Blunders by Boro managers' and Chairmen you still haven't gotten over

motownjunk said:
Few people saying sacking Karanka was a mistake and we had a chance to stay up. We would have needed to get 19 points in 10 games to stay up. We had only got 22 points in 28 games with Karanka in charge. Added to that in those remaining 10 games we had to play Arsenal, Man Utd, Man city,Liverpool and Chelsea. As I recall the bookies had us about 6 to 1 on to go down before Karanka was sacked. We had almost no chance of staying up, the team didn't score anywhere near enough goals to have a chance to stay up. I think the mistake was not sacking him early enough, and there is an arguement to him being sacked when he walked out in a sulk.
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I think most are saying appointing Agnew was the mistake, not sacking Karanka.
We were only 5 points from safety and at that point didn't know we would need 19 points.
 
Waiting 3 months to bring in Festa and Kinder in the 96/97 season.

We had Ravanelli, Juninho, Beck, Emerson, Barmby...a world class midfield and attack and we played some amazing football. Unfortunately the defence was not of the same quality though normally dependable. A crisis of confidence in the defence in the first half of the season left us shipping goals and losing matches. By the time Festa and Kinder joined in January 97 it was too late....we had 15 points...soon to be reduced to 12 for a no show at Blackburn. In the end we were relegated, two points short of safety and lost two cup finals. That season we had an amazing window of opportunity and we blew it by sheer neglect.
 
iamborome said:
Waiting 3 months to bring in Festa and Kinder in the 96/97 season.

We had Ravanelli, Juninho, Beck, Emerson, Barmby...a world class midfield and attack and we played some amazing football. Unfortunately the defence was not of the same quality though normally dependable. A crisis of confidence in the defence in the first half of the season left us shipping goals and losing matches. By the time Festa and Kinder joined in January 97 it was too late....we had 15 points...soon to be reduced to 12 for a no show at Blackburn. In the end we were relegated, two points short of safety and lost two cup finals. That season we had an amazing window of opportunity and we blew it by sheer neglect.
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And schwarzer
 
Rofesleg said:
I think most are saying appointing Agnew was the mistake, not sacking Karanka.
We were only 5 points from safety and at that point didn't know we would need 19 points.
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It is also to do with the horrendous january transfer window plan. Had Karanka been backed in January we might have stayed up. Instead he wasn't and we signed championship players, and let's not forget that he called them championship players in an interview. Was almost as if the club were preparing for the championship instead of trying to stay up. The sheer lack of effort to keep the club afloat was nothing short of a disgrace, especially considering we looked a decent bet to stay up at xmas
 
iamborome said:
Waiting 3 months to bring in Festa and Kinder in the 96/97 season.

We had Ravanelli, Juninho, Beck, Emerson, Barmby...a world class midfield and attack and we played some amazing football. Unfortunately the defence was not of the same quality though normally dependable. A crisis of confidence in the defence in the first half of the season left us shipping goals and losing matches. By the time Festa and Kinder joined in January 97 it was too late....we had 15 points...soon to be reduced to 12 for a no show at Blackburn. In the end we were relegated, two points short of safety and lost two cup finals. That season we had an amazing window of opportunity and we blew it by sheer neglect.
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Nail on head. That first game against Liverpool should have been warning enough - all 3 goals were terrible defending. Some of the goalkeeping that season before Schwarzer too was laughable.
 
Rofesleg said:
I think most are saying appointing Agnew was the mistake, not sacking Karanka.
We were only 5 points from safety and at that point didn't know we would need 19 point
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Normanby_Red said:
It is also to do with the horrendous january transfer window plan. Had Karanka been backed in January we might have stayed up. Instead he wasn't and we signed championship players, and let's not forget that he called them championship players in an interview. Was almost as if the club were preparing for the championship instead of trying to stay up. The sheer lack of effort to keep the club afloat was nothing short of a disgrace, especially considering we looked a decent bet to stay up at xmas
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All the players Karanka wanted turned out to be pretty poor. Loooking ahead to the fixtures at the end of the season. Once we got to the end of January I knew we had too few points to have any chance to stay up. We simply never looked like score anywhere near enough goals. I don't think we spent enough in the summer transfer window really, saying that with Karanka's tactics I doubt it would have made that much difference.
 
