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The bookies probably back Southampton to go up via playoffs. As things stand, surely two of Boro, Ipswich or Southampton get promoted from here. To be honest, that’s generous on Southampton but they’re still only 5 points from playoffs. Southampton and Ipswich can only hope for playoffs at best...

Sky Bet odds for us to be promoted is 1/66 so the bookies think it’s more or less a done deal.

Hoodoos aside, I think we’ll beat Ipswich on Monday. Our home form should too strong for their weak away form. We need to get one over Ipswich for the visit earlier in the month as I think both managers would recognise the result was far more comprehensive than the performances. At home, we’ll...

Really? Excuse my ignorance here because I thought it’d be easier to recover from but I’m not a footballer so don’t really understand.

Sakamoto is tidy with his back to goal, but he can’t blow by defenders like EMC can. His value is his chemistry with MVE (in attack and defence) and his precise shooting and crossing. Saka’s dribble moves tend to be with the goal of creating space for a cross rather than to get past a defender...

EMC has made a lot of defenders look v weak this season. He’s got a lot of good physical traits which leads me to believe he’ll adapt to Prem better than most of our squad. Our whole attack suffers whenever EMC is out of starting eleven. 15 goals and assists is looking like a decent shout for...

Haji not scoring since October is becoming a little bit of an issue. He deserves a bit of criticism for being wasteful v PNE, Bristol and Southampton but yesterday we didn’t create good chances for Simms or Haji. Solid 3 points and another clean sheet at home which is always good.

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...