Middlesbrough fans

Middlesbrough fans

Total and complete joke, only sold 73 tickets for away match v Everton.

They are the most fickle of the fickle, disgrace to football, there are worse off teams with smaller fan base who can muster up more than that.

Laughing stock of the Premiership

there shit

lol didnt realise we only sold that many.

poor that like

couldnt give a fuck tbh tho

we'll still beat sunderland and the geordies

again

Re: Middlesbrough fans

just like the toon have been for years

Re: Re: Middlesbrough fans

Nice of Spurs to take on the role this season though

Load of bollocks.

Grow up James, you sound like a right wanker... there is nothing wrong with Boro's attendances.

Erm is it? How many fans did you have at home for a League Cup match, something like 12,000? And less than 200 travelling support to Everton for a Premiership match.

Just stating facts mate

I read there were between 300 - 500. Still its irrelevant, it was on tv and we have won 3 games away from home in the past two seasons with some pretty awful performances. Precisely the situation when fans should vote with their feet. Everton hardly filled their stadium despite being pretty successful recently... But then attendances have been fluctuating for a while now at most clubs, certainly not just Boro.

Aye we have some low cup gates, but no different to Man City, Blackburn, Wigan etc... its a trend of the smaller clubs with smaller fanbases... fans pick and choose nowadays (sensible imo), its not cheap paying ££ for tickets in an area like Boro, and why should they with whats been on offer for several years? Besides I remember when 20,000 in Ayresome Park was a great gate, so why all of a sudden should we be nearly doubling that, we aren't that big an area!

And why do you care so much? Worry about your own team, and remember if Souness had stayed at Newcastle for longer you wouldn't have had a sell out Sid James Park, just like before the Keegan days... Fickle? All football fans are.

What was the score 2 weeks ago mate??

Boro's attendances are typically poor, they were texting fans on their database asking them to attend their home game against Sunderland 2 weeks ago to avoid it being another empty stadium.

Even if the Everton game was on tv, any Premier club should be taking a decent following to any game imo.

We have sold out 4,000 to go to Arsenal this sunday for a 12pm kick off - meaning leaving at 4am to travel the length of the country to see us play arguably the strongest team in the country at present.

Everton is 3 hrs drive, theres no real argument for only selling 70 tickets!!

You don't always fill your stadium so thats rich, we filled the Riverside last time we were relegated... you lot didn't fill yours when you've been up and down. There are a handfull of clubs who consistently fill their grounds, the rest have fluctuating attendances. Blackburn and Everton have been pretty successful in recent seasons yet don't fill their stadiums... Just look at Man City too (all bigger clubs than Boro). The Boro get decent, not great, but decent attendances for our current circumstances, its strange why you lot need to comment on it, maybe your own clubs don't give you enough to talk about?

Like I said, we were playing Everton, it was on telly and we're not exactly thrilling away from home. You're playing Arsenal - it's your first season back in the Premiership and you have more fans. What do you want, a "super supporter" badge?

You have to ask why many premiership fans aren't going to certain games and why they are now picking and choosing. Real fans will always support their club, but that doesn't mean they have to pay hefty prices to watch utter drivvle, and thats why many aren't, its a natural reaction - you won't keep paying for something that isn't worth it! Hardly rocket science and imo its common sense.

/bite

Job done

Its the one thing on this message board guaranteed to get me to reply

Well done mr lambrini, you stitched me up good and proppa!

why do you get a proper hard on over having better/more fans attending games than boro tho lol?

I love Smogs attendance comebacks.

I'm surprised you didn't go on about how it wasn't so rosy for Newcastle back in '78

well its true isn't it? fans have short memories, many fans are fair weather fans and bandwaggon jumpers. look at man u, they haven't always been all-conquering. before robson and keegan, boro and newcastle had been very average. so why does attendance matter so much? im more concerned with winning and enjoying a match than how many are in a stadium... its very short sighted to comment on attendances.

the premier league, sky sports and all seater stadiums changed the game in this country, for good and for bad. personally i think stadium atmospheres are dire compared to when i was younger, and middlesbrough are one of the worst clubs for fan control through heavy handed stewards and shite music, as if we need to be told to celebrate a goal.

Graham please stop taking the piss man....................they sold 73 tickets.

Was it??

Sorry Smog - I retract all comments mate.

this thread is awesome

to be fair selling 73 tickets for a weekend away game is a complete joke