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@andy-r I agree that a lot will depend upon the wingbacks. Brittain and Target are not quite the prolific crossers that Giles, Jones and especially...

Thanks for the great opener, Andy. The Tommy Conway question is certainly a very interesting one. I think it reaches into questions across the whole o...

Thanks Selwyn. That's a really absorbing opener, full of well thought through points. I liked the PRE-INTRO section. I suppose it's natural to worry t...

That's a wonderful piece of writing Werder. We're very lucky to be able to read something of that quality, whilst bathing in the glow of unexpected su...

I've seen very little reaction to the departure of Alan Fettis, explanation about what's behind it or whether he is going to be directly replaced. H...

@clive-hurren Thanks Clive Nothing beats the first hand account

@mw-in-darwin Regarding hearing the crowd reaction to Whittaker's substitution, I didn't hear anything on the TV coverage. Mind you, I hardly heard...

@lenmasterman I thought the section in the Scott interview about selling the club to incoming players was interesting. For quite a few w...

@jarkko Yes. Perhaps the introduction of Strelec will be the trickiest one of the lot. His stellar goal last week has probably raised expectations ...

Slovakia lead Germany by 2-0. One goal and one assist from David Strelec.

@selwynoz As I read your post, I felt increasing levels of amazement at what has been achieved in this window. I think if you had asked most ...

@pedro Perhaps bringing on Lenihan in the last few minutes was deliberately designed to reassure the fans that he is fit and available, in the know...

The thing that encouraged me the most yesterday was the tenacity right through the team to win the so-called 50-50 balls. It just felt that whenever...

I'm quite surprised to see Neto Borges going out on loan. I think he was a major force for good as the season progressed last time. I suppose it's a...

@clive-hurren It doesn't seem to be there at all. Teesside Live seems to be all over the place at the moment, even without taking into account the ...

I've been having a look back at the baseless hopes that I posted the day before the season started and reviewing progress. Who knows how good or bad i...

@clive-hurren Well your scene-setter couldn't have set the scene more accurately. An addition to the pantheon of depressing home cup defeats to l...

I've found it very difficult to comment meaningfully in recent weeks, as so much of what lies ahead is unknown. As we head into the actual reali...

Thanks very much for running this, Powmill. I very much admire your spreadsheet work. I'll make it eleven entries, so that at least we've got a full...

@lenmasterman It's great to see you back in the outside world after your very long incarceration. I look forward to your next installment of Scott ...

@powmillnaemore A man after my own IT heart. I'm sad to say that I get far more pleasure than is rational from finding an excuse to apply a spreads...

@powmillnaemore I've been getting the same problem. I think if you click on this link directly, it will also take you back to page 1, but if you ...

It looks like we could learn a thing or two from Luton. If I'm understanding things correctly, they didn't pay off RE's contract in January. They put ...

For much of the latter part of my working life, I was involved with implementing large scale IT quality management systems. When reading any of the po...

The Echo article also has a good go at pinning the blame for the long injury list on MC too. "There will always be an element of luck behind a clu...

I was in the pro-Carrick corner but, now that it's done, we might as well look at the positives. There was definitely a danger that the turgid at...

@john-richardson I looked on Google Earth and Devil's Bridge is still there. So you and I must have had joint stickleback rights to that section ...

Much of my childhood memories are built around what I now notice Google Maps calls Marton West Beck, but I'm sure was known to us just as "The Beck". ...

In defence of Ayling, in a period when the lack of leadership and experience has been bemoaned, Ayling has both. I know he was in involved in some s...

Couldn't resist a sneaky peak at the dying moments of the Sunderland match last night. The scenes at the end were incredible, even though I was, of co...