Tough tough game. 3pm kick off. Should suit our sit back n catch them on the break stylee but who knows. Bite ya hand off for a point right now. we don’t have a good record at all at boro either Frustrate the hell out of them and catch them late on City 1-0
In 1801, Middlesbrough was a small farm with a population of just 25. Joseph Pease of Darlington needed a port for his coal ships, so created 'Port Darlington' and brought in Irish labourers to create what became Middlesbrough. This increase was fuelled in 1841when Henry Bolckow and John Vaughan of Wales, discovered ironstone deposits in the Eston Hills. The name 'Middlesbrough' predates the settlement, and possibly relates to an abbey located halfway between Whitby and Durham. It is 'brough' rather than 'borough' due to a spelling error when it was given its charter in 1853. Middlesbrough was the first major British town and industrial target to be bombed during the Second World War. 2 Yorks – The 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) infantry regiment are very strongly associated with Middlesbrough. Originally formed at Dunster Castle, Somerset in 1688 to serve King William of Orange, later King William III. During the 1970s, actor Terry Scott, of Terry and June, managed to drive his car off the end of the Transporter Bridge and was only saved from the murky waters of the River Tees by the bridge's safety net Boro's old Ayresome Park ground featured in the 35th edition of the Guinness Book of Records for being the home of the largest reported advertising hoarding, which was painted on the roof of the North Stand by sponsor Heritage Hampers. The Dock Clock Tower at Middlehaven Dock in Middlesbrough has four sides, but only three clock faces. because employers did not want the dockers to clock-watch. The Little Theatre in Linthorpe was the first new theatre built in England after World War II. Dorman Long of Middlesbrough are responsible for bridges all over the world, including theTyne Bridge, Menai Suspension bridge and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. In 1889, then amateur Middlesbrough FC tried to join the league by joining with Middlesbrough Ironopolis and playing at the Paradise Ground. They took Accrington's place, but it only lasted a season due to financial problems, but beat teams like Small Heath (now Birmingham City), and Ardwick (now Manchester City) and ended up 11th of 15 teams. Middlesbrough were one of the founder members of the Premier league, and the first club to be relegated from it. (among others, obviously) The Riverside was the first stadium built to comply with the Taylor report on all seater stadiums. Middlesbrough were the first football club in the world to launch its own TV channel – Boro TV. Middlesbrough FC regularly top the table in community work, with the club being involved in many schemes and initiatives to assist and support the local community.
Mallik Wilks will not be involved at Middlesbrough on Saturday, Hull City boss Shota Arveladze has confirmed, as the striker continues to recover from a series of injuries suffered this season. Wilks has recovered from a foot injury that kept him sidelined for a lengthy period of time having picked up his problem at Nottingham Forest before Christmas and continues to take a full part in training at the Tigers’ Cottingham base. The 23-year-old returned off the bench in the win at Peterborough United last month, but hasn’t featured since, and with Wilks out of contract this summer, speculation is mounting about his future with no decision understood to have been taken yet about his or the other seven players seeing their deals come to an end. Arveladze, speaking to Hull Live ahead of Saturday’s trip to the Riverside Stadium, says Wilks will not be considered for selection at this stage. "He’s been out for quite a long time when I arrived, I spoke to him two or three times. I thought we had a really good understanding but again, this is daily, we have to go every day, every session and game (and see what happens). “Mallik’s a fantastic lad, a really good boy. I’m waiting for him to get really fit and I’ll talk to him, maybe, we need his energy and speed back. That’s what I’ve not seen yet. One week he was good, winter came back and he was ill again. It’s also luck, sometimes, it could help us both. “It’s difficult for them to get back in shape. It is frustrating because you want everyone to be available and make your decisions tougher. He can play as the main striker, second striker, off the wing. “With the body he has, if you get a tear in his thigh or his hamstring, it really pulls and I know this, my teammates experienced it before. When a player is quick and powerful and they experience this tear, it takes a long time to recover.” https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/football/shota-arveladze-reveals-hull-city-6927166
In his mind, Mallik finishes all his chances like that. Nice words from Shota. A kind of way of saying that he thinks Wilks is a bit chubby just now.
Not quite sure why I'm going to this! Not looking forward to it at all. 90 minutes of, at best, watching us try and scrape a backs to the wall draw, memories of it "kicking off" outside last time I was there. Just want the season over and our status as a championship club somehow secured.
“They’ve got some really good young players. (George) Honeyman is a local boy, (Keane) Lewis-Potter is taking a lot of plaudits this season through fabulous performances and Jacob Greaves is a young centre-half. They did a couple of bits of business in January when the new manager came in. But they’ve been relatively consistent and I would imagine they’re relatively happy with their first season back in the Championship. "Mission accomplished in terms of being in the division another season. I think they will be, they’ll get the job done and they’ll build from there. New owner, new manager and they’ll want a strong positive end to the season like we all do. We all want that big finish to go into next year.” - Chris Wilder
Absolutely going to get tonked today, we’ve been on the verge of getting beat by a big score, but the refs have been lenient, so Middlesbrough will get at least 2 penalties, Jacob Greaves could be sent off for at least 2 bookable offences. We might have a shot on target, depends if the midget striker who we loft the balls into the box to try & beat the much taller CB’s can catch a break, highly unlikely. So I’m going minimum 4-0 to Boro! Could be 6 or 7!
