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  1. 10 hours ago, LinoJo3 said:

    Yet Redbull came up for talks to buy the club.

    Sick of reading these types of responses, if you think we’re that *** and unattractive of a club why do you even bother?

    Ha. Yeah, Redbull, right. 

    You think we're an attractive proposition at the moment?  Honestly? 

    We're a small club with a small fan base. Investors are looking for a return, a source of profit, or at least a publicity machine.  Thinking there's a long line of billionaires who want to buy us - and Gibbo is not listening - is deluded. 

    As to why bother; the fact that we are badly run, poorly managed, have thrown away millions on rubbish, doesnt change the fact that it's my team.  I can still point out that rich people are not invested in Boro like we are. 

  2. 7 hours ago, Motor Mouth said:

    I have never took to Gibson, when he moved to Ayresome Park I just had this uneasy feeling nowt was gonna come from it. I don't think I have ever made a secret of this.

    30 odd years later after winning a cup and finishing in a final of the UEFA  Cup I still feel the same.

    I thank him and his partner for the vast investments they made through the Bulk haulage business but I think now is the time for him to sell and allow someone else to take on that responsibility. I personally know sweet FA about running a football club of this size but I reckon all the foundations are there still to make the MFC a good PL club again. It is just waiting on a good business man to step in and correct some of the major faults Gibson as either done or allowed to be done.

    So for me Gibson as to go and I believe the rest of the club will breath a sigh of relief when this happens and  then start planning for a better future than thinking about what we are going to do after we drop into the lower leagues.

    That assumes that there's anyone with any interest in taking over a relegation facing Championship club with one season in the premier league in the last decade, in a depressed area of the UK, with a limited fanbase, no great history, and which needs a complete overhaul in staffing throughout the organisation, from scouting to manager.  Oh, and as a bonus, you need to sink a million quid a month just to keep it running,

  3. 10 minutes ago, wilsoncgp said:

    Woodgate shouldn't walk at all. Just like no other manager who is trying the best they can with what tools and experience they've got should. It's not his fault he's not a great manager. It's Gibson's fault for putting us in the position that we needed to hire him. If Woodgate has to leave, it should be firmly the responsibility of the man who hired him to begin with and he should take the hit for that if it's a problem. I don't understand for one second anyone who in their right mind believes he should walk away from this job. Would you? I know I bloody wouldn't.

    So, Strachan should have stayed on?  No.

    Woodgate is out of his depth; sure he's got excuses piled up now, but the entire season has been a mess.  No tactical awareness, no game plan, no improvement from pre-season.  He had a decent enough squad from last year, added a couple of players that he specifically wanted, and has somehow come up with a sluggish, inept mess.  There's enough quality in the squad that we shouldn't be near the bottom.

    Yes, Gibson shouldn't have hired him.  No it's not his fault he did.  But he surely knows by now that whatever his grand powerpoint plan was, it doesn't work and he clearly doesn't have the skills or knowledge to do anything about it.

    Would I walk away?  If I was rich enough not to need the work, was personally overseeing my team on the worst run in 30 years, facing relegation, had no clue how to fix it and (apparently) have a boss who won't support me?  Yes.

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  4. 6 minutes ago, wilsoncgp said:

    Woodgate not out. Yet. I'd be surprised if he loses his job on the back of Leeds away. Anything but 3 points against Charlton though...

    Wouldn't be on the back of it though, it'd be on the back of one win in 12 (which was against the worst team in the league), no clear plan, no tactical awareness, etc.

    Not that it will happen.  Woodgate should walk though.

  5. 14 minutes ago, DanFromDownSouth said:

    The bench is near enough the same as it has been since the Hull game, not sure why we are all up in arms about it now?

    Hull had Bola and Coulson on the bench, with Clayton, who've at least played a game for us.

    Barnsley are the worst team in the league, so put the kids out, fine, regardless.

    Not entirely convinced that fielding the same weak subs as against Barnsley 3 days ago means I should be used to it.  Or happy with it against one of the best teams in the league.  And I know it's because we have no-one else, that's whats worrying.

  6. 33 minutes ago, wilsoncgp said:

     

    Still interested in hearing what people thought about the Wing and Coulson challenges in the 2nd half. The Wing one was the one where he got booked and it looked about as bad as the Johnson one at the weekend, I thought he was gonna have to walk. The Coulson one was a foul on the touchline and it looked like he stood on someone's foot when trying to get the ball, he didn't even get a ticking off so maybe I got that one completely wrong.

    Wing one was a foul, but it wasn't high, it wasn't studs up and wasn't dangerous. 

    Coulson one didn't look, from the replays, like anything much.  Coulson possibly got kicked by their player, possibly trod on his toes, but nowt more than that.  He did drop like he'd been shot mind. 

  7. 19 hours ago, Neverbefore said:

    If anything you could say woodgate is getting more out of McNair, Johnson and tav than our previous managers did.

    It's not really saying much in Woodgate's favour though that the only players who we can name are those that got almost no games under Pulis.

  8. 8 minutes ago, AnglianRed said:

    But you have to ask why we couldn't hang on to Pulis, or bring in another suitably experienced manager?

    Why throw a complete rookie into a survival situation?

     

    I'm not about to go over this entire discussion again.  But Gibson making terrible decisions is pretty much it. 

  9. 1 minute ago, AnglianRed said:

    I wonder if our "smash the league" season was Gibson's last-ditch gamble. Maybe getting back into the PL was the club's only shot at financial stability?

    When that failed, maybe we were doomed to the drop?

     

    We have the same players as last year. There is nothing inevitable about this, other than Woodgate's lack if competence. 

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