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This Is How It Is (And How It Could Be)

A question for you – what will you be doing with your Tuesday evening? For us Boro’ fans, we find ourselves having to accept that the festivities and frivolities of playing underneath the floodlights are nothing but a distant memory for this season. And by the time we have a …

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ShYeo-time!

Three games. Is that it? Is that all that remains of the 2012/3 season? A quick glance at the fixture list tells you no lies – yet another interesting campaign in the life of Boro’ has nearly come to its conclusion. From the early promise of those sultry autumn afternoons …

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Catching Up: Portsmouth (A)

We know what it must seem like to you. Yes, it has taken us four days to produce our thesis on the goalless draw at Fratton Park, but we have been busy with other things. Honest guv, honest! It is mainly because we realised that ALOOT might need some new …

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The end of a long four-day Easter weekend is always a tough one to bear – and the trudge into work this morning was a slow, weary one

That Was Easter…

The end of a long four-day Easter weekend is always a tough one to bear. Like a holiday you aren’t ready to come back from, the trudge into work this morning was a weary one. Whether you had a quiet one or a busy one, it was certainly wasn’t the …

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Tranmere: A Retrospective

Right then, did the 3-1 scoreline really tell the full story of our Tranmere adventure on Sunday? For us, we have to disagree with Ronnie Moore’s assertion that the home side “deserved” the victory. Now, we’re obviously going to a little biased here but were they even the better side …

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The Bury Bluster…

Right, we know how this one should go. After trashing a team very much in the hunt for an automatic bump up into the Championship, we take flight and head up north to a team for whom the Who’s Who Of League Two should already be back in the bookcase. …

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St Hattrick’s Day

If we’re being honest, we didn’t see that coming. After starting a post-mortem of Ireland’s latest attempt to play that egg chasing malarkey with less than the proper number of men on the field, the texts and tweets started rolling in. “Dani Lopez has scored again” – that is one …

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What Became Of The Likely Lads

Please don’t get us wrong, See we’ll forgive you with a song we’ll call the Likely Lads. But if it’s left to you, We know exactly what you’d do with all the dreams we had… ‘Cause blood runs thicker, Oh, we’re big-strong-and-physical, you know; If it’s important to you, it’s …

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Blipzkrieg Bop

So, was the win against Brentford just a blip in that otherwise ongoing run of bad form? If we look back over the two League One performances since, the first half at Preston North End was just a complete non-event and we can no longer find the goal again. It …

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Press On

“Now that’s how you supposed to drive! From now on, that’s how you drive!” – We feel it is important that Mike Lowrey (Will Smith’s character from the seminal 1995 police fillum Bad Boys) makes a point about Tuesday’s victory against Brentford. It must be regarded as a watershed; the …

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