Pre-Match

Last Updated: 12 April 2013

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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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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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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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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On Brentford

Sometimes it feels as if you’re in a group of people standing close to a rather large hole and your only saving grace is that there are a few more in front of you. Of course, things as they stand mean that we’re a good foot from the edge of …

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The Last Chance Saloon?

It is not often thought to be a good idea to take Borochat as a barometer of public opinion on the Lamex terraces, but it does lead us to believe there has been a alarming increase in the number of people unhappy with the current management team. There’s also the …

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We’ve Started, So We’ll Finish

In our constant search to draw a happy face on an otherwise sad, distressed body, we turn to Reason To Be Cheerful No.2873 ahead of the trip to Scunthorpe United. All runs have a start and all runs have an end; not even Forrest Gump continued on his epic jog …

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Oldham. Newham. Whatever.

Before we stuck into this preview, there is quite possibly a horsemeat-meets-old-ham joke to be had somewhere, but we lack the humorous edge and dexterity of wit so badly needed to execute the gag. Therefore, you can take this as an attempt to get it out of our system so …

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Brentford (A): Take Two…

Right, no mucking about now. After a waterlogged pitch put paid to our originally-planned trip to West London shortly before Christmas, we’re going to catch the weather out tonight and get this game played. For us, it’s quite a decent time to be taking on Brentford. And for them, it’s …

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Belinda Carlisle

Oh baby do you know what that’s worth? Oh, heaven is a place on earth. Carlisle. Belinda Carlisle. Marvellous. Belinda Carlisle that is, not Carlisle. That said, we’ve never been – it is probably quite decent as Anglo-Scottish border towns go. What we do know is that Carlisle – not …

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