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Sorry, I know, I was just joking after calling him English as he never missed an opportunity to talk about his Welsh roots 😀

Chris Wilder has given his first interview after being appointed manager... Here is the video link on the club website And here is the transcript ...

@stircrazy I can't remember Pulis ever mentioning that he was Welsh - who could have known...

@deleriad Steve Gibson has only ever appointed one foreign manager in Karanka and everyone else since then has been English (Agnew, Monk, Pulis, Woo...

@malcolm If Neil Bausor was the person blocking signing players for a manager who wasn't going to be around for much longer then perhaps he was the ...

@forever-dormo The appointment of Chris Wilder does at least stop the trend of lurching from an inexperienced manager to an experienced one. Has Ste...

@ken Good post Ken and yes I think in the context of Boro no longer having parachute payments and Steve Gibson no longer being among even the top th...

@original-fat-bob I think the Sheffield Star article does shed some light on why Chris Wilder struggled in his second season - the boardroom problem...

I think Chris Wilder is another manager who has put the emphasis on not conceding goals, which in the season that he won promotion to the Premier Leag...

So the new manager is Chris Wilder

@paulinboro Yes he said he knows the new manager and sounds like it's not a well known name as he said some will know of him better than other - I g...

Yes, I thought it looked like a farewell - here's the story on MFC...

Well it wasn't pretty but at least Boro have stopped their losing run - indeed the almost snatched a late winner. It looked like Boro might be sufferi...

Well the first 35 minutes was a dreadful game of football both sides poor and unable to pass the ball. Then out of nowhere Boro got their first chance...

@andy-r Yes you may be right that automatic release clauses could help solve the problem. Though the devil will be in the detail as to how much the ...

@exmil It didn't sound like Warnock was getting ready to depart in the interviews in the local media - he was talking about how Steve Gibson underst...

A few surprises with Dijksteel and Sporar dropped - hard to decide if it will be a back-three or four as no obvious right-back unless it's Howson if ...

I read in the Northern Echo this morning that Neil Warnock is advocating scrapping parachute payments as it gives relegated clubs like West Brom an un...

Following the Luton defeat, Neil Warnock suggested that his team was too nice and he wants them to be nastier. However, he may want to have a look at ...

Just reading the MFC website, it sounds like Payero and possibly Grant Hall may be available on Saturday. Neil Warnock said: "Martin [Payero] was on...

@deleriad It does look a bit grim in terms of starting options - Siliki still looked off the pace when he came on and doesn't look like he'll offer ...

Thanks for the preview Andy and we can only hope West Brom keep to their alternating win/lose sequence as it's hard to find any other valid reason to ...

Just a an aside, I saw this great line by Jonathan Liew in the Guardian this morning as he reported on another Ronaldo rescue act for Man Utd - but ar...

Just watched the highlights - though Boro's only highlight shown was the goal by Coburn with Luton's several missed chances and their three goals bein...

@pedro The first goal was a free header from a corner and for some reason Josh Coburn was playing centre-back for the second and for the third Tav f...

Well spent nearly all the first half trying to get a watchable stream that didn't keep freezing so can't really comment on the first half. Finally, go...

@k-p-in-spain I didn't even notice Lumley was dropped - maybe a bit harsh as he'd made some important saves in recent games and distributed well. Go...

Quick congratulations to Ken on also reaching a thousand posts on the Diasboro forum - both Ken and OFB have provided many of us 'young uns' with much...

Team News: So Dijksteel does indeed return but Payero not even in the matchday squad - Jones and Coburn also start as does Hernandez - with Peltier on...