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Happy Christmas all. Its been another great year on the best blog on the net. Thanks to all of you for your insight and humour throughout the year. ...
@pedro Or could Jones move back to the left allowing Spence to come back in on the right?
Marcus Tavernier stats update now that we're half way through the season: Tackles per game: joint 3rd (1st Crooks, 2nd Howson) Shots per game: 1s...
Lovely post, FD. Happy Christmas to all and stay safe.
Excellent opener, Bob. Well played.
Malcolm, I guess with Stewart Downing and Jonathan Woodgate long gone you’ve found your next victim! 😉 Seriously though, he’s a 22yr old lad tryin...
More and more games being postponed due to COVId. Namby-pamby footballers. In my day you were deducted 3pts for failing to play a fixture because of...
@ken It's going to be fine. Malan will go on to make 120, losing his wicket just before lunch. Root makes a double and Stokes and Buttler add anot...
Great opener, OFB. Many thanks once again. Its tough to know what to expect from Stoke. They’ve been poor of late but got an excellent result away a...
There’s a bit of he said/she said going on with Neil Warnock and the club. On the one hand, didn’t Warnock mention a few weeks before his departure ...
Great to get the three points yesterday to continue the momentum and upward trajectory under Chris Wilder. Of Wilder’s four games so far, I felt tha...
Superb assist. Composed finish. 1-0 Boro.
Spot on FD and Exmil.
@jarkko I think Tav is left-footed, is he not? My gut is that if Wilder liked the look of Siliki he'd have brought him on late in a game by now. Y...
I wasn’t expecting Lewis Wing to come back in January but if it’s not working for him at Sheff Wed then he may as well. Perhaps Wilder’s way of playin...
Thanks all for the very kind comments. OFB - your previews are always informative and very prompt too. We’ve got this working nicely between us afte...
@deleriad You touched on some players enjoying the way they've been asked to play by Wilder. I think it's a really important point. There's a gene...
@redcarred All good points, RR, but I’d rather have the cover in that right wingback position. Not sure who plays there if Jones is injured, probabl...
@paulinboro More relief than anything else, Paul. I’m certainly not planning for anything but midtable this season, though I think we can push into ...
@jarkko Number wise it looks ok. The main problem at the moment, partly because of injuries of course, is that Wilder doesn’t have anything on the...
It’s an absolute pleasure to see Boro passing and moving, that way football should be played as opposed to the “keep your shape and hoof it” stuff we’...
Another dominant first half performance from Boro, this time with two goals. Beauties, both of them. Time for the players to show their new manager ...
Many thanks for the preview, OFB. Much appreciated as always.
SAMMY AMEOBI. His Dad’s in the army so he’s always moving schools. Spent a term here in Y9 and quickly became a popular kid but moved away before he’d...
I think I gave up on promotion before the season started! I don't mean that as a doom-monger but just an assessment of the squad. You usually get a fe...
@werdermouth Spot on. I agree with all of that.
@werdermouth Agree Werder re needing a few quality players to make this work. We’re ok at the back (not sure about in goal) and can get better when ...