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Reply | Cajuste to Neom back on….
at 12:33 3 Aug 2025
Really wouldn't understand why a player of Cajuste's calibre and age woud go to play in Saudi Arabia. North of 30, then I imagine it's a decent way to end your career and secure your future. But surely not now.
Granted, a PL quality player like Cajuste might yet baulk at playing Championship football with us, but he will know full well our chances of a bounce-back promotion are high and PL football for him would then be guaranteed. But going off to Saudi? May as well play in League 2. |
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Thread | Hayden Hackney
at 16:41 28 Jul 2025
Slightly more positive news, from the local Boro newspaper correspondent:
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Reply | McKenna overthinking things?
at 16:59 20 Jan 2025
I think we lost so heavily because we were set up to take the fight to CIty. That plan worked for the first 25 minutes.
As the goals were being shipped, we had the choice either to stem the wound or keep playing to score. We chose the latter and got hammered.
We'll never know exactly why certain players were dropped on the day; it could as much be down to tactics as injuries to how the other side usually play.
However proud I may be of us trying to take the game against City, we need to play as defensive a game as possible against Liverpool to reinstill some confidence for what's yet to come. |
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Reply | Where do our players live?
at 09:34 12 Jan 2025
Romeo Zondervan lived on Constable Road
Terry Butcher lived on Westerfield Road
Bobby Robson lived on Constitution Hill
Richard Wright has/had a house in Westerfield |
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Thread | Philogene
at 13:11 9 Jan 2025
I have a feeling that this may be our Marcus Stewart moment |
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Reply | First posters
at 13:25 18 Nov 2024
I think that it orginally began as an email mass mailing in maybe 1996? I definitely remember receiving those emails at work, the only place which had internet.
It's bascially been a staple of my football life ever since. It's always good to get an independent perspective, while the matchday chatroom is indispensible for those days when nothing else works. |
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Reply | Delap
at 18:58 11 Nov 2024
I've been pretty impressed by Szmodics too and I wonder why he hasn't been grabbing more of the limelight?
Certainly, if we had to sell, which I really hope we don't, we would see a very handsome return on the sums paid for Szmodics, Delap and Hutchinson to name but three. |
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Reply | If you could add a brand new rule to football, what would it be?
at 16:44 2 Oct 2024
Shoot-outs
In the inaugural season of Major League Soccer, they had shoot-outs instead of penalties if the scores were level at 90m. Watched one the dullest games (NY Metrostars (RIP) v LA Galaxy) brought to life by a shoot-out which rewards skill. The player takes the ball at the half-way line and goes one-on-one with the keeper. |
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Reply | Two 13 year olds get just 8 years detention
at 14:45 27 Sep 2024
They will only be released if they are deemed no longer to be a risk to the public. That may mean that they are never released, released much later in life or, at the earliest at 20.
It's a horiffic case, but the judge's sentencing remarks and explanation were reported by the BBC article you quoted which is consistent with the law as I understand it. |
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Reply | Trade slump following Brexit
at 11:39 17 Sep 2024
I think that's right. Sweden and Denmark are also EU member states which have not adopted the Euro, although Finland has. It's quite possible to commit to joining and kick it into the long grass forever.
This may be a London-centric comment, but I really don't think the sentimentality attached to the pound is as strong as it was. A central london cafe I was in yesterday refused to take cash and contactless payment is basically the norm everywhere. If we were to switch to Euros, there would be no real effect, other than the benefit of readily appreciating price differences and increasing price competition across a whole range of goods within the single market. |
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Reply | Looks like Leicester's PSR 'victory' could be short-lived
at 15:17 4 Sep 2024
I think wishing or hoping for a points deduction from a rival team is bad form. Let the legal processes take their course and focus on the 6 points on offer from Leicester and winning the argument on the football field. |
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Reply | Trump’s Supreme court delivers for him again
at 11:07 2 Jul 2024
It’s not alien, far from it - the extent of criminal liability of heads of state (which a US President is) was considered in depth in the UK in the case of former dictator Pinochet. I’ll need to read the latest SC judgment in detail but, I think it’s healthy that a president doesn’t have to second-guess an unpopular but legitimate decision, and will know that any actions which could not be considered to be legitimately within the remit of a head of state would be liable to prosecution.
And, fwiw, I don’t believe paying hush money to a sex worker to keep quiet prior to an election falls remotely within his official duties. |
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Reply | Trump’s Supreme court delivers for him again
at 10:05 2 Jul 2024
It’s not great news, but it’s not as bleak as you suggest, in my view at least. I actually think that if a president could be prosecuted for fulfilling the duties of president, that would be a recipe for disaster.
It’s for Trump to say why paying off a porn star to keep quiet about their ‘liaisons’ was in fact protected and official presidential business.
Of course he can’t do that. But, what it unfortunately does do is open challenges to eg the safety of his conviction as some of the evidence obtained may now not be admissible. And if that challenge succeeds, his conviction could be quashed. I’m not well versed enough in US criminal law to know whether he could have a retrial or would be protected.
So he may succeed in kicking this one into the long grass but the path remains open for his other activities to be prosecuted, albeit in attenuated form. |
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