Discussion Forum

There may be a number of paradoxes around Akpom's situation. Whilst Carrick and his coaching staff will certainly wish to keep him, the club's hiera...

@peter-surtees A warm welcome, Peter. As with Clive I may just have missed you at Acklam Hall. I taught there from 1963-65.

@malcolm Thanks for the link Malcolm. May I put in a 5* recommendation for the Beautiful Game podcast which is referenced in the Echo piece. It...

Hear, hear. Keep fighting Ken. I well understand and still remember most of your historical references, so you are never "rambling on" as far as I am ...

Malcolm I have always enjoyed and valued your contributions and hope that you will continue to make them. Your knowledge of and interest in Scott...

Top post from Werder with excellent follow-up comments. It's heartening to see that even in the silly season this blog still produces such first-class...

So sorry about your situation, Ken. I hope the Ashes games starting soon bring you some pleasure and consolation. You will still have a clear memory ...

Well said exmil. In spite of our disappointment I am looking forward to the Champs play off final, and, as is traditional, I hope that Coventry, as ...

@original-fat-bob Thanks Bob, appreciated re- RR. Hope he is well. Also a good shout on Galbraith. I have more faith in the influence, contac...

@k-p-in-spain Wouldn't surprise me if Scott himself were the source of the rumour since there is no specific attribution.

@pedro I agree with deleriad, KP and pedro. The starters have been brilliant, but once contributing to the blog becomes a task or feels like homewo...

Thanks Andy for all of your commitment and hard work. Your openers were not only well informed but stylish and professionally crafted, putting the wor...

Great post, Powmill, following on from Dormo's excellent analysis in his earlier post.

I would have stayed with Jones too. He gave them any amount of trouble in the first game.

I defer to Bob's experience and knowledge on refereeing and the laws of the game, of which we have all been beneficiaries on the blog, but I thought B...

@stircrazy Liddle was actually brought up in Nunthorpe and went to a comprehensive in Guisborough, so there may be some vestigial support for the ...

Thoroughly enjoyed the game on Sunday and thought it an absorbing encounter and a tactical master class from Carrick and his coaching staff impeccably...

We need to be tight defensively today, so no risks from Steffen, Giles has a big defensive job, and both Archer and Akpom need to chase everything and...

I think that we will win over the two legs, but there is a danger that if the first game is too open then we may get caught more than once at the back...

Another excellent opener, Andy. Thanks to you and Bob for the high quality background pieces you have both produced all season to keep us so well i...

According to the most recent YouGov surveys only 1 person in 4 in the UK believes in God, and only 61% of the population believes in the monarchy. S...

Many thanks for doing this exmil, it's greatly appreciated. Congratulations to Ian. If memory serves he just pipped me last year too, so he obviousl...

@andy-r Pretty good set of predictions there, Andy.

@original-fat-bob Thanks for the photos, Bob. Nice to see. But I wouldn't want to tangle with that lady steward in the first one.

Although I have no inside information, the return of Ramsey to Aston Villa suggests to me that he is unlikely to take any further part in our season. ...

Does anyone remember the very similar situation in 2015 when Boro went into the final dead rubber game before the play-offs? The almost universal op...

Bob, I got your e mail this morning and I did eventually find Werder's e mail address and contacted him immediately. However I tried a few times ...