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And if you're coughing anything up best to get a hawkers license as well

I thought the main stumbling block with that one was that he wanted shares in the club as well?

I guess we owe them one for taking Richard Jackson, Darren Currie and Lewis Price.

Great news - lot of sense in loaning him out to the lower leagues and I hope he gets plenty of game time to build up his confidence and get back his magic touch. Back (in every sense) in time for the play offs....

Yes, I heard they took that into consideration as well

If only my memory could recall a time when Steve McClaren was doing better at New Year than expected?????

Yeah, the last time the Derby press office said this we signed Butterfield and Johnson within hours....... But, on the point of smokes and screens I don't see the need. We're gunning for promotion, it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that we're looking to maximise the opportunity.

Good day out for Darren Currie yesterday - now manager at Barnet.

Dunna be DAF....

Does that make you an armchair van?

The major difference being Spinal Tap was a spoof rockumentary and the Bros programme was just unintentionally laughably bad good

If you haven't watched it then do, preferably after a few looseners. It is the best bit of comedy of all Christmas break and makes Spinal Tap look understated. More quotable lines in this than pretty much all of Blackadder, Dads Army, Fawlty Towers and The Young Ones combined.

Actually, in playing style he reminds me of Paul Goddard, the way he falls back off defences and almost runs against the flow of play to make the openings. Marriott looks like a great buy, a steal in the inflated market we live in, but before we start going all gooey kneed I would take a moment to think of his club predecessor, Assombalongabingbong. Half a season in after 'they' signed him people were talking of him as a thing of wonder, he's stalled a little and while he is still an effective Championship player he would be first on the 'For Sale' list of Boro got promoted. All I am saying is that careers are written over seasons, not over a few games - happy to have him but this (hopefully) is only the beginning.

Or something James Martin would rustle up on a Saturday morning

If we're looking for players from toilet clubs we should go to Ajax (one for the teenagers there).