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How have they not concluded and just said "they've been punished, case closed" sort of thing? Is this just dragging on due to relentless pressure from Gibbo / Boro again?! Just seems crazy when there's so much wrong with the world that something silly like a team (getting caught!) spying on opponents for a game is made to be the worst thing ever...

I was going to say he's good from 6 yards, but no evidence of much else (including his miss against us last season), and then he scored that screamer for the last goal!

Are you sure you dont mean Justin Devanny from Crystal Palace (who we were linked with last week)? If not, that feels like a bit of a come down from a semi-regular at Palace to some kids who's played 13 games for St Mirren.

Plus he plays international football, which our other central midfielders don't so doesn't get a "rest" then.

He's barely been given a chance, but probably needs regular game time. I thought he looked pretty decent (quick and obviously good in the air), but not quite good enough to be a starter. What's happened to Kayi-Sanda (sold to us as France's best upcoming centre back...)? Thought he also did look promising.

Or we've got someone better lined up? It's not like we don't have a manager or won't be one of the biggest clubs in the Championship next season. I'm sure Neil would be a good player in Scotland, but was decidely average last season for Ipswich (worse than any of our current midfield options) so not sure we should feel we've particularly missed out.

Big money for Stoke - around the same as their total outlay the past couple of seasons. They've also signed a couple of other players for fees, so either expecting some big departures (do they have anyone worth a lot?) or the new financial regulations are helping them a bit.

Don't worry, as a Saints fan I'm used to being disappointed! I'm expecting quite a few sales, but following Dragan's comments, was thinking the team would be of a similar quality to this year with a bunch of sales, but retaining most of the core team and some key signings. I'm expecting us to also get fees for Ramsdale (probably £15mil+) and Sugawara, and probably look to move on Bazunu as well. If we can't get £20 million for those we'll have done pretty badly I'd say, but imagine at least one of them will be loaned again.

I'm expecting one of Jander or Charles to go, was hoping the sale of Charles would mean we get another season of Jander. I'm also expecting Harwood-Bellis to go for a similar fee to Charles, and also a few rotation players like Edozie and Archer. How much do we need to sell? That's probably a good £60 million there along with big savings on salaries for McCarthy, Stewart, Taylor, Aribo and Smallbone.

I'd be pretty disappointed with that. Jander especially has the ability to be better than JWP ever was, and Neil is not close to how good JWP was at the same age when he was regularly playing well in the Premier League. Charles has also performed well at this level for the last couple of years hence bigger clubs wanting him, whilst Neil was in and out of Ipswich's team and has got quite poor reviews. I'm not against JWP coming back due to the leadership he'd bring, along with reliability to actually be fit and available, and that he has been a proven quality player at the level above. Whilst those days might be behind him following his stupid move to West Ham (and subsequent various loans), he'd still be a quality player at this level. Overall, getting rid of Charles and Jander along with Harwood-Bellis would make us significantly weaker unless the funds are put to unearthing an excellent centre back and centre forward. A long way to go so let's see where we are in 6-8 weeks' time.

Why would anything further happen? Nothing further happened before and it's not really got anything to do with anyone else if the league have already dished out a ridiculously harsh punishment.

Just watched the BBC highlights to make sure I wasn't making it up and Madueke featured in the first 15 seconds, cutting back on his man and sliding through a ball to James in the area who squared it but was just cleared. He also beat his man to whip in a cross to Rice who headed over. Maybe not the best, but did have a bit more joy than Gordon. Saka and Rashford would be better options than both of them though.

I've never seen him have a particularly impressive game, but last night was embarrasingly poor. Reece James also pretty poor, and Madueke only slightly better than Gordon (he did at least beat his man a few times, but generally ran into dead ends). Is Konsa particularly good? Always looks decent but not amazing, I'd probably go Stones and Guehi (or even Maguire if he was there)!

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?