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Bragg and JWP played the second half of the Millwall and Bristol City games, both of which we were brilliant.

Bragg and JWP have worked well together so far this season. Bragg has struggled alongside Downes.

Has anyone seen anyone else have their throw in switched round this season? I’ve only seen it 3 times and all 3 have been us. Maybe we’re just really slow but feels like another rule refs mostly can’t be bothered to enforce.

Worry for me was he looked really, really slow. Hopefully that’s rustiness that he will shake - however i think he’s destined to be Bree back up for the entirety of his spell here, so not sure we will see much of him.

Where’s that bloke who thinks he’s rubbish and Charles is much better? 😂 Absolutely superb player, we’d have won our first away game before now had we had him fit all season, so glad to have him back.

Not sure how that counters that Boro have no backup either, in the same way we don’t. Either those strikers get injured, both teams are knackered.

Obviously - but we don’t, in the same way that Boro have no back up for Lankshear.

Because he’s not better than Larin. Why would he come to be second choice/rotation when he’s guaranteed to be the main man at a promotion contender?

He wouldn’t have come to sit on the bench realistically

It’s been clear since the start that it’s definitely reduced the noise of the away end. I sit much closer to the current away end than I did the previous one, and yet the noise feels significantly less - often I forget they’re even there.

How did it work out for Ronnie Edwards here? THB is nearly 25 with almost 250 games under his belt, he’s not some kid making his way.

You don’t think it’s unusual for a club to sell its main CB, sign a replacement, lose another starting CB to injury and the new CB to not even make the squad? He was good for us for the unbeaten run last season, but Villa’s interest was very surprising to me personally - i thought he might get a newly promoted side if he was lucky. Just hope he knew what their plans were for him when he went there, maybe he did.

Spare a thought for AlexLaw24 this evening

Do we have a plan in place for if it is not tomorrow after this latest leak? How do we handle that?

People have been talking about how we’ve made slow starts to games since the tail end of last season and it’s continued into this. You can pinpoint it as almost exactly the time Wood came in for Stephens last season, it’s not a coincidence. I was really hoping Abbott would be a partner of Kev, but not sure that’s going to happen.

Maybe they’ve forgotten, and we’re just keeping quiet so they don’t remember suddenly

Why are all these things unable to be escalated to CAS? Who decides that?

unless people with information are betting

Any eyes on manager sacking odds?

If it was Pompey I would, if it was anyone else I can say with certainty I would not give a single shit

Surely Jobi Mcanuff isn’t actually on the panel as reported if he’s being so vocal in the media about it. Saying he doesn’t believe we only spied 3 times feels a concerning thing for someone on an independent panel to be saying, if so.

He’s the first non Middlesbrough affiliated football figure i’ve seen suggesting significant ban. All Sky pundits i’ve seen comment on it have said it should be left alone now.

The club that he manages have been kicked out of a competition, and deducted 4 points for the following season. I find the idea that people say he hasn’t been punished absolutely laughable. If he gets a ban that leads to him losing his job, he’ll be free to manage abroad where he’ll most likely get a job with a bigger club than us - is that punishment for him? Feels more like punishment for the club.

He rarely plays 90 minutes full stop, his numbers line up at a goal every 91 minutes according to AI. Pretty spectacular for a guy who joined halfway through a season in a completely new country.

I liked him from his first touch scoring against Watford - but I definitely had him down as just a good physical fit for us, to allow other players to play off him. He has got so much more to his game than I ever realised, he constantly does things that I didn’t know he could do.