Just for a bit of perspective…

[viv_andersons_nana]

Boro haven’t won at Stamford Bridge since March 1975. In my lifetime, we’ve never won there. The last time we kept a clean sheet there I was 8 months old - I was glued to the wireless, obvs, as we battled to a 0-0 draw in September 1983.

We’ve played there 59 times since 1907 and won 5 times. 4 of those wins were in 1912, 1926, 1933 and 1938.

We’ve only managed to draw 13 of the 59 matches. If my maths are correct we’ve lost roughly 78% of our games at Stamford Bridge in 117 years of travelling there.

It’s not exactly a lucky ground for Boro. This is before you factor in the gulf in budgets, quality, experience levels, the missing players, etc.

It was going to take a massive, massive effort to not get well beaten tonight. The difference tonight is that Chelsea took the presentable chances they created - or were presented with in some cases - whereas in the first leg they didn’t and we caught them out. We then sat in, kept our shape, defended resolutely and occasionally rode our luck.

It obviously hurts to lose a game of football 6-1 and concede poor goals but it was a mammoth task to begin with.

We can now focus on winning the playoffs and winning promotion… and seeing what happened tonight happen 3 weeks in every 4

 

[Ebor]

Tomorrow morning. The time for perspective

 

[h_m_boro]

But why did your mam and dad glue an 8 month old baby to the wireless?

 

[Glover_elbow]

Boro haven’t won at Stamford Bridge since March 1975. In my lifetime, we’ve never won there. The last time we kept a clean sheet there I was 8 months old - I was glued to the wireless, obvs, as we battled to a 0-0 draw in September 1983.

We’ve played there 59 times since 1907 and won 5 times. 4 of those wins were in 1912, 1926, 1933 and 1938.

We’ve only managed to draw 13 of the 59 matches. If my maths are correct we’ve lost roughly 78% of our games at Stamford Bridge in 117 years of travelling there.

It’s not exactly a lucky ground for Boro. This is before you factor in the gulf in budgets, quality, experience levels, the missing players, etc.

It was going to take a massive, massive effort to not get well beaten tonight. The difference tonight is that Chelsea took the presentable chances they created - or were presented with in some cases - whereas in the first leg they didn’t and we caught them out. We then sat in, kept our shape, defended resolutely and occasionally rode our luck.

It obviously hurts to lose a game of football 6-1 and concede poor goals but it was a mammoth task begin with.

We can now focus on winning the playoffs and winning promotion… and seeing what happened tonight happen 3 weeks in every 4

Our back 4 created most of their chances

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

Try telling young'uns about the wireless.
They'd be clueless.
And don't even bother mentioning the hit parade.

 

[dooderooni]

We were always on a hiding to nothing last night, but there was always the hope that we'd pull off one of those cup displays that we've been spoilt with over the years. As it turned out it was more of an Orient, Wolves, Newport, Cardiff result than a Man Utd, Man City or Arsenal.
Perhaps that was the issue, we weren't playing an elite team so we never raised our performance to match them

 

[atypical_boro]

We were always on a hiding to nothing last night, but there was always the hope that we'd pull off one of those cup displays that we've been spoilt with over the years. As it turned out it was more of an Orient, Wolves, Newport, Cardiff result than a Man Utd, Man City or Arsenal.
Perhaps that was the issue, we weren't playing an elite team so we never raised our performance to match them

Or Liverpool…..

 

[dooderooni]

Or Liverpool…..

I didn't want to mention them as they tend to set a few off on here

 

[HolgateCorner]

We were always on a hiding to nothing last night, but there was always the hope that we'd pull off one of those cup displays that we've been spoilt with over the years. As it turned out it was more of an Orient, Wolves, Newport, Cardiff result than a Man Utd, Man City or Arsenal.
Perhaps that was the issue, we weren't playing an elite team so we never raised our performance to match them

The gulf is so big now that it’s increasingly difficult to beat one of the money teams. They have subs benches of players costing more than our team.

We won the first leg and that was a monumental achievement.

 

[Capybara]

I don't know where else to put it but here is as good as anywhere, and that is that I was much more pistoff about the Aston Villa game than I was last night.