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Pretty sure Mubama will be needed to start a game or two soon and if Larin is ever out that Princewill is going to be on the bench. Dibaga looked raw but promising, but with the volume of matches, we'll likely see them in the squad sooner than later.

Totally forgot about Abbott - has he played at all yet? Is Roerslev fit? We've really got to start giving Dobbin some minutes soon too.

I thought one of Mubama's big strengths was running off defenders and finishing chances? Guess what our key attacking midfielders key attribute is - being able to pick out that killer pass between the defenders for the striker. Sounds like it could be a pretty good match up! He's likely to get plenty more chances at least up to January so lets see how he gets on. Fingers crossed he smashes in some more goals - Sunday would be a good starting place!

Almost unbelievable that a sensible decision has been made and we can finally put this to bed. Of course the FA will have wanted a 3 month ban (hilariously harsh) but the (non bias) panel saw sense. There's plenty of much bigger things for the FA to worry about than this and see it's already fallen off the top stories of the BBC Football page, which Middlesborough will no doubt be devastated about.

Although Stewart not being with us this season isn't a big problem so far, as he's barely been fit, playing a massive 9 minutes for Swansea. Going off that, I'd say I'd rather have Mubama who can actually be available to play (and has scored and made an assist). Of course, if fit you'd probably choose Stewart, but Mubama at least has some time on his side and is likely to get better, whilst Stewart always will have this massive question mark over his fitness.

Good luck to him. Surprised it's taken him this long to find a club. Not surprised Joe Aribo on the other hand is still without a club (but will be rich enough to retire already)!

You'd think so, but somehow I think a big fine (which will be loose change to them) will be their punishment, whilst Saints will no doubt get the biggest possible punishment (if the points and being kicked out of the playoffs wasn't enough). On a side note, (and I know it's likely been covered to death), but why is it not the analyst teams / head of analysis (or whatever they are called) that gets the ban rather than Tonda? Is he taking the fall because he's the head of the tree as such or because he deliberately told them to go and do these things no matter what? Is it because the head analyst (Eduard Schmidt) conveniently left at the end of the season and therefore banning him wouldn't punish Saints anymore? It's been going on so long I genuinely can't remember if he's actually the one that's told them to go and do it (within the 72 hours) or he's just taken responsibility (or we'll never know).

The Middlesbrough legend? Is Fabrizio Ravanelli going to be his assistant?! Careful Saints, we'll play Boro and they'll cite our manager's relegation with them in 1997 as a reason the match should be voided. 🤣

Even the Pompey fan at work thought that anything else would be ridiculous! It's amazing how (mostly Boro!) fans think this is the worst thing ever, when they're probably happily living their lives not giving a sh*t about how much crime there is on the streets, climate issues, cost of living spiralling etc - i.e. things that actually affect people. I guess it's much easier to be a cancel culture keyboard warrior than actually do anything positive with your lives.

Says in the Echo he was called up to England under 15s whilst at Chelsea and "Linton made three appearances for Chelsea's under-18s this season, and has been called up to Morocco's under-17s ahead of a World Cup in November." I guess 1 of 500 youngsters at Chelsea though 🤣

But do they still have the tallest team possible as our mate told us was the main ingredient to success?

Fellows is very good at beating a player and somehow keeping the ball stuck to his feet before getting a cross in, just terrible at shooting!

Middlesbrough rapidly checking which games he's reffed of theirs over the years 🤣

I think a lot of people are forgetting how good Ramsdale was for us in the prem - without him, we'd have been losing each game by at least another goal. He'd be the best keeper in Scotland, I think it's just the salary is putting people off. Genuinely surprised one of the promoted clubs didn't go for him.

Problem is that Princewill has never looked particularly good, but has better physical attributes, whereas Ballard looked good but very fragile. I thought the other young striker Bailee Dipepa has always looked pretty decent though