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This season was virtually a carbon copy of 1974/75 for them. A plucky effort with one or two decent home wins but not quite enough quality and ultimately just coming up short and going straight back down after a year in the top flight.

Losing the first three home games of the season 1-4 does suggest that Murdoch wasn't the best manager but he did have the disadvantage of being the one to take over when we'd just sold a midfield of Armstrong, Proctor and Johnson.

Joined in 1976 and it took him until 1982 to clock up his third appearance, mainly because he was understudy to Jim Platt, who rarely missed a game. Did ok when he got going, though and went on to be a full international.

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Does Jack Charlton count as a Geordie? Or are we only counting living Geordies?

Which Boro player of the 1980s was the second longest serving player at the club by the time he made his third first team appearance?

Purely coincidence that Carrick wasn't offered the new contract until Warnock committed himself to Torquay United? I think not.

A lot of the Boro match reports I have from the late 1800s and early 1900s do refer to the colour of our knickers and stockings Weird way for a group of men to dress for a February afternoon in Middlesbrough.

And in typical Boro style, we didn't actually get to lift the trophy because the Birmingham silversmiths who were making it didn't finish it in time for the final.

There is a small corner of Wetherby that's in North Yorkshire. The boundary runs through one of the estates there. Most of them live in and around Harrogate though don't they?

And because two Premier League teams are not certain to be in the division yet.

I heard he'd put it in the hands of our recruitment team and bought Upton Park.

Getting the coach from Vicarage Road at 5am for this one does show a certain degree of commitment from the travelling Watford supporters to be fair.

To be fair the two threads are different. This is the Yenkcah Nedyah wrong way round thread.

So if Hackney is signing for West Ham does this mean there's a new rule that players can only sign for a club near their name? Can we sign that Real Madrid player Jude Billingham?