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I don't want to be controversial or stir a hornets' nest that's being dealt with elsewhere but how will Brexit affect future recruitment from Europe? Will the rules about needing to play so many international games apply there? In which case recruiting from abroad suddenly becomes a whole lot harder as players we'd be looking to pick up would not be current internationals

The first thing my son said when he saw the team was that we should be all over their keeper as he's small. Not rough him up but crowd him a bit. Sounds like we did just that

How I agree. Except in my case I'm the one complaining as my husband is watching it and it's utter garbage

And the lasses!

The downer was how comfortable it all was up to the pen. As my son said after the match if the goals had come the other way round and we'd equalised late on wed have been coming away from the ground buzzing. Instead we came away feeling disappointed not to have held on.

Sitting up at the back of the stand. Forgot my binoculars! ?

Got my ticket. Weekend visiting son and going to the match with him

It's where most of the Boro footballers live. Mendieta (sp? ) has a farm or something round Yarm. It's become the posh bit of Teesside if such a place exists. When I was younger, Normanby, where I lived, was where the likes of Souness lived because the then chairman, Charlie Amer, had an estate in the grounds of his house that they lived on.

Ha ha ha. Bet they wished they'd had him last season

Doesn't actually live in Middlesbrough I wouldn't think. But on Teesside, yes. Nobody much lives in Middlesbrough unless they have to. And it's Middlesbrough not Middlesborough although they're known as the Boro with that extra o in there. ?

Nobody said he was coming, just that he could cope with the physical side of the prem

I don't think I realised what a big coup our signing him was until I did a ground tour at the Bernabeu and his picture was all over the place!

Actually it's not because there were some suggesting that Mowbray had gone as far as he could with this squad. He got some criticism that was OTT and he didn't deserve that. Criticise his tactics or team selection thats fair enough but some went further than needed

Didn't I read in that article on the new efl deal that Leeds aren't happy with the fact they're shown so often?

Increased volume should, in the medium to long term bring more cash. It may have to be short term pain to get it. Other clubs and other sports do it but not, it would appear, Rovers

Can I say, I became a season ticket holder on the basis of free school tickets. I went as the staff member accompanying the kids

Yes. If they don't want to discount all tickets just decide on an area to fill and put those on short term sale when they're gone, they're gone type deal. Put a time limit on it. See what happens

Sale did a 24hr Black Friday deal yesterday on tickets for a match in the New Year.

That Wigan Asda is massive. We bought our Christmas tree there a few years back when at a Rovers away game

Or outside Ireland.

Thing is, and I know the volume of fans is not the same, that at Sale we get free transport for all fans from the Trafford Centre and buses going back there get priority, thus avoiding queues and high parking costs. . It's imaginative ideas from the owners who recognised that traffic access to the ground was not easy and carparks were poor, especially when the M60 was at its worst and did something to take away that excuse from fans. I'm not advocating Rovers run free buses although it is an idea Charlton tried with some success several years ago but match day specials from certain places with designated pick up points as we used to get when I was young might be worth trying. We can turn up ages before or when we can and get tickets from the ticket office. Sometimes we have to queue for a while but we don't mind that and we don't pay any extra for chosing to buy last minute. Takes us a bit longer to get there than it would to get to Ewood but nowadays the journey is easier as some of the M60 is complete, and to be honest the worst part of any journey is getting out of or back into Clitheroe.

I'd understand wanting to deter late ticket sales if they were going to be 3-4000. I don't understand when it's likely they wouldn't need any extra staff over what they have now. Currently if they're running at 800 they could probably take double that without extra ticket office staffing as that's not 800 single requests and money processing they go through. Most people go with someone and one of them gets the tickets, whilst the other goes in the shop, buys a programme or whatever. Extra staffing is not that expensive anyway on the short hours they'd need.

You don't need cash for purchases under 30, just contact less cards which are faster than cash. And sometimes you just can't commit to going without other people's lives meshing with your timings so you have to take your chance and just turn up

We tend to go to Reel at Burnley who sell cheap tickets on Groupon. Nice cinema and never crowded.

I was going to suggest that a weekend away in Middlesbrough is hardly the height of romance and who should know better than me who comes from Teesside?