Robson - Blackburn innit
McClaren - taking that interview with Newcastle.
Southgate - not playing Mendieta in a deeper role
Strachan - EVERY SINGLE DECISION HE MADE AT THIS CLUB
Mowbray - not playing József Varga at right back
Karanka - his naughty step antics with Ryan Fredericks and not playing him in the play off final
Monk - not selling Rudy Gestede to Leeds for £6m
Pulis - playing Britt Assombalonga over Bamford.. and then selling Bamford
Woodgate - not sticking to his guns and also for him playing Rudy Gestede
Warnock - the gambles with Mendez Laing and Yannick Bolasie
Wilder - coming to Middlesbrough when he thought he was better than us
Carrick - the maroon sweater.. bold move.. the jury is still out
 
Robson not managing the extra time to a successful conclusion in the 1997 League Cup final against Leicester, not slowing the game down, making subs etc and allowing Emile Heskey to equalise in the last minute of extra time.
 
atomicloonybin aka ALB said:
The team Woodgate picked after the COVID shut down. Three months he'd had to plan, and THIS was the team he put out. Look at the bench - I tyhink they'd have beaten the starting eleven with only 9.

He was sacked three days later. View attachment 65844

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Yeah.. that was bad. He needed a steady hand.. and he has Robbie Keane.. ffs

-------------Pears---------------
Shotton--Fry--McNair--Friend
-----Howson--Saville----------
--Spence--Roberts--Johnson--
------------Fletcher-------------

Plus we had.. Tav, Nmecha, Bola.

Woodgate was dropped right in the deep end and needed to cut a few dead branches off, GESTEDE.. unfortunately Ravel Morrison.. maybe he could have got up to speed.. maybe not. CLayton had lost that bit of pace.. Britt was a shambles.. Fletcher.. he was coming back from injury I think. Wing had a lot put on him as did Coulson.. maybe.
 
Normanby_Red said:
It is also to do with the horrendous january transfer window plan. Had Karanka been backed in January we might have stayed up. Instead he wasn't and we signed championship players, and let's not forget that he called them championship players in an interview. Was almost as if the club were preparing for the championship instead of trying to stay up. The sheer lack of effort to keep the club afloat was nothing short of a disgrace, especially considering we looked a decent bet to stay up at xmas
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I think Gibson had given up on the season. He didn't like the way the club/team had developed and wanted to start again and reset the squad with a new manager and parachute payments in the Championship. With the focus on attacking.
Oops.
Sounds like a ridiculous plan but that's what it looks like.
 
atomicloonybin aka ALB said:
The team Woodgate picked after the COVID shut down. Three months he'd had to plan, and THIS was the team he put out. Look at the bench - I tyhink they'd have beaten the starting eleven with only 9.

He was sacked three days later. View attachment 65844

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If my memory is correct in his interview he was shocked it never worked as we had gestede and they where weak in the air ..

Rudy is one of a few players who gets smaller when he jumps
 
There's loads of blunders by Chairmen, Managers and players.

Amer not buying to support Charlton and then selling the jewels was horrendous. Possibly criminal.
Gibson appointing Southgate, Strachan, Agnew, Monk, pulis and Woodgate were all headscratchers, not just retrospective disasters.

The pathetic spend and recruitment in the summer of 2016 and then the idiotic recruitment of summer 2017 and sale of Bamford/retention of Gestede are also utterly mind numbing.
 
Abel Tasman said:
If we are going for blunders then surely not strengthening Charlton's brilliant 70s team takes some beating. We were a striker short of winning the league I reckon and it needed a chairman to invest at that time. Amer made very bad decisions in his tenure but that was the most frustrating.
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A few people have mentioned this, way before my time, but i've also read that it was Big Jacks decision not to bring in a striker rather than Amer not supporting him? Sure Paul Marriner was mentioned?

Not a blunder, and ive mentioned it before, but Agnew not playing Dimi away to Liverpool after we where already relegated still irks me.
 
parmoboy said:
Pulis taking off Assombalonga, replacing him with Friend and switching to a back 5 when we were 1-0 up at home to Brentford.

We went on to lose 1-2 and it was the start of a terrible run of defeats, which resulted in us missing out on the play-offs.
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Someone's been reading the Mackem forum
😂😂
 
parmoboy said:
Pulis taking off Assombalonga, replacing him with Friend and switching to a back 5 when we were 1-0 up at home to Brentford.

We went on to lose 1-2 and it was the start of a terrible run of defeats, which resulted in us missing out on the play-offs.
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That decision was truly baffling
Just ridiculous
 
Every decision January onwards in the premier league was just abysmal, incompetence at the very highest level for those running the club. That felt like an opportunity we might not get in a long time

Most decisions since that aren’t great either
 
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