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A great opener Clive which I thoroughly enjoyed: informative, entertaining and rendered in your own inimitable voice. I just hope that we manage to ...

Thanks Si for your typically thoughtful post, and a warm welcome back. It's a very subtle contribution which I had to read more than once to begin t...

Thanks KP for your generous comments. I've written about what I would like to see on team selection, but I agree with you that i don't think it will h...

Thanks Bob for a well written and very enjoyable piece composed at short notice after Saturday's game. It sets us up nicely for Wednesday evening. i...

A warm welcome back, powmill. You have been sorely missed, so it is good to know that you are recovering from your set back. Look forward to your co...

Thanks to everyone for your too kind words. I greatly appreciate it And to Werder for setting it all up for me, including the editing in of Clive's ...

Thanks Jarkko. Well spotted. Luke was a very talented young prospect and it was sad that injury meant that he was unable to build upon his early promi...

Thanks for all of your work on this, Clive. I think it's an excellent and very helpful idea. But, as you suggest, individual contributors shouldn't n...

@andy-r Thanks Andy. I'm happy with my assignments, but since i have been given both Luton games it might make sense to swap the second game with s...

I really fancy Gareth and the lads to beat the odds tonight and win the Euros. Spain have been the outstanding team of the competition, but in the s...

Congratulations John. Great news

According to Dom Shaw, a pretty reliable source I would have thought, in the Northern Echo, Boro had an interest in Swift which they have so far decid...

@exmil Good move. We should have gone for Swift years ago when he left Reading. I suspect he is a Carrick /Woodgate prospective signing, since he ...

Apologies to Andy and Bob. Have only just seen this thread. I'm happy to take the first two league games, Swansea (H) and Derby (A). Still haven't m...

@exmil Best wishes for a positive outcome, exmil

I thought that there was now general agreement within the club that quality not quantity was to be the hallmark of this Summer's signings. O' Brien wo...

@martin-bellamy Fantastic compilation, Martin. Thanks for posting

@werdermouth The surgeon who last operated on me was a Mr Butcher. There used to be a dreaded dentist in Middlesbrough in the 40s called Mr Flood. ...

@exmil So sorry to hear of your diagnosis. You will have the support and best wishes of everyone on this blog to which you have made such importa...

@original-fat-bob Sounds a bit like Dirk Diggler's respectable brother, but looks good to me. Classic Dutch midfielder, comfortable on the ball wit...

So sorry to hear of your terrible news, exmil. Setting your sights on getting back to your seat at the Riverside as soon as possible demonstrates exac...

No qualms about Greenwood and Thomas, but why the rejection of O'Brien? He has proved himself to be a solid and experienced Championship performer w...

@exmil An astonishing development given Rosenior's record at Hull and the major progress Hull have made this season. He'd make a great No2 to Carri...

On Greenwood, Kieron Scott was keen to claim ownership of the loan deal that brought him here. This was around the time when Greenwood was playing w...

Thanks to Dormo and belated thanks to deleriad for two typically excellent openers. They both have such distinctive voices. Indeed that has been true ...

Have a great day, Jarkko.

Great stuff, Andy, and a very astute tactical analysis of Monday's match. Thanks for this and all of your other leaders throughout the season. And p...