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@original-fat-bob - Is Raphael off your own bat or have you "heard the name mentioned", Bob?

I wonder whether the first we will hear of the new Head Coach is when an announcement is made after the fact. And we may all say "where did he come f...

I have no idea who will get the Boro job. However the field must be releatively small, given the stat quoted by Jarkko (but apparently from Teesside ...

@jarkko - If correct, that is a remarkable statistic. Almost a century!

Has something happened over the last week or so....?

I accept it must be a bind that his workplace at Middlesbrough/Rockcliffe is so far from where his family lives near Wolverhampton. Similar issues no ...

@gt - That is a mature and thoughtful comment. Yes, we often take things to heart. Yes, reactions to some events in football, are often given "off the...

@original-fat-bob - Maybe the message was: "The rest of this team/family (select your word of choice) is staying to complete the job!"

And BREATHE! We can all have an (International) Break now, apart from those doing what is necessary to identify the next manager.

I just thought, after trawling through the recent posts made since I left for The Riverside, that I should add a few lines. I was delighted with th...

@lenmasterman - That was an epic post there, Len. Like a starter to a big thread rather than a post several pages into a match thread. I can't disagre...

Conflicted. On the one hand one doesn't want the distraction and the disruption that would be caused if a (very recently installed) manager who many t...

@werdermouth - I absolutely agree. It's not a bit-part player wanting to leave, it's the central core around which the strategy for the season (and pe...

@rich-llewelyn-evans - Firstly I doubt we could afford Sir Gareth. Secondly, and to be fair, he would be a MUCH better manager now than when he first ...

@exmil - Let's hope it wasn't anything serious (ie nothing related to Mogga's recovery from the cancer treatment has had recently). My wife has just t...

@powmillnaemore - So sorry but I appear not to have commented before now about your Match Preview. I did read it (and gave it a thumb up) but for the...

I will take credit for THAT!!!! Ayling with a last gasp equaliser!

It sounds as though Boro is playing like a Tyrannosaurus Rex which has gone vegan. The plants are not very frightened.

@stircrazy - Maybe it should be called "armball", so infrequently is it that the ball makes contact with an actual hand!

@werdermouth I heard that comment being made. Surely it is where the BALL is that counts, not the player's feet.

@stircrazy - Maddo and the BBC Tees crew said it looked outside the box as it happened, but the replay made it clear it was a penalty. The reality is ...

Fiddlesticks! 1-0 to Leicester with a penalty at the last second of the 1st Half (handball in the area by HH). It could have been better for Boro. It...

I think it's more important that the 11 selected play well than exactly which formation RE wants to set up. I will follow this game on BBC Tees. Ho...

@werdermouth - They're doomed, Capt. Mainwaring, DOOMED!

Thank you for the starter piece, Martin. I realise the games are coming thick and fast and the Leicester game will be history tomorrow night. Boro re...

I guess Rob Edwards and his staff will be having conversations like the comments made above. Maybe one of them wondering about wingbacks and another ...

@paulinboro - Clearly on current form we do NOT deserve to be in 2nd place. But on the basis of all the games so far this season, the table doesn't li...

Putting McGree to one side (as he has been for much of his Boro career), it would take someone with very good eyesight to spot many silver linings for...

And now it is Watford 2-0 Boro (!!!)

Let's hope the manager knows what he is doing up front, that he has drilled the players during this last week, and that Boro has a touch of fortune th...