Donis scored this peach of a goal:

I was waiting for that.

This thread is so much more entertaining than the Summer Transfers one.

Forgot Hull City are in League 1 now. WTF happened there?

Would you say the same if everyone was excited at the prospect of signing someone? Can't have it both ways.

Fickle, knee-jerk nature of the average football fan, m'afraid.

If the Boro kid is brought in as backup, then whatevs. We still need an experienced No. 1.

Unfortunately, the last Boro lad we signed can't get a game for love nor money. Maybe this new guy is more of a meat and potatoes, straight up and down, Beef Wellington, don't trust the Argies, d*** in the v*****, cheddar cheese and chicken tikka masala man.

One of my favourite Strachan moments:

How many more pages before our first signing? 100? 200?

It's one of those words that sounds like it should mean something different. Bit like people thinking "nonplussed" means unimpressed when it means surprised/confused. Indeed. I meant to type damp squid, of course

We'll probably re-sign Richie Smallwood so he can pose for it. I shouldn't give Mowbray ideas...

In our pomp, we released plenty of youngsters who trickled down to the lower and non-leagues. Just because they're on a Premier League club's books means squat.

Damn squid. Also, my pet peeve, turgid - often used to a denote a rubbish game of football, when it means swollen/bloated or a bombastic style of writing.

To paraphrase Roy Keane: "Good shot-stopper? Isn't that what they're supposed to do?"

I remember him getting slaughtered on MOTD for missing a hatful of chances against Sunderland. It was quite mean-spirited and not long after Croatia had dumped England out the Euro qualifiers. ?

Unfortunately, the Quote function subverts the Ignore facility. ?

Groundhog Day *wax nostalgic for previous strips* *demand the fabled red & black halved away kit* *someone posts mock-ups 100x better than the real thing* *complain about late kit launch* Rinse repeat next year.

Bear in mind, Ashley Ward was our top goalscorer in 98/99 And that included a strikeforce of Sutton, Gallagher, Davies, Jansen, Blake...

Nepotism has always been rife in football. I doubt we signed Paul Dalglish or Julio Santa Cruz for football reasons.

Whichever way you slice it, we dropped a bollock selling Raya. Simply because the money was wasted on Gallagher.

Don't be so sure about that. We had 40 goals from Rhodes and Rudy remember?

The silence speaks volumes.

Odd choices. Ostenstad didn't pull up any trees but he was okay backup in our promotion season. Perez was a classy player, just his family didn't settle. I think we got our money back for him.

I remember a certain ginger who did nothing but sing his praises...