Never realized Middlesbrough were so arrogant

Most laughable reaction to a draw at Oakwell I've ever seen. Especially for a side that very rarely wins at this ground in the league.

Saturday was simply a midtable sort of affair, whichever way they try & spin it. They won't like it but it is the truth.

Our £600,000 striker is more efficient right now than their bone idle £22,000,000 strike force.

Never really thought or cared about them before but they seem to be on the Wednesday levels of delusion & elitism.

 

I read their forums match thread and I didn't see anything suggesting they were arrogant or looked down on us, probably because we usually turn them over at Oakwell.

That fan video posted the other day however...id like to think they're just the bandwagon jumpers who jumped on when they were in Europe a decade ago, then off again, then back on when they looked like they're were getting promoted a couple of years ago.

 

One of their fans told me they had spent £50 million on players in the summer.
They are just out of the Premeirship.
Their subsequent wage bill compared to Barnsleys will be enormous.
So on paper they should be beating Barnsley something like 6 nil.
Their fans were rightly expecting an easy win.
Barnsley is one of the closest Championship grounds to Boro and they were expecting an easy win - hence the big turn out by Boro fans.
But football isn't played on paper.
Barnsley did extremely well to match Boro.

 

So i guess that yet again "on paper" really means little in this division. We took 4 points off villa last season, a team much more expensive than boro's: that's just one of many examples. "On paper" we should have lost handsomely to sunderland with their premier money but we hammered them 3-0.
It is clear that being poor' in comparison does not make us 'poor'.

 

Works both ways because on paper we should have taken more than 3 out of a possible 12 from Wigan and Burton last year.

This league is unpredictable and it's great!

 

Basically - what I'm saying is that you can understand that they think they should be easily beating teams poorer than them such as Barnsley.
So you can understand the arrogance to a point.
But football often dosent work like that.
Brian Clough teams were prime examples of that.

 

There were plenty provoking a #teamslikebarnsley response on Twitter. I argued with one of them, who reckoned they should be top 2 based on spending £20 million on strikers and being in the Premier last season.

 

Hmm, one of which is a bull in a china shop type, all elbows and not many goals in him. The other is an unproven rookie whose only achievements so far are scoring goals for little old Barnsley, and not that many of them either

 

Exactly: this leagues a hell of a lot more equal than many people think

 

Yes mate i know what you meant, and this arrogance is becoming much more apparent with so many clubs. We even had the mighty millwall supporters saying we should be beating teams like barnsley: its bonkers

 

We did. And very nearly beat them.