My point was just around changing the atmosphere and creating a buzz, when actually the best thing to do would be to treat things as business as usual. The rest of your post, I totally agree with of course.
I'm very comfortable with Boro being the favourites for Saturday. I think the big error is all of the extras that they're doing (i.e. putting a flag on every seat etc). As we saw with the infamous Play-off clapper incident, turning a game into more of an 'occasion' can rub off negatively on the...