This is revisionist. I distinctly remember he went to Hibs in his first season (23/24 I think) and was played mainly as a CB and was absolutely pillars by the fans and did not play much. It wasn't till he went back the next season and played as DM that he started to shine and look good.

Playing the first half is a positive. Hopefully Bennie has a case for starting and Adamson gets more gametime.

Goodwin showed flashes and I think has time to progress over the second half of the season. Waddingham needs a good injury free run this season to show what he can do. Botic hopefully comes back this year but is 24 so really has to jump forward or it's too late. Jovanovic is likely...

I think this is more representative of the increased strength of other areas rather than a steep drop off for midfield. Granted both rogic and mooy (Mooy especially would elevate this team to possibly our best ever) would be starters now but there wasn't a ton of depth after those two.

There were email or text statements from higher ups to suggest that it was a systemic and repeated action. They only got caught and admitted for 3 occasions but there reason to believe it was significantly more than that. They're lucky they got to the playoff final or the point deduction could...

You can look him up on LinkedIn. He's an Account Exec in Sydney. He became big news back in the days of limited youth prospects when we had very little coming through the pipeline. Only 4% of EFL academy products actually make it to top tier football. These clubs just churn through players...

Disagree. There was huge hype for Burns, the only difference is he was at Adelaide not one of the clubs in Melbourne or Sydney. He was seen as the first big product since the start of the a league.

Agreed. It seems that often the kids we consider "wonderkids" seem to drop off and never really reach their potential. This seems especially true for the guys we tend to take as bolters in world cup squads. Examples: Nathan Burns, Ben Halloran, Arzani, Kuol.

Thats also based on betting odds. Everyday degenerate gamblers know nothing about football.

Yazbek apparently has pulled up injured and helped off the field in the game warm up for Nashville.

Watford have fired Will Still. That will be the 4th manager for Irankunda in 12 months. He really needs to take one of the decent deals from another club where he can get some actual stability and build his career.

Considering that we're constantly debating socceroos call ups and other things in here I don't think it matters too much.

Big news in the championship. Southampton drew with Ipswich which is the best result possible for middlesbrough. Basically it means with results going there way for Ipswich and millwall middlesbrough still have a chance to get automatically promoted on the last day. Going to be a blockbuster.

He's only on loan.

He's back!

Toure pretty ineffectual today but didn't get any service. Ipswich's defence was rock solid.

Toure on at half time

Boro are going to have to be really on the ball the next few weeks and hope results also fall their way. If they don't finish second they're going to have a hard time in the playoffs as Southampton are virtually unbeatable at the moment.

Wonder what h British fans are fickle and over the top. If he has a couple of good games they'll completely flip and act like he's the next coming of Jesus. I remember when middlesbrough was going through a rough patch and the forums were saying that Mcgree was terrible and needed to be sent away.

It will take a little while for prices to catch up but they haven't already been increasing for Australian players. We're probably going to see records tumble over the next few years, maybe even after the world cup depending on performances.