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That’s surely been the planning after October surely. Given Ipswich’s poor away record, I don’t expect to lose on Monday and can’t see them catching us up. Even if we lose on Monday, we’d have only dropped 7 points at home all season.

At the current rate, we’ll be mathematically up by then. There’s too many teams in the league who are awful away. Meanwhile, Boro’s away and home record is not strong as ours so I’m struggle to see how we mess things up from here. I cannot see it.

Merry Xmas everyone! Wishing you all a lovely day today, tomorrow and of course Boxing Day when we get 3 points!

So are you, it would seem.

It’s a boring narrative point that it’s all because of the ‘right wing press’, it’s a bogeyman. Labour’s traditional support collapsed to the SNP in Scotland as well as Plaid Cymru (and Reform) in Wales, two parties nominally to the left of Labour. Labour politicians are all from socially...

No, I used immigration as one visible issue that’s also one of, if not the top issue for voters when polled. In my view, it ties into other policies areas (such as housing & stagnating wage growth). Starmer made the exact same mistake as Sunak did by personally tying their success to the small...

What's the purpose of this question? You could apply it to this squad. We spent more than we've received on transfers, bought the stadium and increased the wage bill one the smallest to one of the biggest in the space of 3 seasons. The club is losing money as is. For arguments sake, if you...

Probably not but when you put all the problems as down to ‘14 years of Tory rule’ and the ‘grown ups’ will fix everything… when that doesn’t happen, it all unravels rapidly. People tend to forget that a lot of pent up anger towards Labour started under Blair and Brown. You can see my post from...

No one has suggesting spending nearly £200m but the reality is, we’re looking at comfortably half that. It’s £85m upon promotion and £80m thereafter. For arguments sake, if you’re successful like Forest, Wolves (under Nuno) or Sunderland, you spend £100-120m and secure your league status for...

We can agree on this as a concept. Equally, if we’re pragmatic, promotion requires heavy investment into the playing squad. The gulf between the Championship and Premiership is so large, we need 4-5 players to come and start from day one as an absolute minimum, probably closer to 7-8. We get...

I get that, Robins was a stoic figure on the touchlines and that comes across as passive and what not. Him cheering in front of the ball boy v Wolves was v much out of character! 😂 With Lampard, much more up for the scrap as we seen in his Chelsea days when you could him hear him giving it...

What was the actual spend? With Leicester and Southampton, that’s £81m and £123m on top of the players and revenues they had in the seasons prior to yo-yoing. We don’t have a Jobe Bellingham to sell for £30m so fully anticipate us to have a high ‘net spend’ as a new comer. That’ll probably...

They’re in the Europa League… You can be canny in the transfer market but probably not get the talent required spending £5-10m on players like we have in the Championship. Even if we do spend £100m on transfers a still go down, it’s positions the club as a top Championship club for the years...

Have a luck at our bench for most of December, it’s been v weak. Against Ipswich we had 2 GKs and 5 defenders on the bench. We comfortably need a squad of 23-25 first team players. That’s without upgrading any positions. Make no mistake about it, you have sign a minimum of 10 players between...

I think lying about why they’d do in government is a pretty good reason to sing it. In the debates when Sunak said ‘Labour will do this, that’, at the time he came across as desperate and petulant. 18 months on, that outburst proved prophetic. This little old nugget:

They can think for themselves and this government has been a disaster. In fact, you'd even agree on this point so not sure why you would even say that. With respect, middle-class lefties tend to be some of the most patronising people I've come across. Have you ever considered that you may...

It's pretty clear that Labour's policies are being driven by the civil service rather than the other way round. Same with the winter fuel allowance. It is embarrassing because they've introduced many policies that have such obviously bad consequences which forces them into a U-turn. If they had...

What do you define as 'sensible'. Spending £100-120m in a summer window isn't exactly profligate. Look at Ipswich, they went back to back promotions, spent a lot and their squad is now comfortably the strongest in the league. My critique of their transfer policy is that they've created a...

He is truly a hated Prime Minister. The amount of times you hear 'Keir Starmer's a wanker' at the darts and the football is genuinely unheard of. I read a blog that even at the height of the miner's strikes, football fans didn't chant about Thatcher*. *That said, since the 80s there has been an...

Luton didn't really spend anything and their big project was the stadium and the feeling was that they were never going to establish themselves, so why bother? With Coventry, it's a populous one-club city so establishing Premiership status could attract significant investment to grow as a club...