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The academy is stronger than most others in the division and we’ll likely have one or two come through this year to be around the squad. Thought it would be Sesay last year but turned out to be Bragg. Not sure who is the standout this time round after last few years with clear standouts like Dibling and (to a lesser extent) Robinson. Sillah-Dibaga looked promising but raw and maybe the new guy Tounkara will turn out to be a star?!

That was Rory Whittaker I think - young full back. Has been in and out of the u21 team, but unsure if been injured or not? Seem to recall a young striker too possibly for under 18s, but don't recall hearing any great success stories. We tapped up the Irish market a bit a few years back - Akachukwu looks a decent prospect, but think all the rest have since departed? O'Brien Whitmarsh(?) seemed pretty decent too but unsure either will break through with us.

What do you mean by “we don’t have a working manager”?!

They currently have much better players than the rest of the league, however, lets see how that looks in 3 months time. If he does sign someone like Smallbone, he'd be one of the better players in the league, especially good for a team who with better players will be passing it around their opponents. If any other League One managers are watching though - just press their defenders and keeper - even if you're only getting 30% possession, you'll almost certainly intercept a suicide pass within the box and score a tap in.

Max Aarons would expect to be first choice, and a good player. I doubt we'll go for another right back with Bree, unknowns about Sugawara and also having Roerslev coming back from injury (hopefully shows what hes got).

There was definitely more at play - looked excellent in that pre-season where he smashed in a great goal, then looked totally avoid of any confidence. He didn't want to compete for headers and tackles and overall just looked completely overawed by the occasion, but with good experience in Germany and with the US, surely has some level of potential to come good. Sadly it didnt look like the loan went well either, probably needed to step back down a level and hit some good numbers to come back refreshed and ready. When we signed him there was talk of him having potential for the World Cup and that evaporated very quickly.

If that's true, that's really poor form on Stewart's part. He was barely available for us, should show us some loyalty or at least sign the contract so we can get some level of return on him when he hasn't been able to play for us.

I think the key question here is how much Middlesbrough would now be due from Burnley, for Burnley having the cheek to beat them when they were relegated into the Championship instead of PSR cheats Everton. Burnley should've stood aside, as Boro would've without doubt (according to the Northern Echo) smashed Everton, triggering an unstoppable march to the Championship title.

This reads like a goodbye to Captain Jack 😜

Well, the BBC have very recent history of desperately trying to trash someone's reputation for far less...!

They still have enough good players at present (and good youth coming through) that if they are able to keep a decent number will out pass most teams in the division. Just depends how many times he asks them to pass continually across their own box until someone decides to press them and they concede (another) stupid goal and lose or draw games they’ve absolutely dominated…

When will we hear of Blackmore being sacked? It's like he's deliberately trying to get the club (and fanbase?) to turn on him?

So is publically shaming and humiliating another team repeatedly in the national press, but nothing's happening about that is it.

I'm glad we won't let Boro just destroy the club in response to them not being able to win a game of football. It's all completely ridiculous fuelled by this cancel culture which seems to be the ultimate life goal of some people rather than just say being happy in yourself, or meeting up with friends, or just trying to enjoy life! The world doesn't need to exist to just punish and put people down, but I guess that's where we are as society, which is pretty sad. Hopefully the world can move on. Apparently there's a world cup starting soon?!

Not sure that's going to happen (as much as I'd like it to), but Larin's club will surely want to sell now they're relegated, and keeping my fingers crossed for him, as he was one of the best in the division the second half of the season.