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George Best scored regularly when he wasn't playing....

TBH, I thought the top one was Linden Dykes, but I might have got the type of tree wrong?

Mason Mount

Just got it. You can tell by the look she’s a keeper. 
 

M1 Junction 6 and down the A405 ☺️

Not sure of equestrian rules but is this stonewall penalty? 😊

Slightly tenuous surname clue for the long hared ex Arsenal man.

I’ve watched football / derby for many years , seen the good , bad and indifferent, over the years I’ve seen so many teams / clubs struggling or stepped up a level with lesser squads and the ones that get out of it and or survive are the ones with a smart manager who strips it back to the basic defend as a team and don’t concede goals , they do that because that is the best way to get a platform to build from , get confidence then expand from there ,, we did that in spades on Saturday, so much so that I really think we have a good shot at doing ok this season , there is not a single manager ( that we could attract ) that I would swap warne for ,
you don’t like it that’s fine , you think it’s all warnes got in his locker that’s fine , I see it differently 🤷🏻‍♂️

So another match day thread where we got a fantastic 3 points against a team that’s been building at this level we’ve got ourselves back into , with far more money spent , bigger better squad, which we won by sheer grit , determination, organisation, team spirit in the face of losing two of our defenders early on but clinically punished they’re mistake descends into ,, we were just lucky , we cannot survive playing like that , Warne is not good enough ect ect ,
im glad I go to games and watch real football, I can assure you I enjoyed ,was riveted to the game and as happy at the final whistle as any game we have dominated and strolled through ( perhaps more so )
one game at a time and I’m happy for warne to do what he thinks is needed to get the points to stay up and establish us again , im not gonna get bogged down by those telling us how poor and lucky we were and how bad it’s going to be going forward , engage a little and laugh them off🤷🏻‍♂️

Have you not seen Monty python and the holy grail ? Bring out your dead

A certain centre half we had for a bit ?

A wee Scot!

I’ve watched football / derby for many years , seen the good , bad and indifferent, over the years I’ve seen so many teams / clubs struggling or stepped up a level with lesser squads and the ones that get out of it and or survive are the ones with a smart manager who strips it back to the basic defend as a team and don’t concede goals , they do that because that is the best way to get a platform to build from , get confidence then expand from there ,, we did that in spades on Saturday, so much so that I really think we have a good shot at doing ok this season , there is not a single manager ( that we could attract ) that I would swap warne for ,
you don’t like it that’s fine , you think it’s all warnes got in his locker that’s fine , I see it differently 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’ve watched football / derby for many years , seen the good , bad and indifferent, over the years I’ve seen so many teams / clubs struggling or stepped up a level with lesser squads and the ones that get out of it and or survive are the ones with a smart manager who strips it back to the basic defend as a team and don’t concede goals , they do that because that is the best way to get a platform to build from , get confidence then expand from there ,, we did that in spades on Saturday, so much so that I really think we have a good shot at doing ok this season , there is not a single manager ( that we could attract ) that I would swap warne for ,
you don’t like it that’s fine , you think it’s all warnes got in his locker that’s fine , I see it differently 🤷🏻‍♂️

Who is it below?

I'll give you that one! 😅

Who is it below?

