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Agreed. Doesn't seem remotely phased, great athleticism and composure, and a pretty decent control and finishing. Great option to have in the squad - for no outlay this window as well.

So... are you saying we should ignore Sidney's potentially hysterical post above? 😄

He can't play target man or left wing with his limited ball control.

Lovely goal for the 2nd one. Larin nod down and a great through ball by azaz! The young lad looks like he's going to have a good future... Reckon we'll be seeing a bit of him off the bench this year. Love that eckert trusts the academy - finally got a manager that brings them through properly.

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What?! The actual are you smoking? 😆 From the moment we switched to a back 4, Peretz in goal, and had a target man up front, we averaged enough for 113points over a 46game season... Plus beat the English champions at home in the cup quarter final 😅.

Larin's movement is so good, all the time. It's incessant. Honestly worth watching just him for a few minutes and appreciating it. Superb cross by manning, but larin was watching that all the way.

It will 😌

Colchester are a well coached young side, definitely well organised and able to play to their strengths (which are good for league 2). Saints look poor without an effective CF, reckon we scored 1 or 2 this half with Larin and the balls that have been put in.

Playing 4-2-3-0 at the moment.

BBD trying his hardest to look like a non league football this half.

Yeah, but only on 2 occasions... and it would be un-enforceable regardless as no way to know who was watching. It would make a total mockery of the nonsense EFL rule as well.

As far as i can work out, if a member of the public decides to rock up at Middlesbrough's training ground every week, and live-streams their "restricted" training sessions online for anyone to watch, there is absolutely nothing the league can do about it. Would get their fans absolutely frothing at the mouth as well.

Yes.

That's still way better than the away kit...

Maybe the plan is to nauseate and confuse the opposition? Also has another square back as well - i think these always look terrible when they break up stripes / patterns.

I reckon they're going for this... (and missing 😅)

Please don't tell me its meant to be there attempt of a pink sunset reflecting of rippling water... because ffs.

They were specifically asked if we would be keeping the core players (a couple of names were mentioned)... Spors was at great pains to give a politicians answer without promising they won't be sold - so the only take away you can make from that is that at least one more core player will likely be sold if the right offer comes in. Similarly, other than the striker position, he said that we were happy with the squad, accept for any replacements we need to make for players that leave... so i think there is a reasonable chance of losing another matchday squad player 🤷‍♂️ Also made it very clear that we'll see significant numbers of (squad bloat) exits in the coming weeks...

I thought it was a much more interesting forum than usual. Most of the questions and responses were detailed. The 2 absolute waster ones for me was the absolute dinlow who asked about how the players are going to earn the fan's forgiveness (seriously? ), and then the one where they asked Parsons if he'd like to fess up to any more rule breaks. I also agree. the length of time we had to wait for him to ask about square backs on shirts... how? 😄 selfishly i was hoping he was going to ask about future inclusions of navy trim, or at least whether the club look at the popular fan mock ups etc.. Thinking back on it today, one of the more interesting takes was that Parsons in effect openly accused Middlesbrough or being disingenuous and playing a game over the whole spygate incident to try and trick their way to Wembley, as well as accusing the EFL of being disingenuous. Not sure that was particularly well advised given we're still not out of trouble yet with the FA and it shows the opposite of contrition by the club.

So much for the much hyped Bristol city in their opening game!

Promising form in pre season, I like the idea of a manager promoted from within who has been at various levels of the club over a number of years. Feels a good fit for the hoped for resurgence. Fingers crossed you guys get promoted this year!

He also stated that our lawyers are involved in the process, which is good to hear.

No, it was the Crawley manager.

Not sure even MLG would have spotted that one 🤯😲