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Nicky Bailey To Be Sold?

We all know that Nicky Bailey had an excellent season and IF he didnt get injured we could have possibly been in the play offs or even better,gaining automatic promotion (That we will never know).

Now given that he was a star player for us and recently won the OneBoro poll as player of the season dont you think it is strange that he has not been offered a new contract by the club ? Is this a sign of a club looking to cash in on one of our best players to balance the books yet again?

Didnt we do that when we sold Luke Young because we had a nice offer from Aston Villa? then we went and bought Justin Hoyte who was on paper a cheaper option (at the time) but yet we ended up getting relegated.

We all know that players like McDonald and Thomson are earning great money at Boro, and are on wages that the club cannot really afford but how on earth can we get rid of them when one of them is injured the majority of the time and the other earns too much for a Championship quality player,even a Premiership club would struggle to justify his wages.

So Boro being Boro will look at off loading another player to fill that financial hole they may have in their ever decreasing budget. Now if Rhys is sold the fans go mad,and why would you sell your leading goal scorer so that rules out Emnes going because that would be madness, Why would we sell Juke? He hasnt exactly set the world alight but he hasnt been at the club for too long. Bennett? Mogga believes he can make him into a very good left back and sell him for more down the line.

I know who to sell, let's say goodbye to Nicky Bailey.Clubs have shown interest in him, he only has 1 year left on his deal which we havent extended,May be we could even make out that he didnt want to sign one and thats why he had to move him on. I'm sure the Boro fans will believe that.

Also to ease a bit of the pain for the Boro fans lets get the club linked to lots of potential new signings to get them all excited and may be they wont notice that the ginger warrior has left.

Sorry, but the above could be the truth, and as time goes by it will become reality. If so how would you feel?

Franks moves to Hartlepool

Good luck to him so much for being like Messi!!

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/sport/fo...-1-4556223

Who would you like to see leave?

Their are quite a few opinions about who should be leaving this Summer dotted about the place in different threads and as it may well be the case that we need to sell to improve the squad for our promotion push next year who out of our saleable assets would you like to see gone.

I have only included those who I feel we would get a decent wedge for.

McDonald for me.

Rise from the Ashes - Documentary about Boro 86

This documentary has been posted by Matty Brown on You Tube , it is all about Boro's near death experience in 1986.

Its a great watch with some brilliant music and video clips plus interviews.

I hope this gets circulated to all Boro fans, young and old.

Please note that it is in 3 parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2IeYt7QFVg part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSM4_Gkbr...ure=relmfu Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6NvgsvSl...ure=relmfu part 3

Dalglish is a gonner (not gunner)

righteo, we all knew it was happening and vector called it but its official

taken from BBC 606 FB page on the sacking of king kenny:

We've just received the official press release from Liverpool:

“After a careful and deliberative review of the season, the Club came to the decision that a change was appropriate. It is not a decision that was reached lightly or hastily.”

The search for a new Manager will begin immediately.
...
From Kenny:
“It has been an honour and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as Manager. I greatly appreciate the work that Steve, Kevin, the players and all of the staff put in during my time and feel proud that we delivered the Club’s first trophy in six years winning the Carling Cup and came close to a second trophy in the FA Cup Final. Of course I am disappointed with results in the league, but I would not have swapped the Carling Cup win for anything as I know how much it meant to our fans and the Club to be back winning trophies”.

“Finally, I want to put on record my heartfelt gratitude to Liverpool’s fans, who have always given me and the Club their unwavering support. Without them neither the Club nor I would have achieved anything.”

Downing for England but no Johnson

What does everyone think about Stewart Downing making the England squad and Adam Johnson only being named as one of the back-up brigade?

I can't fathom how Johnson isn't in the squad. It seems that if you are English and play for City that you have no chance of getting in the squad unless you are a regular like Hart, Lescott, Barry and Milner. Micah Richards and Johnson would get into any other Premier League team with no bother whatsoever!

Obviously as a Boro graduate I am pleased for Downing but he is a very, very lucky boy to be on the plane isn't he?

2011/12 Replica home kit sale?

At the end of 2010/11 season the Boro shop had the home and away shirts for £10. Does anyone know if they'll be doing the same this year or the current price of them?

Tried on MFC direct but no luck just next season kit.

park in scotland u20 squad

i see cameron park has been called up for a tournament with the scotland u20 squad. seems a bit strange that the scotland team are playing club sides in it though

Player photo search - 'keeper David Brown (late 1970s)

Hi OneBoro

Plymouth fan in peace. I write for http://www.greensonscreen.co.uk a Plymouth Argyle site which is trying to get a profile and a picture of every player to have ever played for us since 1903 - we are up to
about 85% on each front at present.

One whom I am stuggling with is goalkeeper David Brown who made just a few appearances for you in the late 1970s - his current profile as
we have it is here: http://www.greensonscreen.co.uk/gosdb-pl...,3,4,5,6,7

He played 8 times for us Sep-Oct 1979. A later played for Bury, picking the ball out of the net 10 times when they got walloped by West Ham in the league cup at Upton Park, which must have been a tough night!

I wonder if you or any of your members would mind doing a cursory search of any programmes of the era to see if you had a classic head and shoulders shot of him that we could scan and use on the site? Feel free to email me direct.

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards
Andy
bigandyc@yahoo.com
http://www.greensonscreen.co.uk/

Grant Leadbitter

After hearing in today's Northern Echo that we are 'closing in' on Grant Leadbtter what would everyone make of this signing? Is he what we need or not? Does anyone know a bit more about him as well like his style of play etc?

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/9...tter_deal/

At least he will be free anyway.