I’ve watched football / derby for many years , seen the good , bad and indifferent, over the years I’ve seen so many teams / clubs struggling or stepped up a level with lesser squads and the ones that get out of it and or survive are the ones with a smart manager who strips it back to the basic defend as a team and don’t concede goals , they do that because that is the best way to get a platform to build from , get confidence then expand from there ,, we did that in spades on Saturday, so much so that I really think we have a good shot at doing ok this season , there is not a single manager ( that we could attract ) that I would swap warne for ,
you don’t like it that’s fine , you think it’s all warnes got in his locker that’s fine , I see it differently 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’ve watched football / derby for many years , seen the good , bad and indifferent, over the years I’ve seen so many teams / clubs struggling or stepped up a level with lesser squads and the ones that get out of it and or survive are the ones with a smart manager who strips it back to the basic defend as a team and don’t concede goals , they do that because that is the best way to get a platform to build from , get confidence then expand from there ,, we did that in spades on Saturday, so much so that I really think we have a good shot at doing ok this season , there is not a single manager ( that we could attract ) that I would swap warne for ,
you don’t like it that’s fine , you think it’s all warnes got in his locker that’s fine , I see it differently 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’ve watched football / derby for many years , seen the good , bad and indifferent, over the years I’ve seen so many teams / clubs struggling or stepped up a level with lesser squads and the ones that get out of it and or survive are the ones with a smart manager who strips it back to the basic defend as a team and don’t concede goals , they do that because that is the best way to get a platform to build from , get confidence then expand from there ,, we did that in spades on Saturday, so much so that I really think we have a good shot at doing ok this season , there is not a single manager ( that we could attract ) that I would swap warne for ,
you don’t like it that’s fine , you think it’s all warnes got in his locker that’s fine , I see it differently 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’ve watched football / derby for many years , seen the good , bad and indifferent, over the years I’ve seen so many teams / clubs struggling or stepped up a level with lesser squads and the ones that get out of it and or survive are the ones with a smart manager who strips it back to the basic defend as a team and don’t concede goals , they do that because that is the best way to get a platform to build from , get confidence then expand from there ,, we did that in spades on Saturday, so much so that I really think we have a good shot at doing ok this season , there is not a single manager ( that we could attract ) that I would swap warne for ,
you don’t like it that’s fine , you think it’s all warnes got in his locker that’s fine , I see it differently 🤷🏻‍♂️

Your account of what yourself and your fellow fans have been through obviously had a fair amount of emotion behind it and it's an emotion that I can certainly both identify with and recollect easily enough.
You're also indeed correct, Middlesbrough football club had the liquidators called in, the gates to Ayersome Park were locked by outside forces and we ceased to exist, in 1986. Obviously a large swathe of our fans won't have that experience in living memory, certainly not all of those aged 40 and under so as such can't identify with it personally, but I do. I was a 9 year old boy who bawled his eyes out at the time at the thought of his local team gone for good.
For your Mel Morris, our villain of the piece was called Charlie Amer, a man who ran the club like his plaything and piggy bank and was guilty of a stupid amount of financial mismanagement. We shut down completely, until much like yourselves in the 11th hour a local consortium stepped in to rescue the club, with a certain twenty-something Steve Gibson involved. Not many of our fans knew him previously but he was a baby-faced kid from a Middlesbrough Council estate who had quietly built up his fledgling haulage business to become a multi-millionaire even at that young age. He would of course in the years that followed go on to assume the role of major shareholder and chairman, spearheading the club towards its greatest times in living memory and these factors mean he is held in high regard by a lot of our fans, much the same I imagine as your new owners are by your support.
We even had to play at Hartlepool's ground for a while to fulfill fixtures with their permission and wishes of goodwill, which we always remember whilst our ground ownership was sorted out.  It's no coincidence that when Hartlepool themselves nosedived out of the football pyramid and further recently with their own extreme financial troubles, they were stunned as were their opponents in fixtures no doubt that they suddenly began to get 20K odd crowds showing up to watch their games in the second division down of non-league as many thousands of Boro fans began turning up to support them and help their financial woes any way we could, chanting "We remember 86" as we did so.
Regarding the recent rift between OUR clubs or more importantly it's cause, it's clear that there's no love lost between Gibson and Morris and it's sad that your fans have borne the brunt of it it seems, rather than the real charlatan, whom those from both clubs can identify. I have to confess to having no legal knowledge of how each party may be pursued through courts for any perceived injustice or whether it is possible, but disregarding this the honourable and logical course of action would have been for Gibson to hold Morris personally accountable for whatever financial disadvantage he perceived MFC to have had. Honourable as he was the man ultimately responsible for all the financial decisions involved, whereas your fans of course had no input into any of this and logical as he was about to emerge from your club with his saddlebags full to ride off into the sunset, whereas Derby County no longer had a pot to piss in thanks to his mayhem?
Again I don't know whether this is legally possible as the finer points of such laws are not my area of expertise, but it's the course I'd have thought he would have taken if it was.
In truth I don't think the vast majority of our fans actually wanted Derby County to fold, certainly not almost all of the ones old enough to remember our own darkest hour. You will of course get the mindless element who support any club who will gleefully jump all over any perceived grief plus some stupid kids, the kind that were out living it large during the recent riots, but it's always a sad truth that empty vessels make the most noise and get focussed upon, merely as they're the extreme. This in turn will produce the same reaction from the opposing mindless element and as such toxic feelings will escalate. Its unfortunately what always tends to happen.

