Boro vs Saints - Saturday 12.30pm - 1st leg

[BARCELONASAINT]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

I read it’s better than their home form but I think their home form isn’t great. I watched them against Millwall and they were brilliant first half, should have been 3 or 4 up ended up losing 2-1 somehow. It’s going to be a tough couple of games. 

I tend to agree it's going to be a tough couple of games. When borough show up they are a very decent side. I have watched quite a few of their games where they have outplayed the opposition but failed to capitilise by scoring. They are a very decent outfit and we would be stupid to under estimate them, thankfully Tonda is unlikely to make that mistake and will drill it into the players.

[Pamplemousse]

Just got my ticket. There really are not a lot left at all, I'd say 100 maximum.

[oldsarum]

1 hour ago, EssEffCee said:

It's definitely increased this season how many are going. Something for fans forum maybe if anyone's going.

 

1 hour ago, EssEffCee said:

It's definitely increased this season how many are going. Something for fans forum maybe if anyone's going.

I think your seat in will find the seats in blocks either end of our section, will go on sale later

[LGTL]

1 hour ago, Pamplemousse said:

Just got my ticket. There really are not a lot left at all, I'd say 100 maximum.

I’m not convinced they’ve released the full allocation yet but I might be wrong. Both end blocks weren’t on sale at 12.30. Guess they could have gone on sale since then. 

[die Mannyschaft]

1 hour ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

I tend to agree it's going to be a tough couple of games. When borough show up they are a very decent side. I have watched quite a few of their games where they have outplayed the opposition but failed to capitilise by scoring. They are a very decent outfit and we would be stupid to under estimate them, thankfully Tonda is unlikely to make that mistake and will drill it into the players.

Play offs are on the day games difficult to gauge. Im sure WBA were tge favourites last time or we expected a tougher game at home. The only concern I have is Saints often slow the game down and that lets the opposition in to take control of game. 

[Pamplemousse]

17 minutes ago, LGTL said:

I’m not convinced they’ve released the full allocation yet but I might be wrong. Both end blocks weren’t on sale at 12.30. Guess they could have gone on sale since then. 

Yeah that might be the case, I was surprised to see so few green dots available tbh.

[EssEffCee]

1 hour ago, oldsarum said:

 

I think your seat in will find the seats in blocks either end of our section, will go on sale later

Yeah I did say that re the left hand one and the two on the right hand side.

Cant imagine that's true of all the partial blocks though so will depend on returns.

[Pamplemousse]

3 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

It's definitely increased this season how many are going. Something for fans forum maybe if anyone's going.

Apart from Leicester away when we were doing shit and there were barely 1000 of us there

[EssEffCee]

14 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Apart from Leicester away when we were doing shit and there were barely 1000 of us there

Yeah bet hardly any players families or sponsors turned up for that one.

Ended up being the best away of the season too.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, EssEffCee said:

Yeah bet hardly any players families or sponsors turned up for that one.

Ended up being the best away of the season too.

Arguably best away for many a season.

[Dr Who?]

7 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

Sorted. Absolutely shit loads blocked out, proper piss take.

How many blocked out and what for? Commercial? 

[Give it to Ron]

21 hours ago, Turkish said:

Because it’s knock out football And we need to play the games not the occasions. Boro are a decent side, to me setting up when we play up there like we did against arsenal And city makes perfect sense. Compact and tight and hit them on the break it worked brilliantly against both of them for a game and 80 minutes, we lost against city to a deflection and unbelievable strike. Anyway whatever we think Tonda has proven he knows better than all of us. Whatever happens we need to defend well and take our chances tactics and formations are irrelevant if we don’t do that. Home game is different we will dominate the ball and I’d expect us to win at home but we don’t want to make our lives hard By being too hung hoo or dare I say it arrogant and think we can just turn up and win

One bad half will undo the last 19 games Saturday will be very tough. Boro hadnt won at home since January then smashed Watford by 5 so that run ended.

Whittaker is on fire and if we can get a draw will be great achievement.

[die Mannyschaft]

4 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

Yeah bet hardly any players families or sponsors turned up for that one.

Ended up being the best away of the season too.

Probably best away I've been to.

[goodymatt]

1 hour ago, Give it to Ron said:

One bad half will undo the last 19 games Saturday will be very tough. Boro hadnt won at home since January then smashed Watford by 5 so that run ended.

Whittaker is on fire and if we can get a draw will be great achievement.

Their only 2 wins in the last 10 were against Sheffield Wednesday and Watford. Who during that 10 game period are the bottom two of the form table. Watford are rock bottom, losing their last 5 games of the season in a row and ultimately sacking Will Still’s brother. 

A draw would be a good result to take back to St Mary’s like it was at WBA last time but I wouldn’t call it a ‘great achievement’ given our form (over a long period) and squad budget/quality.

