Just got to the Christening do and got the tv sorted It’s actually coming home this time

I’m at a Christening at 12:45 - not sure how this happened the lad who’s son it is a huge footy fan as well. Having see us and Panama you would expect this to be as routine as they come but I suppose you never know. Start like we did against Tunisia and settle any nerves that could creep in.

I did think there was a slight hint at that, remember Dunn had a stint as a manager a few years back then was in our first team coaching squad and then assistant to the under 23s manager, he’s potentially gone the wrong way here. Thought for a while This may happen as his Twitter seemed to focus a fair bit on the building company. Good luck to him either way.

Absolute football magic, the drama, the tension and then the pay off! Unreal stuff

Can people not tag themselves on Facebook? Probably someone did that

I think it’s quite possible, Mowbray mentioned he didn’t feel the hours put in were worth the reward and satisfaction of being an assistant under 23 manager

One of my favourite goals of the tournament that Nigeria one, stonker

Don’t know much about this one but he seems well rated and young enough and will be a cheap addition so all looks decent on paper

Neymar - brilliant skill then a tap in a bit later. Gets so much stick even now commentator having a pop

Love it Brazil score in injury time

I was joking about Rhodes if that wasn’t obvious....

Not sure but Steve Waggott was refreshingly firm when asked about extending the deadline, he says it was mentioned to him but a flat no, with anything in life you get better deals early and it’s a choice you can make.

I see the sense in everything he said last night, he said if we went out and did what Forest are doing splashing huge wages on big players then what about the players that are here; suddenly you have Bradley Dack on half the amount of the new guys. He would prefer to do things gradually and more naturally. He clearly has ambitions of getting promoted but I think realistically he thinks if you add 6 players this year and 4-5 end up mainstays of the first team and then next season add 3/4 more you could have a strong promotion challenge the season after. He spoke about winning this league before with Kevin Phillips and how you need a striker like him that you know will score when the ball gets to him, wonder if he’s heard of Jordan Rhodes ?

He didn’t speak too much about free transfers other than he’s fortunate to not have to be working just in that market. He sounded like he’s a huge fan of Travis, spoke about his passion for the game and joked that he makes him nervous cause he’s so determined even in training that he worries about him and Smallwood injuring each other! Definitely plans for him. Maybe a slight misquote, he did say he wants to bring in 6 or so players and players of quality and maybe Harry at this point wouldn’t be starting when we get to that point. Again he’s clearly a fan and would like him at his disposal but I think he wants to know that Chapman won’t be a nuisance if he finds himself out of the team. He obviously wants to see the desire in him to keep improving. All of this was just my interpretation as Mowbray was respectful and didn’t want to say too much about other teams players so spoke in broad terms

Mowbray did mention around 6 signings, his phone is ringing off the hook about Nuttall and Travis but he wants to see them in pre season before committing to loans. Theres cash to spend, he obviously didn’t say what but I’d guess 3/4 million and the dilemma he has whether to blow most of it on a main striker or spend less on one and balance out on other signings. He also said Whilst we may take a loanee if they are genuinely better than we could afford otherwise he isn’t keen on loans and would rather have contracted players. As I said elsewhere what I took from it was Chapman will happen on the cheap if he accepts that he isn’t going to be starting at least at first, Armstrong much less likely to happen, expensive and record at Bolton nothing to write home about. Mowbray was keen to reaffirm how much stock he puts into people and again referred to a bad egg that they needed to get rid of and he wouldn’t want to risk anyone coming in and disrupting the culture of the dressing room.

Reading between the lines on what was said about players, Armstrong wouldn’t be seen as value for money and won’t happen unless he took much lower wages than he’s on and even then it would cost a good amount up front. Chapman may well happen but it sounds like it’s down to Harry, he won’t be starting so he’d have to be happy with a place on the bench and fighting to improve. An interesting point for me is Waggott is clearly keen to redevelop the Riverside (spoke of hotel etc) whether that happens or not who knows

When was Nickos last piece of new info about us?

Me too As in I’m going - I’ll let you do the updates!

reckon the Ipswich manager has already done his homework on us.....he spent most of last season battling it out with us!

I think Derby away first game

Couple of stinkers today Suppose not every day can be a winner

Ronnie scores within 4 minutes, scary for Morocco

I’ll go for Morocco 2, Iran 2 and Saudi 4 Nurse!

VAR works well again Get in Salah, delighted for him

Shocking defending and Russia lead