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The punishment would still be the same. All the club needed to do was put out a rather sarcastic statement stating ‘Boro was a leaky sieve and proper evidence will be provided to the commission. That then puts a seed of doubt into the narrative in the media.

On the plus side. If Boro do go up then they won’t have the top chair as the championship rep to the EFL, we take over that and when those sorry little Karen arses finally drop back. Just block Gibbos number.

This is the one they need to bring up, because the points deduction should have been made during the 23/24 season. The EFL gave them six points last year, which still would have promoted them in that particular season. I’m sure they only did that to stop any legal challenges from Leeds who could claim they deserved automatic promotion.

Final straw for SR. Personally for me I’m not bothering to step foot in the club until those horrible fucks are gone.

Tea leaves

Looking through the EFL rulebook. Match postponements, the home side should give five days notice and the away side seven days. Now, that is just for a standard league fixture but surely the same rules have to be followed if the EFL actively looking to postpone the final.

I can't see it being called off now, just purely from a logistical point of view with plenty of moving parts beyond fans and club officials. We're now just waiting for the verdict. Which I don't think will be as harsh as some predict, certainly not harsh enough for those cloud covered, miserable f*cks in the North East..

Interesting. Based on the last Championship campaign our revenue was just shy of £85 million, with the likes of Portsmouth (boo) at £14 million and Middlesbrough (double boo) at £31 million. That suggests that even if we stay down, we would have a reasonable amount to play with.

Possibly the reason why those 'named' by apparent 'Boro sources have since distanced themselves.. I remember many years ago before Staplewood was developed, the youth teams would sometimes play on a Wednesday or Thursday on the main pitch. A few occasions you would see coaches from opposing teams walk round the hedge to watch the first team. Often a few days before a game...

It'll be reduced on appeal if it's points. Personally I expect it to be two (eventually) like Sheff United got last season for deciding not to pay any remaining transfer fees they owe..

If Middlesbrough have appointed NdM, then I'm sure there are a few holes that need....well, filling.

There is, but this is why it's being overseen by an independent panel.

Depends if they have a no fly zone or not, for some clubs having the training ground near an airport or prison is a god send as you can't do anything. There was a report a few years back that one club installed anti jamming technology just in case someone tried!

Remember him coming on against Birmingham in the Prem, pretty sure Redknapp put him on the wing too..

Looking at the Ipswich forums, they are already billing it as promotion day.....hopefully we can at least delay it for a few days. I can see today being a draw, with Ipswich scoring from the millionth penalty they've got this season.

The only other I can think of is Alan Blayney, who made a similar amount of appearances but did have that impressive game against Newcastle. Those who have left, Cody Cropper had a reasonable career back in the US & James Shea is at Luton still. But other than that, nobody of note..

Memories of the Kevin Miller signing, who was working in an office before getting the gig for us. In terms of the set up, I noted that Alfie House explained it. McCarthy is out for a few weeks, Dylan Moody has some sort of illness which has kept him away for the last month and the U21 keeper is only 17. It seems Jones has been signed as chief tea maker until Moody returns to take up the role.

Wasn't there rumours the club didn't want to move him on to an English club? I can only assume there is a fitness issue which hasn't been published and it's holding off any move.

Yep - still not over that cup match back in 2004.

Had similar from my friend in Holland. Reckons Feyenoord have been trying to terminate the loan early and they are buzzing that we've taken him.

They are in trouble with the EFL at the moment though..

It's not always the case with the manager. I'm friends with a recently retired ex pro who had a pretty solid career, he mentioned in the past he moved clubs simply because he wanted to live in a certain area, or that the move would put him in the shop window more than the current club he played for. I think the influence of the manager is less so than it was 10, 20 or 30 years ago, especially as most barely last a couple of seasons.

Armstrong - Aug 21 Broja - Aug 21 (Loan) Mara - July 22 Tall Paul - Jan 23 Stewart - Sept 23 Diaz - July 24 Archer - Aug 24 Juan - Aug 24 Dipepa - Aug 24 Macleod - Aug 24 (Loan) Udoh - Feb 25 Takaoka - March 25 Downs - July 25 That's it from what I can tell.

Didn't we sign Madsen then too? Remember everyone getting a little excited after the clips of him scoring for fun in Denmark, then first game against Reading he really looked a pile of turd.

2-0 Stoke.