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Is playing Boro a Derby?

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  1. CyprusMackem

    CyprusMackem Active Member

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    Funnily enough when I was growing up Middlesbrough were just a **** team in the lower leagues.
    Glad to say, some things are just meant to be.
     
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    CyprusMackem, Jan 9, 2012
  2. Agent Bruce

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    The 'boro game was regarded as more of a derby game when I was a kid and was one of the first games my pa took me to see.

    Just see it as a sort of secondary derby now behind the Tyne / Wear derby.
     
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  3. Teessidemackem

    Teessidemackem Well-Known Member

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    I had to put up with them signing Ravanelli a couple of months after he scored the winning goal in the Champions league final for Juventus and the they was Juninho and Gazza etc etc. They were never gona progress with such a sh!te fanbase though!
     
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  4. Steven Royston O'Neill

    Steven Royston O'Neill Well-Known Member

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    Of course its a derby just not a massive one. There wil only ever be one derby for Sunderland and Newcastle fans but Boro come a distant second.
     
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    Steven Royston O'Neill, Jan 9, 2012
  5. CyprusMackem

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    Well that's that then. Syd has spoken.
    For me though derby's keep you awake, put you off your food, first games to be sought on fixture realise day and for the week before, dominate your thoughts.
    Boro simply don't qualify in any of the above. Local game yes...Derby no.
     
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    CyprusMackem, Jan 9, 2012
  6. Albert's Chip Shop

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    For SAFC yes (geography) for us no... (same reason)
     
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  7. Steven Royston O'Neill

    Steven Royston O'Neill Well-Known Member

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    I'm not opionated but I am always right
     
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  8. Badgers Assemble

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    I live near Boro and most of my mates are Boro fans. The team they primarily hate is Newcastle for some reason, and they still sing songs about us this season. I've always seen them as the left out kid that no one really likes who is begging for someone to give them some attention.
     
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  9. G Force 2-0 sparked pitch invasion

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    Middlesbrough is a small town in Yorkshire and before the Seventies restructure of the Counties were never considered as part of the NE more N Yorks.

    As for a Derby definitely not!
     
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  10. Aldridge_Prior

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    Exactly this. Doesn't even come close. It's like saying Chelsea v Brighton is a local derby.
     
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    Aldridge_Prior, Jan 9, 2012

  11. Hatem Is A Geordie

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    I don't see the game as a derby, nothing compared to the mackems game anyway, feel sorry for them as I'm sure Sunderland feel the same way!
     
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    Hatem Is A Geordie, Jan 9, 2012
  12. Cal.

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    At least Boro still have Darlington, for however long they last...
     
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  13. Makemstine Roger

    Makemstine Roger Well-Known Member

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    Haven't got a clue why.....wait......no....ive got it, would it be that there are more Mag wums than Makem ones, that couldn't be the answer could it no.....as chubby would say, YA ****ING RIGHT YA NAAR
     
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  14. Norway

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    Slightly off topic but,... Where does "The North East " start geographically? Anything North of Watford is "The North " according to the beeb.
     
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  15. holystone

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    Is for you but not for us.
     
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    My Nana was from Stockton and she always said it was Yorkshire hated it being called Cleveland
     
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  17. Neil

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    I'd consider it a derby. Where I'm from when I was a kid (Sedgefield, a long time ago) you either supported Sunderland or Boro. Virtually nobody at school supported the mags, so Boro were more the local rivals for me personally.
     
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  18. John@safc

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    I was born in, and my family still live in Stockton on Tees. North of the River Tees so in County Durham not Yorkshire
     
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  19. Delusional Full Stop

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    Even though this makes me feel dirty and used. This.

    It can't compare to the real thing because it's not the real thing. Not a derby and never will be a derby.

    It's like saying Asti is Champagne....nearly.
     
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    Delusional Full Stop, Jan 10, 2012
  20. Chimera

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    no!...simples
     
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