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Boro thread

Chewit said:
Thing is it’s not his football strategy at Sunderland. He has to work with what he’s given. Dare I say our recruitment team are better at recruit the right players to fit the longer term strategy than any manager, not just Mowbray. Maybe what we are finding out here is just how good a head coach TM could have been if that’s all he had to concentrate on.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a ‘Manager’ at SAFC seemingly able to maintain momentum with a team that has so many changes. At a different level it’s like watching Man City swopping and changing seamlessly.

What we have here now is all about the longer term sustainability of the team and its performance.

Most clubs but particularly Boro under Gibson have purchased players for the here and now, largely driven by what the manager needs to stay in a job this week or to capture the fans imagination.
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Out recruitment plan summer just gone was to sign young players with potential, with the hope of them developing into players who we can sell for large transfer fees further down the line.

At the moment they are nowhere near ready though. Carrick seems to have taken them out of the firing line and is opting to go with experience for the time being.

Big questions are now being asked of Kieran Scott, our head of recruitment, but at the same time it may just be that we have to be patient and accept that it's going to take time for these development players to find their feet.

Think a lot of Boro fans will be quite happy for us to simply stay in the division this season, for Carrick to stay in the job and to work hard at trying to improve the development players and integrate them into the team.
 

Teesside_Steve said:
Out recruitment plan summer just gone was to sign young players with potential, with the hope of them developing into players who we can sell for large transfer fees further down the line.
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Not sure that’s quite right. players like bangura, dieng, latte lath, engel, jones are all well into their careers. Then somebody like Rogers is relatively young but has two seasons at championship level so is “proven”
 
Teesside_Steve said:
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Think a lot of Boro fans will be quite happy for us to simply stay in the division this season, for Carrick to stay in the job and to work hard at trying to improve the development players and integrate them into the team.
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You were in the play offs last season finishing above us and 7th the yr before
Like us you've sold one player for a bit of money and spent most of the income of that fee on new players, but you will be quite happy to simply stay in the division this season?
Crazy
 
oriss said:
You may be right, but that statement to sums up the difference between Boro and Sunderland supporters (in the main) Sunderland fans seem to be glass half full kind of guys Boro ones glass half empty. I'm just towing the party line and thinking we are doomed.
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Glass half full? Have you never followed a match day thread on here? Loads right the club / team / manager off as soon as we concede a throw in.
 
Teesside_Steve said:
Out recruitment plan summer just gone was to sign young players with potential, with the hope of them developing into players who we can sell for large transfer fees further down the line.

At the moment they are nowhere near ready though. Carrick seems to have taken them out of the firing line and is opting to go with experience for the time being.

Big questions are now being asked of Kieran Scott, our head of recruitment, but at the same time it may just be that we have to be patient and accept that it's going to take time for these development players to find their feet.

Think a lot of Boro fans will be quite happy for us to simply stay in the division this season, for Carrick to stay in the job and to work hard at trying to improve the development players and integrate them into the team.
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Same recruitment policy as Sunderland then ?
 
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