So another match day thread where we got a fantastic 3 points against a team that’s been building at this level we’ve got ourselves back into , with far more money spent , bigger better squad, which we won by sheer grit , determination, organisation, team spirit in the face of losing two of our defenders early on but clinically punished they’re mistake descends into ,, we were just lucky , we cannot survive playing like that , Warne is not good enough ect ect ,
im glad I go to games and watch real football, I can assure you I enjoyed ,was riveted to the game and as happy at the final whistle as any game we have dominated and strolled through ( perhaps more so )
one game at a time and I’m happy for warne to do what he thinks is needed to get the points to stay up and establish us again , im not gonna get bogged down by those telling us how poor and lucky we were and how bad it’s going to be going forward , engage a little and laugh them off🤷🏻‍♂️

So another match day thread where we got a fantastic 3 points against a team that’s been building at this level we’ve got ourselves back into , with far more money spent , bigger better squad, which we won by sheer grit , determination, organisation, team spirit in the face of losing two of our defenders early on but clinically punished they’re mistake descends into ,, we were just lucky , we cannot survive playing like that , Warne is not good enough ect ect ,
im glad I go to games and watch real football, I can assure you I enjoyed ,was riveted to the game and as happy at the final whistle as any game we have dominated and strolled through ( perhaps more so )
one game at a time and I’m happy for warne to do what he thinks is needed to get the points to stay up and establish us again , im not gonna get bogged down by those telling us how poor and lucky we were and how bad it’s going to be going forward , engage a little and laugh them off🤷🏻‍♂️

A few random thoughts from Saturday, having been at Pride Park on Saturday and having rewatched the game on RamsTV.
Always exciting attending the first match of the season at PP and I don't think we could have been given harder opposition. Having watched them demolish Leeds in the Cup during the week, I would have bitten your hand off for a point before the game. Their counter-attacking was something to behold on Wednesday.
Thought we started pretty well and had some good movement, without really troubling Borough. Borough started to get into the game and find a few pockets. Then we scored, Jackson taking his goal superbly - how often do we actually score one on one's? Not often.
Then the injuries - Cash was a blow (to him too!) and not many in the ground would have fancied Sonny Bradley against the Boro pace. Nyambi (who I personally would have started with), I thought would strengthen our defence.
They constantly caused us problems, which I expected, but I was delighted with the way we came up with the solutions, plugging gaps which had previously appeared. Sure we had some luck too - but we surely deserved that.
Everyone ran their socks off too. No slackers in view.
I think last year's midfield would have floundered. This year we have legs and more mobility. Kenzo, although he didn't see much of the ball, used it well when he had the opportunity and kept hustling the opposition. Ozoh, started nervously (not surprising for his age and inexperience) but gradually gained confidence and became a real presence in midfield. Osborn never stopped running, harassing and guiding others.
The defence were magnificent to a man. Vickers, apart from a couple of moments, was faultless. Nyambe and Nelson, their usual selves (i.e. superb) and Bradley and Elder probably had their best games for the Club. NML didn't have his best game but still worked very hard and Jackson never stopped running. Collins got a bad press from many on here over the weekend but I think he did some great work defensively.
Yes, Boro were the better and more confident side, after their start to the season and our unfortunate start at Blackburn.
The referee (not anybody's favourite) actually (watching RamsTV) got most of the decisions correct (apart from a few right at the end). He had a pretty good match actually.
Style went out of the window for this match, it was important we got something out of it for our confidence. Although I would prefer to see us attacking for 70% of the game , there was something so satisfying at keeping Boro at bay. Edge of the seat stuff at times - but so pleasing too.
Paul Warne gets a bad press at times for his recruitment. If ever there was advertisement for why you select "team players" - this was it. 100% commitment to the cause and each other!
As usual, there are some supporters calling for Warne's head because of our defensive display. I, for one, am even more behind the team after this performance, although I do want to see more attacking prowess in the future. I think he got his subs. spot on too.
Two more very difficult games to follow but I feel more confident after this game.
Well done, all.