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I went to this game tonite and maybe I was expecting more from Middlesboro but really I left somewhat disappointed. I used to go to all the games home and away back in the 90s and early 2000s when Middlesboro was more or less a state power then I moved away and came back and tonight was the 1st game I had been to in about 3 or maybe 4 years.

I do realize in the late Kenny Roark years Middlesboro took an extreme nose dive and the current coach has really had to restart the program from rock bottom so I do applaud him for that because from what I have heard the last few years were a train wreck.

But I had been hearing Middlesboro was a sleeping giant and maybe I expected too much, and I am more used to the state power type Middlesboro teams of yesteryear and to me this years Middlesboro team is nowhere in the ballpark of the past teams so maybe I was expecting too much. They were not very crisp and had a ton of penalties. Pineville is not very good and really I expected the Jackets to have the Jv in by mid 3rd at least. Maybe Middlesboro had a bad game I dont really know but I was not as impressed as I had hoped or thought I would be.

That said I am not sure what Bell has this year, not that great it appears so if Middlesboro is gonna get them they better this year. But from what I saw tonight against Pineville if Middlesboro plays this way then Bell will smoke them. I will hopefully be there for my 1st Bell Middlesboro game since 2002 so am looking forward to that.