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@lenmasterman : I think, Len, the expression "did well in the interview" may carry similar weight to "he's been performing well in training".
Yes, the common theme seems to be potential managers who have not done a lot of managing recently. And I did think of Sunderland's manager when I rea...
@simonfallaha - Your post at 10.45pm yesterday ... you don't see stuff like this on many other football blogs, do you? This gives you exemption from...
@powmillnaemore - A job on TeessideLive awaits.... (Meanwhile for me after a day largely spent in front of the TV watching Rugby - and a quick fix...
Could you imagine a scenario in which Messrs Gibson and Scott sit in front of a computer/laptop/tablet/mobile phone and ask whichever IT brain is embe...
@jarkko - The Northern Echo could at least give this Blog a shout-out! "And for Boro fans all over the world, if you want to read the comments/sugge...
@martin-bellamy - Well, Jimmy F-H has finished his stint of Strictly Come Dancing ....
@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...