If, as seems likely, Sam leaves to take the England job, we have an away fixture which we will lose, followed by a Derby game which we will win! At least it means we would have to wait until October for the first win of the season.
Put it this way. Huddersfield is about the same distance to Salford as Boro is to Sunderland. I don't class it as a derby but Boro make a rivalry of it so what can we do?
Don't be daft man ...... you count Liverpool as a derby and Newcastle think you're their rivals We're closer to Boro than you are to Liverpool. We say Boro isn't a derby, to piss them off, but we all know it is really. This season, it's our closest match by some distance tbf.
Well spotted and I like your thinking.. Debatable whether it's a derby game, but I'll take that - middle to top half of the table after 2 games
I was just going off what many people had been saying recently, particularly to that Smoggo bloke. For the record though, I don't consider the Liverpool game a derby, they're our biggest rivals for sure, but neither them or Leeds are a derby, not to me anyway. Only City.
About as much as Man U Vs Huddersfield is. Look at the similarities, all in different counties, very similar distance away. Nobody in their right mind would call Man U Vs Huddesfield a derby so why is ok for Sunderland Boro to be one? This need for derbies is pathetic imo. Just because we have very few clubs in the area doesn't mean to say they're all derbies. We've got one main one and loads with semi professional outfits. Boro isn't one and we don't need it to be one. It's nowhere near Sunderland. Says it all when everybody across the country work in counties except for us who works in regions and try to jam all its counties together into some deluded 'super area'. Comes across as a bit area inadequate imo. Boro is not a derby game. They're just a team 30 odd mile away in a near by county. Just like Huddesfield are to Man u.
We have Blackburn, Burnley, Bolton, Wigan and a load of lower league teams such as Bury, Oldham, Stockport, Macclesfield in our area and none of them are considered 'derbies' to us either, maybe Bury at a push if we met as it has a Manchester postcode. In fact, edit that, it doesn't it has a Bolton post code. Our only derby is City, but it's by no means our biggest game... although with Jose and Pep on each horse, that could be about to get a shove.
It's a minor derby no doubt. It's no Tyne Wear derby but there's three big clubs in the North East. In my eyes derby's are the results of the geographical grouping of clubs. London, North West, North East, Yorkshire and so on. When the three north east teams play it's a derby in my eyes. Fair enough if others don't think so, that's life. I reckon there's more interest in the Boro game than most others from most quarters though.
Was going to say Bury is more Bolton, the towns join in places. I remember there's a pub right on the boarder line and I watched Carlos Edwards smash in a long range effort against Southampton in the Keane era in their.
So hull is a derby? Whats the distance cut off? Nah, don't buy. Middlesbough is nowhere near Sunderland. when there's clubs closer to Boro than Sunderland are who don't consider it a derby you know the 'wear-tees' is just clutiching. imo.
I wouldn't know it mate, I'm rarely in either town. I know there's a few good pubs up that way though, usually when you drive out the other side of Bury towards Ramsbottom way. I don't miss living at that end.
Not too sure why some are derby's and some aren't. You'd have to ask whoever decided what was and wasn't. My view's just history carried forward. I presume some marketing/advertising brain was at work when it first started but I have no complaints. Makes it a bit more interesting.
