The end of a long four-day Easter weekend is always a tough one to bear. Like a holiday you aren’t ready to come back from, the trudge into work this morning was a weary one. Whether you had a quiet one or a busy one, it was certainly wasn’t the former for Boro’ – and similarly, it certainly wasn’t the former for BoroGuide and that is why we’ve only now found a moment to reflect on it all. Results, managers and that…
Good Friday was a fairly enjoyable day out, considering it was an afternoon in the Gatwick Airport Overflow Car Park. It was a potentially tricky affair that was made more difficult in the first half by The Amazing Mistimed Fortunes of Miguel Comminges. We thought that it was usual for defenders to be less willing to make a less-than-guaranteed challenge if they are booked early. Not our Miguel…
You can always rely on Mark Roberts to reaffirm his hero status at The Lamex when backs start hitting walls, and it was inevitably he that scored our goal at The Broadfield Stadium. A point would have been grabbed gleefully before the start of the game, and that’s what we got in the end. And if you thought the Tetris was rowdy, imagine the bundles had if Filipe Morais’ last-gasp effort was half an inch to our left?
Ratings To Watch Departing Planes By:
Arnold 6 (Our Saver); Comminges 2 (Daft); Roberts 7 (All Things To All Men); N’Gala 6 (On An Upward Curve); Gray 6 (Steady As He Goes); Akins 6 (Would You Want To Stop Him); Dunne 7 (Centre Mid, Right Back, Baller); Ehmer 7 (Confident Debut); Freeman 7 (Looking Sharp); Shroot 6 (Sacrificed Due To Comminges; Haber 6 (Back And Tanned) — Grant 6 (A Decent Shift) Morais 6 (So Nearly!)
After Friday, it is traditional for Saturday to follow. This year, however, we got Groundhog Day. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but the club must have a generic “Graham Westley appointed Boro’ manager” press release by now. We’ve gone down this particular route as we didn’t want to resort to an Easter-related joke about a returning or rising Messiah and the like. Don’t let that stop you from doing it though.
In our view, there’s arguably no-one else that could do a job here than our Graham. It has been a proven combination in the past and we hope it proves itself to be once again. We’d just rather not get too ahead of ourselves and expect to piss this division next season. But we can focus on rebuilding as the season draws to a close and get the Destiny Train on the right tracks in good time for next year.
And after Arnold rose on the third day came the visit of Jeff Stelling’s Hartlepool United – a relegation-threatened club in as many ways as you could think of. Eight points adrift at the foot of the table is really not a great place to be with four games remaining and if they survive, it’ll be a miracle. As for us, we’ve now won as many home games as Sheffield Utd. It’s a funny old game sometimes.
There was Easter in a nutshell. Tune in for our acclaimed “Remember Summer?” series in a month’s time…