[saintant]

2 hours ago, Give it to Ron said:

One bad half will undo the last 19 games Saturday will be very tough. Boro hadnt won at home since January then smashed Watford by 5 so that run ended.

Whittaker is on fire and if we can get a draw will be great achievement.

He's not.

[Harry_SFC]

40 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

Their only 2 wins in the last 10 were against Sheffield Wednesday and Watford. Who during that 10 game period are the bottom two of the form table. Watford are rock bottom, losing their last 5 games of the season in a row and ultimately sacking Will Still’s brother. 

A draw would be a good result to take back to St Mary’s like it was at WBA last time but I wouldn’t call it a ‘great achievement’ given our form (over a long period) and squad budget/quality.

Agreed. Boro should be going into the game worried about our form. Not the other way around. 

[pimpin4rizeal]

10 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Yeah, drawing at home to Bristol City was 'tearing up the league'

It is going to be very tough to get past Boro, who are a very good side.

Well we have won 8 out  of our last ten games  the two draws you mention being either side of the city cup tie which we can kinda put down to having a eye on that and fatigue for Ipswich . We pretty have much have been tearing up the league 

[Saint Pete]

We should approach the game in same way we have been approaching the last 19 league games. We have no reason to fear the opposition but at the same time we should certainly respect them and never be complacent. From what I've seen in those 19 games, I'm confident that Tonda and the team picked will make sure that is the case. 

[EssEffCee]

12 hours ago, Dr Who? said:

How many blocked out and what for? Commercial? 

Assume it's a combination of supporter clubs, players families and sponsors.

Think supporter club members have to qualify in own right though, can anyone confirm?

[Dr Who?]

9 hours ago, Saint Pete said:

We should approach the game in same way we have been approaching the last 19 league games. We have no reason to fear the opposition but at the same time we should certainly respect them and never be complacent. From what I've seen in those 19 games, I'm confident that Tonda and the team picked will make sure that is the case. 

I’m sure we will go about it the same way, or we should as a professional set ups. I do think it is fans that think, a draw will be ok in the away leg. If they do get to the end or near the end of the game and it is a draw the in game tactics may change to thinking we will take a draw but still look for an opening. Then if they do all they can and it finishes a draw, they will say that it is a good result, which it will be. I should think they will go for the win at Boro. 

[Appy]

We’ve only given Boro 2k

 

https://www.mfc.co.uk/news/2026/may/05/ticket-info-for-play-off-semi-final-away-leg/

Edited 19 hours ago by Appy

[LGTL]

So we give them 200 less tickets and charge them £11 more 😂

[goodymatt]

So can we actually use those seats for home fans or not?

[LGTL]

1 minute ago, goodymatt said:

So can we actually use those seats for home fans or not?

I don’t believe so. Assume it’ll be an empty block either side of the home fans. 

[goodymatt]

7 minutes ago, LGTL said:

I don’t believe so. Assume it’ll be an empty block either side of the home fans. 

Really poor planning that but I’d rather empty seats in the away end than more Boro fans helping their team in this big game.

[Nordic Saint]

16 minutes ago, LGTL said:

I don’t believe so. Assume it’ll be an empty block either side of the home fans. 

It's in the corner, which is better than that empty block there used to be behind the goal in the Northam. 

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

Good that we’ve reciprocated with ticket numbers but a bit crap for boro fans we couldn’t have agreed on pricing.

Expecting a raucous start to the game, they’ll have it in for Azaz, dog’s abuse from the crowd and maybe a few edgy challenges flying in. If no more than a narrow defeat I still fancy us at home. Draw would be fine up there.

Edited 18 hours ago by TheAlehouseBrawlers

[Hodds37]

Glad we've only given them £2k tickets, assume a bit more segregation to do this. 

Really need to have a flexible structure for the away fans to suit how many tickets are sold rather than fixed. 

[Nordic Saint]

1 minute ago, Hodds37 said:

Glad we've only given them £2k tickets, assume a bit more segregation to do this. 

Really need to have a flexible structure for the away fans to suit how many tickets are sold rather than fixed. 

In reality, it wasn't better with the old setup. There was always an empty block behind the goal in the Northam, and that empty area just extended even more when the away team didn't sell their allocation. In the video clips and online photos of our goals at that end, it always used to look like the stadium was half empty. Attacking a goal with only empty seats behind it can't have been very inspirational for the players. 

[EssEffCee]

11 minutes ago, Nordic Saint said:

In reality, it wasn't better with the old setup. There was always an empty block behind the goal in the Northam, and that empty area just extended even more when the away team didn't sell their allocation. In the video clips and online photos of our goals at that end, it always used to look like the stadium was half empty. Attacking a goal with only empty seats behind it can't have been very inspirational for the players. 

With the old setup though we could sell block 43 to home fans. Pretty sure we did that for the WBA play off two years ago.

[tttdcs]

1 hour ago, TheAlehouseBrawlers said:

Good that we’ve reciprocated with ticket numbers but a bit crap for boro fans we couldn’t have agreed on pricing.

