He is on the bench for Hungary tonight against JDTs Sweden (Ayari starting for Sweden) Hopefully since it is just a friendly he gets his first cap in the 2nd half. Seeing as their other 2 keepers are both 34, they surely have to think about giving him a go at some point?

He has been a Japan International for about 6 months now

Japan had already qualified and picked an experimental squad to give fringe players a chance

Match updates

Carrick potted by Boro Quite rightly in my opinion, should have done much better with what he had available to him

Goalkeeper signed up! 😉

More of a recap than a story, but confirmation that its all about increasing value (selling players) rather than any sort of building exercise Rudy Gestede, wants to offer even more minutes to those Under-23 in the Academy. "What we have seen in the last year, the minutes played by our Academy players has dropped drastically," he told The Lancashire Telegraph in April. "We used to be over 2,000 minutes for Under-23 Academy players. Last 12 months, 142 minutes. "That affects the value of the asset and we want to go back to that model. That was part of the discussions with Valerien. They have to be part of your squad planning and we will also go in the market for young players."

yes

Technically 1st June, (for 9 days) but seeing as it is effectively a registration window, not a transfer window, and we do not have any games to register players for, does it matter? Its not like teams cannot sign players anyway or announce signings

I do not see us spending anywhere near £3M on any individual player, I am assuming we are interested because there is a low release clause which has become active due to their relegation (purely a guess re the clause, but it would make some sense)

I am assuming from his post yesterday, that Eddie has seen him play

I've amended your quote I think that is more accurate. Rovers might get lucky, but the penny pinching will eventually catch up

Stritch getting some undue "flack" (possibly not the right word) in my opinion. He has found the step up from U18s to U21 difficult so far (I suspect because he possibly had an overreliance on his strength at U18 level and needs to adjust), but he did only turn 19 six months ago. He is not exactly past it, and triggering an option to see if he manages to step up over the next year seems logical to me Wood makes a little less sense. Has looked good at U21 level, but given he will be 21 during the summer, and he hasn't made any real impression in numerous loans in men's teams, seems like we are maybe keeping hold of him for the sake of it. I would imagine that his option has been triggered to give one last chance/loan to see if he can step up