Twitter rumour that we are away at Southampton on the opening day. Would be a horrendous opener.

Plymouth, who were relegated, didn't even want him. They literally gave him to us.

PNE have local lads "The Spud Brothers" as their sponsor. Their logo looks abysmal on their shirts.

This bloke has been borderline unsackable for years, so this is quite a surprise. This seems like the most plausible reason as to why he stuck around for so long, when managers and assistants came and went.

Jake Batty is in the latest training photos (as spotted by Elliott Jackson), maybe he's signing up to a new contract

Boro have appointed Rob Edwards as Head Coach for the new season. Seems to be a fairly mixed reaction from the Boro fans that I've seen on Social media. https://www.mfc.co.uk/news/2025/june/24/rob-edwards-appointed-head-coach/

The article literally says it's to cover costs between April and June:

Great video that.

Also, forgot that Connor O'Riordan was back at the club now. Any hope? Or nah?

Not really, we've still got 7. Forshaw will play, he'll be subbed on when we have the lead to help "see games out", he'll probably start a few as well. Of course Montgomery will play, Gestede is on record as saying we need to get back to putting Academy players on the pitch. Edit: Just to be clear, I'd happily sign another (always good to have more quality) but we'd have to shift out a few to accommodate.

Any players worth taking, should it happen?

I wouldn't consider them all to be first team players but as it stands you'll have Travis, Tronstad, Tavares, Montgomery and Forshaw all classed as 1st team players by the club, and the extra one you wanted to sign gives you 6. By Centre mid, I mean players who will play as one of the two, in a 4-2-3-1 formation which we usually play. Of course, Ismael might try and adopt a different formation for the coming season. Buckley & Garrett probably being moved on but currently they are part of the pre-season squad.

That would give us 8 centre mids, you just can't keep that many players happy for 2 places.

Travs replacement, you would think.

This kid has been injured forever, would be a crazy risk to take him on, even on loan.

You can see why the club want to appoint him.

If they are looking at appointing this former disastrous Sunderland CEO, will the Coalition voice concerns about the appointment or even release anything before it happens?

Come back Steve, all is forgiven.....

Sunderland fans think he was a fucking disaster 😂 Venky's at their finest.

I thought we were supposed to be implementing some kind of high press/workrate/energy tactic? Buckley doesn't fit the style we're looking at playing, Ismael left him out of the squad entirely for the last few games.

And I don't think that RV account has ever got anything correct either.

Derby apparently lining up Owen Beck on loan as well.

The whole thing has been dragging on for so long it was inevitable that they were both leaving. The club now have a real problem on their hands as Dolan and Weimann were our 2nd top scorers (joint), even though they only manged 7 each. A problem highlighted further that none of our players got into double figures in the league.

No he isn't but he won't be playing CM or in any attacking roles. So RB is the only place left for him.

From memory we were looking at a RB for cover/competition with Brittain. Should we land one, I think JRC is gone.