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@exmil You never know with Watmore given his fitness record - looks like a back three with Bola as wing-back - perhaps McNair as left centre-back a...

Team News... Quite a few changes with Jones the unsurprising returning player in place of Dijksteel but Hackney is on the bench as McGree starts but...

@malcolm He's still 5 years younger than Joe Biden so may still have one big job in him 😉

Just to add, the other point to make on appointing a rookie manager is that it's not long since Boro went down this road with Jonathan Woodgate and th...

If Boro opt for Michael Carrick then we really are in unknown territory - though you could say he's never lost a game as manager with two wins and a d...

@john-richardson Further to your point about Coulson up at Aberdeen, I just read this quote from a Swansea journalist about another unwanted Boro g...

I'm not overly convinced by Corberan as he's another that falls into the category of one good season. Indeed, after 20 games last season his Terriers ...

Thanks for another detailed preview OFB and a good postscript on why Wilder's time was up at Boro - the club were clearly going backwards under his te...

Well it was probably mainly all about getting the three points and drawing a line under what has been a disastrous season so far. Can't fault the play...

Strange game in a way - I thought Boro would come out of the blocks flying with Leo in charge but it was a reserved start with the players just lookin...

@original-fat-bob I've been posting with a hernia for ten years so I know it does affect energy levels 😉

@k-p-in-spain Maybe the plan is to make Birmingham believe it's 3-5-2 but even 4-3-3 is a possibility with Giles and Akpom either side of Muniz. If...

Interesting that Matt Clarke is not in the squad

@andy-r Yes that would maybe be the least upheaval but I'm open to other options 😀

@k-p-in-spain You could be right - though we could possibly find quite a few permutations 🤔

Team News... Some interesting selections including a surprise start for Hayden Hackney and possibly a back two or more likely McNair returning to le...

@john-richardson Great to hear you've got through your op and are back at home and are smelling the coffee as Boro have woken up to their relegatio...

I see Daniel Farke has been mentioned as a possible Boro manager but I think that's a non-starter as he just took over at Borusia Mönchengladbach in t...

@boroexile The problem with that system is that player's contracts tend to outlast the manager several times over. It's not that they tell the coac...

@original-fat-bob I would like to think nobody would be that stupid given that Bournemouth would have to then formally ask Boro for permission to s...

There seem to be quite a few candidates who fall into the category of 'one good season', which is a high risk strategy as unless you can reproduce the...

What I have been reminded of looking back at previous managers to try and get promoted back to the PL is that it's been over 13 years since Boro were ...

@powmillnaemore Sounds like the Facebook post by his wife was meant as joke but Gary O'Neil admitting he deliberately got booked to get a two-game ...

@exmil I have actually forgotten - did it involve his wife saying something?

Thanks Andy for your quickly revised match preview to take into account the breaking news of Wilder's departure - I agree that Wilder wasn't a manager...

Rob Edwards appears to be the bookies odds on favourite at 4-5 - strange given he was only sacked last week by Watford after only 11 games in charge w...

I wouldn't be surprised to see a younger manager appointed to work under the new structure where Keiron Scott is DoF. I wonder if former Boro captain ...

@paulinboro Only joking 😀 not sure he's in Gibson's good books after what happened to Ben!

@k-p-in-spain I guess it may have arisen from the Monday morning pre-training conversation between Gibson and Wilder - doesn't sound like it was pl...

Middlesbrough Football Club have terminated the contract of manager Chris Wilder with immediate effect Well that has come out of the blue - I wonder...