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  1. 1 hour ago, Changing Times said:

    Just on that game above, the Robson scoring for Fulham would be Sir Bobby Robson, wouldn't it?

    Good shout - it will be, won't it.

    In my head it seems strange to think that he and Mannion were contemporaries because I think of Robson as an England manager of the 1990s and Mannion as the old chap I used to see shuffling into Woolworths in Redcar in the 1970s.

  2. 8 minutes ago, AnglianRed said:

    You said yourself many are around Warnock's age...even "significantly" younger (e.g. in their 60s) is still pretty old for football managers these days. It seems to me the general trend is for (relatively) younger managers in their 40s and 50s.

    I was stretching it a bit with the 20 to make a point, which does take us back to Lennie Lawrence, but 10 of the 20 are 56 or younger, which is younger than me and I haven't yet given up hope of being invited to take on the Boro job on the back of my Championship Manager record.

    I'll also give you that Liddle and Venus may not have had a particularly high profile and that McLaren would probably be managing Manchester United had he just stood there and got wet.

  3. I probably wouldn't mention this to Chris Wilder but only two (Mowbray and Southgate) of our last 20 managers are presently in another managerial role, despite all being about Neil Warnock's age or significantly younger (and none of the last 8 are despite being well within the normal managerial age range).

    Are we:

    a. Really bad at picking managers

    b. Really good at wrecking managerial careers

    c. Such a pinnacle of world football that after leaving Boro no other job holds any appeal?

     

    Wilder has joined us a week late - he should have taken the job on Hallowe'en.

  4. John Stone was a full back who played twice for Boro at the beginning of 1972 in the absence of Gordon Jones.

    He made his debut on New Years Day 1972 in a 1-0 defeat at Cardiff City and retained his place for the 1-0 win against Bristol City on 8 January, before Jones returned for the FA Cup tie at Manchester City the following week.

    The match report on the Cardiff City match in the Newcastle Journal describes him as "lacking in finesse but with sufficient bite and vigour in the tackle to suggest he could carve out a future in the big time" but the following week's report on the Bristol City game suggested that Boro couldn't afford to continue to play him at left back because he was so naturally right footed that he was unable to stop an opponent going past him on the outside and that he would be roasted by Mike Summerbee at Maine Road.

    Stone moved to York City in the summer of 1972 and made 86 appearances for the Minstermen before joining Darlington in 1976. He racked up 120 appearances for the Quakers before moving on to Grimsby Town in 1979, for whom he appeared 94 times. He completed his senior career with 10 games for Rotherham United in the 1983/84 season.

    He was an integral part of York's promotion winning side in 1973/74 but suffered the disappointment of missing most of their Second Division season in 1974/75 after picking up a serious injury against Sunderland early in the campaign.

    He was born in Carlin How on 3 March 1953.

    After retiring from football he opened a sports shop in Grimsby and then owned a milkshake and fruit drink bar called Shake Shack with his wife.

    He is number 6 in the photo of York City's 1973/74 squad below.

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  5. 39 minutes ago, Changing Times said:

    Just looking at the league table there.  With three points for a win we'd be on 70 points from 32 games, 13 points clear of second place and 18 points clear of third.  On course for a 100 point season in this day and age, which is the equivalent of what we ended up with our 65 point final total from 42 games.  Some team 🙂

    We tailed off a bit towards the end of the season because we had a rookie manager who wasn't really up to the job.

  6. 3 minutes ago, Neverbefore said:

    Did we create any other good chances besides that one though? I can't remember any. Whereas I can think of at least 3 other Luton chances that should really have been put away to to with the 3 they did score.

    Tav played a defence splitting through ball for their third. Does that count?

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  7. Although Coburn did fade in the second half like everyone else, he deserves credit for the goal. Although it was teed up by Sporar, the cross was moving at a fair pace and he did well to get on the end of it and direct it into the net. It was the kind of cross that often flashes across the goal with no one getting on the end of it or the forward slides in and skews it off target.

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  8. Looks forward to 2055:

    "Veteran Boro manager Stewart Downing has amazingly broken the record of the man he succeeded in the role, Neil Warnock, clocking up his 1603rd game in charge of the club.

    Downing said "It's been a real roller coaster ride but the Johnstones Paint Trophy Final defeat and the year we just missed out on promotion from National League North have been real highlights" "

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