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Have we dropped off in fitness ? I don’t know, but against Stoke we finished very strongly. Admittedly we had a better bench than them.

JWP with all of his attributes including versatlilty would be a no brainer.

Nelson and Welington together.......

I’d give Tonda a lot of credit for switching Downes and Matsuki at HT. we were in trouble in MF first half, but in the second we seemed to concentrate our biggest threats on the left with Matsuki a big part of that. The right hand side seemed to be left to containment and Fellows as an out ball. Whatever, i thought we deserved the win for our last half hour performance. Azaz, who was always looking for the ball and wasn’t picked out when well placed a couple of times, was class. Makes the occasional bad decision ( that left foot shot) but he must be hell to play against. Larin was excellent, and we could have a gem in Mubama who was really bright and sharp. Good to see Edozie put in a telling contribution too. And Manning is so much better when going forward. But this we all know. He was excellent in the last 30 mins.

This is true , but you can definitely get away with a few who are “ fine” if you have all the other attributes of a promotion side, including a number of players who are much better than “fine. “

Not at that price with the Konsa money all but banked it isn’t. Got to be aiming at half his fee at least.

Might be an upgrade on JQ ? Doesn't look like a THB replacement .

I'm sure Tonda has reviewed the Bristol City home game where Azaz starting on the left ( why on earth ?!) and a very poor start to the game cost us very dear.

What makes us attractive or otherwise to players is the digits in front of the three 000s on the weekly pay packet, and the length of contract.

True , but todays yellow was avoidable , without losing his basic aggression.

Made the mistake of reading a few posts on BBC sport BTL on the report on our game. There seem to be a section of people , probably mostly skates and smoggies TBF who think that no punishment will ever be enough for us. And that nobody else ever cheats at all. daft bastards.

Last season he was a bit prone to playing blind passes inside when under pressure.

As a matter of principle and taste I don’t like us playing in blue shirts. Not even the classic early 80s away. And I don’t like this all that much but I have seen other clubs with worse kits . We’ll get over it, and go back to yellow. A return to Yellow shirts and black shorts would be good. Would save on shorts costs too…..

Spending all this money is just us showing off being Rich Kids

Leaves the door open for JWP ? Sorry to see Jay Rob go on loan, but I'm sure the club know best. Well pretty sure..... I wonder what the loan fee would be. Ought to be quite significant ? In fact JWP could cover both JR and SC come to think of it, and the Robbo fee might cover a good chunk of JWPs wages.

The bookies have boro 4th favourites for promotion. Presumably they know how many shots at it they will be allowed. Sheff Utd look surprisingly high in the lists, but I guess they will be solid at worst.

Like many people, I'm struggling to work out what boro's issue actually is now. I guess like the skates they don't need an actual issue though....

45 goals in 144 games at Blackburn.

BBD has shown that he has enough to offer as a squad member at least. We could easily do worse than keep him for what we will get for him and have to pay for a replacement , if one is needed.

The big BBC report failed to mention anything about his time with us, which included his best ever goal tally for a season. It was poor journalism .

Disgraceful stuff. They could have mentioned that KK had his best ever goal scoring season when a Saints player.

Have we not had the punishment for that ?

Tuchel must have noted Saints getting away with the same thing v WBA last season and decided it was the way to go……the problem being that Saints had a 3 goal lead …..

That’s petit pois I would say.

For a team that is running out of parachute payments, and that certainly has some expensive players that we want to move on, we do seem to be spending big .