Wee Gordon Sacked (or about to be..)

Sizzler · 18-10-2010 4:38pm #1

Strachan heading for the exit door, again by the looks of it :eek:

Did a decent job at Celtic but has had a sorry time at the Boro.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1321576/Gordon-Strachan-set-Middlesbrough-sack.html

Mr Alan · 18-10-2010 4:42pm

Thank Christ we have new owners

ShamoBuc · 18-10-2010 4:44pm

Mr Alan wrote: »

Thank Christ we have new owners

yeah but are we in the market for a new manager?

Kiwi_knock · 18-10-2010 4:44pm

Frees him up to take the Liverpool job now

Mr Alan · 18-10-2010 4:45pm

ShamoBuc wrote: »

yeah but are we in the market for a new manager?

We better be!

Mental Mickey · 18-10-2010 4:47pm

Kiwi_knock wrote: »

Frees him up to take the Liverpool job now

Good lord.:eek:

Thrill · 18-10-2010 4:51pm

twitter

Boro announcement 5pm - Steve Gibson run out of patience with Gordon Strachan? Wouldn't be a surprise

JerryHandbag · 18-10-2010 4:58pm

New Scotland manager perhaps? They dont have a qualifier again til next Sept, which is truly bizarre.

Thrill · 18-10-2010 5:07pm

SSN reporting they have heard that strachen is gone.

ziggy · 18-10-2010 5:09pm

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super_furry · 18-10-2010 5:12pm

Hodgson or Strachan? Actually a tough call.

Thrill · 18-10-2010 5:13pm

Tony mowbray favourite to replace him.

blindpilot · 18-10-2010 5:14pm

Thrill wrote: »

Tony mowbray favourite to replace him.

Another clear out so. The team is currently half full of his Celtic rejects!!

FreeOSCAR · 18-10-2010 5:40pm

Southgate should never have been sacked last year.

Good Riddance, awful manager.

blindpilot · 18-10-2010 5:53pm

Southgate should never have been appointed!!

Steve Gibson is on BBC Radio Tees from 6.05. Expected to fully confirm that Strachan is gone. Should be a good interview.

Thrill · 18-10-2010 6:12pm

Official site statement.........

http://www.mfc.co.uk/articles/20101018/gordon-strachan-leaves-boro_70638_2188710

Gordon Strachan Leaves Boro

MIDDLESBROUGH Football Club has confirmed that manager Gordon Strachan has today left the club by mutual consent.
The change has been made with Boro in a disappointing 20th position 11 games into the npower Championship season.
Chairman Steve Gibson said: "Gordon is a man of great integrity. He has torn up his contract and walked away without compensation because he felt it was in the best interests of this football club.
"There are very few managers who have ever done that but that is the mark of the man.

mikeym · 18-10-2010 6:12pm

Mowbray wont be much better after the job he did with celtic.

Mr Alan · 18-10-2010 6:18pm

Fair play to Strachan, outstanding gesture from him.

Kiwi_knock · 18-10-2010 6:56pm

Great gesture by Gordon to waive compensation, can not see too many managers following that lead. I wonder if a certain other manager would waive compensation after the disappointing start he has had to the season.

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 18-10-2010 7:18pm

I love Strachan.:D

glenjamin · 18-10-2010 9:53pm

I was delighted we hired him in the first place but just never got the team to play the way he wanted them to. Fair play to him for leaving without compo. Hope Mowbray can lift us now.

ColeTrain · 19-10-2010 1:40am

mikeym wrote: »

Mowbray wont be much better after the job he did with celtic.

Mowbray has proved to be a good manager for the Championship. The pressure of the Celtic job got to him.

If Middlesbrough want a man to clear out SPL dross then Tony is the man.

No surprise Strachan ramsacked that club, was very poor at Celtic, even though he won 3 titles some of the football he had Celtic playing would burn the eyes.

That_Guy · 19-10-2010 10:28am

Can't see anybody past Mowbray getting the job imo.

