Recent content by Fr Austin Purcell

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    No new striker

    And with 10 of the 42 league goals coming from Lath and Coburn, it suggests too much emphasis is being placed by fans on getting this 'mythical striker' in, when so many of our goals in this system come from elsewhere. Defensively I'm not actually too worried - I think we've just been very...
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    Your most obscure Boro 11

    Enes Mahmutović Sam McQueen
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    Avoid the underpass on Saturday...

    This looks like a recipe for disaster, as hundreds of people will be queued back across the train tracks with nowhere to go when the barriers come down???
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    Harry Vaughan - Hull City

    Yep... same - I thought Seri was very good too. I was aware of him after his big money Fulham move never really seemed to work out, so I had half an eye on him already from kick off to see how he did. Think Hull might do well this season under Liam Rosenior, they play some decent stuff.
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    Harry Vaughan - Hull City

    Just been thinking back about last season and reminded myself of something, probably triggered by all the young talent we've been signing recently. Every now and again a young player who I've never heard of stands out playing against us... Hull City's attacker Harry Vaughan (just turned 19 at...
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    Football sessions for autistic kids

    Just a little plug for the 'Super Power' league for autistic and neurodivergent 7-9 year olds who would like to play football. It's been organised by a fellow footballing Dad I know, who has struggled to find appropriate sessions for his eldest footy-mad son who has autism, so has organised...
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    Boro's new Assistant Head of Football:

    I actually took (& still have) a photo of Carrick, Hislop & a few others including David James & Joe Cole on the back of a bus from a pre-season West Ham tour of Jersey around 2001-ish... may suddenly have become a lot more relevant than it was this time last year!
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    Full 90 mins available to rewatch

    Probably a really obvious one, but the club put the full 90 minute match replays on the 'Boro Live' section of mfc.co.uk usually a few days after the match (Swansea is on there already). I thought they only did this during Covid and wasn't aware until recently that they were still doing it...
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    Howson - yellow

    If gets suspended, it'll be a 2 match ban, so there is at least some logic in not playing him (though I'd personally start him)
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    Thought we might've broken our hoodoo on Saturday

    At West Brom. Just had a feeling even before the game we were going to win 3-2 after going 2-0 down first... Obviously it wasn't to be (even though we went 2-0 down ok!!)! I believe the last time we went 2 or more goals down (2-0, 3-0, 3-1 etc) in a league match to comeback and win was, quite...
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    Ex player transfer scenario

    So imagine this semi-plausible end of season situation... 1) Boro are promoted. 2) Leeds, Wolves and Bournemouth are relegated (you might guess where this is going!). 3) You HAVE to pick one of Patrick Bamford, Adama Traore or Marcus Tavernier to re-sign. Which one would it be? ('None' is not...
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    Boro form

    True, although the home gates Vs Sporting (last 16) and Basel, which after all was a QF, being around the 24k mark felt a bit shameful.
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    Boro form

    The low crowds for some of our Uefa cup games used to wind me up - there was this blasé sense of Uefa cup football being completely normal and disposable to us, when I was thinking this is what we've all wished for and could be a once-in-a-lifetime type event!
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    Boro form

    No I'm in the family zone with my 6yo son. It's a regular occurrence as well, but to fair we had a laugh together after this one as the comic timing was superb! I said to my lad (1st season ticket season) after the 0-0 draw with Rotherham to try and remember that feeling of disappointment...
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    Boro form

    I wanted to put into some sort of context just how good results have been since Carrick took over, so I decided (as I like to do quite frequently!) to get comfy and spend some time on the 11v11.com historic results site. My findings were that the results of his 1st 17 league games in charge are...
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