Supporters Club News

New members are very welcome to join MOSC, with prices remaining the same as last season at £6 per year for adults and £2 for under-15s.

Meetings are usually held on two Mondays per month. Admission is free to members but non-members can attend by joining on the night.

Two passport-sized photographs are required with each new application.

Members are asked to arrive at 7pm for a 7.30pm start for most meetings.

Guests at meetings in recent months have included former players Terry Cochrane, Ian Gibson, David Mills and Alan Peacock, current stars Josh McEachran, Rhys Williams, Andy Halliday, Jonathan Woodgate and Julio Arca and coach Mark Proctor plus former Media and Communictions Manager Dave Allan.

MOSC's Facebook page is here.

*Any Boro fans in the York area are asked to contact Sue if they are interested in joining other fans who hope to establish a supporters club branch in the city.

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TICKETS are now on sale for Middlesbrough Official Supporters Club's Player of the Year awards evening on Wednesday May 1.

Ticket prices are £20 for MOSC members and £25 for non-members.

The price includes a three-course meal and a free tickets, with more on sale on the night for some great prizes.

There's also a disco and a chance to Boro players on what's always an enjoyable occasion.

For further info, please email suem.g58@googlemail.com or marolwilson@hotmail.com. 　

Please note, only children aged seven years or over can attend this event.

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MIDDLESBROUGH Official Supporters Club's committee generously give their own time to work for the good of members.

Our photo shows the committee together at the meeting and includes Marilyn Wilson (social secretary), Sandra Jackson (membership secretary), Michael Derbyshire (vice-chair), Carol Kidner (treasurer), Graham Mawson (secretary), Sue Garbutt (vice-secretary), Sue Gardener (chair) Val Bandeira (publicity secretary).

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THE AIM of Middlesbrough Official Supporters Club is to bring Boro fans of all age groups together in a friendly and relaxed environment at meetings held on the first and third Mondays of each month (fixtures permitting).

MOSC membership is available to all, whether season card holders or not, with the only criteria being that you are a Boro fan.

Membership fees are just £6 per adult and £2 per child 16 years or under and memberships run from August to August each year.

For just £6 our members benefit over non-members by with...

*Priority to any of our organised events
*Price reductions to organised events
*Free entry into a grand raffle draw to win two tickets to our prestigious Player of the Year event
*A chance to meet MFC senior staff, management and backroom staff, players past and current and local media and press celebrities.

As well as social events, meetings also act as a means to canvass members for their views, ideas and concerns to be passed onto the MFC through regular liaison meetings attended by MOSC committee members and MFC staff.

Examples of issues raised at liaison meetings include season card prices, the white chest band on replica team shirts and ideas for matchday entertainment.

Please note, although MOSC organise trips for league and cup away games these are weekend trips only. For all away game tickets and transport please contact the MFC ticket office.

Membership fees are £6 per adult and £2 for under-16s and two passport sized photographs are required with each new application.

Meetings are held in the Riverside Stadium and start at 7.30pm. They are free to members but non-members can attend by joining on the night. Two passport-sized photos are required with each application.

Members are asked to arrive at 7pm for a 7.30pm start.

Please contact Carol Kidner on carol.kidner@ntlworld.com or Sue Gardener on suem.g58@googlemail.com for further information.

Click here for information about the Boro Fans United scheme, coordinated by MOSC's Sue Gardener, uniting Boro fans around the world.

Middlesbrough Official Supporters' Club

Chairman (spokesperson and general enquiries): Sue Gardener, Tel: 01642 647417, email: suem.g58@googlemail.com
Vice-chair: Sue Magson, email susie_babe_63@hotmail.com
Secretary (all general enquiries): Geoffrey Richardson Tel: 01642 801289 Geoffrey.Richardson1@ntlworld.com
Treasurer: Carol Kidner, email (home): carol.kidner@ntlworld.com
Membership Secretary: Sandra Jackson
Publicity Secretary: Val Bandeira, email val.bandeira@ntlworld.co.uk
Social secretary: Marolyn Wilson, email, marolwilson@hotmail.com

SEE BELOW FOR MORE SUPPORTERS CLUB BRANCHES

Middlesbrough Disabled Supporters' Association
 
Chairman: Paddy Cronesberry
Treasurer: Paul Richardson

AS well as campaigning on behalf of disabled fans, the association also organises trips to most away games.

