atypical_boro

Yes agreed

I don’t know how any alternate universe would have played out. All I’m saying is that there isn’t really evidence that continuing to chop and change managers works for us either. Having thought about it I’d have probably given Wilder a few more weeks, maybe until early November, so that if nothing improved we still had someone in to make the most of the World Cup break. There was a time when Gibson was quite slow in sacking managers, usually a few months behind where the fans would be, nowadays I’d say he’s a little bit quick. Just my opinion, but I didn’t feel like we had a consensus of opinion screaming for his head just yet? Obviously we all wanted him to turn it around.

Not sure really. What I do know is that changing managers every October isn't paying dividends for us either.

Patience with managers 😆 Its a thing of the past, even at Boro.

We're doing our best though. They've had 10 permanent managers since the new year of 2017. We've had a very competitive 7 ourselves, could soon be 8! 😁

He plays amazing football though doesn't he? 😁

ha fair enough

Be honest, would you have wanted him if he hadn't been recently identified by Brighton?

Fabio usually gets a mention on these kind of threads, even though he played one match and did ok. If we were including players who had one match but had a nightmare then Keith O'Halloran would have to be mentioned.

Good post. You've managed to stick to players who actually played more than a handful of minutes on which to judge. And they were indeed all pretty shocking.

Knew Haas would be in this, didn't he play about 45 minutes for us, in a match we won? Same goes for Kike Sola although I think it was 0-0 when he was hooked at half-time.

I've always quite liked him! Decent last year too.

No, but Tav has always had limitations going forward. Anyway, this is arbitrary, I'm just saying its a potential scenario. I'm not saying that as we sit here today McGree is the better player.

Well I was just saying if you'd told me last summer they were going for these amounts I'd have been elated. Appreciate that's not how it works but I think a useful yardstick of what you can expect a player to go for after only one good season. This time last year a significant cohort of our fans thought Tav wasn't good enough, and Spence even more so. Both players kind of came of age this season.

Thanks, but how many?