Alan Pardew or Alan Curbishley would be a good appointment too.

gimmick · 19-10-2010 10:39am

I would have thought Martin O Neill would be a dead cert for this one no?

PauloMN · 19-10-2010 11:01am

glenjamin wrote: »

Hope Mowbray can lift us now.

Seriously, don't get your hopes up. Mowbray at the helm of Celtic was utterly depressing, even moreso than Strachan's last season there. I don't think he's cut out for it at all tbh.

CSF · 19-10-2010 12:08pm

Kiwi_knock wrote: »

Great gesture by Gordon to waive compensation, can not see too many managers following that lead. I wonder if a certain other manager would waive compensation after the disappointing start he has had to the season.

Why would you expect him to?

Jordonvito · 19-10-2010 12:08pm

gimmick wrote: »

I would have thought Martin O Neill would be a dead cert for this one no?

Surely he would be holding out for something bigger.

gimmick · 19-10-2010 12:10pm

^ There is certainly that and you are probably right. But Middlesborough seems to be his type of club. Limited in what he can spend, bring them up and re establish themselves in the Premier.

But what other job is there out there at the moment, or possibly arising? I cannot see him taking the Liverpool job if that comes free and no one else is in that much trouble at a bigger club.

Jordonvito · 19-10-2010 12:16pm

gimmick wrote: »

^ There is certainly that and you are probably right. But Middlesborough seems to be his type of club. Limited in what he can spend, bring them up and re establish themselves in the Premier.

But what other job is there out there at the moment, or possibly arising? I cannot see him taking the Liverpool job if that comes free and no one else is in that much trouble at a bigger club.

The reason he left Villa was because he hadn't enough to spend. I think Liverpool would be more likely, if the next three or four games dont go Hodgsons way he could be in trouble. Boro seems like too much of a step down.
But your right in that there doesn't seem to be many jobs arising at the moment. Still cant see him taking Boro though.

bobbysands81 · 19-10-2010 1:26pm

Sizzler wrote: »

Did a decent job at Celtic

He was absolutely awful at Celtic - dire in fact.

event · 19-10-2010 1:29pm

wee gord was always gonna go, not good enough unfortunately and some of his press conferences have been bizarre. the smartassness was beginning to grate i reckon

and mowbray didnt do well with celtic, but he did with hibs and WBA.
would be a good choice

nullzero · 19-10-2010 1:30pm

I don't think anyone would want the title of favorites in the championship, tough tough league.
At least he had the decency to just walk away, there's not a lot of integrity left in the game so it's always nice to see a bit of it.

eagle eye · 19-10-2010 2:31pm

Strachan is a great man. Such an honourable chap to tear up the contract and not look for compensation.

I don't know whats gone wrong for him. I really thought he was going to be a top manager after what he did at Southampton in the early part of 00s. I'll always like the guy for the way he takes the p1ss out of reporters too.

Joyce Country · 19-10-2010 6:45pm

bobbysands81 wrote: »

He was absolutely awful at Celtic - dire in fact.

yep. filled the squad with reject average footballers. did similar with boro. the guy is a smarmy arrogant ..... ah well, unlucky gordon.

steelcityblues · 19-10-2010 7:14pm

Love this sketch. Sums him up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n41R8C3IC3M

eagle eye · 19-10-2010 7:22pm

steelcityblues wrote: »

Love this sketch. Sums him up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n41R8C3IC3M

Yeah, excellent impersonation.:D

event · 19-10-2010 7:23pm

Joyce Country wrote: »

yep. filled the squad with reject average footballers. did similar with boro. the guy is a smarmy arrogant ..... ah well, unlucky gordon.

he was talking about mowbray

he won 3 leagues in a row with celtic, as well as a cup and 2 league cups, 6 trophies in 3 years, a better record than MON had and did it without the prolific larsson

he did a very good job at celtic

Wee Gordon Sacked (or about to be..)

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