It has 300 members, including all disabled season ticket holders. Meetings are usually on the last Tuesday of every month in the Players' Lounge at the Riverside Stadium.
 
The group has a very close relationship with the club and meets officials regularly to discuss issues affecting members.
 
The club organised a highly-successful trip over land to Boro's first ever UEFA Cup away tie, at Banik Ostrava in September 2004 and has made several subsequent overseas adventures.

For more information, visit MDSA's official website at http://www.mdsa.co.uk/.

Membership: £3 for adults, £2 for senior citizens and £1 for juniors. Lifetime membership is also available for £10. Members get an ID card.
 
Write to: Paddy Cronesberry, 205 Thornaby Road, Thornaby, Stockton TS17 6LS or telephone (01642) 641620.

The Twe12th Man

THE Twe12th Man is a group of Middlesbrough fans united in our unconditional support for the Boro.

Our objectives are to add pride, passion and noise to the matches of Middlesbrough FC, home and away, visually and vocally, for the full 90 minutes, win lose or draw!

The Twe12th Man stands independent of any political organisation, funding or belief, and is a non-profit, non-membership based organisation.

Take a look around the website at www.twe12thman.co.uk and send in your ideas, song suggestions or Boro related photos.

Regular match reports or articles are always welcome. It is a site by the fans for the fans.

Derbyshire Reds
 
Chairman: Gary Patterson
Vice-chairman: Ray Earl
Secretary: Duncan Haywood
 
WHAT began as a group of friends travelling to games together in 1995 is now a thriving organisation with around 130 members.

The club meets monthly, usually in one of the two cities from which it draws many of its members, Sheffield and Nottingham. Guest speakers have included Derrick Downing, Don Masson, Chris Freestone and honorary president John Hickton, who brought along his memorabilia, including championship medal and scrapbook.
 
The club now has its own minibus and while many members are Teesside exiles it also has many second generation Boro fans.

Membership is free. Call Duncan Haywood on 01246 811244 or email janeduncan.haywood@btinternet.com.

Middlesbrough Supporters South

Committee

Chairman: James Nugent
Sports and Charity Representative: Andy Clark
Charity Representative: Johnathon Gallagher
Treasurer: Dave Richardson
Communications officer: Scott Perkins
Website editor: Dave Bain
Website: www.mss.org.uk

SET up in 1975 by a handful of fans on the steps of the players' entrance at Highbury, MSS flies the flag for Boro in the south of England but also acts as a supporters club for Boro fans exiled across the world.Members receive a weekly e-newsletter to catch up on events, access to match tickets, reduced train fares and designated pubs for pre-match drinking at away games as well as a large sports club.　

The supporters club has three current 11-a-side football teams playing in the London-based APFSCIL Sunday Football League, with the first team being current Division One champions, and two pool teams playing in the APFSCIL Pool League.　

There is also a regular game of eight-a-side football at Coram Fields, near Russell Square, every Wednesday evening, for all abilities.　

Contact Andrew.clark22@gmail.com for more details of the sports teams.　

London-based supporters also benefit from watching Boro's televised games together in a central London pub (Usually Belushis or Roxys at London Bridge).

The supporters club also has an active charity arm including organising an annual football match at the Riverside Stadium for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, a Boro v Millwall fans match in aid of the Finlay Cooper Fund and an annual Christmas gift appeal for Zoe's Place Teesside Hospice.　

For info on anything charity related please contact Andrew.clark22@gmail.com.

Membership is free and via registration at www.mss.org.uk

For more information contact James@mss.org.uk

Yarm Reds Supporters Club