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@original-fat-bob quite right. No point getting in an injury risk just to fill up the numbers. Shame that we didn't pick up Adam Reach. He'd have do...
The other important piece of the puzzle is the Academy. If they can keep on creating players and generating transfer income we will have the broadest ...
You're right because something much better was close and could so easily have been achieved. Throwing it away with poor defending and an inability to ...
I think that you are absolutely right about Howson and McNair. For some reason, they just don’t gel in midfield - maybe too much man-to-man marking - ...
@original-fat-bob thanks for that. I honestly believe that our academy will be one of the key contributors to the health of the club over the next f...
@jarkko i had the same feeling as I sat in Sydney and watched the Boro match live, switching to the test match at half-time with all the Premier Lea...
That wasn’t a great result to wake up to. Nine changes suggests that NW wasn’t taking any risks with any key players. It wouldn’t surprise me if Morsy...
I honestly have no idea how MW will play this one although I am curious to find out what NW's formation will be for games that we are expected to win ...
@redcarred sounds like a good guy and a sensible choice utb
Aargh, I just wrote a whole lot about the game and it vanished. I always forget to do it in Word or something similar and copy across. Here's version ...
@original-fat-bob I agree totally. The future will revolve around people living with Covid in the community and all the science seems to clearly ind...
@k-p-in-spain I know the feeling. Having lived away for so long, I'm irresistibly drawn to watching them when I can
Watching Payero in the Olympics, I was very impressed by his play with the ball but do have some concerns about his work rate. There were plenty of oc...
@werdermouth I understand how you feel. The streaming pass was Pds140 last year and has now just gone up by Pds30. However, I have tended to calcula...
It was interesting to watch Payero for the fifteen minutes that he was on. He is big - much bigger than I expected - and well able to look after hi...
Here in Sydney it’s 8.15 in the evening and Australia and Argentina kick off in 15 minutes in their Olympics pool game. I was looking forward to watch...
@original fat bob I think that is absolutely what is happening. In the first instance, it's striking to watch how transfer fees have all but vanis...
Surprising though it may seem to some, I thought that Cattermole came across very well in his interview. I hadn't realised that he has already been wo...
@ken smith one other that you can add to the list - even if it feels wrong - is Bernie Slaven who had international caps for Ireland. That's foreign...
@original-fat-bob I suggested this a while back but nobody picked up on the idea. He strikes me as potentially a great motivational coach for the Ac...
I think that you may be under-estimating Ikpeazu’s potential and his relevance for a Boro team. He scored and assisted goals in a bottom of the table ...
I wouldn’t read too much into Peltier. It reads like NW picking up a respected senior pro who he has worked with and who will give him plenty of cover...
Ikpeazu had a really good game against us and looks to be a genuine target man that Watmore, Ameobi and others could play off. At that price, it’s a s...
@allan-in-bahrain I don't remember that one but you have stirred a memory from when I was a small kid. We're talking late fifties/early sixties when...
@ken thankyou for all of the effort you have put in as our resident historian. I hope that you find enjoyment in the coming year. Who knows…maybe ev...
There have been some powerful sentiments expressed on this topic and it's comforting to know that rational debate is still possible in such an emotive...
@redcarred I wouldn't argue with your thoughts about the overall governance issues in football. Apparently, FIFA has just taken over the African Fed...
Maybe it’s time for football to develop it’s own symbolic statement that could be enacted at the start of every game in conjunction with the players s...
@original-fat-bob he'd be a real inspiration to the U-18s and U-23s whilst learning his coaching ropes.