43rd different penalty goalscorer when he scored the clubs 157th home penalty in a 2-1

26/2/1991 – Gary Parkinson became the 60th different penalty goalscorer when he scored the clubs 204th home penalty in a 2-1 defeat

2/10/2010 – Barry Robson became the 83rd different penalty goalscorer when he scored the clubs 247th home penalty in a 2-2 draw


Home debut v Portsmouth

2/1/1937 – Wilf Mannion drew 2-2
26/1/1938 – George Wardle drew 0-0 – 33rd player to only play the one game
3/2/1990 – Ian Baird won 2-0


Played for both teams

Joe, Joe, Joe Laidlaw played 125 games between 1968/1972 scoring, scoring 22 goals, after leaving the Boro he played for Carlisle & Doncaster then signing for Portsmouth in signed for Portsmouth in 1979

Mick Baxter played 138 games between 1981/1984 scoring, scoring 8 goals, he was offered a new contract at the Boro, on reduced terms turned down our offer & signed for Portsmouth, unfortunately, due to illness Mick Baxter never played a first team game for Pompey

Mick Kennedy played 79 games between 1982/1984 scoring, scoring 10 goals & signed for Portsmouth in the summer of 1985

Paul Sugrue played 81 games between 1982/1985 scoring, scoring 5 goals, & signed for Portsmouth in the summer of 1984

Paul Merson signed for the Boro in 1997, playing 48 games, scoring 12 goals, left the Boro in 1998, signing for Portsmouth in 2002 from Villa

Yakubu signed for the Boro from Portsmouth in the summer of 2005 going on to play 73 games, scoring 25 goals, left the Boro in 2007

Gary O'Neil signed for the Boro in the summer of 2007 from Portsmouth playing 109 games, scoring 10 goals, left the Boro in 2011

Christian Burgess played only the one game for the Boro in 2013, signed for Pompey in the summer of 2014 - The 59th player to only play one game for the Boro

David Nugent signed for the Boro from Portsmouth in the summer of 2015/2017 going on to play 42 games, scoring 8 goals

Matt Clarke played for Portsmouth between 2015/19 & following his transfer to Brighton he signed for the Boro in 2022, a big part & important member of our back 4 - Remember the good old days when a player would play against his former club & was given the captains armband for the game

Sammy Silvers is currently on a season long loan at Portsmouth & will be unable to play against us at the weekend

UTMB

[TerryCochranesSocks]

Brilliant mate, just brilliant.
 

[erimus74]

Brilliant mate, just brilliant.
 

Cheers @TerryCochranesSocks

[LIDDLE_TOWERS999]

BORO 3 POMPEY 1


LATH
LATH
CONWAY

[TeessideTopgun]

You've seen the rest well here's the best 👍👍

3-0 Boro

[TerryCochranesSocks]

Boro 4 - 0 Pompey

[Ayton Mews]

2-0 , Azaz and Lath

[erimus74]

Boro 4 - 0 Pompey

Good convincing win, same as 1994 under Robbo

[RiversideRifle]

Who remembers Barry Robson fucking leathering Mokoena in the box with a right hook and it cost us 3 points 

[erimus74]

2-0 , Azaz and Lath

Azaz off the mark, unlucky away to Derby

[RiversideRifle]

Boro 4-2 Pompey

Lath Conway and Azaz x2

[Redsteel (Moderator)]

1-1

[TommyDickfingers]

Tight one this in my opinion. They'll do one of those low block thingymajigs so we'll have to break them down

Boro 7 Pompey 1

[teamboro]

All hail the E man is back brilliant writing as usual

2-0 mighty Reds

[erimus74]

All hail the E man is back brilliant writing as usual

2-0 mighty Reds

Cheers TT, unfortunately cant do the next two fixtures, hospital beckons, 👍

[Ural Quntz (Moderator)]

1969 - the year of the second best Boro chant ever

'Oh we paid twenty thousand for Kinnell, forkinnell
Oh we paid 20 thousand for Kinnell, forkinnell!'

Best ever?

One Job on Teesside
Theres only one job on Teesside

[Clem Fandango]

2-0 to the Mighty Boro

 

[rutters]

Looks like vdb out now.
So Ayling at CB and Dijk in at RB?

[Blott]

At last. Pig Iron for 12.30, Central say 01.00, pint with the wheelies in Square 1 at 1.20 ish, then a few at the ground.

Match and taxi home. Followed by Prawn Chow Mein from Colin's.


Thank you god.

[erimus74]

Looks like vdb out now.
So Ayling at CB and Dijk in at RB?

Bummer, 😔

[Blott]

Looks like vdb out now.
So Ayling at CB and Dijk in at RB?

Bummer, 😔

is Fry and Lenihan injured too?

[erimus74]

Looks like vdb out now.
So Ayling at CB and Dijk in at RB?

Bummer, 😔

is Fry and Lenihan injured too?

Thought Ken was ok just lack of fitness

If he is then we are carrying on from last season
McGree - sicknote
Forss - sicknote
Lenihan - sicknote
Fry - sicknote
Banguara - sicknote
VDB
Smith
Howson

Not looking good, 😔

[erimus74]

We should cobtinue to see young lad Hunt on the bench, maybe even take some part in the game

[Clem Fandango]

Looks like vdb out now.
So Ayling at CB and Dijk in at RB?

Bummer, 😔

is Fry and Lenihan injured too?

Thought Ken was ok just lack of fitness

If he is then we are carrying on from last season
McGree - sicknote
Forss - sicknote
Lenihan - sicknote
Fry - sicknote
Banguara - sicknote
VDB
Smith
Howson

Not looking good, 😔

We do seem to get an unusually high number of injuries.  Hmmm.

[tunstall]

For some reason I hate these cunts

Boro 3 them cunts 0