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NooBHA

Well-known member
Jan 13, 2015
8,591
The first lockdown sacking - what a time to be alive. Let's hope Villa don't get similar ideas. Ditto West Ham, who would probably go for someone like David Moyes .... oh.


Obviously ''Job Retension Scheme'' didn't work in this instance
 


Official Old Man

Uckfield Seagull
Aug 27, 2011
9,092
Brighton
Warnock always said he wanted to reach 1500 games in management before retiring. He was 12 games short. Getting to the play off final this season will still be 1499.
Checking the table it is strange seeing Hull, Borough, Huddersfield, Stoke & Wigan fighting it out at the bottom. Not big teams but teams that were in the Prem but crashed after relegation. Just goes to show where we could end up if relegated.
 




Pavilionaire

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
31,262
Shocking appointment in the first place. Yes, I know he's a local lad but they have serious under-performed with a squad with some decent Championship players (Friend, Ayala, Clayton, Howson, McNair, Roberts, Assombalonga, Gestede).
 




El Presidente

The ONLY Gay in Brighton
Helpful Moderator
Jul 5, 2003
40,000
Pattknull med Haksprut
Oh come on, based on what? that one result at the end of the 2015/2016 season,and the way the home fans celebrated afterwards?

I think Middlesbrough are in fact a very well run club, and Steve Gibson has a good record of standing by his managers. Many others would have sacked Woodgate long ago.

Boro's operating losses were £440,000 a week over the last decade, despite one year in the Premier League and four seasons of parachute payments.

Boro Operating Losses.jpg
 




Mr Banana

Tedious chump
Aug 8, 2005
5,491
Standing in the way of control
He could have been justifiably sacked at any point this season, pretty much, but the club never created an infrastructure whereby he seemed to have the necessary support to improve and ultimately succeed, not helped by replacing Championship players with League One players at the end of last season, all of whom have failed.

They said they'd make good investments but their transfer policy seems to have been all over the place. Having Keane as assistant, who would be dangerously inexperienced even if he didn't appear to spend most of his time on Instagram, seemed a somewhat unwise move as well - they'd have ideally tried to appoint someone like Warnock or even Allardyce as assistant or DoF.

Always respected Boro fans because of the distance they travel in great numbers to games, and their 'zine, which is excellent. And their accents, to be honest.
 


Jolly Red Giant

Well-known member
Jul 11, 2015
2,615
They said they'd make good investments but their transfer policy seems to have been all over the place. Having Keane as assistant, who would be dangerously inexperienced even if he didn't appear to spend most of his time on Instagram, seemed a somewhat unwise move as well .

Keane doesn't have a brain - it is beyond me how anybody would give him a job. He got the Ireland assistant job as a PR exercise and McCarthy didn't give a sh*t because he got to bring Terry O'Connor - As soon as Stephen Kenny took over he wanted Keane out the door. The daft morons running the FAI gave McCarthy a 2 year contract - but they gave Keane a 4 year deal and had to pay €400K to get rid of him.
 


DJ NOBO

Well-known member
Jul 18, 2004
6,814
Wiltshire
The man who pestered my then gf for sex in the early noughties. Karma. Finally.
 








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