What’s a Mitchell Candlin?

For what’s it’s worth Nixon thinks Boro May land Puncheon which may be the deal we need to free up Chapman

I thought we’d be lucky to spend £2-£3m this summer and Armstrong would never happen as we couldn’t dream of affording

Suddenly it’s not easy for the right reasons is it? Amazing that Bennett who is becoming Mr Blackburn Rovers when on the pitch may struggle to get a place and Smallwood who was a favourite last season should by right now struggle to even get on the bench. For now Graham has to be the man up front to ease the pressure while Brereton settles in.

I think it may be quiet until Friday when we may bring in another striker but that’s not based on anything.

Go on Carlton!

Hadn’t heard of him until recently but people I know who live local to Nottingham really rate him and obviously so does Mowbray. An exciting signing for sure and a proper statement of intent.

All the best to Mr Boots!

Chapman on Boro bench tonight

You have to assume Travis will go on loan in the next day or two, there’s a few that won’t get near the bench now. For two central roles we now have Evans, Smallwood, Travis, Reed, Rodwell and Davenport. Rodwell May have been brought in with defensive cover in mind but in his eyes he’s not here to make up numbers.

A 7 year old me cried in Jersey when I found out we had sold Speedie and brought in Shearer, thought things just wouldn’t be the same! i thought Fode Koita would be a great signing. I thought Appleton and Darren Moore were a breath of fresh air at Ewood (to be fair he said all the right things) Mowbray was reaching the end last October!

Moments before we scored today Caddis got called over along with Graham and Mark Venus was showing him some instructions. I still can’t work out if he was going to come on or they just wanted a brew.

Superb win, not a great first half performance but much better in the second even if we didn’t create much. Rayas two saves were immense!

Charlton having a protest today handing out thousands of bags of crisps to do with as people please

There’s also the possibility that the local journo is being fed info from Forest to leak out in an attempt to squeeze a few extra pounds from us

Problem is Chaddy there’s a lot more out there that never fulfil their potential than those that do, recouping £10m is far far from certain.

I’ve only seen Sylla once and he scored so on that basis he’s better than Chris Brown!

Time to move on, £5m was enough of a gamble, this is getting silly. You do have to wonder why all our targets have been domestic, are we simply not scouting abroad now with this new system?

By the way Mackem, enjoy league one it can be truly bonkers but fun if you are doing well in it. Seen a few Sunderland fans on twitter enjoying it already. As long as you end up getting out of it you’ll look back with fond memories!

Wait we’ve got to 10 posts in and nobody has said must win yet? slackers

Cheers Mackem. Let’s expect for nothing other than another wage on the books but hope to be pleasantly surprised. Hell of a difference between a player tied down to £70k a week over 5 years and a player on a low wage on a short term deal. Down to him now to prove he still has what it takes.

One Burnley fan stabbed in Athens but sounds like he’s ok; another few badly beaten and twenty odd arrested for drunken behaviour and refusing to get on a bus

Happy with this, low risk with potential big payoff. It could be catastrophic but there’s no long term ties.

Happy with the deal personally, he has talent, Tony said it was a cheap deal and he can go at the end of the season if it doesn’t work. win win for me

Sleep they’ll be here when you wake, maybe, if not sleep some more.