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Who will be the next Boro manager? (It's Rob Edwards, it was always Rob Edwards)


Who will be the next Boro manager?  

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  1. 1. Who will be in charge this season?

    • Steve Cooper
      64
    • Rob Edwards
      74
    • Danny Rohl
      49
    • Other
      15


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10 minutes ago, TeessideSteel said:

Of course football is about winning trophies. However, the business side has became evermore intertwined as the game grows globally and the riches grow in parallel with this. 

The global appeal/reach of the game goes against the notion that fans are rooted in the local community and carry an banner/identity. This would work more the further down the pyramid you go, but many teams in the Premier League are followed, and have vast sums of money pumped into them by fans from countries thousands of miles away. 

Clubs wouldn't be such an attractive investment if they weren't viewed as a business. Otherwise ("sportswashing" and boys with toys aside), why else would people from outside of the game/local area be interested? 

It is not exclusively one or the other, but to say that it isn't influenced by business at all would be incredibly naive.

Yeah they’re not exclusive but they’re definitely not like a normal company 

Sporting success is the ultimate end goal, that breeds the business side, which helps sporting success, which helps the business and so on 

No sporting success, no fans, no business 

Bit of extremism there but pretty much how it goes I’d say 

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We all know that football is a business but there is another dimension to it. It's about a loyalty that you can't walk away from. Bill Shankly got it right about how important a football club is to its fans.We all know plastic Man U fans,and on the whole we lothe  them. Talking about a football club as a brand is beyond me. Football fans are not consumers. If they were they would be chopping and changing clubs at the drop of a hat. To see fans as just some sort of paying customer completely misses the point. 

 

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Going back to the Edwards appointment. His win rate overall in the Championship is not impressive. One good season with Luton followed by disaster. Mind you the Sunderland manager came in following a relegation. The fans do need to cut him some slack and let's see how we start the season. He will be under intense pressure if Boro continue the appalling home record of the previous manager.

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4 minutes ago, Plastic Goat said:

Going back to the Edwards appointment. His win rate overall in the Championship is not impressive. One good season with Luton followed by disaster. Mind you the Sunderland manager came in following a relegation. The fans do need to cut him some slack and let's see how we start the season. He will be under intense pressure if Boro continue the appalling home record of the previous manager.

Of course I and the rest of my Boro supporting cohort will cut him some slack. Six games and if it hasn’t improved then it is out with the pitchforks, sand off the name Carrick and light up the torches. More than fair we think 😂 

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32 minutes ago, Plastic Goat said:

Going back to the Edwards appointment. His win rate overall in the Championship is not impressive. One good season with Luton followed by disaster. Mind you the Sunderland manager came in following a relegation. The fans do need to cut him some slack and let's see how we start the season. He will be under intense pressure if Boro continue the appalling home record of the previous manager.

The Sunderland manager was relegated from the French top division, it’s not the same comparison, nobody has an issue with Edwards getting relegated from the prem.

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34 minutes ago, Plastic Goat said:

Going back to the Edwards appointment. His win rate overall in the Championship is not impressive. One good season with Luton followed by disaster. Mind you the Sunderland manager came in following a relegation. The fans do need to cut him some slack and let's see how we start the season. He will be under intense pressure if Boro continue the appalling home record of the previous manager.

Bookmarked for when you're calling for his head after a 1-0 win and a boring draw in the first two games. 

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