S-Clarke

I thought that about Boro, but then I read about their financial situation and the players that will have to leave in the summer. Top 6 challengers I reckon, but not top 2.

I'm not bricking it, i'm bloody looking forward to it. No more mid-week trips to daggenham and redbridge/yeovil/rochdale and instead trips to West Ham, Forest, Ipswich (possibly Reading) etc. The champinship is going to be an amazing league to be involved in next year, it's so strong. You could probably say that 75% of the leauge fancy themsevles with a top 6 chance.

Agreed, people predicted that Newcastle would implode when they came down and get relegated again. They ended up walking the league.

Blackpool?!?!?! How have they managed that...? Fair play league?

Saying he's injury prone is an understaement, he's perminatley injured and will probably retire. I really think we need to be looking past these ''big name'' injury prone players looking for one last payday. Talented young players that can grow with the club is the direction we should be looking in.

Christ, it's going to be a long summer.

The amount of **** that pours out of your mouth beggars belief.

I hope we're in for Wright, quality player.

The good thing is, the longer this uncertainty goes on the worse it'll be for them next season in terms of a playing squad. I'd love to actually do a 4-1 over them next year.

It feels nice watching it knowing we've done our job! Sod being involved in these, I couldn't take it.

yep, bompey were 3-2 up for about 3mins

now its 3-3 (4-4) what a game this is

blimey, bompey are now winning

Surprised we haven't heard anything about Dan Harding yet actually, his contract is up...

and BWP to Torres. those were the days...

He was on loan originally, but then we signed him in January on a 2 1/2 year deal for something like 50k. Total bargain

Can't moan about that, perfect deal for all parties really. I doubt he'll be used as much next season but he's still a great experienced head to have around the place.

TBH I don't know why people go so over the top on it. If they announce something - good! If they don't - oh well, never mind. Plenty of time in the summer to hear lots of news and it's way too early to be getting worked up.

Cardiff could be screwed now IMO. Massively in debt and took a huge gamble this year keeping hold of Whittingham, Chopra etc and bringing in the likes of Ramsey and Bellamy on loan who wouldn't have been cheap. They've totally screwed up with the players they had over the course of the season.

Dale isn't a bad player. He wasn't spectacular in his time with us but he didn't have a massive amount of chances to impress and make his mark, as we had a pretty settled group of players. He's obviously got talent to work with in the glimpses I saw of him. I reckon he's one of these players that will become a decent NPC midfielder playing for a rival club if we miss out on him. We've slagged players off before that aren't crap as proven by their success at other clubs. I'd be happy with him signing. (if that's what it turns out to be)

Absoloute class CB. Took a while to get going for Reading but he could hold his own in the PL IMO. Such a shame he wasn't given the games here as he's now one of the best CBs in the champ.

He said the same when he was at Plymouth as well, he's a typical journey man. I expect he'll say the same about blackpool once they're relegated as I'm sure he sees himself as some sort of footballing superstar.

P'Boro have totally thrown this away. What a totally **** defence they have. 3-1 now

I thought Nigel dealt with the whole situation brilliantly to be honest. It's a team game, not an individual game - and that's all puncheon is, a talented yet somewhat troubled individual. He'll be a journayman for the rest of his career, I can't see him ever settling anywhere for more than a year.

Good news - unbelievable how this was built up to be some enormous monumental news by fans (Micheal owen signing FFS - please let this one go!). This summer is going to be like groundhog day. Why are people saying it's underwhelming though? It shows we have a plan and everyone is ''on the bus'' for a while yet.