How Robbo's tenure at Boro came to an end

I'm surprised any former players or managers who've been and gone under Gibson's chairmanship bother to attend reunion dinners and the like.

Lots of stories like this over years, Gibson seems to be a dab hand at duplicity.
 
northriding said:
I'm surprised any former players or managers who've been and gone under Gibson's chairmanship bother to attend reunion dinners and the like.

Lots of stories like this over years, Gibson seems to be a dab hand at duplicity.
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Robson said it's now water under the bridge.
 
I was so ashamed when a lot of fans booed him while he was talking to the crowd after the last match of the season. He put the club ahead of himself and was punished for it. A lot of fans were jumping on the bandwagon at the time and there was a lot of booing at certain points. Booing is something i have never ever done to my own team but it was common after the move to the riverside.
Robbo was amazing. To think of the quality of the players he alone attracted to the club, most notably the little fella - the then brazilian player of the year. The way it ended was shameful.
Those days I couldnt wait for the match to come around. Most exciting time as a Boro fan. If only we had put a team out at Blackburn, who knows what we might have achieved........
 
I remember that summer and he was never really sacked, he just sort of drifted away and then McClaren was appointed. It is odd that someone like Gibson essentially didn't have the balls to tell him.

And yeah the booing of him wasn't great but it had become very toxic earlier in the season.
 
BoroPhil said:
I remember that summer and he was never really sacked, he just sort of drifted away and then McClaren was appointed. It is odd that someone like Gibson essentially didn't have the balls to tell him.

And yeah the booing of him wasn't great but it had become very toxic earlier in the season.
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I remember when I first heard the rumour about McClaren. It was sort of presented that he was coming to to replace El Tel but that it could be alongside Robbo in the same way. 'Joint managers' was a thing in the late 90s as well. Maybe it was discussed, or Robbo taking an upstairs role in the way Dalglish did at Blackburn and Bobby Robson did at Barcelona because they didn't want to sack him even though they'd signed a new manager.
 
I think his time was up; he'd had a good stretch with us and I'm still not convinced that he was either good at managing/coaching or even that he wanted to do it. I think he liked the idea of being player-manager and will have been persuaded by the likes of Fergie to give it a go.

I don't think he even managed a full 2 years at anywhere after he left us. I think the aura he had and respect he had from his playing career reduced over time.
 
MoggasDog said:
I was so ashamed when a lot of fans booed him while he was talking to the crowd after the last match of the season. He put the club ahead of himself and was punished for it. A lot of fans were jumping on the bandwagon at the time and there was a lot of booing at certain points. Booing is something i have never ever done to my own team but it was common after the move to the riverside.
Robbo was amazing. To think of the quality of the players he alone attracted to the club, most notably the little fella - the then brazilian player of the year. The way it ended was shameful.
Those days I couldnt wait for the match to come around. Most exciting time as a Boro fan. If only we had put a team out at Blackburn, who knows what we might have achieved........
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Those kind of fans are the first to disappear on relegation.
The same typical tartan blanket, flask of Alta Rica twąts that disappeared in 1982
 
MoggasDog said:
Robbo was amazing. To think of the quality of the players he alone attracted to the club, most notably the little fella - the then brazilian player of the year.
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He had pulling power from his name but he wasn’t an amazing manager or coach. We massively underperformed with the budget and players he had available. His let’s go get get p1ssed and poor training sessions cost us no end.
 
Priv said:
He had pulling power from his name but he wasn’t an amazing manager or coach. We massively underperformed with the budget and players he had available. His let’s go get get p1ssed and poor training sessions cost us no end.
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Bryan Robson was special.. a one off. Enigmatic, inspirational, charismatic.. a leader of men.

Never before and never since. We went up so quickly we achieved so much in such a short amount of time.. so close.. too close.

Nothing could recreate those moments.. as imperfect as they may have been.. a dream.. a total dream.
 
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