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Everything posted by atypical_boro
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Yes agreed
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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 consens
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Not sure really. What I do know is that changing managers every October isn't paying dividends for us either.
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Patience with managers 😆 Its a thing of the past, even at Boro.
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Michael Carrick..................A New Chapter
atypical_boro replied to RiseAgainst's topic in Boro Forum
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! 😁 -
Michael Carrick..................A New Chapter
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He plays amazing football though doesn't he? 😁 -
Michael Carrick..................A New Chapter
atypical_boro replied to RiseAgainst's topic in Boro Forum
ha fair enough -
Michael Carrick..................A New Chapter
atypical_boro replied to RiseAgainst's topic in Boro Forum
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fair enough. But imagine a scenario where McGree comes into a run of form and scores/creates a few goals (something Tav has always struggled with to a degree) and Tav can't even get in the team ahead of him, and we have a £12m lad sat on the bench when we could have sold him and signed 2-3 other players. Not an inconceivable scenario in my opinion, though of course not guaranteed.
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If you'd told me last summer that in 12 months time we'd sell Tav and Spence for a combined £25m (approx.) I'd have sent for the men in white coats. After a good season for each, their market values have obviously gone up but to have expected more for players who really hadn't come of age until last season is a little optimistic in my opinion. Especially when we already have players at the club who are potentially better than them both.