Like many Boro fans I was looking forward to seeing Dean Windass in a Boro shirt today, and as I arrived at the ground I was told that Dean was in fact included in today's Boro' squad.
The Boro starting line up was Martin, Winters, Miller, Kemp, Hackworth, Naylor, Law, Hepples, Blott, Bernard, Ghaichem.
So, a really good starting line up to face the bottom placed team in the league, but in spite of constant Boro opportunities over the whole 90 minutes this never became a high scoring game.
It took just two minutes before a fantastic effort from Bill Law smashed against the Town goalpost following a finger tip save from Town 'keeper Barford.
Boro' attacked non stop, Blott had three clear chances which all failed to hit the target but in the 32nd minute the deadlock was finally broken when Curtis Bernard headed the ball home following a cross from Bill Law.
Boro almost doubled their lead a minute later when Ryan Blott's terrific long range effort was pushed onto the crossbar by Barford who was by far the busiest man on the pitch.
But the 2nd goal did come after just a few more minutes and it was Bernard again, this time he received the ball some 20 yards out from goal and controlled it expertly sending a dipping , curving shot past Barford, high into the top left corner of the goal.
This goal could be a contender for goal of the season, Boro' continued to press but had to be content with 2-0 lead as the half time whistle blew.
The 2nd half continued in much the same way, I had one eye on the bench hoping to see boss Rudy Funk getting ready to give Dean Windass a run out, and finally with about 30 minutes remaining the change came, although why Rudy took Bernard off I could not understand, but we were finally about to see Deano take to the field.
His class showed straight away as Deano sprayed some excellent passes across the width of the pitch, he picked team mates out effortlessly with precision passing and he almost scored himself, but Barford saved excellently from him, the game continued with Boro's domination but the finishing touch just wasn't there, on another day Blott could have scored 5 goals himself, but today was not to be his day, still a fantastic all round performance by all the players, if I were to name a man of the match then for me it would have to be Curtis Bernard, he was on fire today and a special mention also for Gary Hepples who gave his all as usual until being replaced by Scott Phillips on the hour.
Dare I say the word 'championship', Yes I dare because this was a championship winning performance.
UP THE BORO !!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Boro starting line up was Martin, Winters, Miller, Kemp, Hackworth, Naylor, Law, Hepples, Blott, Bernard, Ghaichem.
So, a really good starting line up to face the bottom placed team in the league, but in spite of constant Boro opportunities over the whole 90 minutes this never became a high scoring game.It took just two minutes before a fantastic effort from Bill Law smashed against the Town goalpost following a finger tip save from Town 'keeper Barford.
Boro' attacked non stop, Blott had three clear chances which all failed to hit the target but in the 32nd minute the deadlock was finally broken when Curtis Bernard headed the ball home following a cross from Bill Law.
Boro almost doubled their lead a minute later when Ryan Blott's terrific long range effort was pushed onto the crossbar by Barford who was by far the busiest man on the pitch.
But the 2nd goal did come after just a few more minutes and it was Bernard again, this time he received the ball some 20 yards out from goal and controlled it expertly sending a dipping , curving shot past Barford, high into the top left corner of the goal.
This goal could be a contender for goal of the season, Boro' continued to press but had to be content with 2-0 lead as the half time whistle blew.
The 2nd half continued in much the same way, I had one eye on the bench hoping to see boss Rudy Funk getting ready to give Dean Windass a run out, and finally with about 30 minutes remaining the change came, although why Rudy took Bernard off I could not understand, but we were finally about to see Deano take to the field.
His class showed straight away as Deano sprayed some excellent passes across the width of the pitch, he picked team mates out effortlessly with precision passing and he almost scored himself, but Barford saved excellently from him, the game continued with Boro's domination but the finishing touch just wasn't there, on another day Blott could have scored 5 goals himself, but today was not to be his day, still a fantastic all round performance by all the players, if I were to name a man of the match then for me it would have to be Curtis Bernard, he was on fire today and a special mention also for Gary Hepples who gave his all as usual until being replaced by Scott Phillips on the hour.
Dare I say the word 'championship', Yes I dare because this was a championship winning performance.
UP THE BORO !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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