Expecting a raucous start to the game, they’ll have it in for Azaz, dog’s abuse from the crowd and maybe a few edgy challenges flying in. If no more than a narrow defeat I still fancy us at home. Draw would be fine up there.

Agree we should be only charging same amount for tickets 

[sockeye]

if you have a spare 10 mins recommend trying to get in early to book the home leg as there might be a waiting room/queue system again

Edited 17 hours ago by sockeye

[Pamplemousse]

Middlesbrough are charging their fans the same as us for the home leg, £22, they based it on the average price of a game per season ticket. I suspect if given the choice they'd have charged us more but under EFL rules they can't for the same section of the stadium.

The £30 for Boro fans at our place is the same as we're being charged in home sections, so anyone attending both games will pay the same in terms of ticket prices for a main adult ticket.

Maybe we could've done what Boro did and set the ticket prices at the average cost of a game in a season ticket... something for the FAB to take up with the club perhaps if they're not focusing on extra perks for those who travel on the official club coaches. 

Edited 17 hours ago by Pamplemousse

[bender]

Just in the Q to get my ticket for next Tuesday.  Presume we can transfer them like we were for the cup semi

[Whitey Grandad]

30 minutes ago, sockeye said:

if you have a spare 10 mins recommend trying to get in early to book the home leg as there might be a waiting room/queue system again

There is. I am number 1247 in the waiting room.

[saintstowin]

It's an unpredictable system again, for me. Initial queue before 1230 but kicked me out. Tried logging in, logging out etc. Then the game disappeared from the website completely. Then reappeared and allowed me in with no queue (maybe the system recognised me as in the queue from earlier) and tickets got - for home match. Good luck all.

Edited 16 hours ago by saintstowin

[bender]

7 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

There is. I am number 1247 in the waiting room.

I was about that but it went down in about 10 mins.  I reckon it will sell out pretty quick

[RedWillie]

Booked mine. Tickets for home leg flying. Can't see them lasting another hour

[Cuddles]

Got in the queue at 12:28 and was choosing tickets five minutes later. Not much left in the Northam.

[bender]

1 minute ago, Cuddles said:

Got in the queue at 12:28 and was choosing tickets five minutes later. Not much left in the Northam.

I picked 2 seats and by the time I clicked 'proceed' it said those ones had now gone.  Successfully got 2 different ones.  I qualified for 2 tix because my wife has a membership.  Don't have anyone to take yet but I'm sure I'll shift it

[Whitey Grandad]

I got my one in Block 32. Weird system. Once through to the page I got a message telling me to login to see if I was qualified. 

[Cuddles]

9 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

I got my one in Block 32. Weird system. Once through to the page I got a message telling me to login to see if I was qualified. 

Weird. What are they after a degree or will GCSEs do?

[EssEffCee]

Anyone buying at 2pm? Be interesting to see how many are left.

[goodymatt]

‘We shall be’ what? Defeated by the mighty Saints over two legs? 😇

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

Logged in on my mobile a couple of mins before 12:30 and straight into the queue and in about 5mins after. First time it’s played up for me, had decent tickets selected a few times but kept chucking me out. Each time I went back to selecting seats were going rapidly.

Was trying for Northam/Kingsland corner but had to settle on Chapel block 20 in the end. Not ideal but…

[Mattio]

9 minutes ago, EssEffCee said:

Anyone buying at 2pm? Be interesting to see how many are left.

About 1500 left 1000 of which are either side of the away fans.

[Jack]

4 hours ago, Appy said:

We’ve only given Boro 2k

 

https://www.mfc.co.uk/news/2026/may/05/ticket-info-for-play-off-semi-final-away-leg/

 

4 hours ago, LGTL said:

So we give them 200 less tickets and charge them £11 more 😂

Looks like a real ‘fuck you’ to Middlesbrough from Saints. Maybe we tried to negotiate a reciprocal allocation and they refused? 

[RedArmy]

3 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

With the old setup though we could sell block 43 to home fans. Pretty sure we did that for the WBA play off two years ago.

Only saints could make a new away end and make it bigger than it actually needs to be. 
 

Also pretty frustrating that they can find a segregation solution when we need to give more tickets (Arsenal in the cup for example) but can’t find a solution when they could have sold more tickets to Saints fans. 
 

Surely at the bare minimum they could have found a way to sell block 28 to saints fans? 

[oldsarum]

7 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

Assume it's a combination of supporter clubs, players families and sponsors.

Think supporter club members have to qualify in own right though, can anyone confirm?

Yes Supporters Clubs members have to qualify in their own right

[SaintsLoyal]

I do have some sympathy for the pricing difference, but i dont see Saints dropping the adjacent home pricing that low to accomodate lower away prices.

Boro obviously have a ticket price, they think will fill the ground as they havent done that much this season.